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Offline EscapeVelocity

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Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 16:36:07 »
This is a thread for everybody to tell the board and the world about their latest keyboard acquisition! 

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Just received a Ducky Shine 3 TKL with Cherry MX Blues & Green LED illumination!

What a light show!

Love the TKL form factor!  Brings the mouse in closer and saves space on the desktop.  Very portable also.

I Green LEDs are easier on the eyes than Blue or even White.  Really like the Green LEDs. Green and Amber/Orange are probably my favorite LED colors for function over aesthetics.

I like the tactiles and tactile clickies over the linear switches. But linears are nice too. I tend to like higher weighting within the realm of key switches too.  So Clears instead of Browns. Greens instead of Blues. Blacks instead of Reds.

Offline GL1TCH3D

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 17:05:07 »
Aren't there already a dozen running threads on this topic?

Either way, got a duck viper with badly done switches =[ worked out a repair with the seller very quickly though!

My modded tkl hipro is so fun as well.

Should have some keycaps incoming too

Offline EscapeVelocity

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 17:25:56 »
This one is synergistic with the "It's in the mail..." thread.

It arrived!

Offline CaplockJack

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 18:59:10 »
Got a buckling spring keychain.

Offline GL1TCH3D

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 19:26:58 »
This one is synergistic with the "It's in the mail..." thread.

It arrived!

I thought there was a thread "it arrived in the mail" or something already?

Offline Ludovician

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 19:54:15 »
The most recent one that arrived was the Matias Tactile Pro, first generation with the simplified grey Alps. It's got me hooked on Alps switches, but unfortunately a couple of the switches are dying (c and b), so I need to swap them around with some I never use. I also need to clean it.
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Offline Altis

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 20:17:31 »
The tricky part about threads like these is all the info gets lots into the abyss... once you get a few pages in, the posts just get lost and don't show up easily in searches.

I recommend making a full review or trying to find a thread that's specifically on the keyboard you bought.

Having said that! I recently got a KUL ES-87 with MX Clear. I'm breaking in the Clears, but I'm not crazy about them. I can see them being really good for those people who really want to avoid bottoming out as they're the only switch I've used that I can type quickly and normally on without bottoming out. It does ping quite loudly, though.

The board itself is actually really well done, and there's no denying that a lot of thought went into it. Might do up a full review in the Reviews section soon.
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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 20:35:28 »
Aren't there already a dozen running threads on this topic?

That's applicable to most threads lately. But the answer is yes.

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Re: Your latest acquisition, tell us about it!
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 09 June 2015, 20:40:34 »
Sorry should I Lock the topic or delete it?  I dont want to mess up the works around here my first week here!