Clear stem on blue spring are Ergo Clears. It is very tactile. The Clear spring somewhat hides the tactility of Clear stems.
You should try it on a layout to get the true feeling, the ergo clears.

Leopolds got black and red mah
Blacks are generally more silent due to the force that is used to actuate the switch.

Can get Leopold with MX blues from Cyclone for RM345
Or Ducky from Storm for RM269

I touch type, but I still bottom out a lot especially on Topre switches.
It's a personal preference thing, this whole thing about bottoming or not. The fun part is the feeling your fingers get when you are using these keyboards, that is the most important consideration in using Mech Keyboards.

Anyways, the RnD guy from CM, battlesheep confirmed this at GH. That the CM storm



So the build quality should be the same as FILCO since the same people made them.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Oct 19 2011, 08:45 PM

Luckily it wasn't a Model M. The guy might have died

A Model M is more well built than this.
Some of the keycaps might be dislodged, but it is unlikely that the springs would come out.
In fact, I think a blow to a person with a Model M might not have any effect on the case. I dropped a Model M from knee height before, it hit my feet, and it was a rather bad experience.

Full Size Model M weighs about 2.3KG
Tenkeyless Space Saving Model M weighs about 1.9KG

Judging a keyboard by its performance is the wrong way of putting it. I'm not sure which perfectly working keyboard would show a key on the screen slower than any other perfectly working keyboard
As to gaming peripherals company, they work based on branding/marketing, not on how good they really are. I'm not saying they are not good, but there are better options out there

To select a keyboard, you would need to consider, among other things, the key feel, and the build quality. In terms of key feel, the types of switches dictates the key feel, most of the time. As to build quality, FILCO, is very good in this, that's why you keep getting hits about it being recommended. The upcoming CM Storm Rapid are build by the same OEM, so the build quality is as good/comparable.

have you gotten used to the thocking and clacking of the keys yet?

The ones from PCHOME have them ugly looking zhuyin letters going around.
If you really want it so badly, consider getting it from Taobao. About close to RM400~ shipped.
The used ones at Taobao, goes for really cheap, maybe RM300 shipped, but you gotta check which version they are. DAS version 3 are prone to USB failure.

or get from HK
http://www.linkecomputer.com/search/?newde...d&search=Search
Price is close to RM450~

That is among the reasons I opted for the 87u with 35g for QAZ line. However, if you touch type, you can barely notice the pinky keys being different weighting. But caution not to rest the fingers on the home row, that activates aaaaaaaaaaaaaa and ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; easily
The all 45g Realforce 86u might be rather interesting, and maybe much better to use?

The only uniform ANSI layout Realforce I know of are the 103U 55g, 104U 45g, 86U 45g (from cyclone's sales thread) ,87U 45g, 87U 55g
More on the ISO and Japanese layout front but I didn't do much research on those

Clacking sound is when you release the switches quickly
Bottoming out, and typing quickly you should hear Topre domes farting

That should be his Leopold in KBC PBT mix and match set

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Oct 22 2011, 06:37 PM

Maybe it's just me and my placebo effect doing the talking here. You could ignore that.
Pity you had to sell the FILCO R away. Maybe you can contact the 2 FILCO sellers who wanted this version of the FILCO, see if it'll find a new home.

Found some O-rings that can be sourced locally, free shipping too

http://malaysia.rs-online.com/web/p/seals-kits/0689596/
These are exactly the same size as the ones the people at GH got from electronics store, but not sure about the hardness of the rings
Price : rm12.80 for 50 rings

EDIT: 70 shore hardness. Not very useful

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Oct 24 2011, 10:44 AM

The Happy hacking keyboard Professional 2.
Uniform weighting, but a tad more stiffer than Realforce although both are claimed to have 45g keys

People want them because MX red used to be rare. Then it got rather common with all the Chinese brands doing it.
It's a really nice switch to game on, but as for typing, I don't like it so much.
My preference Blues>Reds>Browns

At least you can say whether it is good or bad?
Ducky black ALPS are clacky, try the green one, it might be fun

Check your shortcut cluster, near F9, F10, F11

Check the manual if you need more info
Ducky 9008 series keyboard have function to:
switch Caps lock and Ctrl
switch Alt and windows
Turn off windows key

EDIT: forgot that Ducky Shine uses DIPswitch at the back of the keyboard. Check that out instead.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Oct 25 2011, 10:34 PM

It's a steelseries 7G.
The guy has super strong fingers or the distortion of the audio from the phone cam is making the MX blacks sound so loud.