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Offline timw4mail

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Linear spacebar?
« on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 07:02:20 »
After being fed up with the gray spacebar in one of my brown cherry keyboards, I replaced it with a black, linear switch I had around. I find a linear spacebar to actually be a lot more efficient than one with a tactile point. I think that for such an obvious key, the spacebar actually is impeded by a tactile switch. Thoughts?
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Offline JBert

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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 07:08:58 »
I don't mind the tactile point as much as its overall force needed to press. I tried to swap a brown under it, but that was just too light.

I need something in between a gray and a brown, maybe a clear switch would suit that description.
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Offline ironcoder

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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 07:10:49 »
That sounds pretty good although I tend to hammer the space bar pretty hard with my time worn thumb so any switch on the spacebar would probably work for me..
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« Reply #3 on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 07:22:33 »
Considering how much you use the spacebar, I don't find the tactile point to offer any advantage, really. With the exception of a buckling spring mechanism, a tactile switch really just seems to slow the speed at which you can actuate the spacebar.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 08:27:38 »
Tactility doesn't bother me as much as force.  When I first got my MX11800, it had a grey switch for the spacebar.  I swapped it out for a brown from Scroll Lock or something and was much happier.  I can take or leave tactility.  My thumbs not sensitive enough to notice the tactlity on the spacebar unless I press it slowly.
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« Reply #5 on: Tue, 13 October 2009, 09:07:57 »
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Tactility doesn't bother me as much as force.  When I first got my MX11800, it had a grey switch for the spacebar.  I swapped it out for a brown from Scroll Lock or something and was much happier.  I can take or leave tactility.  My thumbs not sensitive enough to notice the tactlity on the spacebar unless I press it slowly.

When I got my MX11800, apparently the previous owner had done the same thing.

Really, I find the green switch in my Scorpius the most annoying, as its really sloppy if you want to use the spacebar for something like advancing text in an interactive novel.
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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 14 October 2009, 07:31:11 »
The space bar action is actually one thing that I like about G81s. A medium-weight linear switch should be pretty much perfect there. I can't see much of an advantage for tactility at this position either.
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