The metal case just looks like a hunk of sh!t to me...
Ah. Well, there you go. This just shows you how manipulative ads can be: You show just the angles that make a product look substantial and omit the shi!t-implying ones.
Good work on that, 139. (You don't mind if I call you by your nickname, do you?) You've demonstrated the kind of investigative reporting that's made GH a beacon of KB-related truth and freedom.
That said, this cheapo non-maglev board ended up selling for $35. Wonder if the buyer will insist on a refund? At least we'll know that no one who saw this thread bought it with any illusions.
If you ask me, they labeled it a suspended keyboard because the keys appear to float above the case...
That really makes sense now. I'm not convinced the seller intended to cheat anyone; they may have seen the word "suspended", tried the board, and honestly thought that's what was going on. But of course lots of MKs have the "suspended" look.
I can't help wondering: Would a
real maglev KB be practical? There have been switches that used magnetism for actuation, but what about one that used magnetism for resistance, by opposing the magnets's poles? Rare-earth magnets are quite strong, even key-size ones, but:
- Would such a switch provide enough extra smoothness and/or an interesting enough force curve to make it preferable to a spring?
- Would the cost of so many rare-earth magnets make the price prohibitive? (This may be moot, considering how turned on KB people are by prestige pricing. Anyone willing to shell out $500 on a key cap with a little monster face wouldn't be deterred by a $300 board with unique switches... That is, unless they're interested in spending that kind of dough only on silliness.)
Also, considering in what detail KB geeks go on and on about the slightest novelties in tech and design, would such a revolutionary switch cause such a dramatic increase in forum posts that it'd lead to a drop in productivity sufficient to ruin the U.S. economy? Or do you think Donald Drumpf will accomplish that faster than any of us could? For example, by remaining obsessed about how millions more Americans actually voted against him than for him, rather than attending to his actual duties, about most of which he remains clueless and/or apathetic?
And rather than putting his name on luxury hotels, wouldn't it make more sense for him to endorse trailer parks, gun clubs, and the the other kinds of places where the kinds of people he was able to gull into backing him actually hang out? (I'm not using a maglev KB to type this, but I
could be.)
