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Offline elvisthedj

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g80-8200hpbus2.. just arrived.
« on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 18:08:54 »
First off - hello!  

Secondly .. My keyboard just arrived a few hours ago.  Lots of things I like, but a couple of things.. wow.. this will take some getting used to.\

Ahh.. I just noticed that the above ends in a "\".  That was not intentional.  One of the things to get used to is this tiny enter key.  I keep fat fingering it with the "\".  

Also the "dip" in the F and J as opposed to a protrusion is strange for me.  I paid 100 bucks for it and I know that for that money I could've had something with the same switches\
with some fancier features (like backlighting), but this keyboard was appealing largely because of the programmable and relegendable keys.  I'm a linux guy and therefore have
plenty of handy scripts I could bind to various keys.
*** MENU ENTRY ***
G80-8200HPBUS  
BL: 0483
KB: 0999
LV: 0814
CF: 1000

*** MENU EXIT ***
wow ..  That was unintentional too.. I was just checking out the shortcut I read about in the manual.. wasn't expecting a menu.  I will add one cool point for that menu. (even though I don't know what
any of those items refer to... yet)

So things I thumbs up:

Cherry Mx Browns
Double Shot Keys are crisp and clear
Mag stipe reader (I'll come up with something for this someday)
Lots of relegendable keys
Cool menu types in your posts

Things I thumbs down:

The Enter key size (I have erased lots of \'s from this post)
The two keys surrounding the up arrow key will take some getting used to.. I'm used to that key being a loner\
Cool menu has meaningless options


Thanks!

Offline perragnar

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g80-8200hpbus2.. just arrived.
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 18:58:58 »
how about some pictures?

Offline rodya

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g80-8200hpbus2.. just arrived.
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 20:00:02 »
Nice!  Is it new/used?  Where'd you get it?  Photos would be nice.

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Offline elvisthedj

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g80-8200hpbus2.. just arrived.
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 18 April 2012, 07:29:10 »
It's NIB and I haven't made any changes, so really no need for photos.  There are some good photos of this model on these forums already (posted by Magna IIRC).  Got it on ebay for 100 (sale is still going on I believe, but I know many would rather have something fancier at that price point)