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
1) This is actually where I would have expected something like this to be priced. A lot of people seem shocked by the price but an aluminum TKL case by itself is usually priced around $100-110 and a backlit TKL is usually $110-130.
2) PBT is not used because PBT backlit keycaps are a relatively new thing that I've only seen coming from Vortex. Backlit keys have always been ABS. PBT caps that don't require double injection are more widely available because they are easier to manufacture so comparing it to the cheaper keyboards that have laser engraved PBT caps is a moot point.
Not a keyboard I'm personally buying but not egregiously priced as some of the posters have made it seem.
the brand is already as low profile as they go and still you go out of your way to bash it even more? like seriously?
why not go back to writing the 1000th review for ergodox and why it's awesome niche and why everyone should get it?
There's a reason the keyboards you listed have mass appeal. I personally don't own any of the keyboards you listed but I'll take any of them over a Deck. It's like saying "Oh the Camry is so practical but everyone has one so I'll be different and stick with my expensive Geo Metro" (sorry, best analogy I can come up with for using an ugly but expensive product).