Peripherals Have you fallen prey to Bit-tech's mech keyboard obsession?

Even the £60 mech keyboards will be better than any rubber dome


For £100-£150, you'll get a very decent board

 

Good i shall keep the filco keyboard in mind for now then would i see a massive difference from my current keyboard which is cyborg v7 ?

 

Yes. Filco is the best board in that price range, go tenkeyless and never look back

 

Yeah got the steelseries heavy mouse mat, it's way larger than I thought, covers over half the desk!
Vesa mount up and new mouse working well, just got to wait for the keyboard to arrive from Hong Kong now.

 

Lol good going mate!

Must be great to have a lovely clean new desk!

 

@virus44 I noticed a massive difference from my Cyborg V5.

I don't know anyone (at all) who was ever not impressed by a mechanical the first time they tried them (not including the massive old clicky IBM model M ones)

Not that there is anything wrong with the massive old click IBM Model M ones..

 

As you may have noticed in the mechanical keyboard thread i have decided to get a HHKB2
So i should see a massive improvement from my cyborg v7.

 

Oh hell yes you will!

 

You're jumping straight into the deep end of mechanical boards



I don't get Topre board, they just seem like fancy rubber domes. But then again, I've never typed on one.

 

They feel nothing like rubber domes, you need to buy one.

 

I'll be buying a buckling spring next, since I've tried all the MX switches I've wanted too. Then I'll think about a topre.

 

Can you get new boards with buckling springs?

 

they are right hurrr
http://www.pckeyboard.com/


You can even get one with the IBM nipple and right/left mouse buttons right on the keyboard
http://pckeyboard.com/page/EnduraPro/UB40PGA

 

And unicomp sells em too

 

That's cool, I'd like to try one soon. I also have to try alps but I just can't afford any new boards at the moment! Got to save up for Trebl's up coming sales

 

The linky The_Beast posted is unicomps site

 

I definitely bought in, Filco TKL at work and the Quickfire at home. Does it make me a better typist? I miss fewer letters so make less typos than when I was using a rubber dome keyboard so maybe a touch.

I spend all day typing so feel is probably a touch more important to me than most and there's no way I'll be going back to a dome keyboard after this. Scissor I can live with for shorter periods of time but it has to be mechanical for me for all day use. It just feels a lot nicer.

 

If anyone is worried about blues being too noisy at work then this should help reduce the noise:

 

Your kidding right? It looks like a femdom for a keyboard.

 

O-rings with blacks is pretty darn silent!