brown cherrys with trackball keyboard

[Eclairz]

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/chihdar7/article?mid=148

They seemed to open up all sorts of keyboard, but this took my interest, brown cherrys i think (image is not clear its brown but it ain't clear its black either) and a built in trackball, and a numpad above it, sounds like a good combo for space conscious, unless you like to have your keyboard up against your screen all the time (bad for your eyes)

edit: And for the curious among you i saw this grey cherry keyswitch?

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/chihdar7/article?mid=665

And light blue ones too, + super rare white keyswitches

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/chihdar7/article?mid=172

[Ulysses31]

Those grey ones you linked to look black to me.  Perhaps it's just my eyes.  The white ones look a little bit strange too; they don't carry the Cherry logo so perhaps they're fakes?  I have seen white cherry switches so I know they exist but those ones look a bit suspect.  That Compaq keyboard is nice though, there's no denying that.

[Eclairz]

grey spacebar switch i meant, cherry spacebars are usually different, like the green keyswitches in the g80-3000 blue clickies

[xyzzy]

The grey Cherry switch is just like the black one (linear action) except it requires a stronger force to be depressed. So it's normally used for the space bar, as in the photo. I have a black linear Cherry board (similar to the one shown except it has a trackpad instead of the trackball and it's all black) and it had a grey switch too below the space bar.

Regarding the white ones, I have a board that uses those exact same switches. They are clicky, and I quite liked it except that (I think due to the usage from the previous owners) some of them lost part or all of their "clickiness" and have become pretty much linear now.

Just like those in the photos, my Cherry whites do not have the brand on them, so they're either fakes or a very old model (maybe at that time Cherry did not put their brand on them?!).

[zetan]

grey spacebar switch i meant, cherry spacebars are usually different, like the green keyswitches in the g80-3000 blue clickies

Das Keyboard II has a green switch for the space bar too.
It was okay for a few days of use, but it increasingly became uncomfortable
that I had to replace the green switch with a cherry blue on a rarely used key.

[xsphat]

What was so different about it? Why was the green switch so bad?

[Eclairz]

green switch is louder and with a different tonality to it as well, but i dont mind its kind of an indicator for new words for me

[wellington1869]

Regarding the white ones, I have a board that uses those exact same switches. They are clicky, and I quite liked it except that (I think due to the usage from the previous owners) some of them lost part or all of their "clickiness" and have become pretty much linear now.

xyzzy -- I just found out one of my boards is exactly this. white MX pcb mount, clickey. Mine were on a qtronix kt-305 which I had assumed had blues (not the case). They're not bad in feel, but how are they different from blues?

[xyzzy]

xyzzy -- I just found out one of my boards is exactly this. white MX pcb mount, clickey. Mine were on a qtronix kt-305 which I had assumed had blues (not the case). They're not bad in feel, but how are they different from blues?

I have no direct experience on Chery blues so I can't really comment on the difference. From the pics in the page you linked to in another post, it seems that they have a different spring and maybe the "hump" on the whites is more pronounced.

So my guess is that the whites could offer a bit more resistance than the blues, but as I said, I have no way to compare the two directly.

[wellington1869]

ok thanks. I'll post a comparison with the blues in the review section soon as I get my DAS...