I think how the touch of the keyboard is the key to how I pick them in the end. I ended up with two Leopold keyboards just because how I liked and was impressed with the touch the MX blues have on them and realizing I'll be wasting more money on custom keyboards trying to fail on duplicating the unique touch of Leopolds. Yup, I tried looking at and typed with some samples of custom keyboards, but none of them beats those damn prebuilds from Leopold, so I end-gamed myself right on the spot just because how nice a keyboard can feel.
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if you switched to ortholinear also you wouldn't need to hold keys all the time like with the staggered ones. All you have to do is set one shot shift/calculator layer like in android phones and you're golden.
When I turned 30 I got super bummed out and lamented to my friend Dave that I'd squandered my youth. He told me that I was being silly and that I was still plenty youthful. Then we got falafel. Nearly two decades on I wish I could be thirty again.
I just got this in the mail yesterday and tried it. It’s already back in the box to be returned 😅 it felt super high quality but I found the keys to just be too tall and even tho the quality seemed great and it sounded amazing with the banana switches - I can’t justify the price tag of 300€ here in Germany. Sent it back to try a keychron k pro for half the price 🐥
Overall, I like it but there are just too many options which is both good and bad. They really need to simplify their lineup. The switch parameters are confusing if you don’t already know what they mean and the LED feature feels like a gimmick for kids. For productivity, I’d swap the DEL key and the backlight key because people are definitely going to hit that backlight mode key by accident.
"40% has all the keys of the big keyboard... WITH SOFTWARE and complex inputs." I'll take the 100% Keyboard thank you, because if you use software with it you will get even more functionality than the 40% and you don't have to run software to get it and it is fully supported on all platforms equally.
@@WolvenSpectre the software in question is on the keyboard - I’ve got a 60-key ortho split keyboard, and out of the box it had all the keys I might need, and all I needed to do was plug it into my computer - in fact, I just grabbed a USB-C cable and plugged it directly into my phone (which has never had any software for this keyboard installed in it), and it's running perfectly with all the customisations that I set up on my computer, because it carrys the software on its pcb, and just sends the key inputs that a normal keyboard would send. I have had a keyboard that needed me to install some software onto my computer to customise it, but it wasn't needed to *use* the keyboard, and this one can be reprogrammed from a website without any installation (though I want some weird extras that aren't normally needed, so I do want to figure out how to do some less straightforward things that will require me to download some software to do the reprogramming, but I'm probably weird for wanting to make it possible to play tic-tac-toe using my keyboard's rgb with nothing but a power bank to plug it into).
@ Yeah, but my point is; if it looks and feels like a toy, you won't be able to shake the feeling that it is. It's not hefty enough to be a keyboard. Maybe I'm just aluminium-biased from getting all these budget, but premium feeling aluminium boards that costs the same as these plastic ones.