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Offline False_Dmitry_II

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« on: Sat, 06 August 2011, 18:13:29 »
How actually well liked are they?

I searched and stuff and found ripsters review saying he'd box it up and leave it alone. Other than that I just found mentions of calling the switch type buckling rubber sleeve.
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Offline False_Dmitry_II

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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 07 August 2011, 01:37:40 »
"Keyfeel is what you'd kinda expect. Rubber dome (not CLOSE to a Topre). Better than my Logitech, A4Tech, and Fujitsu laptop but that's not saying much."

"Keyfeel - not horrible but not great. I should try some more scissor switches."

"So bottom line, this one will probably just get sporadic PS3 use and media center wiring closet use. "

"It's really not that bad the more I use it (I do plan on boxing it up soon)." <-- found it, did too.

All from the review, which is what I said I found earlier.

I know for a fact that you've tried more scissor switch type stuff by now (low profile in general I guess). So I was trying to find out how it (and other things) are received now.
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Offline False_Dmitry_II

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 07 August 2011, 13:08:03 »
Well for things like that, keyfeel would be the most important to me. So I was just trying to check out low profile switches in general and see how this one would usually be ranked against them. Because I've run across an m4 I can poke at (it isn't mine). With rankings and descriptions of keyfeel, I can figure what ones I might like based on that m4 and my laptops actual keyboard as base points.

Similar to how I know for a fact that I don't like browns just from having tried blues and clears then also reading the descriptions of them.

Alot of those quotes show the age of the review, especially the 'I should try some more scissor switches' one. So my purpose in this thread was to find out how things generally stand to most people now.
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 07 August 2011, 18:11:05 »
I haven't used their low profile versions as seen in the M4, but I can tell you their full size version is actually surprisingly nice feeling. At least, the one in the Unicomp was actually super nice. Much more tactile than I expected it to be, as well.
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