Poison again. Brown switch I like:) Realforce owned

A good mechanical keyboard last almost forever.. So for once and all, bear the pain and you will be happily ever after. Poison is poison la, but if you are not a collector then just don't buy it.. after all maybe a good keyboard only helped to again another 5 WPM..

My friend called me yesterday to ask about mechanical keyboard too then I recommend him to elite keyboard website and survey. Last almost forever xD

I would like to know will there be any difference (in terms of feel) among brown switch keyboards from Filco, Ducky, Leopold and etc.

Or whether the feel would be more or less consistent among different brands.

Realforce and Filco Brown switches. You pay for what you get. All is about the same and have certain build-up standards.

You tried both of them?

No but I've generally read about them in this thread.

It's in my wish list now for next year

Filco for the springy Shift/Backspace/Enter keys (known as Filco stabilizers).
Cherry/Leopold for the cherry stabilizers (or satellite stabilitizers?)

I prefer the Filco much over Cherry's design.
Other than that, most of them should be the same.

Full NKRO can only be achieved over P/S2 so most of the keyboards should suit you if you're only using USB.. and P/S2 is non hot-swappable as far as I'm concerned.

Then there's the difference of plate mounted vs PCB mounted. The latter being easier to produce and also easy to desolder out switches for repair or changing other types of switches.
Plate mounted keyboards have a more sturdy feel (still quite subjective if you type very light) but the resonance of the keystrokes are more 'muted' and maybe 'deeper frequency'.

Thanks.

Also, is Filco / other brands plate mounted or PCB mounted?

Easily Google-able.

Generally, my Filco (Filcos in general) are plate-mounted while in my experience, the Leopold/Ducky are also plate-mounted.
My Noppoo Choc Mini on the other hand was not plate mounted and only PCB mounted.

PS: Anyone wants to share shipping on the Realforce 87U 45g? I'm gettin' itchy.
And I read somewhere that if you imported keyboards (PC accessories) along with a laptop, it is not taxable?

Thanks.

FILCOs are Metal plate mounted
DUCKYs are Aluminium plate mounted

They sound a tad different but in terms of typing feeling, they feel almost the same. But FILCOs are built much better than DUCKY. My Ducky creaks and screams when i try to flex it.



Might need to visit Kastam KLIA again if they shit brix when they see a >Rm1000 keyboard.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Aug 22 2011, 12:49 PM

Erm... regarding the Filco boards, can we remove its larger keys like "shift", "caps lock", "enter", "spacebar" and etc just like how we remove its normal keys? Because based on what i read in geekhack, the larger Filco keys are held down by its own Filco stabilizers (the metal rod-like thing) and is famous for its notoriously hard to remove and remount nature....
So what i want to ask is, how do we remove the larger Filco keys? With the Filco key puller?

Huh? Meaning buying keyboards from overseas (Taiwan, Japan, US and etc) are tax-free?

Yes. It is easy to remove and remount once you are used to it. Squarebox made a video on how to do it, but not sure where that went.

Keyboards are tax free, considered as computer accessories.
Let Cyclone to comment on how he handled kastam since he did such a high value import for keyboards anyways with his leopolds.

FILCO! XD We can obtain the Duty Import Goods hand book from the custom. Got a full list of goods and items on import duty and tax

It's still up...

yeah finally my first mecha keyboard have arrive

here the picture






the feel is really different from my regular keyboard which i can feel the respon is totally different

BTW it is black switch which cost me 196 included delivery to malaysia.
(currently this brand have blue and brown swith also and brown one is more expensive.)

Wow even flashget a software producer company also came out with a mechanical keyboard, and i don't see a reason for blue brown switch to be more expensive.

But indeed you will feel more difference if you use blue/brown switch.

Is it NKRO?

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Aug 22 2011, 09:26 PM

Whoa!!!! Never knew FlashGet has a hardware division, thought it is just a software firm that makes the download manager
And it is so cheap for a mechanical keyboard? I've never come across a mech keyboard that is anything less from RM250

USB only 6 key

PS2 can 9 key



it is cheap because compare to other mecha keyboard the build is more simple (some brand have steel plate below O.o)



BTW this keyboard weight abt 1.3-1.5 kg like that. Quite heavy also.

This post has been edited by bai1101: Aug 23 2011, 06:30 PM

share link for flashget mecha keyboard xD