Help me choose my next keyboard

[senencito1]

I want to replacemy work keyboard and I'm stumped on what direction to take.

My current setup is

Home - massdrop ctrl with halo trues. I really dig this setup and wouldn't mind going even smaller with something like the Alt. The halo trues feel real nice and wouldn't mind staying with similar switches. Smallest I would go is something with arrows keys, I use these a lot.

Work - ducky one 2 white with cherry blues. I don't love blues as much as I expected. Before this one I had a ducky one 2 with cherry Browns which I liked better.

https://imgur.com/a/zvrTk6H/ photos of my keyboards here

I need a numpad and layout for work as I do quite a lot of sql programming and data analytics with accountants. At home I do mostly photo editing and writing so I prefer a smaller layout.

A coworker has offered to buy the ducky for almost wait I paid for so that part is easy.

I also have a set of wavez keycaps on the way and some switches left over (kailh speed silver) so it need be I can buy barebones.

Here's some ideas I have :

1.Buy a massdrop alt and a numpad. Move the ctrl to the office with the numpad.
2.Buy the massdrop shift and wait till January, the 1800 layout is quite nice .
3.Wait for the ducky wireless keyboard and buy it when it becomes available.


I'm trying to move everything to usb-c so I won't consider micro USB boards.

What do you all think?


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[nelamvr6]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

[senencito1]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

OH man. I've never tried one of those. Hadn't even considered


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[Sintpinty]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

If you can restore the beamsprings on the IBM Beamspring, its challenging but quite worth it.

[nelamvr6]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

If you can restore the beamsprings on the IBM Beamspring, its challenging but quite worth it.

A beamspring would be amazing, but they are a lot harder to get, more expensive, harder to convert to be able to talk to a modern computer.

Plus, the Model M has the instantly recognizable layout that would take zero time to get used to...

[swedishpiehole]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

My thoughts exactly.

[Sintpinty]

Since you want a full size keyboard, and your coworkers are OK with clicky switches, the answer is obvious: IBM Model M.

If you can restore the beamsprings on the IBM Beamspring, its challenging but quite worth it.

A beamspring would be amazing, but they are a lot harder to get, more expensive, harder to convert to be able to talk to a modern computer.

Plus, the Model M has the instantly recognizable layout that would take zero time to get used to...

Yep, i would reccomend the Ibm Model M over the Beamspring because it's easy to restore.