Tell me about your favorite keyboard.

by **Billy Mays** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:15 am

I've hated all keyboards I've ever owned equally. My current keyboard is some corsair piece of shit that cost $130, has a billion keys and features I never used, and corsair decided not to update the firmware for win10 because I guess they figured that people who spend $130 on their keyboards love getting bent over and fucked. Biggest mistake of my entire life, easily.

My next keyboard is probably going to be that logitech one that Jiz was talking about because why not?

by **RealNC** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:51 pm

bruce wrote:My Canadian cow-orker

That... was amazing.

by **bruce** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:11 pm

My Canadian cow-orker turned out to be a giant pussy about my Model M, so I have gotten a Code Keyboard to placate him, which isn't bad and is much quieter.

I, however, have a Teletype Model 40, whose clickiness puts the Model M to shame, and if I can figure out how to string the weird-ass 9-pin rectangular connector to something that will turn it into USB or PS/2....

by **AArdvark** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:00 am

Sorry, wrong base

by **pinback** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:33 pm

Okay now that is my favorite keyboard.

by **pinback** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:39 pm

pinback wrote:Saitek Eclipse II

http://www.gamingnexus.com/Images/Article/1148/1.jpg

This is still my answer, even though I haven't had one in years.

by **AArdvark** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:27 pm

Well my..my Super kal-o-frag-o-listic keyboard like-a-bad-monkey and Hawaii Five Below mouse are gooder gaming hardwares.

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by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:03 pm

My 800Hz -5ms monitor and 300000dpi Ninja Stealth Silent Assassin Black Widow Green Mamba Mouse are laughing at you both.

by **FlyingCarp** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:04 am

Jizaboz wrote:100$ for keyboard? Hahah oh hell no. I'll stick to my 20$ logitech K120 models.

Jizaboz, you'll never be part of the Glorious Mechanical Keyboard Master Race. Haha...peasant.

by **Jizaboz** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:45 am

100$ for keyboard? Hahah oh hell no. I'll stick to my 20$ logitech K120 models.

by **FlyingCarp** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:35 am

RealNC wrote:
FlyingCarp wrote:The company has an awful name
What? That's like the best name ever. "Glorious PC Master Race" has been around as a term for while now.

I'm familiar with the term; I just don't like it. I'm just a dude who likes playing PC games that wants a nice keyboard for a good price. I don't need a superiority complex along with it.

by **RealNC** » Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:07 pm

FlyingCarp wrote:The company has an awful name

What? That's like the best name ever. "Glorious PC Master Race" has been around as a term for while now.

by **FlyingCarp** » Sun Apr 23, 2017 6:05 pm

I got my first mechanical keyboard recently and really love it. The company has an awful name, but their product is solid and it has no brand markings on it. It's also modular so you can easily pull out individual switches and swap them out.

Glorious PC Gaming Race Mechanical Keyboard...was on sale for about $75 a while back:

https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/g ... h-switches

The first thing I did when I got it was to replace the ridiculous red "ASCEND" key with the regular black Esc key that they fortunately included.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:49 pm

With the amount of conversation at work the last few weeks, I think that brown cherry ought to be fine. But thank you for that suggestion, it is good to know there is some option if they are a mite too loud.

I beg of you, before you go elsewhere: are 3D printers big in Greece? Anything you tell me will be 100% what I think about 3D Greek printing, by the way.

by **RealNC** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:16 am

They are quieter, but not as quiet as something that has a rubber membrane under it...

If you want to make them as quiet as possible, you need to order ring dampeners. They will change the feel of the keys though (key presses become shorter.)

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:47 pm

Two things:

I ordered a Das Keyboard with the (quieter) Brown Cherry switches for my Mac at work. I originally had a Macally keyboard which, I will give it credit: it's quiet. But I don't like the construction and the feet both broke. Tweeting at Macally bore no fruit and I can't use a keyboard with no feet.

The feet on my Das Keyboard (for the PC, the one I am using right now) broke a couple years ago because I slammed my first on the keyboard playing text baseball. My bad! That's on me.

Wellll there's a 3D printing revolution, right? Right? RIGHT? I ordered this and they showed up today:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/VVPSU ... board-foot

I wasn't going to throw the Das Keyboard away or anything, but ... oh my god! I ordered something printed off the Internet! 3D printed off the Internet! And they worked perfectly!

I really do hope the browns are quieter or I won't be able to use it at work. Here's hoping.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:44 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
RealNC wrote:MX browns are like blues (same tactile feedback and actuation force), except the high-pitched *click* sound is missing. When you type on browns, it's more like *tap* *tap* rather than the *click* *click* of blues (or the *clonk* *clonk* of the Model M.)

Das keyboard has sound samples of the various switches on their page (scroll down a bit):

http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional
Oh. That's the keyboard I'm typing on now. I ... I had that keyboard the entire time.

Literally the entire time.

This is wrong, I was a dipshit. My PC keyboard has blues, not browns.

Bumping this for a reason.

by **pinback** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:41 pm

The Happiness Engine wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:Sadly the keyboard fell off the desk and broke.
Do you have a single story about hardware where you do not drop and break it?

All of Paul's hardware committing suicide by jumping to its death is my favorite internet meme of all time.

by **The Happiness Engine** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:13 pm

Tdarcos wrote:Sadly the keyboard fell off the desk and broke.

Do you have a single story about hardware where you do not drop and break it?

by **Tdarcos** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:47 pm

AArdvark wrote: Mine has an additional row of flat buttons above the function keys that would have magical powers if hooked to the proper machine.

Multimedia keys. They generate a different key code, which I think is standard - because I've seen different manufacturer's keyboards evoke the same function when the appropriate key was pressed - and if the operating system supports it or a driver program is installed then the keys can invoke the mail program, raise or lower volume, advance to next or previous track, etc. Works on XP and Windows 7, not sure if it works on Linux or BSD running X Windows.

My favorite was a Dell Multimedia Keyboard because it had a big volume knob, so when it's two or three in the morning and I'm playing music, it's faster to spin the knob than to use the trackball to select the hidden icons, select volume control then click to reduce volume.

Sadly the keyboard fell off the desk and broke.

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