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Offline bender1077

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First modern mechanical - Leopold FC500RT/ABN
« on: Wed, 14 December 2011, 11:21:01 »
Good morrow GH community,

Just received my first modern keyboard - The Leopold full-size with mx browns:
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Sorry for the great phone pic quality!

My '94 Model M has retired (died), and was using some POS Compaq from an ancient desktop for about a week until this arrived.

First impressions:
WOW... Way lighter on the fingers!  It will take some time to not bottom out each keystroke, but I am definitely enjoying it.  Build quality seems very solid as well.  As this is my first newer keyboard I really can't compare it to anything but the Model M.

If you have any questions let me know.

Offline Internetlad

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First modern mechanical - Leopold FC500RT/ABN
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 14 December 2011, 11:31:48 »
Ripster will be surprised that a brave man has walked the Valley of Death and survived.

TBH I was thinking of making the jump too. Have a Unicomp SpaceSaver, an old Model M and a 'board with white ALPS (one legit, one fake)
Was thinking of getting one of the B-Stock Leopold TKL browns for gaming/general use on my home PC..
« Last Edit: Wed, 14 December 2011, 11:36:54 by Internetlad »
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Offline bender1077

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First modern mechanical - Leopold FC500RT/ABN
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 14 December 2011, 11:41:38 »
I enjoy all of the ripster infographics I have come across while lurking on this forum!  I was aware that the sensitivity would be quite different, but it is VERY different!