Hello folks! You folks are madmen and crazed otaku. I salute you... (This whole sentence is a complement from me...)
So anyway ;p
Current keyboard hit its end of life... and I'm a bit of a gamer... and well. Computer Engineering student(though not into the fun classes yet...), Japanophiliac... Well. The list goes on but XD...
Anyway. My old keyboard is a Logicool Ultra-Flat Dark-Shine...
Logicool being the Japanese branch of Logitech
(Lol, yeah, appernetly Logitech was a taken name in Japan already...)
Its very similar to its more common Logitech counterpart... Except the "tilda" key, and three additional keys where a large chunk of the spacebar would be. Well. And some chunks of the layout other than numbers and letters. The funny kanji filled keys are. Well actually I still don't know what one of them does, but the other 3 make Japanese input REALLY easy. But anyway.
I tend toward lighter touch keyboards(With the odd exception of my last keyboard... which is just strange). I imagine from my reading that were I to go cherries it would be either Reds or Browns that would suit me... Though Topre sound nice too. I know that some laptops are deceptively 2light" touch(aka actually quite firm), I was a laptop user for over 7 years though already (XD and Im only 23!) and well. My last laptops keyboard was mindbogglingly light even for a laptop. I liked it--other than the entire computers horrible durability all around. (Feck you Sony.) I notably find my current ultralight (an ol Libretto L5, I was so proud to see the Libretto 50 in your wiki under an example xD tho I guess that model WAS sold outside Japan unlike my L5)
My current keyboards in use are around these key-press weights:
(or well, in use until yesterday when the ultra-slims space-bar started giving out)
Logitech Ultra-Flat: 73.5G (Reacts the moment its actually depressed at all tho. Makes typing on it... weird but pleasant. Internals is some kind of dome or membrane... Mechanisms cover is plastic welded on...)
Libretto L5: 60G right on the freaking mark. (Tho I suppose the keyboard was "for" a Protege 3400... XD Same part tho.)
I find the latter to be a bit too firm. Hilariously I've been typing on the prior for 2 years and find it feels much nicer... and lighter compared to the L5. I suppose its since ALL 70+g are front-loaded, and past that it takes only a little over 30g to hold the key down... or even to depress the key past the first 1/4...
I like my keyboards non-clicky. Nuf said.
I absolutely despise keyboards that have issues if you press the key off center. Even more so I hate island/chicklet keyboards.
I like lower travels, my Sony had especially tiny travel and was a dream to type on. The logitech I just wore out has fairly low travel. The libretto L5 actually has HIGH travel for a laptop in my experience... and it annoys me slightly.
I need a numpad since I play roguelikes alot still, and roguelikes without a numpad are kinda like a fps on a touchpad. Weird, hard to learn, and yick.
I do rather need a Japanese layout... One of my two majors is Japanese and the Kanji/Kana switch buttons are incredibly useful. Not to mention I have been meaning to learn direct kana input mode... (which from what I have ascertained many Japanese don't bother learning over romanji input mode but oh well xD)
... I have possibly considered building my own keyboard.
I have soldering and pcb related skills... and both a soldiering iron and heatgun(built it myself!)... Used to work on laptops, and the occational cellphone.
I am sadly, being a college student, on a college student budget... So while I'd like something better. Might have to settle lower.
Anyway... any thoughts? ideas? tangents? tribulations? tribbles? BFGs?
Also. Kumquat. That is all.
