Realforce 108US, 30g uniform Topre (non-silenced).
I had to try 30g Topre.
Next up might be the HiPro as I really want to try it... not sure when that might happen though.
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How does it feel?! I really want to try 30g, my 45g hhkb is so heavy...
It's a bit early to tell as I haven't had a chance to do a lot of typing on it yet and I'm still adjusting a little to the layout...
But initial impressions are that it's a very light keystroke. You have to be a bit more precise with your typing as pressing adjacent keys is very easy to do, and you don't always feel when you have. I suspect most people would find this keystroke to be too light, but I actually think it's kind of nice. You can just float along and fatigue doesn't seem to set in.
The sound that it makes is very similar to other Realforce keyboards for the most part.
The JIS layout is actually fine in most respects -- the small spacebar hasn't been an issue, nor even the small backspace or ISO enter key. The only thing that trips me up is the small right-shift, which turns out I only rarely use... I keep pressing the key next to it now, which doesn't actually do anything when you have the keyboard set to U.S. English. I might just use a remapping software to make that key right-shift as well and call it a day, but it's manageable.
The legends also aren't always accurate in U.S. English mode, but that doesn't bother me as I never really look at the legends except when initially placing my hands (if that). For example, the brackets are on the 8 and 9 keys rather than 9 and 0 -- but they still operate on 9 and 0 if you have it set to U.S. English as I do.
I might do a full review in the 'Reviews' section when I get a chance to really use it a bunch. I'm really curious to try the Hi Pro though too and I'm not sure I'll be able to justify having a 6th Topre board... so I'll have to see how that pans out.