| dementrio October 11 2011 06:24. Posts 678 | Profile # |
what I mean is that I don't care for the gold-plated contacts of the 6gv2, which looks to me as a useless addition to jack up the price for a "gaming keyboard" , the same way "audiophile" cables are just wires that sell at ridiculous prices.
But I am interested in a basic, no bells-and-whistles keyboard with black or brown switches, can you direct me to one? or are they around that price range anyway? |
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| Valashu Netherlands. October 11 2011 06:39. Posts 542 | Profile # |
Just ordered a Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless with black cherries and I added some blank keys to it to give it a nice effect
Thing is, I am now thinking about buying a cherry brown Filco as well T-T
175 euro for the keyboard and the caps, stuff is so expensive in Europe.
(Thats like over 9,000 dollars) Last edit: 2011-10-11 06:42:49 |
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| Ropid Germany. October 11 2011 07:25. Posts 1361 | Profile # |
On October 11 2011 06:24 dementrio wrote:
what I mean is that I don't care for the gold-plated contacts of the 6gv2, which looks to me as a useless addition to jack up the price for a "gaming keyboard" , the same way "audiophile" cables are just wires that sell at ridiculous prices.
But I am interested in a basic, no bells-and-whistles keyboard with black or brown switches, can you direct me to one? or are they around that price range anyway?
Every Cherry MX switch has the same contacts. The Steelseries keyboards are not special in that regard. No keyboard manufacturer builds the switches themselves, they all buy switches from Cherry. The contacts are engineered to not break by oxidation, and mentioning "gold" is them writing stuff for marketing. |
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| DystopiaX United States. October 11 2011 07:31. Posts 10466 | Profile # |
On October 11 2011 06:24 dementrio wrote:
what I mean is that I don't care for the gold-plated contacts of the 6gv2, which looks to me as a useless addition to jack up the price for a "gaming keyboard" , the same way "audiophile" cables are just wires that sell at ridiculous prices.
But I am interested in a basic, no bells-and-whistles keyboard with black or brown switches, can you direct me to one? or are they around that price range anyway?
elitekeyboards.com, if you're in the US it's 110 dollars for either a tenkeyless or fullsize in black/brown/red/blue, they're getting tenkeyless reds and clears for preorder next week. Cheapest price I know for a decent keyboard, ignoring Steelseries and Razer cause people have complained about the build quality of those keyboards before. |
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| zeeQue United Kingdom. October 11 2011 23:58. Posts 150 | Profile # |
So my Saitek Eclipse 3 keyboard packed in this morning, really gutted cos it was a good rubber dome keyboard, compared to this shitty £10 one.
Does anyone know when the Blackwidow Stealth is gonna be released in the UK Shops? Amazon doesn't have it and neither does ebay, I want a brown switch mech keyboard and it seems to be the cheapest I can get atm. |
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| Ricemagical October 12 2011 00:24. Posts 202 | Profile # |
On October 11 2011 23:58 zeeQue wrote:
So my Saitek Eclipse 3 keyboard packed in this morning, really gutted cos it was a good rubber dome keyboard, compared to this shitty £10 one.
Does anyone know when the Blackwidow Stealth is gonna be released in the UK Shops? Amazon doesn't have it and neither does ebay, I want a brown switch mech keyboard and it seems to be the cheapest I can get atm.
According to the razer site, the stealth is exclusively to the razer store, meaning their not going to be redistributing the keyboards and you'll have to buy through razer. |
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| m4gdelen4 United States. October 12 2011 00:49. Posts 399 | Profile # |
hi guys i was thinking about getting a celeritas.
however, i did hear a lot about the keys fading very quickly. if i needed to replace the keycaps, does any one know where i could get a set that fits the celeritas perfectly?
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| zeeQue United Kingdom. October 12 2011 01:46. Posts 150 | Profile # |
On October 12 2011 00:24 Ricemagical wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 11 2011 23:58 zeeQue wrote:
So my Saitek Eclipse 3 keyboard packed in this morning, really gutted cos it was a good rubber dome keyboard, compared to this shitty £10 one.
Does anyone know when the Blackwidow Stealth is gonna be released in the UK Shops? Amazon doesn't have it and neither does ebay, I want a brown switch mech keyboard and it seems to be the cheapest I can get atm.
According to the razer site, the stealth is exclusively to the razer store, meaning their not going to be redistributing the keyboards and you'll have to buy through razer.
Oh joys, cheers for your help |
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| Hashbaz United States. October 12 2011 12:18. Posts 340 | Profile # |
On October 11 2011 05:54 dementrio wrote:
I'm sorry if this has popped up already.
I'd like a mx-black type keyboard, but I'm not the least interested in things like gold plating or metal frames. Does such a keyboard exist, and am I still required to spend $100 for it?
I got a used Cherry keyboard with black switches on geekhack.org for less than $50 shipped. They can be found on ebay too. |
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| DystopiaX United States. October 12 2011 12:24. Posts 10466 | Profile # |
On October 12 2011 00:49 m4gdelen4 wrote:
hi guys i was thinking about getting a celeritas.
however, i did hear a lot about the keys fading very quickly. if i needed to replace the keycaps, does any one know where i could get a set that fits the celeritas perfectly?
I'm pretty sure that Zowie's keyboards are standard Cherry Co. sized, which means that any set from wasdkeyboards should fit just fine, although sets are pricey at $60. |
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| Glockateer United States. October 12 2011 13:13. Posts 250 | Profile # |
| CM storm quick fire rapid should be hitting US/EU soon. Tenkeyless brown/blue/black and limited reds (china only I think) for $80-90. For reds, you'd have to buy quickly from global.pchome.com.tw and they have gone out of stock in less than a day both times. |
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| Blisse Canada. October 12 2011 14:26. Posts 1908 | Profile Blog # |
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 12 2011 01:46 zeeQue wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 12 2011 00:24 Ricemagical wrote:
On October 11 2011 23:58 zeeQue wrote:
So my Saitek Eclipse 3 keyboard packed in this morning, really gutted cos it was a good rubber dome keyboard, compared to this shitty £10 one.
Does anyone know when the Blackwidow Stealth is gonna be released in the UK Shops? Amazon doesn't have it and neither does ebay, I want a brown switch mech keyboard and it seems to be the cheapest I can get atm.
According to the razer site, the stealth is exclusively to the razer store, meaning their not going to be redistributing the keyboards and you'll have to buy through razer.
Oh joys, cheers for your help
Hi. I read somewhere that they're coming out on October 14th or 16th, I forget where, but I swear that I saw it somewhere. That'll probably be in the USA first though, so you're looking at possibly December before it hits UK. This is assuming I didnt go crazy and saw it wrong... Sorry in advance if I'm mistaken.
Actually screw it, I'm not going to say anything I can't verify myself. I don't know where I saw it from.Last edit: 2011-10-12 14:31:38 |
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| slained Canada. October 12 2011 14:33. Posts 929 | Profile Blog # |
Just got my keyboard custom made from wasd, first mech keyboard I used, its pretty awesome. Got mx cherry browns after hearing about them so often. Pretty happy with it, cant wait till i play some lans with this baby.
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| TortoiseCa Canada. October 13 2011 08:46. Posts 104 | Profile # |
To those who disagree with me about the SteelSeries 6 - That's fine. But you can't deny that the question mark key is out of place
![[image loading]](http://lanoc.org/images/stories/Reviews/Steelseries_6Gv2/Image_9.JPG)
(Sorry if there's another version not like this, but this is the one I bought)
Notice the \ and / keys next to each other. Absolutely silly to design a keyboard like this. qwerty keyboard layouts are standard for a reason. If you're designing a keyboard, what would posses you to change this? I'm not going to re-learn how to type on one specific keyboard because some numbskull engineer said "ITS A GAMING KEYBOARD LETS TAKE THIS TO THE MAX!"
If you want to customize keyboard layouts - then don't mass produce them and sell them in big chains as gaming keyboards, like gamers in general want fucked up key layouts.
Such a shame , the keyboard was solid and I enjoyed typing on it and it's actually the only brand that I've seen sold in stores locally. But they had to crunch the keys together and screw up the spacing, huh..
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| slytown United States. October 13 2011 09:17. Posts 1190 | Profile Blog # |
On October 13 2011 08:46 TortoiseCa wrote:+ Show Spoiler +To those who disagree with me about the SteelSeries 6 - That's fine. But you can't deny that the question mark key is out of place (Sorry if there's another version not like this, but this is the one I bought) Notice the \ and / keys next to each other. Absolutely silly to design a keyboard like this. qwerty keyboard layouts are standard for a reason. If you're designing a keyboard, what would posses you to change this? I'm not going to re-learn how to type on one specific keyboard because some numbskull engineer said "ITS A GAMING KEYBOARD LETS TAKE THIS TO THE MAX!" If you want to customize keyboard layouts - then don't mass produce them and sell them in big chains as gaming keyboards, like gamers in general want fucked up key layouts. Such a shame , the keyboard was solid and I enjoyed typing on it and it's actually the only brand that I've seen sold in stores locally. But they had to crunch the keys together and screw up the spacing, huh.. /rant
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| QuackPocketDuck Australia. October 13 2011 09:29. Posts 371 | Profile # |
Big Enter key (+big backspace) is pretty standard for qwerty EU (same with Zowie Celeritas board), personally I grew up using one, you can still catch me ending sentences with "\" when I go for the top part of the Enter key which is not there.
What I find more silly is when certain producers play around with placement of function keys, "F2" is to be above "3" as standard as it gets.
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| Ropid Germany. October 13 2011 10:19. Posts 1361 | Profile # |
| The Steelseries layout is weird for EU, too. They use an Enter key that has the shape of US and EU Enter keys overlapped. A typical EU layout looks like this: http://i55.tinypic.com/2q1i5tx.png |
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| QuackPocketDuck Australia. October 13 2011 11:41. Posts 371 | Profile # |
| You are very correct , still the big Enter key like the one on SS has been around for decades its not like SS are messing up the layout. DT35 has the same size enter key and is as standard as a keyboard gets. I really dont care that much about the enter size in the end proper placement of function keys and no separate keys for media is a winner for me Last edit: 2011-10-13 11:46:01 |
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| michaelhasanalias Korea (South). October 13 2011 12:31. Posts 1230 | Profile # |
just wanted to add that I recently purchased a Tesoro m7 gaming brown keyboard and I'm absolutely in love with it. It's a korean manufacturer but it's very similar to the black widow stealth
http://www.xenics.co.kr/main1/goods/detail.asp?lIdx=3&mIdx=0&goods_code=10023
If you're looking for a good korean/english mechanical keyboard, this is only about $80 US and it's just blissful. Others may like the blue better though. |
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| Nortac United States. October 13 2011 12:43. Posts 375 | Profile # |
| I just wanted to say I recently got my hands on a Ducky 1087, and it's a really well built product, not sure how it does in the long run, but when first received it seems to be built like a tank. If anyone has any questions about it feel free to PM me, since theres a lack of reviews on it |
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