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Offline joneslee85

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« on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 03:47:03 »


Ducky Channel website

There isn't much information about this keyboard. The keyboard is made by Ducky Channel, a Taiwan based company who market the Das Keyboard in Taiwan. This keyboard has been gaining popularity within Chinese users. The KBC (bbs.kbc-china.com) group has been selling this for a while. Ducky Channel offers 2 version:

1. DK9000 - standard 104 keyboard with Blue/Brown/Black Cherry MX switch, detachable USB, N-key rollover, LED light on 5 keycaps, compact housing

DK-9000 Features

2. DK9008 - the same as 104 except it comes with extra 4 buttons to launch calculator, mail, etc.

DK-9008 Features

The market price is ~580 RMB for the DK9000-Blue, 630RMB for DK9000 Brown/Black. The DK9008 is roughly 680RMB. I am waiting patiently for 'imsto' to restock it ship it to me first hand for review. Till then, I see this as a very potential alternative to Filco.

Here is few shots of DK9000




















Here is the DK-9008:







KBC group's been offering colorful keycaps for Ducky Keyboard (also compatible with other Cherry based like Filco or Das). You can check out 'imsto' taobao shop (Chinese store similar to eBay).

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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 05:15:57 »
Thank you for all this information.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 05:18:10 »
I wonder if they have the 'Costar Controller Blues'...
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Offline fireglow

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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 07:30:21 »
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I wonder if they have the 'Costar Controller Blues'...


Could you elaborate, please?
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Offline fireglow

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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 07:57:32 »
Ah right, thanks for clearing that up.
I've heard of the problems with Das Keyboard and was a little surprised when I found the Das on duckychannel.com.tw... So Costar is what they share.
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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 08:48:12 »
Quote from: joneslee85;141942

There isn't much information about this keyboard.


Actually we already have four topics about this all from within the last month or so:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7845
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7844
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7843
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7816

However I guess this one makes a good summary with some new pictures.

Personally I agree to webwit and I would never buy a new Costar model again until its proven to work properly after the Fukka and Das S disaster.
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« Reply #6 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 09:09:06 »
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Personally I agree to webwit and I would never buy a new Costar model again until its proven to work properly after the Fukka and Das S disaster.


ABS too. And weren't the Matias keyboards with the ghosting issues made by Costar also?
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« Reply #7 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 09:13:26 »
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ABS too. And weren't the Matias keyboards with the ghosting issues made by Costar also?


I have a Matias with ghosting issues, will try to find out who made that.
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Offline rdjack21

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« Reply #8 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 09:19:15 »
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I was too lazy to 'shop the blank keys.


I would like it with the cursor/edit pads removed as well myself. But tenkeyless is acceptable.
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« Reply #9 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 09:40:25 »
Quote from: webwit;141963


I was too lazy to 'shop the blank keys.



Jesus, now people are going to be asking us where you can find one of those 'boards when they're searching for ducky hahaha.
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« Reply #10 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 10:54:34 »
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Me too, but I'll be patient...


Yea I'm patiently waiting as well. In the mean time I think I will have to get a μTRON :)
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« Reply #11 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 12:54:39 »
they're not that bad at all for that price
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« Reply #12 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 16:19:18 »
Quote from: webwit;141963


I was too lazy to 'shop the blank keys.


Now it looks like a FILCO. why not 'shop' the F1-F12 to all have LEDs?
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« Reply #13 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 19:25:42 »
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Me too, but I'll be patient...

about the miniguru, alot of people use their thumb to press the alt key for simple things as alt f4, now the fn key is supposedly next to the space bar, that's two keys at once with the thumb, wouldnt it be better to go with an already proven layout of having the fn key in the bottom right corner? PFU made alot of research to not conflict with older standards, who is this board intended to, is it a chat board? I'm interested but if i start finding things like this after 30 seconds of reading, that it might have other similar things to consider.

Edit: I see the bottom corner key is still there, hopefully it will be usable as fn at the time of release, 'always on home row' is a great feature
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« Reply #14 on: Sun, 13 December 2009, 20:20:44 »
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And anybody else think the Ducky logo looks like a College Football logo?
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Absolutely.  First thing I thought of was the Spartans
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Buckling Spring: Model M 1391401(1988 & 1993)
Cherry Blues: DAS III Pro
Cherry Blacks: Cherry G80-11900
Cherry Browns: 3X Cherry G80-8113LRCUS-2
Cherry MY: G81-7000HPBUS-2****G81-3000LANUS-0****Modded to 20g
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