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Offline 3one5

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« on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:48:23 »
It started with a Rosewill RK-9000 that arrived on Thursday.  Now I have a Noppoo Choc Mini Blue on the way along with a Cherry ML-4100.  I'm also eyeballing a few other boards. My Wife is going to kill me!
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« Reply #1 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:49:36 »
Solution: new wife.

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« Reply #2 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:51:30 »
I  was vaccinated for Geekhack-itis.  The most I've  ever  spent on  a  keyboard is $20.
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Offline Tony

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« Reply #3 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:53:48 »
Give your wife or your relative some of the keyboards for them to try in a week and start the epidemic.

If this cannot help, you may want to manually censor the Geekhack website for some time.
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« Reply #4 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:58:38 »
Yea, also I think it helps if you let your kids use some of your boards too. I know Ripster and MissileMike have done that. Probably helps to keep the ol' ball and chain off your case ;)

(Of course I'm single so WTF do I know)
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Offline 3one5

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« Reply #5 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:10:46 »
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Yea, also I think it helps if you let your kids use some of your boards too. I know Ripster and MissileMike have done that. Probably helps to keep the ol' ball and chain off your case ;)

(Of course I'm single so WTF do I know)


My 7 year old seems to think that he needs one.  I think I agree :)  May have to see what I can pick up used for them.
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« Reply #6 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:14:04 »
Unicomp Customizers seem to be popular with the kids...although noisy :D
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« Reply #7 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:19:48 »
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I  was vaccinated for Geekhack-itis.  The most I've  ever  spent on  a  keyboard is $20.


Liez.
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« Reply #8 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:20:45 »
It's true. Most of his equipment was dug from dumpsters. He got his office chair from the side of the road.

You should see what his basement looks like.
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Offline Koeitje

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« Reply #9 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:36:22 »
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I  was vaccinated for Geekhack-itis.  The most I've  ever  spent on  a  keyboard is $20.


Doesn't help if you buy a 100 keyboards :heh:
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« Reply #10 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 19:52:28 »
I get most of my keyboards for free.
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Offline 3one5

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« Reply #11 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 21:25:40 »
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It's true. Most of his equipment was dug from dumpsters. He got his office chair from the side of the road.

You should see what his basement looks like.


I used to do a lot of digging in dumpsters.  But we were usually looking for information, not gear :)
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Offline YetAnotherDeveloper

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« Reply #12 on: Sat, 19 February 2011, 21:47:52 »
welcome to the club.
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Offline db_Iodine

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« Reply #13 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 04:08:06 »
Buying is so much fun. I've bought 7 keyboards in the past 4-5 months and I have one more ordered.

The only bad thing in owning multiple keyboards is that it makes your desk look messy. I'm too lazy to unplug the other keyboards when I want to try another switch, so at best I might have 3 keyboards in front of me. Detachable cables would help me out a lot, but only one of my keyboards has that feature.

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« Reply #14 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 06:30:38 »
Being poor also helps, only 3 here... Hmm now if I could get atleast two more and maybe some after that...
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« Reply #15 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 07:19:03 »
I have been into mechanical keyboards for a couple years, on geekhack for a few months and as a result I only own three keyboards.

Although I do spend a lot of time looking at the material here on geekhack and find myself hovering over the "Pay Now" button, I never really do for some reason.
Probably due to my indecisiveness haha.
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« Reply #16 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 10:40:55 »
Quote from: 3one5;297980
It started with a Rosewill RK-9000 that arrived on Thursday.  Now I have a Noppoo Choc Mini Blue on the way along with a Cherry ML-4100.  I'm also eyeballing a few other boards. My Wife is going to kill me!
I fall into that catagory too, but in my case, the wife watches (guards) the money.  This is a good thing.  She keeps my spending under control.  Even then she questions wether I need to get another free keyboard.  At least we have a roof over our heads and all the bills are paid.  :-)
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #17 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 10:42:33 »
She even questions the free ones? Weird. In my house, the free ones are loved. She questions why I need so many, but she's very enthusiastic about the free ones. Then again, she just loves free things...
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« Reply #18 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 10:58:56 »
Maybe I'm not the best person to give advice, but I recommend trying to limit and put constraints on yourself. Before a purchase really question "Am I going to use this? How? How often? On what computer? Why do I want this? etc..."
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« Reply #19 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 11:03:51 »
Buy something worth the money. Alcohol, for instance... Then you won't have the money to spend on keyboards.
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Offline muchadoaboutnothing

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« Reply #20 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 12:25:29 »
I came in here thinking it'd be the first Majestouch I bought and that was it. Next thing I know I'm guinea pigging on the RK-9000 (to be fair, I got it for the lowest price anyone has ever bought it for) and buying $50 keycaps.

If I didn't have more pressing expenses (I desperately need to pickup a scanner) and greater desires (second monitor, SSD) I probably would have picked one a Topre already.
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Offline steeef

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« Reply #21 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 16:35:34 »
If you end up realizing you don't want a particular board, it's pretty easy to turn it around on the Classifieds.
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #22 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 17:29:23 »
Easy solution. Try all the switches, sell if you don't like them or don't think the money spent was worth the keyboard. Once all/most of them are tried out, the urge to buy more keyboards will slowly go away.
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Offline Tony

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« Reply #23 on: Sun, 20 February 2011, 18:38:03 »
The urge to collect or hoard keyboards/stamps/cars/sex partners/money/food is quite normal.

It is your inner insecurity personified to a particular concrete thing. You are unhappy and suddenly believe you must have a Filco/Rosewill/Topre/Ducky with that switch to be happy again.

Luckily you can always resell your excessive keyboards at the classified or ebay. Or give some of them to your family or relatives so that they get a free typing session and understand your keyboard passion.

In this forum, if you have less than 10 keyboards, you are considered a noobie.
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« Reply #24 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 05:01:51 »
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In this forum, if you have less than 10 keyboards, you are considered a noobie.

Or smart.
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Offline SirDrexl

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« Reply #25 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 05:32:15 »
Joking aside, that does seem to be awfully soon to be buying more keyboards.  He got the Rosewill on Thursday, and by Saturday he already ordered two more?  And the Choc Mini even has the same switches?  I think I'd use one for a couple of weeks at least before trying something else.
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Offline Voixdelion

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« Reply #26 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 05:51:34 »
Quote from: ironman31;298463
Easy solution. Try all the switches, sell if you don't like them or don't think the money spent was worth the keyboard. Once all/most of them are tried out, the urge to buy more keyboards will slowly go away.

 
Ah but then once you find the ones you really like, there is a new urge to hoard those instead of consuming all variety to satisfy curiosity.  I seriously need to thin the herd myself.
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Offline db_Iodine

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« Reply #27 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 06:06:16 »
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In this forum, if you have less than 10 keyboards, you are considered a noobie.


One doesn't need to own 10 keyboards at a time to be a pro. I'd rephrase that to: If you haven't tried all the different switches, you're still a noobie.

Ps. I'm a noobie.
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Offline 3one5

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« Reply #28 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 06:35:07 »
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Maybe I'm not the best person to give advice, but I recommend trying to limit and put constraints on yourself. Before a purchase really question "Am I going to use this? How? How often? On what computer? Why do I want this? etc..."


Well, I 'need' at least one for each of the three computers in front of me. Then I need one for work and then possibly one to take along when I travel :)
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« Reply #29 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 07:02:53 »
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One doesn't need to own 10 keyboards at a time to be a pro. I'd rephrase that to: If you haven't tried all the different switches, you're still a noobie.

Ps. I'm a noobie.


So, everyone who haven't tried every variety of MX and ALPS plus ofcourse the Topre is noobie? ;D Yeah.. BTW, do we require hall-effect too? ;)
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« Reply #30 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 07:19:52 »
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So, everyone who haven't tried every variety of MX and ALPS plus ofcourse the Topre is noobie?


Yep, having too many experts would be a bad thing.
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« Reply #31 on: Mon, 21 February 2011, 09:27:02 »
I get by, by buying keyboards used off ebay. My only keyboards I bought new are my G80-3000 with blues and Raptor K1 with blacks.
Bought a used fuji mx browns, messed around playing with screwdrivers to modify keys.
But then I bought a whole load of other keyboards, I have kept to cherry blues of default G80-3000 layout is necessary since programming without the ins,del cluster is a real pain.

I am spying an 87/88 key Topre and this would be my biggest purchase, hopefully it will end there...
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Offline NamelessPFG

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« Reply #32 on: Wed, 23 February 2011, 17:03:27 »
As a certain other forum puts it, "Sorry about your wallet."

I thought I'd be content with the IBM Model Ms, and I mostly was...but some curious part of my personality just had to blow $80 on a DSI Modular Mac with Cherry MX Blues. And it also wants to drop even more on a Cherry MX Clear board, just as a donor board to swap the DSIMM's switches with.

I also have that wallet chipped away little by little whenever I find interesting-feeling boards in stores. That's how I got a pair of BTC-5339s, which turned out to be mechanical-but not in the fashion I expected. (Foam element, but capacitive and NKRO.)
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Offline steeef

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« Reply #33 on: Wed, 23 February 2011, 17:10:35 »
Ugh. I thought Blues were my favorite, but now I kind of like Clears too. This huge Cherry MX 8100 POS board isn't cutting it though. Wish it came in something smaller.
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« Reply #34 on: Wed, 23 February 2011, 18:04:27 »
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Ugh. I thought Blues were my favorite, but now I kind of like Clears too. This huge Cherry MX 8100 POS board isn't cutting it though. Wish it came in something smaller.


I wonder if you could mod it to tenkeyless...
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« Reply #35 on: Wed, 23 February 2011, 18:09:31 »
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I wonder if you could mod it to tenkeyless...


That sounds like a big mess. I'd still want the number/movement cluster, but not as it is now above the trackpad (which I don't want).
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« Reply #36 on: Wed, 23 February 2011, 18:11:08 »
That's a pet peeve of mine too. Hopefully the GH Kustom Keyboard will return from the grave to solve all our problems ;)
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Offline Tony

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« Reply #37 on: Thu, 24 February 2011, 00:58:04 »
I would have set limits first.

For old keyboards, I would set the price to less than 20USD. For new keyboards, ideally I would need only 2 Filco: blue and brown.

That would be more than enough for my two hands. To use more of 10 keyboards, I would become an octopus.
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