More I look more I am confused

[lanox]

Hi

I am looking to get a nice compact keyboard, that supports mac and windows via switches. I have narrowed it down to the following keyboards but still can't seem to decide.

I am aware that not all of these keyboards have support for mac but they are still on the list.

1) HHKB ( supports both), but hard to get keycaps.
2) Leopold FC660C (although no support for mac) love the layout.
3) KUL-ES87
4) matias 60% (but only can choose mac or win)
5) CODE 61-Key ( supports for mac and win)

I would like to hear what you guys think, and if I have missed any other keyboards.

Thanks

[HeeCh2ei]

You can find your answer as soon as you dig deeper.
You have a Cherry MX keyboards in the list. What mx switches you prefer?

[lanox]

You can find your answer as soon as you dig deeper.
You have a Cherry MX keyboards in the list. What mx switches you prefer?

I am not sure what you mean with the first line.

I am after Cherry MX Brown.

thanks

[bocahgundul]

I think your best bet is the HHKB which support both mac and windows and it use Topre switch

They feels really good and the build quality is good!

[lanox]

I think your best bet is the HHKB which support both mac and windows and it use Topre switch

They feels really good and the build quality is good!

I am almost sold on HHKB, I am just little annoyed that keycaps are not as easy to get as Cherry.

[HeeCh2ei]

You can find your answer as soon as you dig deeper.
You have a Cherry MX keyboards in the list. What mx switches you prefer?

I am not sure what you mean with the first line.

I am after Cherry MX Brown.

thanks

I am sold keyboard on browns once I tried Topre.

[lanox]

You can find your answer as soon as you dig deeper.
You have a Cherry MX keyboards in the list. What mx switches you prefer?

I am not sure what you mean with the first line.

I am after Cherry MX Brown.

thanks

I am sold keyboard on browns once I tried Topre.

Sorry but I got no idea what you talking about.

[bocahgundul]

I think your best bet is the HHKB which support both mac and windows and it use Topre switch

They feels really good and the build quality is good!

I am almost sold on HHKB, I am just little annoyed that keycaps are not as easy to get as Cherry.

well why did you want to change the keycaps?

they got a really high quality dyesubbed PBT keycaps

[lanox]

I think your best bet is the HHKB which support both mac and windows and it use Topre switch

They feels really good and the build quality is good!

I am almost sold on HHKB, I am just little annoyed that keycaps are not as easy to get as Cherry.

well why did you want to change the keycaps?

they got a really high quality dyesubbed PBT keycaps

Ah I guess just modding etc, make it look nice dunno some HHKB I have seen on here are amazing.

[Malenky]

I think you should be more specific about what you mean by 'supports Mac'. Any keyboard will work on a Mac, you may have to remap the control and alt keys to get your keys how you like it in OSX but that's about it. I think if you're looking for a keyboard which can do more specific things such as the controls they have bound to the base layer of the function keys, then maybe a Matias keyboard is your best choice? Not 100% sure on what Mac controls they have though.

[HeeCh2ei]

You can find your answer as soon as you dig deeper.
You have a Cherry MX keyboards in the list. What mx switches you prefer?

I am not sure what you mean with the first line.

I am after Cherry MX Brown.

thanks

I am sold keyboard on browns once I tried Topre.

Sorry but I got no idea what you talking about.

Sorry. Don't listen to me, my mind is drifted today.

[lanox]

I think you should be more specific about what you mean by 'supports Mac'. Any keyboard will work on a Mac, you may have to remap the control and alt keys to get your keys how you like it in OSX but that's about it. I think if you're looking for a keyboard which can do more specific things such as the controls they have bound to the base layer of the function keys, then maybe a Matias keyboard is your best choice? Not 100% sure on what Mac controls they have though.

Right, sorry I was not aware of that. What I meant was to be able to use keyboard for mac os and windows with out having to change a lot.

I will do some more reading my self on this.. But thanks for clarifying it.

[Rumudiez]

Any keyboard will work on a Mac, you may have to remap the control and alt keys to get your keys how you like it in OSX but that's about it.

Yup. I have a cheap rosewill at work and a kbt pure at home. I just remapped control and caps lock to command and I'm done.

Volume shortcuts on the pure work with both OSes out of the box. I wrote a script and bound it to f14/f15 to adjust brightness for the rosewill.



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[lanox]

Any keyboard will work on a Mac, you may have to remap the control and alt keys to get your keys how you like it in OSX but that's about it.

Yup. I have a cheap rosewill at work and a kbt pure at home. I just remapped control and caps lock to command and I'm done.

Volume shortcuts on the pure work with both OSes out of the box. I wrote a script and bound it to f14/f15 to adjust brightness for the rosewill.



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Thanks I think this has helped a lot on making my decision.

[rowdy]

I've used all sorts of keyboards on a Mac and Windows, including HHKB, CODE TKL, Model M, SSK, NED APC-H4100E, ...

The only thing I have to change is to swap Win and Alt, which I do in Mac's System Preferences.