NEW iRocks Cherry Browns $69 BIN

[ricercar]

http://cgi.ebay.com/I-ROCKS-KR-6230-BK-Cherry-MX-Mechanical-Keyboard-New-/260597829209

NEW iRocks Cherry Browns $69 BIN

THey show pics with and without asian characters on the key caps. I've asked the seller which version this is.

[chimera15]

That's the one with the funky /? key huh?

[aegrotatio]

That board's layout is idiotically stupid and would likely drive me to murder.  All they needed to do was put the /? key in the correct place by making the right Shift key a little smaller.
At least the position of the backslash key follows SOME precedent.
What in the world were they thinking?

[Laggy-gaga]

I got one from Taiwan which images showed it was free from characters
but it came with character after all.
So do ask the seller about that.

[itlnstln]

If that layout didn't royally suck, I'd be all over it.

[lmnop]

the Thermaltake Meka is coming out it's a rebranded i-Rocks KR-6230 with Cherry MX Black Linear switches and I am sure the MSRP will be higher than $69.99. I don't think the I-Rocks KR-6230 is that bad if it's used for gaming only.

[itlnstln]

The Enter key and the / key are the biggest problems.  I would like to have at least one Windows key.  That, and the size of the Ctrl keys is ridiculous.

[lmnop]

I like it. the Uber Crouch

[ricercar]

So what's the big deal about large enter keys?
And what have I revealed about myself by asking?

[kishy]

The biggest thing has gotta be backslash...if you spend ANY amoung of time in a DOS/Windows command line, you need that key to be where you expect it to be, or hammering out file paths takes way longer than necessary.

Making it even worse, if you go for the normal spot and hit Enter instead, you've now got to re-type your entire path (except where the cursor keys can recall the previous command, but this doesn't exist in real DOS).

[EverythingIBM]

The biggest thing has gotta be backslash...if you spend ANY amoung of time in a DOS/Windows command line, you need that key to be where you expect it to be, or hammering out file paths takes way longer than necessary.

Making it even worse, if you go for the normal spot and hit Enter instead, you've now got to re-type your entire path (except where the cursor keys can recall the previous command, but this doesn't exist in real DOS).

That's a good point actually.

What's DOS?

It's what your computer uses to boot into windows.

[ricercar]

THey show pics with and without asian characters on the key caps. I've asked the seller which version this is.

And the magic answer is ...

Hi this version is without the asian characters. thank you!

[itlnstln]

I don't mind the big Enter key as much as the relocated / key.  That's just dumb.

It's what your computer uses to boot into windows.

I was going to make a comment about this, but then I realized who posted it and remembered 2 things:

-It's just a troll

-For his computers, it's probably still true

[pfink]

Making it even worse, if you go for the normal spot and hit Enter instead, you've now got to re-type your entire path (except where the cursor keys can recall the previous command, but this doesn't exist in real DOS).

IIRC you can recall the previous command in most versions of DOS with F3. The later versions of MS-DOS came with a memory resident utility called DOSKEY that enabled arrow key recall and editing.