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Took 3 months to get a keyboard
First one was an Ebay scam out of China.
Crypto- Ebay/China -Currency. The seller first lists, waits for the buyer's take, then pulls out and disappears with the buyer's money. Ebay facilitates the scam with its 2-month adjudication policy: 2-month's shipping time, exclusively, for Chinese mail to process before negotiations are allowed. Instant crypto currency. Draw out the money, from as many accounts as possible, and sit on the interest for 2 months. It could be worse for lesser countries, I suppose. So I bought the next keyboard from Amazon, which has entirely different rules regulating acceptable shipping times. Lighted LEDs, a few basic lighting schemes, some programmability I haven't yet exercised. However fair can be placed between a literal steal and what constitutes playing a game and a keyboard. Chinese mechanical key workings have acceptable tactile responses. Lighting is better than I'd expected for a decently lighted room;- gamers, sitting in the dark, the thought never actually entered my mind, at least as rational. Time remains. My last mechanical board is over a decade old and still functions perfectly. It also cost perhaps fourfold more than this. |
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Took 3 months to get a keyboard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:52:10 -0500, Flasherly
wrote: So I bought the next keyboard from Amazon, which has entirely different rules regulating acceptable shipping times. And now Amazon is selling basically the same keyboard, different brand, for $10 less than I paid -- promotional sale at $20 less the regular price with a coupon code. Figures. I wanted reviews though, which mine has, whereas the sale model has three. I'd bet the quality is practically indistinguishable, i.e. a hell'va lot for Chinese mechanical blues;- Blacks are preferable: I like the heavier, roughly a quarter more actuation feel. Basically give-away prices, at least to me, being a mechanical key switch type since Day 1, Ground ALPS Zero. There's actually two models in the sale, both full-sized and compact, both the same manufacturer. A no-brainier, as the compact is marginally less, $10 or so bucks -- with No LEDs, though. The LED orientation is pretty good, but could be better for the sake of pickiness. A little bit better designations for the etching, especially the numeric pad's dual-role functionality. Lighting is by default horizontally designated for a single colour, or six colors;- the rest, promotional effects, are gimmicks for children. A positive feeling, still, to glance down at brightly enough identifiers illuminating the individual keys. Provided LEDs which never quit, or etching, from which they shine through, that doesn't smear, wear, to expand into a translucent blur. In the field of Idealistic Engineering, but of course. Oh and yeah. And this is important to get it down right. Never Ever buy a white keyboard, like both my first Northgates. |
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Took 3 months to get a keyboard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:52:10 -0500, Flasherly
wrote: Time remains. My last mechanical board is over a decade old and still functions perfectly. It also cost perhaps fourfold more than this. I'm typing this on a Northgate Omnikey Ultra. I haven't found anything to match it. Das Keyboard looks nice but they lack the function keys on the left--and I still make a lot of use of them. I can reliably touch type them, I can't do the same with the ones on top. Also, it has two keypads--one num-locked, one not. |
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Took 3 months to get a keyboard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:21:57 -0800, Loren Pechtel
wrote: I'm typing this on a Northgate Omnikey Ultra. I haven't found anything to match it. Das Keyboard looks nice but they lack the function keys on the left--and I still make a lot of use of them. I can reliably touch type them, I can't do the same with the ones on top. Also, it has two keypads--one num-locked, one not. Those number-locks, Cntrl, that stuff, variously may be assigned viz interrupt-rerouting software;- switching the Caps Lock into another CNTRL, e.g. is more productive, for me, than rarely having to type, makeshift at either Shift Keys for ALL CAPS. Other than some ROM programmability in these Chinese mechanical designs, it's more akin to a whole new- vrs old-school keyboard market;- it would also be well to wholly ignore the gaming market's felicitous presumption that a quality designed instruments for transcriptions uniquely qualifies diversionary amusements. Of course the Amazon coupon-code deal, $48 reduced to a $28 sale, earlier yesterday, is unprecedented for full-sized, 101-keys ... individually-lighted mechanical keys. A disparity either for present, or past, placement among mechanicals, which traditionally start closer to $100 if not higher. And another Oriental crack, of late, at reducing technologically assessed practical values into their LCD. The six rows of lighting on mine are different from a almost-same model from Amazon's listing yesterday. (SlickDeals Rottray or some such;- Amazon also can be abrupt if not downright misleading on sales, although I did check it for good earlier yesterday.) Basically three less useful, near illegible;- first row and topmost two being respectively purple, blue, and red, all in deep hues, which renders them less conspicuous than the highly lucid middle three rows, respectively in intense shades white, green, and orange. I suppose the middle three rows are a brunt of typing, and the latter occur for ideographs concentrically to distinguish computer (from a typewriter of the first half of the last century). A good feature, with naught for a mention, as a lighting schemes are gimmicks, in this class of board, beyond a consideration for their ROM default. As I said, I really like it though, so far as for my first LED keyboard. The other consideration being getting back to accustomed fashion, as the 87-key was all messed-up -- driving me a little farther, every day, up-the-wall. A full 101-keyboard has to be my choice of instrument for comfort. I gotten used, can stretch, at reasonable comfort level, from standard classical measures to a guitar fretboard, at the B-note, on the first string, to the wound 6th-string's G at the 3rd fret. That's between my index and little finger. Typing with my fingers inside a couple tin cans is my impression of an 87-keyed board. |
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