Build quality noppoo choc mini ?

[popol]

for the built quality and the LEAGUE the comparison stands and you're right the Noppoo would be more of a Traban!!!

[itlnstln]

What's wrong with Noppoo's build quality?  Mine's solid as a rock.

[sordna]

If you want Ferrari performance, you gotta go to Kinesis Advantage or Maltron. Traditional flat staggered layouts are akin to steam engines. No matter how you much polish them with NKRO, fancy keycaps, detachable cables, and whatnot, they are still the same inefficient design that's been around for decades.

[N8N]

If you want Ferrari performance, you gotta go to Kinesis Advantage or Maltron. Traditional flat staggered layouts are akin to steam engines. No matter how you much polish them with NKRO, fancy keycaps, detachable cables, and whatnot, they are still the same inefficient design that's been around for decades.

Eh, I don't use a non-standard layout keyboard because I don't want to have to sit down in front of someone else's machine and be completely at a loss as to how to type on it.  Granted that would suck to have to be subjected to the indignity of rubber domes after becoming accustomed to tactile mechanical goodness, but at least I won't have to figure out a new layout.  Having a great "ergonomic" keyboard is only useful if you carry it around with you wherever you go

At least that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

[sordna]

I disagree. I'm sure Schumacher can regular drive street cars fine, even though they are vastly different than his Formula 1 racer that he spends hours training in.

Case in point: I have a Kinesis Advantage and even typing Dvorak on it, AND I have a Poker, an IBM mini, laptops, etc with the traditional layout (and I type them in regular QWERTY).
I am fully efficient in both. I just happen to do 100WPM on one and 75WPM on the others because of the keyboards' efficiency (and my own personal limits). I never did more than 80WPM before getting the Kinesis.

Other users, including iMav have an Advantage and regular keyboards, and can switch back and forth. While learning a new layout, it's better to stick with it for a week or two, but once you learn it well, you can start going back and forth and soon you'll be a master of both, and you'll be able to objectively compare them.