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Offline RoflCopter4

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Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:11:00 »
I've been eyeing this one for a week or so now and I think I've finally decided that I just cannot afford this. For the price of $150 plus $50 shipping (if you're Canadian) this honest to god standard layout with real complicated blue Alps switches can be yours. Cheaper if you're American, of course, as is just about everything else. I don't know if this is a fair price but given that blue Alps tend to get snatched up pretty quickly and considering that this has been up for over a week, it may be a bit high.

www.ebay.com/itm/131388027984
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Offline dante

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:11:49 »
Dat Yellow
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Offline RoflCopter4

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:14:57 »
Quote from: dante on Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:11:49
Dat Yellow

I gotta say, I don't mind the yellow. I do, however, very much mind the $50 shipping. I'd get it if he were shipping by FedEx or something, but no, this is just what you get when you use that horrid eBay international shipping thing.

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Offline Defect

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:35:21 »
Had my eye on this...but really only need the switches.  Pretty pricey for a donor.
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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:37:51 »
Quote from: Defect on Fri, 02 January 2015, 15:35:21
Pretty pricey for a donor.

The buyer for this should be somebody who wants a true ANSI board but does not own a soldering iron.
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Offline RoflCopter4

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 16:16:59 »
Yeah, this doesn't really seem suited for being a donor board. It's already in the ideal layout and it's price reflects that.
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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 16:21:24 »
It's still stupidly overpriced considering that I've seen better build boards go for much less than $175.
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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 16:35:51 »
Quote from: nubbinator on Fri, 02 January 2015, 16:21:24
I've seen better build boards

Yes, most of those ancient boards are extremely well-built, but they all have screwy layouts.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

Offline dante

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 17:58:49 »
my .99 packard bell ansi white alps board is total beef cake.  It feels like the model M of alps boards
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Offline didjamatic

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 21:50:02 »
Daaaaaang.  Nice layout in a blue ALPS board.
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Offline faceyourfaces

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 22:32:08 »
Damn, I would have been able to afford this a few hours ago. Too bad I just spent $80 on a DT225 trackball.
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Offline RoflCopter4

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Re: Acer KB-101A - Totally standard layout with Complicated Blue Alps
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 02 January 2015, 23:31:08 »
I also really want it, but factoring in shipping and the ****tiness of the Canadian dollar the total would come to around $215, which is just madness.
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