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I've gone through a lot of keyboards. IBM, Unicomp, Sun Type 4 and 5, Apple ALPS with ADB converter, a bunch with various Cherry switches including Filco, Leupo
by rlonstein 9y ago
I've gone through a lot of keyboards. IBM, Unicomp, Sun Type 4 and 5, Apple ALPS with ADB converter, a bunch with various Cherry switches including Filco, Leupold, etc.
I had two Matias keyboards, the tactile pro (I think original) and the 2, and while the switches are okay neither held up to daily use with keys that wobbled, cracked plastic, and both suffered from keybounce and had poor NKRO (enough that I noticed it in Emacs). No thanks.
I settled on a KUL tenkeyless board with Cherry Green key switches[1] which feel similar to buckling spring and it takes up less deskspace. The caps have worn slick and the printing nearly gone but the feel is still good.
[1] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Green https://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Green
- yla92 9y agoDid you manage to try HHKB Topre ?
- b5 9y ago+1 for the Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro. I use one. Relatively expensive, but brilliant -- very much my favourite ever switch and keyboard.
- sleepybrett 9y agoJust fancy rubber domes.
- rlonstein 9y ago> Did you manage to try HHKB Topre ? I used a colleague's for part of a day. I didn't like it-- key feel or layout-- which saved me a few hundred dollars. As a bit of a collector, I'll probably get a Realforce eventually.
- yla92 9y agoThe layout is a bit awkward at first, mainly due to no arrow keys. I switched to HHKB from Poker 3 (another keyboard with 40% layout). Even then I had a brief amount of hard times adjusting to HHKB. Nowadays, I use both of them at home and office and love them. I heard Realforce are pretty good too!