First Mech: Blues or Browns?

[patrickgeekhack]

I find that plate-mounted Cherry 'boards are a little easier to bottom out on, mainly because, IMO anyway, plate-mounted switches aren't quite as bouncy as PCB-mounted switches.  For the way I type, I kinda rely on the bounciness of the switches to help me not bottom out and, ultimately, type faster.

For me, it's not so much the plate-mounted switches. I think it has more to do with the fact that the keyboard is still new, and that I have not typed a lot on it. The same thing happened with my G80-3000.

This makes me think about something. To an oustider, a keyboard is a keyboard. Any keyboard will do. But to us here, it's a different story. To us, there is a difference between the switches, and whether the same switch is plate-mounted or PCB-mounted.

The same thing applies to me when I am with my pens. What ink and what paper is used make a huge difference.

[patrickgeekhack]

That offer is absolutely irresistible and I would really love to, so much.
I live in North York, so it's a good hour-something drive.
Maybe I can convince somebody to drive me. I'll get back to you on that, but the offer alone is really awesome. Thanks

Let me know when you'll be coming. PM me, and I'll send you more info. If you are coming on a weekday, I can take the boards with me to work.

As from next week, I should have the following boards unmodded:
- G80-3000 with blue Cherry
- Das Model S with blue Cherry
- Topre
- IBM Model M
- Filco with brown Cherry
- MX-11800 with brown Cherry
- ABS M1 with Fukka

I have one condition though. If you do come to my workplace, I would ask that you don't mention the price, especially of the Topre :-)

[Daci_MVRL]

I would recommend against the blues tbh, unless you have this obsession for clicky keys..

also, the funny thing is that Das keyboard sells reusable earplugs along with their MX blues keyboards XD

[theferenc]

just get a Ducky 9008 PBT from China. It has all the major switches on one board so you can try them all!

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You mean this board? PCHome carries it!

Edit: Though, looking more closely at your picture, it's not QUITE the same. It's brown on the alphanumeric block, black on all the modifiers, F-keys, and the "lesser used" keys (backslash, etc.), and blue on the tenkey.

[Lanx]

I should have copyrighted my N52 mod.

lol 20k views i think maybe 2 ppl at most followed your mod
(me included)

[panda-R]

Edit: Though, looking more closely at your picture, it's not QUITE the same. It's brown on the alphanumeric block, black on all the modifiers, F-keys, and the "lesser used" keys (backslash, etc.), and blue on the tenkey.

yeah the one i pictored is from china, they have a special version commemorating the national restaurant thats what google chrome told me.

Blacks on the WASD key area makes for better gaming i guess!

[bakageta]

I would think that would be ridiculously annoying to type on...