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Offline obj-c

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Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 22:47:02 »
As title says.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 22:54:10 »
Quote from: obj-c on Wed, 26 December 2012, 22:47:02
As title says.

Hmmm.... Hard to say, because even if they get new stock at "certain" warehouses, They may be shipping from a "closer" warehouse with "older stock"..

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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 23:18:06 »
i guess i will test my luck then, haha
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 00:30:51 »
It most definitely isn't certain.  I got my QFR with Blacks from Amazon and it came with logos (not that it bothers me.)  I would guess that the blues are more likely not to have logos because they are by far the most popular model of the QFR.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 01:37:04 »
My guess is that most or all of the browns will be unbranded.
This is because they were out of stock for a short while, and therefore they should be shipping with all new stock.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 01:41:19 »
I have ordered (live in Seattle, WA area) 4x CM QuickFire Rapid keyboards in the last 3 weeks with 1x Browns being from Amazon, 2x Reds, 1x Blues from Newegg and can confirm that all are unbranded. Doesn't guarantee that you will get the same but they are selling at a decent rate so I'd bet if you order from Amazon or Newegg you'll more than likely get an unbranded one. Good luck!

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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 08:45:50 »
I ordered an MX red model last week from Amazon last week and it's unbranded... If that helps.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 23:10:21 »
I got an unbranded brown from amazon earlier this month.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 23:33:50 »
Received an unbranded w/ browns about a week ago
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 28 December 2012, 19:20:45 »
I just received a CMstorm with MX browns today from amazon. It's unbranded.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 28 December 2012, 20:17:29 »
I received a Blue for Christmas, was ordered middle of the month, and it's most definitely branded :(  Doesn't matter, of course, since I'm planning to sand/paint it and replace all the caps, but still would have been nice in the meantime.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 28 December 2012, 23:09:28 »
The branding's not really that bad, once you swap the keycaps out.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #12 on: Fri, 28 December 2012, 23:16:19 »
So my quickfire rapid with cherry mx browns finally came in today in just two days thanks to Amazon prime, and they are infact unbranded!  ;D My quickfire rapids mx blues that ended up returning were unbranded but used the old style box.

I have a question though, my keyboard feels a bit different and sounds different from my brothers Quickfire Pro that also uses mx browns, what gives?
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #13 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 00:39:29 »
Different table you have the keyboard on?  It can make a difference.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #14 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 00:46:07 »
nope same table, his feel a bit more tactile and sound quite a bit louder.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #15 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 01:18:25 »
Did he change keycaps? If not, then its probably just that your keyboard is newer and has not been broken in yet and/or variance in the switches.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #16 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 01:36:39 »
He did not change the keycaps, his keyboard is one week older than mine. Just to make sure, he does not have the quickfire rapid he has the quickfire PRO if that changes anything even though both keyboards use the same key switches.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #17 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 01:52:50 »
Aha!  Different manufacturer (AFAIK), maybe one is plate-mounted and the other PCB-mounted?
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #18 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 02:22:48 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 29 December 2012, 01:52:50
Aha!  Different manufacturer (AFAIK), maybe one is plate-mounted and the other PCB-mounted?
That could be it haha, apparently my rapid is supposed to be of higher quality than his since mine is manufactured by costar and his is by ione... odd that i prefer the latter... but my new keyboard is growing on me so thats a plus!

Thanks for the help guys!
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #19 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 05:52:09 »
The Quickfire Rapid is manufactured by the company Costar, which in general make better more solid keyboards ( like Filco) than the company that is contracted to make the Quickfire Pro, which is iOne. iOne also makes the Razer Blackwidow.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #20 on: Sat, 29 December 2012, 14:19:17 »
haha yeah, it' strange that I preferred the cheaper one at first, but my costar board is slowly growing on me. Had to return my blue quickfire rapid since it was just too loud.
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Re: Quickfire Rapid, do the MX Browns on Amazon come unbranded now?
« Reply #21 on: Sun, 30 December 2012, 21:06:39 »
Funny, usually you pay more for a brand.. In the case of CM, you pay less and the **** is everywhere.. Goodluck!
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