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Charles Scott
Should I buy a MagicForce 82 for $60, or is there something else you guys can recommend.
Noah Wood
Sure go ahead
Noah King
If you want a cheap keyboard that's about as good you can get for athat price
Cameron Harris
>full-size wasd v2 + gateron keycaps
I have this exact combination. (the keycaps are dye-subbed, but originally gateron)
keycap choice is solid. I am not sure why you cannot buy two-tones like white and grey, though. I thought that used to be an option.
if you don't need numpad, consider tenkeyless.
are you getting cherry greens or clears? if not, you can consider a cheaper board like the rosewill rk9000.
the keyboard is still nice but flexes due to being full-size. I would imagine the TKL version does not flex as much.
overall it's decent.
Charles Gutierrez
also pic related. it has cherry clears
Julian Lopez
What's the cheapest keyboard I can get that comes with Cherry Whites? 60-65% preferred.
Owen Long
Magicforce68, but only the custom ones
Henry White
link?
Nicholas Evans
massdrop
Joseph Cox
>consider tenkeyless
Yeah, I've decided to go with tenkeyless, since I don't use the numpad and it'll only make my mouse needlessly far away.
>are you getting cherry greens or clears?
I was gonna get either blue or browns.
wasd tenkeyless board is $95 with cherry blue by default, they ask for $15 more for clears and $25 for greens.
I don't know if they're worth the extra money.
I can't seem to find a rosewill tenkeyless board, do you know of any other cheaper tenkeyless barebones boards?
Wyatt Roberts
depending on country, you can find them on amazon.
Samuel Cruz
not in cherry whites
Isaiah Howard
how is this achieved
Gabriel White
I remember when that was the queen of cheap mechanical keyboards. So much has changed since then. Its done with pad printing
Jose Richardson
are you telling me there's no way to get a printed animu on a keyboard?
Nathaniel Bell
unfortunately there is no TKL equivalent of the rosewill rk9000. cooler master's old TKL boards are pretty decent, but I'm not sure if you'll be able to find them in stock anywhere.
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I've heard good things about these, but haven't personally used them. browns, unfortunately, out of stock for the ducky and only 1 in stock for the ganss.
the wasd v2 is not bad especially if you're not getting full-size since it won't flex as much. pic related is personally my biggest gripe with it. I don't like how those sides poke out as it looks ugly and unncessary. also the cable routing feature is terrible.
Nathaniel Diaz
I'd consider getting one of those, but I want blank keycaps (preferably colored as in pic related),
>I don't like how those sides poke out as it looks ugly and unncessary
Looks kinda nice imo.
I found this blank ducky mechanicalkeyboards.com
but I don't like the white keycaps and the lights on the caps lock and scroll lock.
It's one $135 and since the wasd board is $95, while the gateron keycaps in pic related are $40, it's not like I'd be saving some money by buying it.
I don't see any other options than a wasd tkl board and those gateron blank keycaps for now.
Nathaniel Jones
I just noticed that the blank ducky is out of stock.
Oh well.
Brody Sanchez
oh sorry, I wasn't clear. I linked those keyboards for you to consider buying in addition to the blank gateron keycaps.
because I think they look a bit nicer.
mechanicalkeyboards also seems to offer free shipping, too.
Aaron Gonzalez
Is it possible to get a custom keyboard from somewhere that only has 8 keys and arrows? For fighting games, like a little mini-controller
Grayson Lewis
Make it yourself, there's no pre-made board like that. Closest you can get is some people in China make a custom numpad with more layout options including ones optimised for using it sideways as a 6*4 gamepad
Asher Hill
I bought a mechanical keyboard but now I can't find it
Elijah Clark
Both WASD and Maxkeyboards offer custom printing options, I forget which of the two but that keyset was printed through one of them (It's in their customer gallery)
Christopher Reed
ANy good sales going on?
Jonathan Lee
Is there a DIY controller that supports wiring individual keys on it?
I don't want a matrix. I want infine kro.
Zachary Hall
ducky one tkl or kbparadise v60? Only options I could find with cherry whites that I can afford.
Asher Price
If you can wait about a month the magicforce should come back on massdrop, and that will have cherry whites. But right now go with the Ducky
Jackson Nguyen
What's the most artistic keyboard you've ever see?
Jason Phillips
...
Brody Edwards
I'm getting this, I wanted something compact and this looks pretty good and good price.
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Gabriel Ross
Ducky one tkl is bretty good. Get the non RGB one and buy some PBT caps for it.
Elijah Collins
Was gonna get one but
>Estimated ship date is Sep 4, 2017
So I purchased a 40% pcb on ali and am gonna build one myself.
Benjamin Campbell
dye subbers are starting to do prints on the whole key and not just the legends, mainly so they can get white legends on pbt but they can do graphics too. this would be much higher quality than pad printing. but you would probably have to pay an arm and a leg to get them to make a custom anime set for you
see:
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Sebastian Sanders
Does the James Donkey 619 have smaller keycaps like the Magicforce? I'm considering a Gateron Brown Donkey but the tiny chinaman keys on the Magicforce I bought was bad enough for me to return it.
Nathan Cox
the keycaps are standard size you idiot. even if you're using a laptop keyboard with wide and flat keys, the overall keyboard is still pretty small, so i don't see where you get the idea that the keys are tiny.
Joseph Martin
Getting a num pad
Is this a good choice?
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Nathaniel Gutierrez
>tfw fell for the topre meme
Aiden Watson
>Budget
$70-$150
>Location (continent at least)
The U S of A
>Preferred switch type
Cherry blues (maybe whites)
>Layout
ansi
>Form factor
Tkl or full. Im gonna be programming the most with some light vidya, but probably a tkl
>Backlight
Don't care. Need to be able to use in the dark, but don't want to be blinded
>Previous/current keyboards
Thermaltek Posiden or something
Jace Turner
hold me /mkg/, I think I fell in love
>tfw you will probably never get your hands on this beauty
but seriously, how does one go about purchasing this kind of stuff, I've never done that before
I checked on ebay and there were like 3 of them but none of them has this gorgeous dust cover which is the selling point for me
are there any other models similar to this?
Brody Richardson
What are good places to search for ISO keycap sets that ship to Europe? I'm looking into building a 65% kind of thing with some extra keys, but I can't find sets that are compatible with ISO and 65% and have some extra keys and aren't coloured like a fucking rainbow or something.
Jordan Nelson
Tyler Richardson
The extra button right next to WASD is just useful. Having a shift that huge is just a waste.
Mason Gomez
I don't like the colour of that, and does that even support 65%?
Jonathan Young
not really and you're moving your pinky too much to reach for the short left shift
Jordan Mitchell
Also, almost not sets have a € sign on the 5 key, which I would prefer.
>not really
Just fucking bullshit. I use it all the time.
>and you're moving your pinky too much to reach for the short left shift
I disagree. But if you think so than you could just bind \ to shift and shift to \. ISO's still better then.
Ayden Nelson
>1u shift
I didn't think ISO could get worse but you went and proved me wrong
Austin Sanders
what keyboard?
Owen White
plum84 topre clone
also comes in tkl and fullsize layouts, and in gateron varieties
Aaron Brooks
also 70%, and this one has a choice of 45g which is unusual (almost everything heavier than 35 g seems to have been sold out or been discontinued)
Lincoln James
fell for the gmk meme (twice)
Eli Scott
Has anybody built a keyboard that's optimised for typing speed?
Benjamin Butler
Brandon Roberts
Yeah, no
I was thinking about smaller keykaps. Apparently no such thing exists. So you guys are really just playing around with LED lights and not actually building keyboards?
Aiden Fisher
>smaller keykaps
they're already tiny chinaman keycaps. you can't get them much smaller than this without running into serious accuracy and ergonomics issues.
Austin Allen
How about just a little bit smaller?
Jose Brown
no
Adam Brown
Standard keycaps are already smaller then your fingertips, unless you're 10 years old or a manlet
Owen Miller
>mechanical keyboards are supposed to have better build quality and be more durable
>cheap chinese plastic
>exposed switches
>flimsy microSD connections
Okay so who makes ACTUAL nice keyboards that have solid build quality? I know you guys love the cheap chinkshit, but tell me what the premium is.
Leo Ross
I'm 198cm and standard keycaps are not smaller than my fingertips ,wtf are you talking about.
Is this your"standard" keycap?
Hunter Cruz
is this what summer feels like?
Chase Rodriguez
The only premium among keyboards is self-made and custom ordered from koreans for about 500$/kb
Aaron Diaz
He's probably american.
Nathaniel Howard
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>aristocratic 75% layout
>anodized aluminium case and plate
>unassembled, so your highest skilled and most trusted servant can construct it
>comes with no keycaps, since no factory-default keycap set would be sophisticated enough for you
Julian Allen
I have do decide between:
Qisan 60% with Cherry Blues (white)
>40€
DREVO Gramr 84 TKL with Cherry Blues(black)
>41€
Qisan 60% with Gateron Brown (black)
>59€
Which one should I chose?
Tyler Robinson
are you sure they're cherry and not outemu
but anyway maybe the 40 euro qisan + thick pbt chink keycaps
Noah Gutierrez
Oh, and it will be used for typing, almost no gaming.
Yeah, my bad, Outemu for the first Qisan and DREVO.
Lincoln Martinez
Anything worse than gateron is not worth your time.
Cherry>Gateron>all other chink shit.
John Clark
Topre?
Parker Gonzalez
hi /mkg/, what kind of switches do these sound like to you?
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Anthony Wood
Topre is a rubber dome.
Robert King
It is like mentioning membrane or touch-screen keyboard.
Whole point of top-re is non-contact.
Angel Kelly
>non-contact
What does this even mean?
Nathan Gonzalez
Complete retard here... Why do mech keyboard brands matter when the best switches are all made by Cherry? I doubt nobody ever really cares about flex...
Jonathan Powell
>Cherry>Gateron
nice meme
>Anything worse than gateron is not worth your time.
not if you have to give up good keycaps to fit your budget
Hunter Morgan
Manufacturers can fuck up on so many levels you would not believe
1.Keyboard does not even get recognized in usb slot
2.Software support is trash
3.Keyboard will melt after few days
4.Keyboard is ugly and yellow[james donkey]
I could keep going
Also cherry is really good but once you go gateron browns you never go back to cherry.
Samuel Martin
>3.Keyboard will melt after few days
Maybe that wouldn't happen if they STOPPED SHOVING ALL THESE FAGGOT ASS LEDS AND MICROPROCESSORS IN FUCKING EVERYTHING.
Austin Brown
>when the best switches are all made by Cherry
Get a load of this fucking pleb.
Hudson Myers
104 gateron board is 45$
tenkeyless is 35$
If you care only about switch and PBT keycaps
gateron+decent pbt set=> 45$
Hudson Barnes
Never seen a keyboard with a microprocessor
Hudson Cooper
If it has fancy retarded LEDs then it most likely has some kind of ARM processor in it to control the LEDs so you can switch between your SICK FLASHING PATTERNS.
Dominic Lopez
I never quite understood the whole RGB meme
to not have leds in kb is fine,if you need to see the letters in dark you just need to learn how to type,anyone who does type more than month can remember where each letter is.
Gavin Fisher
It's gotten completely out of hand.
Jacob Moore
all usb keyboards have one and non-backlit keyboards can also have fancy programmable microprocessors with memory so you can remap keys etc
Julian Wright
So what shoud I get then?
Cherry blues and 60%/TKL would be fine.
Samuel Johnson
I want to buy an Orion G610 (browns or blues)
Am I wasting my time/money?
Brayden Collins
We will have rgbs to put on top of our rgbs
Screenshot this and come back to it in year.
Austin Gonzalez
Those are microcontrollers
Asher Rodriguez
use the buyer's template
Michael Gonzalez
Ayden Green
Carter Cox
>Budget
60€
>Location (continent at least)
EU
>Preferred switch type
Cherry Blue
>Layout
Don't care
>Form factor
60% or TKL
>Backlight
No.
>Previous/current keyboards
Logitech K120
Dominic Murphy
There is no functional difference at all between a "microcontroller" and a "microprocessor". ARM is cheap, common, and well documented.
Oliver Foster
i don't think you'll fit both cherry switches and pbt keycaps into that budget, and i really think you should get decent pbt keycaps
gateron is good tho:
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Ryan Scott
Brody Young
Yes, but generally speaking 8 or 16 bit chips running at less than 200 MHz are referred to as microcontrollers
Joseph Richardson
you're just salty that your keyboard can't do this
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