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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2 Slim Keyboard
Nice tactile feel. Very slim. Cheap (around $10 here in SE Asia).
keys are not "loose" and feel like "metal" though plastic. The keyboard does not shake like most cheap plastic kbs. Has a "metal" feel and is heavy, which is good since you don't want it moving around when you press it. Very silent. Better than some Microsoft Natural $100 keyboards I have bought in the past. Designed in the USA and made in China according to their website. Might buy a second one as a spare just in case since it's hard to find a good kb. RL |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 10, 8:18 am, RayLopez99 wrote:
Designed in the USA and made in China according to their website. Might buy a second one as a spare just in case since it's hard to find a good kb. Good keyboards, in some circles, premier quality is presently considered the gaming keyboard. How such fallacy arises to surface among an élite cadre of reviewers on Newegg is probably by dint of association. Among most things I seem not to have noted, inasmuch for what passes by interests earlier during this month's festivities and greater deliberations for U.S. sales purposes, all but for these keyboards. All close to third generation residuals, tactile units marked as low as half off at $50/US. I as well have one, a still- working FOCUS tactile unit, the last remains from the same-named company that bought out OMNIKEYs and DELL's Northgate keyboard interests;. . .a tenacious if at all substantive mention to second generation tactility among relatively old keyboard tactile units once only superceded by a few field units reserved by severely prohibitive costs for scientific purposes. Although, there really is no mistaking these newer boards do appear nice, back-lit individual keys among premier units along with some ability for macro assignments more generally available, so on and forth in fulfilling a transcriber's want of arduousness by equipment over hours of dedicated if not aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting withal for the gamer to purvey. |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 10, 11:22*pm, Flasherly wrote:
aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting withal for the gamer to purvey. That's interesting--but you can summarize what you said in plainer English and maybe recommend a keyboard maker? You mentioned OMNIKEY and DELL which I think were cited favorably. Backlit keyboards--that would be an annoyance to me. RL |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 11, 11:54 pm, RayLopez99 wrote:
On Dec 10, 11:22 pm, Flasherly wrote: aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting withal for the gamer to purvey. That's interesting--but you can summarize what you said in plainer English and maybe recommend a keyboard maker? You mentioned OMNIKEY and DELL which I think were cited favorably. Backlit keyboards--that would be an annoyance to me. RL I just happen to have a OMNIKEY, which simply came rebadged for a NORTHGATE with DELL computers. I bought mine sometime later, after the NORTHGATE period, at the hefty price then of $100US dollars. I also over time broke it whilst writing English, amongst other uses, trials and tribunes, nevertheless I do believe I still have it, around about on the shelves of Obsolete Items, located somewhere. Then, once having broken naturally did **** me -- I bought a FOCUS FK 7200/USB (made in China);- an understanding being, to me, is the FOCUS brand is at some point "carrying" the OMNIKEY moniker, though somewhat lighter and whatnot, for an extant or residual resemblance to the OMNIKEY at least remaining. The above-mentioned are the only two keyboards I've personally used. Not to worry, though, (as luck would have it), the OMNIKEY has been resurrected in all its glorious fame and reputation (how shall we say, for commiserate pricing), as a prised and genuine artifact of computer history. ...without further ado http://www.ergonomicsmadeeasy.com/st...prime-keyboard (I might also suspect ties to Northgate and Omnikey within an IBM keyboard design framework.) A past for moving along, forward into semi-practicality to enter the Gaming Arena of modern keyboards, not your dad's. All aside, mightn't one think a keyboard would really matter to a vaster populace of hordes mushing merrily along with squishy little rubber-booted, $10US interpolators;- hence a niche marketing for computer seriousness connotative of having evolved into gaming via mechanical keyboard switches. . . {filtering, as follows. . . } Home Computer Hardware Input Devices Keyboards (x) Price : $200 - $300 (x) Text Search Terms: mechanical keyboard (x) (1-4 of 4 Results) {linked, ibid. . .} http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...S&Pagesize=100 Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept" priced below, although I'm sure any number, besides, the $100US Rosewill I first mentioned for $50 of Black Friday, would blow my FOCUS out the water. |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 12, 1:30*am, Flasherly wrote:
Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept" If you really want to learn about mechanical keyboards, geekhack.org is the place to do it. Cherry switches are cheap, compared to other switches in the mechanical keyboard world (Topre switches are triple the price of Cherry switches). I've had an IBM Model M, a Unicomp Endurapro, a Das Silent, and a Noppoo Mini, before settling on a Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry browns. As for "gaming keyboards", they are really just your typical mushy membrane keyboards with bells and whistles attached. It's like customizing a Fiat 500 with multiple lcd monitors, an upgraded the stereo system, reupholstered seats, lowered springs, big tires, and a custom paint job; all the bling does not change the fact that it's still a 100 hp Fiat 500. -- // T.Hsu |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 12, 11:47 am, wrote:
On Dec 12, 1:30 am, Flasherly wrote: Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept" If you really want to learn about mechanical keyboards, geekhack.org is the place to do it. Cherry switches are cheap, compared to other switches in the mechanical keyboard world (Topre switches are triple the price of Cherry switches). I've had an IBM Model M, a Unicomp Endurapro, a Das Silent, and a Noppoo Mini, before settling on a Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry browns. As for "gaming keyboards", they are really just your typical mushy membrane keyboards with bells and whistles attached. It's like customizing a Fiat 500 with multiple lcd monitors, an upgraded the stereo system, reupholstered seats, lowered springs, big tires, and a custom paint job; all the bling does not change the fact that it's still a 100 hp Fiat 500. -- // T.Hsu Spring-loaded underneath a rubber dome capacitative switch, Topre goes under its own name, or as a Fujitsu customized Happy Hacking Keyboard. IBM Model M's used an expired patent coil spring tension for a pivotal "buckle" collapse in deriving auditory and tactile feedback;- electrical contact then is at membrane sheet common among modern dome switch keyboards. Das Silent seems to have improved on that latter aspect with gold key switches. Quite an array of Cherry switches -- runs like gamut like a Johnny Walker scotches from red, black, blue, and gold -- with the Cherry browns striking a middle ground, more important than typing to gaming, at where feedback occurs already for a depressed key, upon release. Topre is using a combination of the rubber dome and underlying spring for precisely changing an underlying sensor's capacitance;- nothing much to reinforce the mechanical aspect of your Browns, though a point to that overall smoothness is one well regarded. Browns, which Nippo also uses, and, last, Enduropro's bucklers. Then those N-Key functions, though common enough, in brief appear as flavors of a musician's better keyboard, at which point the range narrows into only a few "true" functionality (associated with PS/2 adapters and such). That filter at Newegg originally started not for tactile, but mechanical, which was intended for convenience to eliminate any of the various thicknesses and on emphasized layers of rubber boots, spring combinations, for perhaps an array of better options consistent with pricings over $100US. Hey - did I fail to mention, thanks. . . .hope it was as good for you as me. Enjoyed the quick overview. Offhand, I'd have to say the Topre line could, as well, prove most intriguing over four available provisions;- though they appear somewhat delicate with an added factor of slivers of contorted metal contacts riding and reinforced by underlying springs. The confirmed best being Topre, which apart for precision milling and variable capacitance switching, I couldn't say wouldn't be something of a curious take on an evolutionary schism preferable for, hm . . . mushboarding. |
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Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2Slim Keyboard
On Dec 13, 2:27*am, Flasherly wrote:
Hey - did I fail to mention, thanks. *. . .hope it was as good for you as me. *Enjoyed the quick overview. *Offhand, I'd have to say the Topre line could, as well, prove most intriguing over four available provisions;- though they appear somewhat delicate with an added factor of slivers of contorted metal contacts riding and reinforced by underlying springs. *The confirmed best being Topre, which apart for precision milling and variable capacitance switching, I couldn't say wouldn't be something of a curious take on an evolutionary schism preferable for, hm . . . mushboarding. Thanks for that review...lots of detail but something lost in the forest for the trees at least for me. I do like this Manhattan-Products model SKB-2 Slim Keyboard because it has a "scissors" feedback that has an abrupt tactile feel to when you press the key...no "mush" to it. RL |
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