Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards

You've been waiting for this, haven't you?

 

no...

And as for the Minila - it is almost impossible to find caps for but is a lot of fun to type on regardless

 

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George, I can sell you a new F5 key if you wish, or did you buy one in special?

 

<applause>

 

He's a mod now Dave, he would have had the power to delete the offending post and insert his own

 

Here's to another 20k eh?

 

Here's to another 19,993

 

And after that? Someone might see this as an apocalyptical theory

 

George wins!

More small boards shirty?! I thought you have just ordered a small board.

 

As you know though Margon, it's an illness...

 

This picture is good at showing what I was talking about the other day about the bottom row of SP DCS vs. GMK/Cherry bottom row profile.

(Credit to kenmai9 off GH as it's his pic and I stole it)

 

The mods looks very similar in profile to my Cherry ones though. I guess it's hard to judge without putting the two on the same board.

 

The space bar is cherry - that's what I am getting at. you see the front lip of the SP mods? very high and "sharp" where as the gmk space bar, is not.

 

It looks like the space bar is low rather than the mods high, but I guess that's because it's the odd one out

So, DSA has a much more noticeable upward curve to the lower rows, while genuine Cherry is quite flat. That means so long as the entire row is either DSA or Cherry, not a mixture, it'll look fine, right? It's not a huge issue for me, as it's only Toxic that's DSA on my list. Ivan's PBTs will be genuine Cherry profile, I'm assuming.

 

DCS* - DSA is flat profile from SP.

yeah, it's most noticeable on the bottom row - but I've mixed bottom row sp with cherry loads of times. It's just it is different not too noticeable, but definitely different. But yeah you pretty much nailed it

 

I knew that, I just constantly mix the two up Three letters, starts with D, has an S in it somewhere... same difference, right?

 

SP DCS bottom row is more similar to Cherry A profile which can be found on some of the really older Cherry models. More recent boards use B profile on the bottom row which is the same as the shift row. The problem with SP is they forgot to make a B profile like row at all. They clearly had DCS being used with the keyboard feet in the highest position for a steep angle in mind. This is why I dislike DCS so much, as I never use keyboard feet and I feel the angle is too severe and awkward feeling. That said I am not a massive fan of Cherry A profile either, but I can stand using boards/sets with that row since it is only a few modifier keys, cursors, numpad zero, numpad . and enter and the shift row is still normal.

 

Like a Cherry encyclopaedia, as usual Ivan

I've heard of the A vs B profile thing before, but I've never seen anything A profile. Should I be worried that DCS is going to be strange to type on? I can't raise the angle of my current Poker case, and I'd have to buy additional feet for the alu one...

 

So, i joined too with a kinda "lowend keyboard" - Corsair K65. On positive note, t was only 72 minus 8 = 64 euros . A bit noisier than i expected, but i guess i will be able to live with it.

 

A lot of the noise from my keyboards actually comes from the desk, rather than the board itself. Placing a folded cloth directly underneath the keyboard kills off a lot of the vibration and makes typing quieter. Alternatively o-rings will quieten things, but at the expense of a nice feeling keyboard

I wouldn't say the K65 is low end, particularly. I've yet to see anyone replace the keycaps on one though, probably because it's so difficult to cover the odd-sized bottom row. That might be a large part of why they're not too popular among keyboard geeks.