I would say there is a reasonable dip in quality. It's lighter than my old Model M's and the plastic is not as nice, but all in all its still a very high qualit

I would say there is a reasonable dip in quality. It's lighter than my old Model M's and the plastic is not as nice, but all in all its still a very high quality keyboard compared against others today. My biggest knock against it is that my keycaps are... strangely printed. The letters are not perfectly aligned with each other vertically, so that have kind of a jagged look. That could just be a problem with mine however, it's been a couple years since I bought it. Other than that however I love it.