Hello everyone,
Fabien here, new Geekhack member. Before going on with my thread, I should introduce myself. I'm a 28 years old computer enthousiast, and I'm French (but don't hold that against me).
I've been using computers since age 7, and never stopped since. Of course, I've typed milions of keys since that age, but for some reason, I never looked into typing comfort until now. Maybe I'm getting old ? Who knows. Anyways, I'm currently typing this on a Logitech X-Slim keyboard, which I found to be the best keyboard ever made, until I realized earlier this month that I fooled myself all these years.
I thought the laptop feeling was the best, so much that I bought two of these toys in case something went wrong with mine. Then we switched to Dell keyboards at work (not mechanical, but with thicker keys), and my girlfriend lost her job. Those two facts are not connected of course, but it made me realize something :
- I type waaaay faster on the Dell keyboards we have at work compared to my Logitech one
- My current keyboard feels like it's goint to break any minute since my gf started using it profusely searching for a new job.
I should point out the fact that I work in a computer shop, and I code PHP as a hobby. So I've got my hands on keyboards ALL. THE. TIME.
Anyways, I've been looking more and more at mechanical keyboards, and after reading many articles and posts, I've been interested in these four models :
- Cherry G80-3000
- Topre Realforce 87u
- Happy Hacking
- Scorpius M10
The HH will probably jump out the list soon as I'm pretty sure the compact layout won't fill my needs.
Anyways, back to the topic, and here is the real question.
Appart from the Cherry, which I could get from a local vendor for around 80 EUR, Is there any way at all to get the Topre or the Scorpius in AZERTY layout ?
I'm considering taking appart the whole thing, remount it and configure the layout the way I want. But I've read that AZERTY keyboards have more keys than the QWERTY ones, the "
" key, which is crucial to me. So there is my dilema.
I hope you guys will be able to help me. And thanks for all the precious infos there already is in the forum !!