He doesn't need to know you well to judge you by how you act, and it did seem pretty fanboyish.
Really?
I was trying to be objective. If I was a fanboy, I would have claimed Topre's properties to be superior instead of saying that they "have appeal".
1. You can lube Cherry stems, and they are about the same "quality"
Besides smoothness, I was referring to lack of wiggle.
2. You have a much wider variety of keycaps and keycaps of equal or greater "quality" with cherry style stems
Not really. Only if you want a key set in US-ANSI for a Filco/Das/Ducky/QFR are there many new and exciting sets.
Far from all sets include the 1.5u and 1u modifiers that a Topre Realforce or HHKB has.
Cherry MX-compatible keycaps of dye-sub PBT were very rare until quite recently (very expensive vintage G80-xxx Sxx keyboards).
My one Topre keyboard (that I don't use very much because I prefer Cherry MX) is in Swedish layout, but it is practically impossible to find dye-sub PBT keys for Cherry MX in Swedish layout. It took me three years before I found a set of
lasered PBT keys for Swedish, and then that set was still incomplete.
* Topre keycaps are textured PBT. The high quality of the keycaps is part of Topre's appeal.
Spacebar.
I should think that adding compatibility for cherry spacebars should be a priority, as PBT spacebars are easy to come by.
Valid point on space bar. However, Topre Realforce and HHKB have 6u Space bars.
I do not know of anyone who makes 6u Cherry space bars in PBT. 7bit offered 6u space bars in ABS, but only with offset key stem for Cherry G80-1800/11x00.
I'm starting to think that the keyboard in the picture is a custom model that copies Topre.
