Hi, All.
I am studying in U.S. right now, and unfortunately a mechanical keyboard in US is not as popular as in Korea.
Even I can't buy Filco or Topre keyboard here in US because there does not exist retailers who want to import those kind of high-end keyboard and sell them.
Only way I can buy those kind of high-end keyboard is to buy from Japanese seller through ebay. (I needed pay for shipping and handling which is usually expensive because it is coming from Japan to US)
However, one web site started to import and sell Filco keyboard in US recently (elitekeyboard). In fact, I got this information from this Kbdmania web site. Thanks guys! :-)
I was so happy to find out that I can buy Filco keybord without paying expensive shipping and handling, so I ordered Filco Majestouch tenkeyless model with brown switch. I am very satisfied right now. :-)
After I bought the Filco Majestouch keyboard, I was curious about keyboard manias in US, and I found one web site. I wonder if you guys already are aware of this site.
http://geekhack.org
I don't think the users from this web site are not as knowledgeable as
the users in kbdmania, but this web site is pretty active, too.
If you are curious to know about US or Europe keyboard mania, I think this is the best to place to monitor.
Nice to meet you guys!
See you~
Another keyboard community
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Hi Hamdori, (I think I met you in some irc linux channel. I was known as Nappeun(Bad)-Dong-Hwa :)It is good to hear you brought a good keyboard in US. I also like Filco keyboards. I already knew that site geekhack, which is pretty famous, I think.Nice to meet you (again:). I wish you are happy there. (I guess you are a graduate student. Am I right? If so, I wish you have got a lot of good research (papers).)(Although I think you can read Korean character,) my nick name is Yi-Sang-Han-Na-Ra-Eu-Dong-Hwa (Dong-Hwa in Wonderland:).
Hi! I came from Geekhack. Unfortunately a lot of keyboard resources aren't in English, I guess people don't care about keyboards as much in North America and Europe :( ~ Elitekeyboards is relatively new, and great! There's also a few 'point of sales' websites that sell affordable mechanical keyboards (I got a Cherry board, blue mx for $65!)In any regards, looking forward to reading this English board more :)
Hi, I also came from geekhack. There are very few english keyboard resources on the internet, most of it is in Korean, Chinese or Japanese. I always have to use an automatic translation to read these websites.The situation with mechanical keyboards is even worse in Europe than it is in the U.S.: You can just get a "Das Keyboard III" (Blue MX), a "Steelseries 7G" (Black MX) and the Cherry G80-1800 (black MX) and G80-3000 (black MX, brown MX or blue MX). No Filco, no Topre, no IBM/Unicomp. It makes me sad.
Hi o2dazone and huha.In Europe division, anyway Cherry have been playing in their home ground. :)Although, it seems that they are interested in Wireless membrane type keyboard more. Anyway, they have been making good keyboard for a long time.
Good to meet you guys from GeekHack! Always be welcome!
Another geekhack member checking in. :-)huha, the Cherry G80 keyboards don't need the backplate because they use a different switch. That switch has two more pins at the bottom to keep it from rotating. That's reason one for using a backplate. The other is support of the pcb. That's why there are those horizontal ribs in the bottom of the Cherry case.
hi lowpoly. some heavy back plate makes keyboard stabler and better typing feel. some guy loves such heavy support, so he tried cement (you may know concrete of building.). the other guy used metal plate (around 3 kg). yes you are right for the working that's enough. but you may feel less fun of typing. :)welcome huha and lowpoly.
I see the sound issue but this is mainly due to the G80-3000's case being way too big. Especially since the controller became so small.I've seen the key feel argument before but do not really understand it. If the pcb has proper support then the key is not going anywhere. Unless you slam it really, really hard. Which is not good for your health, as you said.
I think mechanical keyboards are under-rated when it comes to managing "repeated action injuries".