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
I also wonder does it have the annoying rattle like the Novatouch does?
Cheers!
i love my Realforce 55g, my Leopold 45g is very close, like the smaller size depending on need, mmo gaming or pure typing. My Novatouch is lubed and silenced, but i usually only use it if i find myself in need to feel and look at other keycaps. If you like to switch keycaps once in a while, like me, that is a really frustrating thing with original Topre mks and might be taken in consideration. The stock RF keycaps might be some of the better stock ones, but i seem to be one of the few, who doesn't find them that good in comparison to other Cherry sets. But there aren't much alternatives besides the few widebasket offerings and artisans, which i find overpriced (not the artisans).
Just some thoughts :)
Edit: Have you guys seen this: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Plum84-electrostatic-capacitive-mechanical-keyboard-topre-clone-compact-gaming-keyboard-PBT-keycap-detachable-cable-84-mini/32598836635.html
You want Topre without all this stuff and you feel the need to hope a GB for a Topre stem keycap set comes out that are good or an artisian maker who makes Topre caps? Booya! Don't buy this.
I can't be more clear than that.