As time passes I find myself becoming less enthralled with my HHKB?

[LiquidEvilGaming]

Please don't hang/burn/shoot me....But I have noticed as of late the bigger my 60% collection grows the less enamored I am with my HHKB.  Perhaps it's the lack of variety or my need to collect..not sure precisely what but lately when I swap my HHKB into my rotation I notice I swap it back out much faster than usual.

I still think it's a fine board,I still recommend it quite often..but perhaps it's Topre switches themselves I am fallout out of love with slowly?  I traded one of my HHKB's to a GH member recently.....and I'm considering trading out my second. 

Any of you out there end up with this feeling after owning a HHKB for awhile and owning several other boards as well?   Using your HHKB less and less as time goes on?

Perhaps it's just my personal tastes changing in the long run...as they tend to do oh so very very often.

[suicidal_orange]

You bought the hype so thought you loved it (groupthink is a powerful thing!) but when that wore off you woke up and realised it's just not for you.

You're not the first and you won't be the last )

[demik]

all switches are personal taste.

the important thing is that you didn't blindly hate it without trying. sometimes a board just isn't for us no matter how much we try to like it.


you're also dead to us at HHKBrotherhood.

(jk, but thanks for giving it a try)

[absyrd]

If you have the means, keep at least 1 and rotate it back in at another time. Don't lose all hope!

[Polymer]

Please don't hang/burn/shoot me....But I have noticed as of late the bigger my 60% collection grows the less enamored I am with my HHKB.  Perhaps it's the lack of variety or my need to collect..not sure precisely what but lately when I swap my HHKB into my rotation I notice I swap it back out much faster than usual.

I still think it's a fine board,I still recommend it quite often..but perhaps it's Topre switches themselves I am fallout out of love with slowly?  I traded one of my HHKB's to a GH member recently.....and I'm considering trading out my second. 

Any of you out there end up with this feeling after owning a HHKB for awhile and owning several other boards as well?   Using your HHKB less and less as time goes on?

Perhaps it's just my personal tastes changing in the long run...as they tend to do oh so very very often.

Maybe you're just loving some other boards equally as much...The more boards you have, the more attention you have that is split....I find that some days I'm into my HHKB and some days I want something else...nothing wrong with that at all. 

[HeeCh2ei]

It's because you get rid of the 55g RF.

[bocahgundul]

If you have the means, keep at least 1 and rotate it back in at another time. Don't lose all hope!

This exactly this!

but man you could try to type relax and not hammers the keys just enjoy the keyboard.

I've been there man, sold my hhkb cause silly me think there are better switch or keyboard. But after a while I miss the hhkb

my advice is just keep the hhkb man!

[need]

you are just bored by it, especially on something as perfect as the topre swich.

you need "excitements" from time to time.

[tp4tissue]

I've been saying this for years.........  YEARS..... even before it went mainstream/uncool/hipster h8

[NewbieOneKenobi]

It's a bit of a boring switch. If it's predicated on being 'refined rubber dome', it can't be anything else than at least a little on the boring side, however good it feels, especially compared to possibly inferior mech switches that tend to have a distinct character of their own.

[Sifo]

cuz its ****

[tp4tissue]

I was most disappointed by how much friction topre had..

[chuckdee]

Please don't hang/burn/shoot me....But I have noticed as of late the bigger my 60% collection grows the less enamored I am with my HHKB.  Perhaps it's the lack of variety or my need to collect..not sure precisely what but lately when I swap my HHKB into my rotation I notice I swap it back out much faster than usual.

I still think it's a fine board,I still recommend it quite often..but perhaps it's Topre switches themselves I am fallout out of love with slowly?  I traded one of my HHKB's to a GH member recently.....and I'm considering trading out my second. 

Any of you out there end up with this feeling after owning a HHKB for awhile and owning several other boards as well?   Using your HHKB less and less as time goes on?

Perhaps it's just my personal tastes changing in the long run...as they tend to do oh so very very often.

You're brave.  HHKB was actually my first non-membrane/non-scissor key keyboard long before I really got into MK, so I was over the hype long before I came here.

I wish I'd saved it, so I could have sold it for bunches!

[Dongulator]

I could see how someone could lose their hhkb luster from time to time. I too have time's where I wonder if I just bought into the hype, then I look back and ask myself do I really want to go back to mx? The answer is usually no. I'll keep a low end cherry board around in case I want to play sc2 again,but for the most part I just want something comfy,compact,well designed and has a solid look. Which is why I keep hhkb over anything.
I too would recommend at least keeping one, because chances are you will regert not having at least one.

[jaffers]

HHKB goes in the bin

[Tactile]

I've never owned one but I would think part of the attraction of (and reason for choosing) the HHKB is the layout. I'd think that even if you no longer feel the tingle of the Topre switches, you'd still keep it for the distinctive layout.

Am I wrong?

[dante]

I went back to rubberdomes; Not even Topre was good enough for me.

[chuckdee]

I've never owned one but I would think part of the attraction of (and reason for choosing) the HHKB is the layout. I'd think that even if you no longer feel the tingle of the Topre switches, you'd still keep it for the distinctive layout.

Am I wrong?

You can get the layout in other switches.  They have nothing that says if it's that layout, it must be HHKB.

[chuckdee]

HHKB goes in the bin

Don't kill me!    Mine did.  I couldn't find anyone that wanted it, and was moving and clearing things out.

[daerid]

I couldn't find anyone that wanted it

[demik]

I couldn't find anyone that wanted it

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yeah you lying little ****.

cuz its ****

im gonna fight u sifo

[clacktalk]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

[KatzenKinder]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

a singular poo

[demik]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

a singular poo

3v1 right now

[KatzenKinder]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

a singular poo

3v1 right now

oK DemiQ as u will

[clacktalk]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

a singular poo

3v1 right now

oK DemiQ as u will

but would damik hurt the 12yo girl that i am

would he rly

[LiquidEvilGaming]

Will likely be putting mine up for trade soon with an unused Hasu controller (USB) and some red keycaps,once I'm back from cape cod

[demik]

cuz its ****

hhkb is ****

a singular poo

3v1 right now

oK DemiQ as u will

but would damik hurt the 12yo girl that i am

would he rly

yes. i will.

in the name of hhkb's everywhere.

[supamesican]

I know what you mean, I love my hhkb so much, and its perfect for my job, but its just no model m or f...

[Malenky]

I still really like my HHKB, but I think I've always liked tinkering and modifying things. Since I can't justify modifying such an expensive keyboard, and there are limited replacement keycap options (although the stock ones are great) I find myself actually typing on my heavily modified POK3R more. When I get my LeandreN r4 pcb/plate and build my own 60% with a similar layout to the HHKB and 67g Zealios, I think I may find even less reason to use the HHKB.

The one thing that I really like about the HHKB, that I wish I could get on other 60% boards is the two part plastic case. Honestly, if there was a group buy for a very simple, high profile 60% case in an off white and rough texture, it would sell so well.

[smknjoe]

I still keep mine for when I travel and need a compact/light "mech" that's still way better than what's on a Macbook.

[chuckdee]

I couldn't find anyone that wanted it

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yeah you lying little ****.

cuz its ****

im gonna fight u sifo

Believe what you will.  But I wasn't into MKs at the time.  I'd just heard about HHKB.  Everyone I asked said "It's not a real keyboard", or "I don't know about the size" or "Where's the other keys".  Don't shoot the messenger.  :p

[rowdy]

Wrong thread?

[LiquidEvilGaming]

Could be considered right for that thread i suppose.  If a mod wants to move it I'm fine with that =p

[rowdy]

Could be considered right for that thread i suppose.  If a mod wants to move it I'm fine with that =p

I think he was (trying) to make a joke

[LiquidEvilGaming]

I figured =p but in a way it actually sort of makes sense.

[henz]

im on the other end, hhkb is growing on me

[jabronni]

As you said your taste tend to change often. I am the same way, so it's possible that one day you will want to use your HHKB again and it would suck if you traded it.

I understand your dilemma, but let's not be rash. This is a life we are talking about here.

[QuincyJones]

You bought the hype so thought you loved it (groupthink is a powerful thing!) but when that wore off you woke up and realised it's just not for you.

You're not the first and you won't be the last )

Re-read this over until you get it. Some people are paid to post on forums to encourage the hive mind by unwarranted publicity. I've seen it on laptop forums, ear/headphone forums, and here. There are advertising companies that specialise in such practices.

[chuckdee]

Could be considered right for that thread i suppose.  If a mod wants to move it I'm fine with that =p

I think he was (trying) to make a joke

Who was trying to make a joke?  Me?  I didn't know about the other thread.. .and it's true, no matter what one might think.

[Air tree]

You bought the hype so thought you loved it (groupthink is a powerful thing!) but when that wore off you woke up and realised it's just not for you.

You're not the first and you won't be the last )

Re-read this over until you get it. Some people are paid to post on forums to encourage the hive mind by unwarranted publicity. I've seen it on laptop forums, ear/headphone forums, and here. There are advertising companies that specialise in such practices.

If PFU and Topre will pay me to rave and speak the gospel of the HHKB I'm totally down, I do that **** for free already.

[jabronni]

You bought the hype so thought you loved it (groupthink is a powerful thing!) but when that wore off you woke up and realised it's just not for you.

You're not the first and you won't be the last )

Re-read this over until you get it. Some people are paid to post on forums to encourage the hive mind by unwarranted publicity. I've seen it on laptop forums, ear/headphone forums, and here. There are advertising companies that specialise in such practices.

They're on to us.

[robbles]

You bought the hype so thought you loved it (groupthink is a powerful thing!) but when that wore off you woke up and realised it's just not for you.

You're not the first and you won't be the last )

Re-read this over until you get it. Some people are paid to post on forums to encourage the hive mind by unwarranted publicity. I've seen it on laptop forums, ear/headphone forums, and here. There are advertising companies that specialise in such practices.

Not sure about the rest of you, but I'm rich from all the positive things I post about the HHKB. For some reason, PFU decides to give me thousands of dollars to hype up their 10+ year old product, instead of making a new one. Truth is, the HHKB actually sucks and all the positive things you hear about it are sponsored opinions from PFU. I mean, why do you think we all spend so much time and money modifying and lubing it? Because it is a great keyboard? No way, it is total ****. The only reason why I'm telling you this is because Cherry gave me a much better offer to hype up their products instead. You guys ever hear of this switch called Blue? It clicks, but it also saved my marriage. It's THAT good.

 

[dante]

You give PFU way too much credit.  They could care less whether westerners buy their product or not.

[Polymer]

Re-read this over until you get it. Some people are paid to post on forums to encourage the hive mind by unwarranted publicity. I've seen it on laptop forums, ear/headphone forums, and here. There are advertising companies that specialise in such practices.

I know this happens..but I haven't seen it here..care to share? 

And if you're saying it happens with the HHKB...that's just bonkers...

[klennkellon]

I honestly can't imagine using a HHKB, function layers are annoying and the lack of CTRL key makes it unusable (for me) for any type of gaming.

A TKL Case Mounted Topre board WOULD BE HEAVEN.

[chuckdee]

I honestly can't imagine using a HHKB, function layers are annoying and the lack of CTRL key makes it unusable (for me) for any type of gaming.

A TKL Case Mounted Topre board WOULD BE HEAVEN.

Isn't that what a CM Novatouch TKL is?  Or am I missing something?

[klennkellon]

I honestly can't imagine using a HHKB, function layers are annoying and the lack of CTRL key makes it unusable (for me) for any type of gaming.

A TKL Case Mounted Topre board WOULD BE HEAVEN.

Isn't that what a CM Novatouch TKL is?  Or am I missing something?

Novatouch is plate mounted

[LiquidEvilGaming]

I honestly can't imagine using a HHKB, function layers are annoying and the lack of CTRL key makes it unusable (for me) for any type of gaming.

A TKL Case Mounted Topre board WOULD BE HEAVEN.

Isn't that what a CM Novatouch TKL is?  Or am I missing something?

Novatouch is plate mounted

Not only plate mounted but unless you are willing to put the work into modding it the stock sound profile is just awful...that Novatouch rattle is enough to drive one mad.

[klennkellon]

Yeah, the NovaTouch sounds lame. I think the TypeHeaven also sounds like a regular rubber dome.

The Royal Kludge/Plum Topre Clones sound like dental banded topre, and it's delicious! (because they are dental banded out of the box)