Hello everyone,
Some years ago I bought steelkeys' 6G gaming keyboard out of an instant impulse... It was love at first sight, I only clicked a few keys in the shop and I knew I was going to pay the insanely high price for it... heck, I'm writing to coverts so you all know how it is.
Anyway, later that year I bought another 6G for office use as I said I'll never type on the Dell el-cheapo rubber specimen and that was it, I simply forgot about the matter.
Here I am some years later the 6G is showing its age. It still works kinda OK but one can see the o so many frags that have happened... so I need an exit strategy. Steelkeys is now manufacturing 7G and, also for anybody googling for "steelkeys 6G replacement 7G" just forget it! I bought one 7G hoping for the same quality that I got in 6G, no way. The layout manages to be... crumpled for a "normal Caucasian" :-@ and the keys are too easy to press; plus, with the provided palm rest the keyboard takes way too much space, without it it's unusable.
More to the point: anybody had any experience in the past with steelkeys 6G? Care to suggest a replacement with the same "feel"? I'm almost sure the 6Gs have Cherry MXes but I'm confused about the "color coding": Blue, Brown or Black? :-o
I should mention that out of the two 6Gs that I have one feels "fantastic" one is just... OK. For some reasons steelkeys changed the underlying contact type during the 6 months period.
OK, let me try and give more details: the best of the 6Gs that I have has a "firm" but "greasy/smooth" travel of the button; it doesn't click. The other one feels like... the button needs some lubrication. If I'm to describe the 6G that I like best it feels just like the venerable IBM but without the "click".
... so, any hints for me? :-)
