Keyboards

[Johnny]

SteelSeries 6GV2: Mechanical keyboard with Cherry Black MX (non-clicky) switches. This is the only picture I managed to snap because my phone camera is terrible.

I love it so far. My only gripe is the placement of the apostrophe button (visible in the picture to the left of Right Shift) and that the edge of the spacebar is a bit too sharp. I'll be remedying the latter with the use of some tape. Feels so smooth to type on :3 It cost me roughly 70 euros (690 sek) and can probably be found for cheaper outside of sweden.

*talking about mechanical keyboards*

 

ChrnoXIII, Jalaman & NeoStarr' timestamp='1293350559' post='16353']

*posting about gaming keyboards like the G15*

 

Look, I'm sorry, but if you paid over 30 usd for a silicone "gaming" keyboard you were ripped off. These piles of plastic cost next to nothing to produce and are built to have an impressive number of bulletpoints on the back of the box. These "impressive features" are then used as a justification for a retardedly high price tag. Profit margins woo!

They are like the keyboard equivalent of McDonalds, only instead of being cheap and crap they are expensive and crap.

[deanb]

Looking for a new keyboard to replace the one on the front page.

 

I'm currently eyeing this up and given an amazon voucher n other stuff I have it's practically free:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0037KLSS8/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d0_g147_i3?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0NAHXR4K8TDEJNTW4GNC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

 

However I am open to other suggestions, though preferably ones that can be bought from Amazon.

[Battra92]

I still vote for a classic IBM Model M. It will be the last keyboard you ever buy.

 

Alternately a brand new one from here: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/index.html

[deanb]

I guess I should make a point that I'm from UK and therefore US stores are a tad useless.

[Battra92]

I guess I should make a point that I'm from UK and therefore US stores are a tad useless.

 

They do ship worldwide and have UK keyboards.

[deanb]

They also start at $80 for the non-US version, without shipping costs (which seem to only mention within US)

 

And while it might have some nice ye olde buckling springs instead of mesh, it's missing half the features I want. (either way I bought the Sidewinder X4 this morning)

[fuchikoma]

The Model M is a little loud but it's well worth the investment as as it will last for a lifetime. Mine was made in 1986 and is still working quite excellently!

 

So that's a Model M! I still have my first keyboard and it appears to be a clone of that. It has an XT connector, and an XT/AT switch on the bottom. It also chirps with each keypress until you hit Ctrl+Pause.

 

I use a modern Apple USB keyboard with keypad. I took one from a Mac user at work when they were giving up their MacBook Pro, and after using it a bit, I fell in love and bought my own for home. It's wafer-thin, very solid and sturdy; can't feel it flex at all. Nothing gets stuck between the keys, they're all flat-topped and short-throw, and the board itself is very quiet - there's a little clicking as the keys spring up, but no real acoustics since there's so little space inside it. It's fantastic for Beatmania clones like BM98 since my fingers never hook the edges of a key or drag on raised key edges, and they press down so fast and easily (and all resist with the same force. Also, space works no matter where you press it, no jamming.)

 

I use Win7, so I took an app called SharpKeys that easily hacks the registry to remap keys, since it's not quite 1:1 with an IBM board. I switched the left Alt and "Windows" (command) keys so they're in the right places for a PC user, turned right Win/command into PrintScreen so I can take screenshots, then turned F13-19 into mute, vol-, vol+, prev, stop, play/pause, and next.