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Offline intelli78

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Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 11:59:00 »


Back in stock, with this promo banner.
Anybody know what it says?

Are they really still running through old stock? Seems unlikely.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 17:40:09 »
Someone found another pallet of them.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:20:25 »
Quote from: TacticalStache on Mon, 08 December 2014, 17:40:09
Someone found another pallet of them.

This seems to have been happening a lot lately.

A shame that new Topre stuff is not being made though.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:48:07 »
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:20:25
Quote from: TacticalStache on Mon, 08 December 2014, 17:40:09
Someone found another pallet of them.

This seems to have been happening a lot lately.

A shame that new Topre stuff is not being made though.

Demand outside of Japan doesn't extend much further than us. Maybe the occasional rich guy trying to be impressive by saying he's got a $200 keyboard, but not much else aside from the enthusiast crowd.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:51:07 »
Quote from: TacticalStache on Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:48:07
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:20:25
Quote from: TacticalStache on Mon, 08 December 2014, 17:40:09
Someone found another pallet of them.

This seems to have been happening a lot lately.

A shame that new Topre stuff is not being made though.

Demand outside of Japan doesn't extend much further than us. Maybe the occasional rich guy trying to be impressive by saying he's got a $200 keyboard, but not much else aside from the enthusiast crowd.

That's sad :(

I wonder if Massdrop did the occasional drop on Topre keyboards whether it might prompt them to do the occasional small run of a few hundred to a thousand or so.  They'd have the equipment already, just a case of starting it to make a batch of keyboards and keycaps.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:57:23 »
Considering the crazy MOQ on topre keyboards for corporate entities, I doubt it. Especially since Topre hates discounting things. I've never seen an HHKB/RF on sale from an official retailer ever.

If they were like, $50 to $100 cheaper, they'd be more popular, I'd say.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 16:35:00 »
Quote from: TacticalStache on Tue, 09 December 2014, 15:57:23
Considering the crazy MOQ on topre keyboards for corporate entities, I doubt it. Especially since Topre hates discounting things. I've never seen an HHKB/RF on sale from an official retailer ever.

If they were like, $50 to $100 cheaper, they'd be more popular, I'd say.

I can't see them dropping in price by $100, but $50 would tempt a lot of people who would otherwise hold off.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 04:55:23 »
where do you find these please?
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 05:26:39 »
Quote from: skuko on Wed, 10 December 2014, 04:55:23
where do you find these please?

You can get them from widebasket on ebay. No idea how many he has...
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 05:32:32 »
aha...he's good, got my leopold FC660C from him. this is way beyond my budget though and it's a shame it's not the 45g uniform version...
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 05:41:07 »
Quote from: intelli78 on Mon, 08 December 2014, 11:59:00
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Back in stock, with this promo banner.
Anybody know what it says?

Are they really still running through old stock? Seems unlikely.

It says:
"2012. 12. 02. Restock"
"Ergonomically weighted/Uniform/Silenced"
Hope that helped  ;)
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 06:06:47 »
Thanks for the translation. Have you seen any discussions about these re-stocks on the Korean forums? I am just curious where all this stuff is suddenly coming from.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 06:32:13 »
I just checked out kbdmania and naver(a korean search engine) but there doesn't seem to be much talk about the December restock, let alone where theyre coming from. Only thing I found were some complaints about the left ctrl key, something about the angle[?] of it.
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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 06:56:33 »
Ok, well thanks for checking :)

The switch on RF 87u left control is different than all the others:

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Re: Is Leopold manufacturing more "limited edition" RF 10th ed.?
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 10 December 2014, 07:25:22 »
Well that explains a whole lot. Thanks for clarifying that  ;)
Let me know if you need any other help in korean.
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