A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
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https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=90236.0 If either of those keyboards is a copy of the other, then why would the copy be the one for which the switches were designed? For that matter, why assume that intellectual property theft is involved at all?
Very interested in getting both keyboards and trying out both styles of switches. During the Day use the Blues but at Night, use the Reds ; )
After wasting my money on these type of keyboards I ALWAYS go back to my Model-M's and F's. Just so glad I have them in my life than a whole crate full of Havit's.
I'm the wrong person to get any support for the current made keyboards because nearly always, they lack real performance and joy when using them. The OLD keyboards have soul and this new keyboard 'junk' is exactly that.
If you like these very thin style of keyboards then there is nothing wrong with them, the one I bought which is a Daeru TKL version (same version with Blue switches), is fine to use.
The only good thing about them is the aluminium plate that gives it rigidity, so there is no flexing or movement of the keyboard casing when using it. With my hands and fingers pounding away at the keyboard it didn't buckle or strain.