FYI

青 <- Blue in Japanese, hope that explians

China ancient era, 青 still means blue.

the owner of the shop that sold the tron mouse in sg said that. he said true mechanical cant have backlight because of the switches below. i dont know if its true or not. just asking whether it is

Because of the switches there, so very limited space left compared to the rubber dome keyboard. Difficult to put in the LED and connect all of them with power supply some more with adjustable brightness level.
Anyway , there is really some existing mechanical keyboard with backlit like deck legend, Blackwindow Ultimate, Xarmor U9BL. Don't know why backlit has becoming the trend of gaming keyboard, act most of the time the light just the gimmick or some luxury made the keyboard look better but not really improved anything, but think in future more and more backlit mechanical keyboard will come out.

backlit lets me see in the dark but i memorize the key placement so i dont really need backlight now

is actually because to achieve NKRO, they need diode on under each switches.
diode usually are place under the switch.
see those diode under the switch?

picture courtesy of sixty from geekhack
if you want to put LED, you need to replace those diode with LED, and in order to achieve the NKRO, you have to place those diode in other position of the PCB, instead of under the key switch.

NKRO is better than 2KRO right?

Of cause better, 2KRO means when you stroking some combination of 3 or more than 3 keys then keyboard will stuck and won't respond to your command.
NKRO means all keys can be bump at 1 shot, not really tried that cos I don't have such lot of fingers, but at least my PS2 7g can press 10 keys together.

Heheh, I see I see.

Actually 青 is green.

it's green in Mandarin,

someone point out it means blue in ancient chinese time which I am not sure.

In Japanese

青い (Aoi)　＜－　Blue
緑　(Midori) ＜－　Green

Anyone recalls Aoi Sora? lol it means blue sky in Japanese

My keyboard is about to be ready for collection in SG soon, sad that I haven't see that TW link yet.. it's much expensive for the SG MO

oh, sora aoi, lol. mmmmmm.

now all we need is someone who knows korean so he can navigate the leopold.co.kr and figure out how to buy one.

Ya the word blue sky with qing tian is appearing in ancient chinese poem as well, is standard to use qing as blue. Don't know start from when qing means blue.

i guess that takes on the meaning of clear instead of blue like 青水

what i just got in the mail today.








more pic here.
http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=260408&postcount=846

This post has been edited by OCN_fssbzz: Dec 10 2010, 11:58 AM

No, a keyboard doesn't need led lighting to be a mechanical keyboard.



In reponse to Cnet's review posting some very controversial ratings by rating the DAS kb better than a Topre; i posted how a keyboard should be evaluated upon.









I do admit i too love led lighted keyboards; especially the high quality ones like found in the Razer black widow which has 1 led for each key. BUT i don't value that over the primary ratings i mentioned.

This is the mistake the gaming keyboard thread are making. They do not understand what makes a good keyboard; and they get lulled by the cool lightings; and these macro features.

Some mechanicals too also have macro features; and led lighting too; but more important they have mechanical switches; and some even have NKRO.

Of course pricing is an important factor. But when i see keyboards like Logitech G19 rubberdomes which sells for as much as a good mechanical keyboard; i don't see what good reason there is to get the rubberdome over a mechanical keyboard in such instances. And even if there are some rubber domes half the cost (like RM2xx range), i feel that paying in the range of RM4xx-Rm5xx is well worth the cost for a good mechanical keyboard that does NKRO for the purpose of gaming and an enjoyable typing experience.

But if you are strapped for cash; and want to upgrade other computer parts such as cpu; graphics cards etc; then yes by all means please do. Using a cheap keyboard until your ready to get a better keyboard is a smart choice. That was what i did with my rig. I prioritsed what i wanted to upgrade e.g. cpu; ram; hard drive space etc; before at the end when i upgraded my keyboard.

A good mechanical keyboard should be seen like; why you get better speakers; or why you get a better gaming mouse. That is pretty much why you would get a better keyboard

That was why i made this thread to separate us from such misconceptions lauding the rubberdome bling keyboards over quality mechanical or Topre hybrid keyboards.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Dec 10 2010, 01:40 PM

how do you notice the diff between laser etched, etc?

This would be my dream blink on a mechanical keyboard, alas it's a scissor switch luxeed.

all leds are programmable to react the way you one. imagine each key lighting up and fades out as you type them. i jizzed.

Refer here

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Key...ufacturers+keys

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

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=STA...ssary+and+Links

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Added on December 10, 2010, 2:36 pmBy the way i spotted some cherry g80-3000 doubleshot 104 keys set being sold here



http://www.inpad.com.tw/goods.php?catId=18



Also there was Ducky 104 engraved keycaps

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Dec 10 2010, 02:37 PM

what other mechanical kb brands that are good besides TG, BW, BW Ult?