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I loved my advantage(s), but eventually dropped it for a happy hacker pro for two reasons: (1) the brackets and arrow keys on the advantage are painfully bad; (
by lallysingh 13y ago
I loved my advantage(s), but eventually dropped it for a happy hacker pro for two reasons: (1) the brackets and arrow keys on the advantage are painfully bad; (2) I fell in love with Topre key switches.
The Lenovos have just been getting worse keyboards with every generation. I don't think the people they're going after care about the changes, but I've actively been looking for a new laptop vendor since they started fiddling about with the layouts.
- sanoli 13y agoHow good are the Topre switches, compared to the ones on the Kinesis Advantage (I'm assuming you used 'blue' ones on the Kinesis)? I'm about to get a Kinesis Advantage, and the only con that I could think of so far is that I read here an there about how the Topre switches are even nicer than the Cherry MX switches.
- lytfyre 13y ago> I'm assuming you used 'blue' ones on the Kinesis IIRC, the advantage is actually the keyboard for which cherry brown switches where created.
- sanoli 13y agoYou're right. Somehow I had it in my head that Kinesis used blue switches.
- kps 13y agoYou might have encountered one. Kinesis are diy-friendly and will sell unpopulated PCBs for people who want a different switch.
- lallysingh 13y agoKinesis recently started selling "linear feel" Advantages, which are Cherry Blues.
- sanoli 13y agoBlues? I thought the linear ones were red... I guess I get the colors mixed up all time then.
- TylerE 13y agoTopre's are a bit hard to describe. You can feel the activation point, but there isn't a tactile hitch...but they're not linear. Topre graph: http://cdn.overclock.net/7/77/77b5b81e_47c8a19470bee5776d40b14c142ca20d.jpeg http://cdn.overclock.net/7/77/77b5b81e_47c8a19470bee5776d40b... Cherry Brown: http://peterhallam.com.au/wp-content/uploads/cherry-mx-brown-force-diagram.jpg http://peterhallam.com.au/wp-content/uploads/cherry-mx-brown...