Ducky 1087 (pchome)~$90
Leopold tenkeyless (leopold.co.kr) ~$110
Archiss tenkeyless (rakuten) ~$95

shipping not included

i refreshed this page and everytime i did moogle updates his post, lol. seeing how you pimp leopold i think i'm going to have a heavy case of buyer's remorse if i get the ducky.

can't seem to find both tenkeyless to come with blank keycaps.

# Material ABS. Source.
# Font Modified Arial (rounded). Source.
# Labeling Technology Double Shot
# Weight .8g
# Front Edge Thickness .8mm
# Other Notes Signature DCS profile is a bit higher than Cherry and a bit lower than Filco. Filco on top row, Cherry Corp in middle, Signature DCS profile on bottom.

Key Materials and Key Wear


There is a bewildering array of plastics available and when you add in the different additives for softening, the ability to mix plastics, and fire retardants it's not easy to generalize how keys will wear. In addition, keyboard manufacturers generally will not advertise what materials they use in keys and focus instead on cost cutting. These are some of the plastics you may find to be in use:

PS, PC and PVC (Polystyrene, Polycarbonate, Polyvinyl Chloride). Common and cheap. This is a lighter less durable plastic that tends to be vulnerable to solvents. Most keyboards shipping today including Logitech, Microsoft, etc. use some variant of this for their casings and keys.

ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene). It's commonly used for older keyboard casings. It's a comparatively soft material compared to some modern plastics but is resistant to breakage. Topre casings are made of ABS and probably most IBM Model M's are as well. Although I am not sure I suspect Filco and Das keys are made of ABS.

PBT (Polybutylene Terephtalate). PBT is a common choice for modern Cherry keycaps and is what IBM and Unicomp use. It should not yellow as much as ABS over time.

POM (Polyoxymethyleneor better known by the brand name "Delrin"). An abrasion-resistant and low-friction material, this found use in older black Cherry G80 keycaps. However it is expensive and not common in other keyboards.

Labeling techniques

Applying key labels can be done in a number of ways:

Two-shot injection molding is one of the best variants and used to be common with high-quality keyboards. Here the keycap (keytop) has cavities which are filled with differently-colored plastic of the same type during production. This allows for contrast-rich labeling, even wear and high wear resistance in general.

Another method is dye sublimation which appears to be used on two-piece IBM keycaps (as well as old Cherry S... keycaps). As noone has complained about wear on these so far, this seems to give good durability as well, or at least may do so provided the base material does. Apparently a certain degree of heat resistance is required, favoring the use of keycap materials which are less susceptible to wear as well.

Laser engraving became popular in the mid-1990s. This also tends to have good wear resistance, but contrast isn't very high.

Pad printed (tampo-printed or silkscreened) lettering may also give good contrast, but tends to be subject to wear.

Some manufacturers have tackled the problem of wear by using a rather ordinary labeling method but coating the result with some more durable transparent plastic - examples would be the "decals" found on Chicony and inexpensive Logitech boards (just the lettering itself covered) or the entirely coated Filco keys.

Argh, now I dunno which one to buy. Damn!

OK, who wants to do the MO? Shipping is cheapest in orders with 4 keyboards IIRC.

Also OCN, what's the difference between 1008 and 9008?

Well the reviews i read clearly points that the leopold 10 keyless is way better than the ducky 1087.

But for the leopold 104 keys kb it remains to be seen if the quality is like the 10 keyless. But what is interesting about the 104 keys leopold i found out; was that they got like 2-4 or so doubleshot extra keycaps for say the escape key.





http://keyboardporn.com/keycaps/leopold-keycaps/
But what separates the dk-9008 from the leopold keyboard is that ducky can FN+F9 to disable windows key. I don't think the Leopold can, but i could be wrong.

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Added on December 10, 2010, 12:38 amBy the way here is KBC 1087 engraved white keycaps.

It looks like that because its 2 pieces of plastics molded together.

It's very durable to wear; and the text comes out very clear compared to other key print types e.g. laser etch which is slightly fuzzy n dirty.
This is my limited geekhack dolche double shot injected 104 key set





Source:

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=All+About+Keys

The white key caps look nice also, but the color become yellowish can clean it??

9008 got more feature then 1008
about 10 more features maybe.
build quality better.
1008 is actually 108 version of 1087.
quality are the same as  1087.

Hi guys, i did post it at Razer Thread as well. So i decide to post it here too. I had figured out some of my BW keys are different in term of clicky sound. My 3rd row keys seem like different from others. Is it normal for blue switch? But it still working, just the sound
My video below show it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H64PPyG53I
sorry for bad video quality

Hi guys, i did post it at Razer Thread as well. So i decide to post it here too. I had figured out some of my BW keys are different in term of clicky sound. My 3rd row keys seem like different from others. Is it normal for blue switch? But it still working, just the sound
My video below show it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H64PPyG53I
sorry for bad video quality

wtf. ZXC doesn't even sound like blue switches, doesn't even click.
mind to take off your ZXC key cap, and see's what's underneath it? take pics if you could thanks.

it feels like brown when u press those ZXC, according to the video.
the key doesn't even sound click at all.

As you see at the picture. It doesn't seem any problem. Just only you press it, problem occurred. My spacebar not as loud as i though

but i dont want the razer keyboard is it true that real mechanical keyboards shouldnt have backlighting?

When you click it, feel different? can feel the click, if not then definitely send for RMA.