It is cherry clears indeed.
Like the feel so far, feels very much like the blacks I have to say... Not so much like the blues. I actually expected browns but what the heck. Whites are also interesting to try and not nearly as loud as the blues
What I have to say about the board is that the build quality looks incredibly cheap. I have read about this but couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it first hand. The frame of the board just SUCKS. I mean it's like the cheapest plastic I have seen, even cheap ass rubber dome Logitechs have better frams. The frame is HUGE and I thought that's because they want to maybe use more material to make it seem more stable but I can literally pick it up and twist it. It bends like crazy...
Key printing feels solid albeit a little bit uneven.
All in all I would say you get what you pay for: The incredible feel and awesomeness of mech boards for a very low price (50€).
But of course there have to be compromises in this and that's basically the rest of the board. Like the feet though, seem solid and look fancy. Still beats any rubber dome for sure though, the keys are still schweet so all is good
We had a discussion in another forum about why cherry may want to gradually decrease the quality of its products. I think the car-manufacturer theory applies here.
Car manufacturers used to make cars that rarely broke and were basically build to last for a looooong time. All you had to do was make an oil change once in a while and replace those tires. Other car manufacturers entered the market and sold inferior quality cars which included many parts that were actually "built to break" after a certain time. Because they sold those inferior cars so damn cheap, a lot of people bought them nonetheless. And because they had so many parts in them that were "built to break", a steady stream of money was secured from each customer because they would have to buy parts every few months and a new car every few years.
As a result, the new car manufacturers got filthy rich and the old ones made losses, couldn't continue to compete and finally died out.
The "new" car manufacturers with inferior quality cars would be Logitech in the Keyboard world. They have made lots of money because ppl made short-sighted investments that only result in continuous purchases which actually cost more than buying 1 solid product that lasts very long.
The old car manufacturers would be Cherry in the keyboard world. However Cherry also had and still has (and prolly always will have) the monopole on many things essential to keyboards because they have the patent rights to stuff like switches y'know ...
So they are still alive and will continue to be. But they look at Logitech and are PISSED they make so much more money and they want in on the action.
So, step by step they reduce the quality of their products. Prolly hoping no one will notice (yeah right ...). Until they are on par with Logitech, just offering better technology maybe (still got those mech switches).
Then hopefully all the lemmings will also buy a Cherry board every 1-2 years and they can get multiple purchases out of their own customers, too.
Damn you cherry, that's the wrong way to go I say !
