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toniidesu

335

Apr 30, 2019

This board seems to adopt the same design philosophy that Massdrop—sorry, DROP™®—just did with their needless rebranding and now harder-to-use website. It's simultaneously claustrophobic and space-wasting. Why not just copy the Leopold FC980 with nicer materials? That board comes the closest to combining the ergonomics of a tenkeyless with the functionality of a 104-key design.

UPDATE: I did some more reading on boards like this and it looks like (Mass)drop decided to copy the design of the Cherry G80-1800, gap and all (shown here in its Compaq-branded ANSI variant). The only difference I see is that the Shift does away with Cherry's indicator lights between F-row and numpad.

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BurnsAllot

Apr 30, 2019

toniidesuIf Massdrop is going to copy a design, I hope they go with KBD19X instead of the Leopold.

toniidesu

335

Apr 30, 2019

BurnsAllotI'm not sure we have any disagreement here. It looks about the same to me. :)

BurnsAllot

Apr 30, 2019

toniidesuI just want the extra key in the F-row, lol.

toniidesu

335

Apr 30, 2019

BurnsAllotOh I totally missed that! Nicely done, KBDfans!

Varholiaglimp

939

May 1, 2019

BurnsAllotJust the space between the top row and the numpad is a tremendous improvement. I wish (Mass)drop had chosen that layout.

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GotEmAll

May 1, 2019

toniidesuBecause if they just copied (the Leo), everyone would say, its just a copy (of a popular board). They wanted to be original and they succeeded. Not saying "what" they suceeded at though.....

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toniidesu

335

May 1, 2019

GotEmAllI apologize for using the word "copy" so loosely. In the description, it states "done in the 1800 layout," but this layout is so uncommon that what it means is unclear without more research. Take a look at this Compaq board (a rebranded Cherry G80-1800 with ANSI layout) and tell me whether Massdrop has been original here (minus the bling aluminum case, lighting, and keycaps):

Valen

May 2, 2019

GotEmAllBut TKL of CTRL is really common, they still did it.

toniidesu

335

May 2, 2019

ValenTotally! It's not really a question of originality that I'm concerned with here, even though I believe that choosing an uncommon layout like the G80-1800 offers more opportunities to take risks and deviate from the pattern. The 87-key tenkeyless format is heavily standardized, as is the 104-key full-size design. When a new board comes out in either layout, I'm not expecting it to look any different from what I'm used to. For the record, I think the CTRL and ALT are nice-looking boards that I'm prepared to recommend without having owned them. Part of what prompted me to comment on the design of the Shift is my feeling that it doesn't live up to the visual standards of the other boards in the series, and at $200-250 it's going up against the very refined high end of the keyboard world (Topre etc).

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