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Offline Sidiun

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Preferably compact (60% and 75% both fine).

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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 14:31:18 »
What is "best?" Hard to say, I'd go with a duck eagle 60% or an octagon 75%, green switches, and PBT caps of course.

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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 15:41:17 »
Only compact, green switch PBT cap keyboard I can think of is the FC660M. It's a pretty good board, too.
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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 16:43:32 »
You can always build the BEST keyboard for yourself :)

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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 20:42:19 »
mot sue where most everyone is going with this.  but since he says 'stock', he means he wants to buy a complete keyboard that's factory assembled right?
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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 22:22:54 »
If you are willing to stretch into tenkeyless territory I'd keep an eye out on Massdrop for the Varmilo 87 - which appears to come out of the same factory as they Leopolds.  Nice thick side print or top dyesub PBT keycaps w/ multiple keycap colors.

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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:40:29 »
My QFS is excellent, although it did not come with PBT keycaps.  As it is a standard layout, a set is easy to source (and feels great!).
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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 19:32:03 »
A code and a set of the Vortex caps from mech keyboards.com, imo!
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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 19:35:16 »
I don't think anything has greens, PBT, and is 60% stock. However there is the varmillo that was mentioned before by Dante.
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Re: What are the best keyboards with Green switches and PBT caps stock?
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 12:02:59 »
I don't think anything has greens, PBT, and is 60% stock. However there is the varmillo that was mentioned before by Dante.

There's a guy selling FC660Ms on ebay with PBT caps and green switches.
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