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Offline Gfresh404

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Release Date of CM Storm Rapidfire for NA
« on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 00:26:29 »
Anyone know any official date for when these boards are coming to the States? I've heard three different things:

1. Available Oct. 18th
2. Sometime in November
3. December/Early Janurary (post #116)

Still kind of wondering how these can be so cheap if they're essentially rebranded Filco's, but I guess that's what Rosewill's keyboards so it kinda makes sense.

Is Filco a premier brand in Asia where you pay a significant amount extra just for the name? Almost like how Apple is here in the states
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Offline laffindude

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Release Date of CM Storm Rapidfire for NA
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 03:00:33 »
Quote from: Gfresh404;450976
Still kind of wondering how these can be so cheap if they're essentially rebranded Filco's, but I guess that's what Rosewill's keyboards so it kinda makes sense.


Less markup and they expect to sell more of them to spread out the R&D cost. They're also not going to import at low volume like the specialty distributors. You'd be crazy if you think they cost anywhere near Filco price to manufacture.
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Offline Gfresh404

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 03:03:23 »
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Less markup and they expect to sell more of them to spread out the R&D cost. They're also not going to import at low volume like the specialty distributors. You'd be crazy if you think they cost anywhere near Filco price to manufacture.

Despite the fact that it's brown vs. red switches, do you notice any real different between your CM Storm and your Filco besides the obvious cosmetic/keycap differences?
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Offline Demofly

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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 03:23:11 »
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Despite the fact that it's brown vs. red switches, do you notice any real different between your CM Storm and your Filco besides the obvious cosmetic/keycap differences?


Not really, other than the fact it has higher pitched bottom out sound.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?22303-CM-storm-quick-fire-rapid-impression&p=429605&viewfull=1#post429605
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Offline Gfresh404

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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 12:22:34 »
Can anyone confirm this?

Quote from: DoctorSnoopy;451043
Don't know if this was already posted somewhere but I e-mailed CM about the keyboard for the US and the reply I got was:

"Hello,
These will be available in US around the end of December to the beginning of January. MSRP is $99.99 at this time."
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