I understand that the filco is regarded as a higher quality board and I can attest to that, but I just couldn't think of a better example of that off the top of my head because there really aren't any/many other examples of tenkeyless keyboards which you can get aluminum cases for. Using a 60% board like the poker 2 would be a bad example because those cases are much smaller, usually one piece, and less intricate than this in general.
I am not supporting this product, but I am also not bashing it either. I am very aware that this board is a love it or hate it thing and you can clearly see most people hate it due to the 165 responses with only one person actually buying it.
I want to make it clear that I am NOT the person who has purchased on and I do not plan on buying one either but I do think it's nice to see an aluminum board like this on the market. (Same goes for duckys year of the horse mini) I am not up on whether or not varmilo boards are high quality or not but I have not seen any complaints about them but maybe I missed that. What is varmilos relation to leopold also, does anyone know?
If you want some perspective about what I have spent on keyboards, I will be honest. I own many boards which have cost me plenty more than this board, one of which cost more than double this keyboards $400 starting price. Call me a sucker, I don't care, but I love high quality keyboards and I have a hard time buying a keyboard without an aluminum case these days. The aluminum casings make a big difference on the feel of the keyboard (both typing and just handling) and I am sure anyone who has tried them knows that. Whether or not that difference in feel is worth it is up to you, but I feel like it is.
Believe it or not, there are people in the keyboard community who spend over $400 for single artisan keycaps and upwards of $2000 on rare korean keyboards. It's all about perspective, if you are looking at this board from the perspective of someone who spends $160-90 on a keyboard and stops there (and is happy), you probably aren't going to be interested in this.
You can say people can just get an aluminum board if they want to, but that doesn't make sense to me. There aren't ANY boards like this on the market, so why can't this be the board to fill that market. Your only option of a fully aluminum tenkeyless board that is ready to buy, as far as I know, is the filco + tex alu case combo and those cases always sell out, so there IS interest for something like this. As I said, doing that voids your warranty, and plenty of filcos have died over the years (Usually the controller). Ducky did the full size aluminum board before but the only thing on it that was aluminum was the top piece. The bottom half was plastic, and while I never had that board, I have a feeling the board typed exactly like a plastic board since the bottom was plastic.
Plenty of people are just fine with plastic keyboards, yes, I am not saying everyone wants a metal case for their keyboard. I just get a bit bothered by people who are simply not interested in something like this, but instead of saying that, or moving on, they have to go on the offensive and start throwing out insults at the companies involved. People saying Linus is lining his pockets by featuring this board for 20 seconds at the end of an unrelated video, that gets to me. People saying massdrop is ripping its customers off, that bothers me. People giving their opinions about what COULD have been done, such as different switch and keycaps choices, different case colors/designs, that is perfectly fine and it helps everyone out. The customers get what they want, varmilo knows what to make, etc... Being so harsh doesn't help anyone.
The aluminum keyboard market is NOT oversaturated. There are hardly any aluminum keyboard options for people who aren't interested in community driven projects which can end up taking up to and over a year to complete. Leaving your money in the hands of a random person who may or may not be able to accomplish the task of producing the boards.
Filco and TEX are making a profit, I never said they weren't. You might not be aware, but there are a lot of keyboard communities out there like geekhack and otd which make these aluminum boards on the regular, those are keyboards that a lot of more casual keyboard enthusiasts might not know about (Really not trying to sound elitist here, but just being realistic). I never said you should take pity on anyone, as I said before, I am not partaking in this, whether this drop is successful or not doesn't have ANY impact on me. I just felt like giving my perspective on this.
I am not supporting this product, but I am also not bashing it either. I am very aware that this board is a love it or hate it thing and you can clearly see most people hate it due to the 165 responses with only one person actually buying it.
I want to make it clear that I am NOT the person who has purchased on and I do not plan on buying one either but I do think it's nice to see an aluminum board like this on the market. (Same goes for duckys year of the horse mini) I am not up on whether or not varmilo boards are high quality or not but I have not seen any complaints about them but maybe I missed that. What is varmilos relation to leopold also, does anyone know?
If you want some perspective about what I have spent on keyboards, I will be honest. I own many boards which have cost me plenty more than this board, one of which cost more than double this keyboards $400 starting price. Call me a sucker, I don't care, but I love high quality keyboards and I have a hard time buying a keyboard without an aluminum case these days. The aluminum casings make a big difference on the feel of the keyboard (both typing and just handling) and I am sure anyone who has tried them knows that. Whether or not that difference in feel is worth it is up to you, but I feel like it is.
Believe it or not, there are people in the keyboard community who spend over $400 for single artisan keycaps and upwards of $2000 on rare korean keyboards. It's all about perspective, if you are looking at this board from the perspective of someone who spends $160-90 on a keyboard and stops there (and is happy), you probably aren't going to be interested in this.
You can say people can just get an aluminum board if they want to, but that doesn't make sense to me. There aren't ANY boards like this on the market, so why can't this be the board to fill that market. Your only option of a fully aluminum tenkeyless board that is ready to buy, as far as I know, is the filco + tex alu case combo and those cases always sell out, so there IS interest for something like this. As I said, doing that voids your warranty, and plenty of filcos have died over the years (Usually the controller). Ducky did the full size aluminum board before but the only thing on it that was aluminum was the top piece. The bottom half was plastic, and while I never had that board, I have a feeling the board typed exactly like a plastic board since the bottom was plastic.
Plenty of people are just fine with plastic keyboards, yes, I am not saying everyone wants a metal case for their keyboard. I just get a bit bothered by people who are simply not interested in something like this, but instead of saying that, or moving on, they have to go on the offensive and start throwing out insults at the companies involved. People saying Linus is lining his pockets by featuring this board for 20 seconds at the end of an unrelated video, that gets to me. People saying massdrop is ripping its customers off, that bothers me. People giving their opinions about what COULD have been done, such as different switch and keycaps choices, different case colors/designs, that is perfectly fine and it helps everyone out. The customers get what they want, varmilo knows what to make, etc... Being so harsh doesn't help anyone.
The aluminum keyboard market is NOT oversaturated. There are hardly any aluminum keyboard options for people who aren't interested in community driven projects which can end up taking up to and over a year to complete. Leaving your money in the hands of a random person who may or may not be able to accomplish the task of producing the boards.
Filco and TEX are making a profit, I never said they weren't. You might not be aware, but there are a lot of keyboard communities out there like geekhack and otd which make these aluminum boards on the regular, those are keyboards that a lot of more casual keyboard enthusiasts might not know about (Really not trying to sound elitist here, but just being realistic). I never said you should take pity on anyone, as I said before, I am not partaking in this, whether this drop is successful or not doesn't have ANY impact on me. I just felt like giving my perspective on this.