When it comes to things that suit personal taste like keyboards and mouse... There isn't really a baseline on what's better than what.

Some people even prefer the feel of rubber dome keyboard than mechanical, some prefer quality over appearance, some prefer typing with sound, some prefer typing with lots of force.

So I'd suggest people to take the 'experience' part of a review with a grain of salt, it's more practical to get to know the keyboard's features and build quality through a review.

anyone has account in geekhack?

i was hoping for anyone from geekhack help me to ask about scarface's aluminium keycaps.

i wanted to order them, maybe 87 keys set.

Source : http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7826

i mentioned it in the Razer thread, maybe u missed it
the Goliathus discount rm5 
better than nothing. can get free lanyard but i too excited about the keyboard and forgot ask the lanyard 
what picture u want?

hmm... looks like no one is interested with aluminium keycaps.. oh well, i just have to try my luck in geekhack.

aluminium is cold when touching especially in an air conditioned room that is why i am not particularly found of metalic keycaps.

Plastic should be sufficient. Not to mention metalic keycaps are costly

i wonder how fast is you guys here with mechanical kb type? i got 63 WPM only wiht my 7G

is Alienware TacX a mecha keyboard too?

I've done many overseas purchases so i know how crappy Malaysian customs are.

Delays getting through customs. In worse case scenario; if your item does gets taxed; you need to head down to the airport yourself and pay the tax before they release it.

These days my packages arrive at my doorstep and no tax or any other further incident.

The only bad thing likely to happen is if i receive a package via the local Poslaju and i am not in; they may keep my packgage at their distribution center and i'd have to go collect it myself.

From experience; DHL, EMS, Fedex will deliver to my doorstep, so i've come to like those better than Poslaju.
Anyway some random facts

I'm not really a hardcore gamer and I don't find myself needing that extra few milliseconds to double tap, so I guess Blue suits me.

I love the sound too, just afraid sometimes will disturb others.

mostly our hands have too much force to write on a keyboard. if you really wanted to buy a mechanical, i suggest you guys read alot reviews among those 3 types of cherry MX switch, because after you purchase those switches, you'll be require to train how to control your force and avoid bottoming the keys all the time. and that's most efficient for type writers

Jasmine i don't keep track of the prices but the pbt variant will be around 400-500 MYR.

Anyway this is what the G80-3494 looks with doubleshots.

ya

I don't think SC2 need NKRO.

@jamines

I saw this eshop selling the dk-9008 pbt lasered version in english. This one in particular comes with the palm rest as well if i'm not mistaken.
Ducky N-KEY 108KEY PBT Cap | tea hand cushion to send English-axis

Product Model:     DK9008-BEPLB
http://translate.google.com.my/translate?h...atId%3D18&twu=1
So thats like 407.422 MYR for the keyboard.
I paid like 610 MYR for mine so i overpaid by from the Vrzone MO
For Singaporeans it costs 540.946 MYR (shipping price already included)

But i don't think this eseller has international shipping right fsbzzz :{ ?
PChome only has in Chinese :{ ??

http://translate.google.com.my/translate?h...%26tm%3Du&twu=1

This is the shipping price for pchome. Weight is for somewhere between 5-10 keyboards
Shame, but at least people have a grasp how much the keyboard is worth :/ just hope pchome has stock.

old news
btw anyone getting red switches kb??? mind do a review?

What does the normal version lack compared to the special edition ?

I'm not really interested in the usb features; but i rather like the fact it has

1. doubleshots
2. nkro
3. keycap lock even if it isn't as neat as the Ducky FN+F9.
4. judging from your screenshot; the geekhack keycaps might look better on the cherry keyboard
And before you ask me why i need doubleshot keyboard when i already have geekhack's; well Cherry doubleshot is considered very good considering the font, and thickness of the key.

So i wouldn't mind having both that and the GH set

Got my Ducky keyboard! Feels really nice. I will do a review soon when I have the time!

Still getting used to the lightness of the switch compared to rubber dome keyboard. Getting double spaces quite often.

Yeah, blank keycaps, free palm rest but no mousepad.

Total is MYR438 and a few cents.

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Added on December 18, 2010, 2:50 pmThe Black switch spacebar really needs some serious getting used to lol.

No, blue.

How to mod to grey? Is it risky? If can I want to mod to blue lol.

Mine doesn't come wit the ducky logo keycap.

I think mechanical keyboard really does give you a better typing experience. The sound and tactile is what that makes it 'feels' good in my opinion.

I think it is definitely not a bull. Maybe those with low WPM will not appreciate this kind of keyboard. 

Somebody better tell Techster this. He still believes rubberdome bling keyboards like the G19 is way superior LOLZ!!

I still believe cheap rubberdome keyboards have their uses. Nobody want to spend so much on a keyboard before the more important pc hardware such as cpu, graphics card etc has been settled first.

But when people do eventually buy better keyboard; the rubberdome is just not as good as a mechanical :/ especially for cases like G19 that cost JUST as much as a mechanical.
Cusx

Try do simultaneous key presses. You can see a difference that way as well.

May be with the growing/migrating of Touch Screen trend from smartphone industry to PC/Notebook/Tablet industry, they will skip the mechanical kb path and directly go into virtual kb. It will be much more convenience,mobile and suitable to type or use on tablet. There are program such as swype and many more to improve typing on virtual touchscreen kb.

Very much so.

Not everyone likes mech keyboards no matter how awesome they are.
Some people just love the soft deep membrane feel (hey I know it sounds wrong but... please.. ).
That's the way it is.

virtual keyboard won't actually replace mechanical keyboard, it's just will be an alternative solutions on what people might choose to use.

As for it will become "convenience, mobile and suitable to type or use on tablet. this varies in future and heavily depends on their designs and such.

As for me, i don't really like virtual keyboard actually, because it's a pain in the ass to learn, and what if they change the interface or replace another one. Sorry but i find those things won't last very long, and it won't be easily absorb by the public, because virtual stuff are easily replace by another thing in future, and stuff advance too rapidly.

For programs like swype and many others, it's still just a alternative solutions to type on your mobile, This doesn't actually let's you type faster and more enjoying, and more of a more "Unique Way" to show your friends how you type on your mobile, which is doesn't improves users experience on typing one, as it require you to relearn all typing mephod. and another problems comes as you're limited to only the phone OS as if the programs only support android. then GG.

well i do believe that we're actually heading off topic between this as well as membrane keyboard.

For me, Membrane Keyboard has it's uniqueness and several advantage over mechanical keyboard, and vice versa between each other( i'm not saying mechanical keyboard are bad either), it's just that each keyboard are it's own advantage and disadvantages.

But in here, i do have to say that users have choices to choose between membrane keyboard as well as mechanical keyboard. either you go for blingbling future badass looking. or you go for classic looking, durability, and comfort typing experience(comfort varies from person to person.

LOL this thread somehow does go off-topic like what you said. However, dont just limited the competition to mechanical and membrane. Virtual kb may become the trend in less than 2 years time.

No doubt that virtual QWERTY on smartphone are still inferior to any of the PC keyboard but there are no better option for smartphone out there. So program such as SWYPE were invented to improved it(on smartphone only as i also dont see the need/convenience to swype on full size virtual kb).

However, virtual kb does win traditional hardware keyboard in the customization ability part. It will be easier to customize to users own like such as the size of keys(even individually also possible ) or location of keys(may be not to important/suitable). Lastly, setting macro or backlit can be easily done on virtual kb.

Though, i does agree that there is still lots of full size virtual QWERTY need to improve to provide better typing experience and there may be better technology being invented in future to fully discard the need of kb(hardware and virtual).

Wait til a keyboard with the functionality of G19 while using doubleshot keyboard with changeable cherry switches..

xD

What's the possibility to buy blank keycaps for my ducky? Price and where?