Topre switch w/ MX Compatible Stem.....

[SpAmRaY]

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YES

IVE BEEN SAVING FOR THIS

what about all those other buys you are participating in?

maybe you could get extra money helping old people do stuff. or walk dogs. or something.

[The_Beast]

I'd like to see the stabilizers first, and them some reviews, and then a 60% with a ANSI layout. Then I'll buy it right up

[missalaire]

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YES

IVE BEEN SAVING FOR THIS

what about all those other buys you are participating in?

maybe you could get extra money helping old people do stuff. or walk dogs. or something.

Could always sell a kidney. You only need one of those.

[dragonxx21]

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YES

IVE BEEN SAVING FOR THIS

what about all those other buys you are participating in?

maybe you could get extra money helping old people do stuff. or walk dogs. or something.

What other buys? Isn't he known as the canceler?

[rowdy]

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YES

IVE BEEN SAVING FOR THIS

what about all those other buys you are participating in?

maybe you could get extra money helping old people do stuff. or walk dogs. or something.

What other buys? Isn't he known as the canceler?

And with a custom title to prove it!

[SpAmRaY]

In case anyone doesn't frequent DT

[nuclearsandwich]

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How do those stabilizers work? They don't look like MX stems but clearly they are.

[demik]

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How do those stabilizers work? They don't look like MX stems but clearly they are.

maybe it's something like the costar stabilizers that you can use some sort of insert or something

[Photekq]

Ooh this is looking promising.

Also, nice avatar demik )

[stancato9]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

[VesperSAINT]

Ooh this is looking promising.

Agreed. Looks quite promising, but I hope they bring out a 55g version. That'd be an instabuy. Dunno if I want to buy it if it ends up feeling like the Realforce 45g... but if it feels like Leopold 660C... well that'd be a maybe-instabuy.

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

Meh. The HHKB is unique feeling because of the case-mount feel. The thock on that thing is pretty godly. HHKB is a different breed all together, imo.

[Pacifist]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

It is

Which is why I was holding out of buying a f660c

Even if this is $200 (CM would never price it above that, too hard to advertise) its a great product

[VesperSAINT]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

It is

Which is why I was holding out of buying a f660c

Even if this is $200 (CM would never price it above that, too hard to advertise) its a great product

It'd be great if they price it below $200, but I really don't understand why you keep saying it'd be "too hard to advertise," if it's above that price.

[Photekq]

get realforce 86u
get cm topre
take the mx stems out of the cm
put them in the 86u
mod the 86 a little, turn it into an 84
put it in a custom aluminium case
put on original cherry caps
? ? ?
profit

[VesperSAINT]

get realforce 86u
get cm topre
take the mx stems out of the cm
put them in the 86u
mod the 86 a little, turn it into an 84
put it in a custom aluminium case
put on original cherry caps

profit

You gon' do dis?! I'd love to see thissssss. Get that 55g cups in there too!

[bueller]

Ooh this is looking promising.

Agreed. Looks quite promising, but I hope they bring out a 55g version. That'd be an instabuy. Dunno if I want to buy it if it ends up feeling like the Realforce 45g... but if it feels like Leopold 660C... well that'd be a maybe-instabuy.

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

Meh. The HHKB is unique feeling because of the case-mount feel. The thock on that thing is pretty godly. HHKB is a different breed all together, imo.

Have we seen any info from CM regarding the spring weight yet?

[demik]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

It is

Which is why I was holding out of buying a f660c

Even if this is $200 (CM would never price it above that, too hard to advertise) its a great product

it's never a bad time to buy a hhkb.

layout > ability to make unicorn vomit

[VesperSAINT]

Ooh this is looking promising.

Agreed. Looks quite promising, but I hope they bring out a 55g version. That'd be an instabuy. Dunno if I want to buy it if it ends up feeling like the Realforce 45g... but if it feels like Leopold 660C... well that'd be a maybe-instabuy.

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

Meh. The HHKB is unique feeling because of the case-mount feel. The thock on that thing is pretty godly. HHKB is a different breed all together, imo.

Have we seen any info from CM regarding the spring weight yet?

Not that I know of I'd love to know this too, if anyone has the info.

[Photekq]

You gon' do dis?! I'd love to see thissssss. Get that 55g cups in there too!

I'll wait and see if it's possible to put these mx stabilisers into a realforce board first.. then i'll consider thinking about it

[Pacifist]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

It is

Which is why I was holding out of buying a f660c

Even if this is $200 (CM would never price it above that, too hard to advertise) its a great product

It'd be great if they price it below $200, but I really don't understand why you keep saying it'd be "too hard to advertise," if it's above that price.

The trigger is their only board above $150. And that has gamer lights and is full size.

The masses don't know what topre is, and thus won't buy this over their cheaper, cherry boards. Unless they advertise it as OOOOOHHH ELECTROOOO static membrane keyboard, it'll be interesting how they sell it

And I'm basing this off the f660c, which was $200, and is quite similar. Actual manufacturing probally costs the same

[stancato9]

Maybe this was a bas time to buy an HHKB :\

It is

Which is why I was holding out of buying a f660c

Even if this is $200 (CM would never price it above that, too hard to advertise) its a great product

it's never a bad time to buy a hhkb.

layout > ability to make unicorn vomit

Yeah, the HHKB is beautiful and the pbt caps are all you would ever need.

[Jalberstone]

I found a video of it!

[do_Og@n]

I found a video of it!

OMG OMG OMG!!! They still didn't cover price but at least we have an idea on a release date.

[bueller]

I found a video of it!

Nice work! Q2 2014 release sounds good, gives my wallet some time to prepare itself!

[tbc]

lol, that was such a copout on the prices question

[bueller]

lol, that was such a copout on the prices question

Not really, if they haven't decided on final retail price he'd be a bit silly to start throwing numbers around at CES.

[nuclearsandwich]

I found a video of it!

For those who don't want to watch right now. Release is ~Q2 2014. Pricing as yet undetermined. They're marketing the Topre as being faster responding than the cherries.

[tbc]

lol, that was such a copout on the prices question

Not really, if they haven't decided on final retail price he'd be a bit silly to start throwing numbers around at CES.

it's a copout because they know it's been one of the most reoccuring questions since they started this thread and still don't want to let anything out of the bag, even when it's a good opportunity to gauge public opinion on a price.

i'm not judging lol; it's just funny.

[bueller]

I found a video of it!

For those who don't want to watch right now. Release is ~Q2 2014. Pricing as yet undetermined. They're marketing the Topre as being faster responding than the cherries.

GAMERRRRZ.

[Jalberstone]

I found a video of it!

For those who don't want to watch right now. Release is ~Q2 2014. Pricing as yet undetermined. They're marketing the Topre as being faster responding than the cherries.

It's weird how he never actually said the word "Topre".

[missalaire]

I found a video of it!

Did they actually take away the "gaming" font? :O

[stancato9]

I found a video of it!

Did they actually take away the "gaming" font? :O

It looks the same to me. Maybe not though.

[ComradeSniper]

I just want to see the stabilizers now, can't wait to get my hands on one of these.

[Sai]

dolch on hhkb would only be a dream even if we can replace the stems and the stabililzers.

[The_Beast]

I found a video of it!

I really liked the Rapid I

[eddie]

I found a video of it!

Wow! This is amazing! Can't wait to get my hands on one of these. My wallet needs to prepare.

[CommonCurt]

The "Novatouch" ?  What a name for it.

No matter. I still can not wait to get one.

Hopefully Linus/Slick, Jay, or someone asks some better questions.

[tbc]

I found a video of it!

I really liked the Rapid I

the sideprint version looks pretty interesting.  seems like they have the switch and LED in the correct orientation(closer to the user)

[tjcaustin]

dolch on hhkb would only be a dream even if we can replace the stems and the stabililzers.

How do you figure that?

[Sai]

dolch on hhkb would only be a dream even if we can replace the stems and the stabililzers.

How do you figure that?

i am just saying it since the bottom row will be an issue. i could be totally wrong though.

[KangarooZombies]

I found a video of it!

Hm.

I'd like to be able to test one out before buying it.

[kyb]

I'll totally buy one of these just so I can transplant the stems to my HHBK

[korrelate]

Is this the NovaTouch TKL??? They just mentioned it at CES:

http://www.maximumpc.com/ces_2014_cooler_master_shows_haf_stacker_case_and_mechanical_keyboards_video

Definitely Topre switches but no mention of the cap mounting...

Could be!!!

[Linkbane]

Is this the NovaTouch TKL??? They just mentioned it at CES:

http://www.maximumpc.com/ces_2014_cooler_master_shows_haf_stacker_case_and_mechanical_keyboards_video

Definitely Topre switches but no mention of the cap mounting...

Could be!!!

A little late. 

[korrelate]

The NovaTouch TKL does have the Cherry compatible stems...

Seems like somebody might have already posted this, but I don't care... this is exciting.


Cheers!

[korrelate]

Man I want to hear all about this thing. Who's making what, etc? Are the rubber domes pure Topre or a knock-off of Topre, etc?

Also... how mod-able are these switches? I saw a WFD video where he demonstrated that just taking the switches is difficult to do w/o breaking the switch. Can extract the stems and put them in a real Topre board (if too many of the components are too cheap, etc).


And then what is Topre up to? Are they coming out with a new board any time soon?

[Flyersfan1]

Check out the first page for the answer to your first question.

[missalaire]

I found a video of it!

Did they actually take away the "gaming" font? :O

It looks the same to me. Maybe not though.

Yeah, you're right. I saw a better close-up of the keyboard and it still has the font. At least they did away with the extra white print that was on the QFR's function row though for this one.

[Flyersfan1]

Found another video with some information everyone might be interested in, 45g weighting across the board, but Carter said they weren't ruling out adding a 30, and 55g variant with different form factors.  Forward to around the 6:30 mark for info on the Novatouch.

[SpAmRaY]

Found another video with some information everyone might be interested in, 45g weighting across the board, but Carter said they weren't ruling out adding a 30, and 55g variant with different form factors.  Forward to around the 6:30 mark for info on the Novatouch.

55g full size please!!