« previous next »
Pages:  [1]     Go Down

Author Topic: Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?  (Read 8997 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 15:12:56 »
Hey!

First of all this is my first post here even though I've been reading the forums for quite a while.

Surprisingly I decided to get a Filco Majestouch 2 with brown switches (dam you make me buy an expensive kb) however I'm a bit concerned should I get the TKL or full version of the kb. I have never had any problems with fullsized keyboards and I sometimes even use the numpad (!) mostly when using bank via the internet. And as an personal opinion I think TKL looks a bit silly as I've never even seen one besises pictures.

But I began thinking about the TKL version because so many of you seem to prefer it over the full version..
Logged

fossala

  •  Guest
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 15:20:51 »
If you used a numpad, get a keyboard with a numpad. It seems simple to me.
Logged

Offline sawedust

  • Posts: 194
  • Zealot Chef
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 15:21:49 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

If you're going to use the numpad on occasion, then I would suggest getting a full-sized keyboard.  I have a TKL myself, and there's only two reasons why: I'm a gamer and prefer to have my mouse and keyboard hands closer together, and I have zero use for a tenkey.  In my experience, it's a lot more comfortable not having to space my hands so far apart when using the computer or playing games as I used to with a full-sized keyboard.  There's also more space available on my desk for other things.

Overall, it comes down to what you're planning on using your keyboard for and the amount of space you have on your desk.  From initial judgment, you might want to stick with a full-sized board.

Enjoy your (permanent) stay!
Logged
find me on twitter: @sawedust
starcraft 2 related blog: QuanticSawe.851
QuanticGaming.com

Offline Awful

  • Don't Topre.
  • Posts: 407
  • Location: 304
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 17:56:32 »
I used my numpad on rare occasion. I went with a tkl filco mj2 recently and don't regret losing that stupid thing one bit. I love having my hands closer together. :D
Logged
I hate everything.

Offline pagonda

  • Posts: 24
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 18:51:13 »
Well...I bought the TKL version because I never use the numberpad, and it greatly improved the ergonomics for me. My right hand is now a couple of inches closer to my left hand :D
Logged
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

Offline shawn o

  • Posts: 443
  • Location: Minneapolis, MN
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 19:31:21 »
Did my taxes with Turbotax and Filco tenkeyless....it sucked.
Logged

Offline Av180

  • Posts: 86
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 19:42:47 »
I just recieved my leopold tkl keyboard. It is absolutely wonderful. The size is awesome. It frees some of my desk space and my hands are closer together. Main point is, if you use the numpad often, get the full. If you don't use a numpad get the TKL.
Logged


KMAC 62g Clear
Poker 2 Stock Red
Leopold FC200RE Stock Clear

Offline fstop

  • Posts: 302
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 19:44:13 »
buy a addon numpad. tkl is so much nicer.
Logged
CM Storm Quickfire MX Reds
CM Storm Quickfire MX Blues
Filco Majestouch-2  MX Browns
RealForce 87uw uniform 45g

Offline shawn o

  • Posts: 443
  • Location: Minneapolis, MN
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 19:53:06 »
Filco makes a wireless bluetooth numpad. Wish we could get it in the US.
Logged

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 20:31:04 »
Make the switch to left-hand mousing.

Get the best of both worlds.
Logged
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 :

The   Congress   shall have Power
To declare War,  grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To provide for calling forth the Militia  to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Offline Kamikaze K

  • Posts: 214
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 20:38:37 »
Quote from: fohat.digs;537369
Make the switch to left-hand mousing.

Get the best of both worlds.

HAH nice!.... Now to get a left handed mouse...... hmmm.... Yeah choices are pretty limited!
Logged
FILCO Majestouch 2 Camouflage Tenkeyless [Black]
DUCKY DK9008 Shining [Blue]
CM STORM Quickfire Rapid [Red]
TOPRE REALFORCE 87U

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 20:58:02 »
I am so strongly right-handed that I doubted that it would ever work, but about a year ago I saw several posts describing how great it was for right-handed people to free up their dominant hand for writing, phoning, etc, not to mention the fact that the left hand does a lot less reaching.

As a regular numpad-user, I was not prepared to give it up, no matter what, I even bought a laptop with a numpad.

I am in my 50s, so new tricks are hard for old dogs, but it was terrible for a week and awkward for a month, and after that, smooth sailing. Now it seems totally natural. Surely a younger whipper-snapper could make the change a lot easier than I did.

PS - naturally you should get a symmetrical or ambidextrous mouse. if you like those extra buttons for the thumb and whatnot, it may be harder.
Logged
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 :

The   Congress   shall have Power
To declare War,  grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To provide for calling forth the Militia  to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 06 March 2012, 23:23:36 »
Yeah. What I meant was that I use the numpad very seldom and I think I wouldn't regret losing it. I'm just wondering if the TKL is really better for ergonomics etc. And of course I'm sceptical that if there will be that one day when I'd need the numpad once again...

And if I go the 'safe-way' and buy a full one, will I ever regret it?
Logged

Offline mickd

  • Posts: 652
  • Location: Australia
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 00:18:20 »
Personally I think the TKL keyboards look a lot nicer. I have a full-sized keyboard though.
Logged

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 05:22:30 »
Hell whatever. I bought the TKL because I want to experience it and I don't want to regret buy expensive kb. I think I don't use numpad often enough :)
Logged

Offline zirb

  • Posts: 266
  • Location: Germany
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #15 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 05:29:31 »
Quote from: Kuuskutonen;537502
Yeah. What I meant was that I use the numpad very seldom and I think I wouldn't regret losing it. I'm just wondering if the TKL is really better for ergonomics etc. And of course I'm sceptical that if there will be that one day when I'd need the numpad once again...

And if I go the 'safe-way' and buy a full one, will I ever regret it?

As fstop mentioned above, there's always the option to buy a TKL with an external TenKeyPad.

Most people here say, that a TKL is way more comfortable in terms of arm-positioning, but the decision is yours.
Also you could always decide for one option and if you absolutely don't like it, sell it and buy the other option.

Edit:
Quote from: Kuuskutonen;537619
Hell whatever. I bought the TKL because I want to experience it and I don't want to regret buy expensive kb. I think I don't use numpad often enough :)

Congrats and welcome to the club of mechanical users! :D
Logged

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #16 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 05:35:10 »
Quote from: zirb;537622
As fstop mentioned above, there's always the option to buy a TKL with an external TenKeyPad.

Most people here say, that a TKL is way more comfortable in terms of arm-positioning, but the decision is yours.
Also you could always decide for one option and if you absolutely don't like it, sell it and buy the other option.

Edit:


Congrats and welcome to the club of mechanical users! :D

I am not THAT new, I've been using the Steelseries 6gv2 until now, but now I wanted some real quality
Logged

Offline captain

  • Posts: 703
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #17 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 05:37:46 »
Quote from: fohat.digs;537369
Make the switch to left-hand mousing.

Get the best of both worlds.

You can't play FPS that way. Left hand mousing is the idiot invention of some sinister, bastard, ginger, wanker.

See my thread about the TK Pad. GoldTouch TK Pad solves all the problems!
Logged
Welcome to geekhack -- where we like to type -- but don't care so much about reading.

Offline zirb

  • Posts: 266
  • Location: Germany
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #18 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 05:45:13 »
Quote from: Kuuskutonen;537624
I am not THAT new, I've been using the Steelseries 6gv2 until now, but now I wanted some real quality

Haven't seen that, sorry! :)

Still a good choice
Logged

Offline All The Fire

  • Posts: 147
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #19 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 06:37:05 »
I ended up moving from WSAD to RFDG, the biggest factor of this being that shift tabbing into the steam overlay is annoying considering both buttons are used for controls at WSAD. But I guess I get a bit of the TKL effect too.

I would think if you're going for space saving though you may as well get a poker, surely the function row, bar Esc, is more uselss than the numpad in the first place.
Logged

Offline Nunez

  • Posts: 166
  • Location: Australia
  • BACK!
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #20 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 06:40:43 »
Quote from: Kamikaze K;537381
HAH nice!.... Now to get a left handed mouse...... hmmm.... Yeah choices are pretty limited!

Steelseries Xai or Sensei. Both are ambidextrous. I'm right handed and they are my first choice of mice.
« Last Edit: Wed, 07 March 2012, 06:43:53 by Nunez »
Logged
I miss Ripster :(
HHKB Pro 2 || KBC Poker || Filco MJ2

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #21 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 08:57:16 »
Quote from: captain;537625
You can't play FPS that way. Left hand mousing is the idiot invention of some sinister, bastard, ginger, wanker.




You insult me. At least half of these adjectives are inaccurate.

PS - I don't play games either
Logged
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 :

The   Congress   shall have Power
To declare War,  grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To provide for calling forth the Militia  to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #22 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 11:52:15 »
Quote from: ripster;537827
What's TKL?

Not sure if trolling.. But it's a Filco keyboard without numpad. TKL comes from "Tenkeyless"
Logged

Offline zirb

  • Posts: 266
  • Location: Germany
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #23 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 11:55:43 »
Quote from: Kuuskutonen;537898
Not sure if trolling.. But it's a Filco keyboard without numpad. TKL comes from "Tenkeyless"

100% proven trolling.
Logged

Offline dreamingftw

  • Posts: 420
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #24 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 12:45:51 »
TKL+TKP (tenkeyless w/ tenkeypad) = win win
Logged

Offline TranscendingLogic

  • Posts: 54
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #25 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 13:03:26 »
Quote from: captain;537625
You can't play FPS that way. Left hand mousing is the idiot invention of some sinister, bastard, ginger, wanker.


Why not? How do left-handed people play FPS?
Logged

Offline jellowiggler

  • Posts: 293
  • Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #26 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 15:15:32 »
Quote from: dreamingftw;537941
TKL+TKP (tenkeyless w/ tenkeypad) = win win


Oh, boy. HWG w/ the TLA BS.

(Here we go with the three letter acyronym bull sh1t.)
Ripster, attack!

BTW, TKL does not infer a Filco product, just a keyboard without the numpad.


There are many key pads to buy.  From the $20 rubber dome specials, to the Filco and Realforce models.
Logged
Mike -jellowiggler-
Filco MJ2 Tenkeyless / Rosewill RK-9000 / IBM Model M 1391401 / Logitech DiNovo Edge / MS Sidewinder X4

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #27 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 15:22:19 »
Ripster I am sorry if I made any offence. I didn't know the acronym TKL is hated here.
Logged

Offline MyNameIsFinn

  • Posts: 263
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #28 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 17:06:52 »
TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKLTKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL TKL

amidoinitright?
Logged
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

Filco TKL MX Brown

Offline thegunner100

  • Posts: 939
  • Location: NYC
  • (╯'□')╯︵</3 ノ( '-'ノ)
    • The Emotional Skyscraper
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #29 on: Wed, 07 March 2012, 17:10:00 »
Welcome to GH!

Go for the TKL, unless you REALLY need the num pad. If you decide to get in on keycap set GBs here, the TKL kits will be cheaper than 104 kit :P
Logged
Input Devices:CM QF Rapidx2 ~ REALFORCE 87uw 45/55g ~ Logitech G5v2 ~ Wacom Bamboo CTH-460

Audio Setup: look me up on head-fi
Check out my blog on touhou/doujin music, audiophile gear, and doujin games!

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #30 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:54:19 »
Quote from: thegunner100;538230
Welcome to GH!

Go for the TKL, unless you REALLY need the num pad. If you decide to get in on keycap set GBs here, the TKL kits will be cheaper than 104 kit :P

Well, already ordered the tenkeyless version and I'll get it from the mail today. I can write my impressions here if you'd like to read them.

Besides, I'm from Finland so I use ISO layout (105?) so I wouldn't get 104 keyset anyway.

However I might be interested in PBT caps, where could I get a set of those?

Thanks
Logged

Offline zirb

  • Posts: 266
  • Location: Germany
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #31 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 02:09:45 »
Quote from: Kuuskutonen;538803
Well, already ordered the tenkeyless version and I'll get it from the mail today. I can write my impressions here if you'd like to read them.

Besides, I'm from Finland so I use ISO layout (105?) so I wouldn't get 104 keyset anyway.

However I might be interested in PBT caps, where could I get a set of those?

Thanks

105 is right for ISO (full) :)

I would really appreciate your impressions on your first TKL!

Lurk moar for PBT! (harder to find for ISO though)
Logged

Offline Kuuskutonen

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 8
Filco Majestouch 2 TKL or full?
« Reply #32 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 12:30:54 »
Well I got the keyboard from the mail today and I've been using it for an hour now. First of all I can say that the TKL was deifnitely a good choice. I am already liking that the mouse is alot closer to my keyboard-hand.

As for the brown switches. It's said that these are better for typing than the black ones and I have to agree, even though it took a little time to get used to these. NOW I know what the mechanical keyboards are praised for; the SteelSeries 6Gv2 was nothing against this
Logged
Pages:  [1]     Go Up
« previous next »