Some goods are designed in other countries, but made in China for the reason of being cheap. If the QC is done right, it can surely produce solid stuffs as like other countries made.

If you ask for China boards recommendation, I will say:

Plum/Keycool > Noppoo/HPE > PLU and other new coming equivalent brands

For your requirement, I think Keycool is the most suitable one. Available at sub RM200 only.

Yar, I wonder if they are professional reviewer which being sponsored those boards, or they actually buy them themselves...

Also, they seems to take reviews really seriously (both writers and readers). Must read reviews before buying one.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 28 2013, 05:56 PM

Quality, value, feature, aftersale (in China) and experience in keyboard making.

Failure rate for the keyboards are quite rare, except you are unlucky to get lemon unit or the particular model is known for having design failure.

Though, switches failure do occur on some boards after few months' usage, not sure what's the exact reason for it.

PLUM and keycool are different brands. But they both are the OEM that made their own board (instead of rebranding boards made by other OEM).

Postage is around 2kg for a TKL. Shipping rate to EM by agent is RM20 per kg?

OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) is the maker/manufacturer factory.

For example, iOne and Costar are the manufacturers, and they own the facilities and making keyboard for brands like Razer, CoolerMaster and bla bla bla.

Layout?

Currently got fullsize, 96, tkl and 84 mini layout. IINM, most of them are OEM by or relevant with PLUM.

Wireless tkl - neo zelia, plum morphling
84 - Noppoo choc mini
96 - plum96

For tkl87 layout, it is around 400 to 500 rmb, depend on what model you want exactly.

Keycool seems like the best bet for your needs.

from a review at gh, key caps compability is not a problem for it.

Keycool do having white boards. Just search for keycool87 and see which seller having such option.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 28 2013, 10:04 PM

Bersyukur alhamdulilah, it works fine with screamyx.

Morphling 87 got non backlit version, I will recommend it over backlit version as you save quite a lot + come with POM keycaps for non backlit version.

You choose a keyboard based on what layout you want/need exactly. If you want tenkeyless 87, then find such keyboard, if you want try mini84 layout, then filter out available boards and then choose from it.

And yar, most mini84 layout boards are having nonstandard or shorter spacebar. And it is practically impossible to find short aftermart spacebar. Also, some of them even settle for different right shift, but at least it is less headache than replace spacebar.

No, keycool is the manufacturer themselves, they make their own designing and producing.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 29 2013, 08:54 AM

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Newer doesn't always mean better. If currently available model doesn't have too much problem, no reason to wait longer for new model (and need to wait even longer till reviews pop out).

For the new 104 part, I personally will had settle with 108 if I need a full-size keyboard.

You only got one choice for that (wireless brown tkl87), which is plum morphling 87.

I got a plum96, which is one of the ancestor for 87, and its build quality and battery life are quite OK for daily uses, nothing bothering me.

Yup, heard of it. But the high price tag, oversized chunky design, Bluetooth instead of USB wireless + unknown oem (actually some source do mention it's oem, which is an oem that normally made some other pc peripherals too) manage to prevent most of us to land our hands on it.

Actually those RMB499/519/549 one are indeed non backlit one. Backlit one price start from 599, ouch.

Yup, plum87 doesn't seems to have white color model yet. If you want it white, I think the nearest are plum96.

So your white fetish > your wireless fetish huh?

I will recommend keycool more. One reason is the default pbt keycaps, 2nd will be the low price tag, 3rd keycool's case is real solid and the design actually less edgy and more comfort over conventional square design.

Previously, there are only 2 reasons you won't want to go got keycool, which is spacebar incompability and uneven gaps problems, which now bring rectified or at least minimized.

Dono, the one in gh is new version with default pbt. It is having 2 possible mounting at spacebar, one is normal standard one while another probably got conventional keycool.

Yar, but if it come with blank keycaps even better. I always choose blank key over non blank one.

Yar, and it is pretty normal that you can't find something (keyboard, keycaps, accessories, springs and bla bla bla) you want locally, and the only solution is to import (and taobao is one of the easiest among them).

Keycool is quite popular brands in China forums and gh, you can search around for their comments.

If you want to make sure it is the newest stock, I think buying from keycool's official store is the safest bet?
Also, iinm, 016's one is abs right? That probably explain why his not the latest one. Actually I also can't catch up how many version of 87 keycool had made, they even seems to change between wire style and cherry style modifier for different models, really confusing.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 29 2013, 01:21 PM

Nope, but I still prefer blank keys.

Alphabets are pretty fine for me (but I still tend to look at my keyboard even no words on it), the numbers rows and their symbols are a little headache.

Hmm, my bad...

The board still with you? Can take a picture of the spacebar and its mounting system?

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 29 2013, 02:03 PM