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I have one or two per machine, both, at the office and at home. Sometimes I want lighter touch, sometimes crunchier and noisier. But the thing is that I try to keep all boards in rotation and resist the urge of becoming a collector... With varying results...

I returned to this matter again today since the stuff I did earlier didn't provide any permanent solution after all... Today, I've managed to hack something up that seems to be working - well.. for the time being.. :D But now the keyboard even wakes up properly after sleep! :o - I disabled "Legacy U...

Yes I agree. It's pretty voodoo stuff at the moment.. Hey, who says computer science is an exact science :D I had set the Start value to 1 a while ago but it still gave the behavior described earlier. For reference, the driver in use is a regular Standard PS/2 Keyboard - i8042prt.sys Driver Date: 21...

FK-2002's brown dust cover is just sooo awesome :D Okay okay.. Honestly, it's actually just on the way all the time since these days you don't put your computer monitor on top of your desktop computer and there's just not enough room between the dust cover and the monitor edges. It's a brown monitor...

PS. I LOVE this keyboard. Apparently the ALPS style is my thing.. Matias Tactile Pro and Quiet Pro, "Monterey switches" and now these, ALPS SKCM Whites. Haven't yet added any lubricants but we'll see..

Yeah, I should definitely grab another one! I'm just worried about this current trend of removing PS/2 completely (which has happened on laptops already a while ago) and without a suitable USB-adapter this would render my keyboard useless with newer PCs :( But hey! I went back to Windows registry ag...

Thanks for reply! Ah, no, there's no specific reason for using or not using. Whatever makes it work :) I actually just tried again with the PS/2-USB cable and I couldn't get it working at all. What happens is that the LED lights are all dim and when I hit any key, all three LED lights blink once and...

Hello all, long time no see! \o/ :D Last year I acquired a Focus FK-2002 and I simply love it. It has one of the best feeling switches I've ever gotten my fingers on and the build quality seems rather good as well. Good caps and all. However, I'm having hard time getting it to work with Windows 10. ...

Hi Daniel, thanks for the review! My experiences with the board are quite the same really. But I love it! I bought the pre-"mass production" unit and I love it! The sound is rattling (but I love it too) and it's funny how it seems to come out from the keycaps. I just received the new Matias Mini Qui...

NTC is with white Alps. Well, I didn't mean to say that the PCBs are 100% identical, you know, but like everything appears to be all the same and in all the same places, sizes etc except for the controller which has been changed (upgraded probably :) Casing and everything, so I'm suspecting that the...

The Monterey has Blue SMK Alps mounted switches.

You know, before Apple Aluminum, I didn't even know about these mechanical beasts. (Obviously, I had used them in the past but didn't realize the value of Model M nor appreciate its beautiful voice etc...) Apple Aluminum got me into keyboards around 3 years ago... BECAUSE I HATED IT! Typing with it ...

Awesome review, thanks! Oh man, those Honeywell caps are F.I.N.E.!

Thanks Muirium! I'm reading your review now :) Since you have love for Alps, I'd say you should definitely go for Matias! I haven't gotten into custom keycap stuff at all really. I've hunted down Alps-compatible double-shot keycaps (two sets I think ...?) and with Cherries I really want PBT but that...

Hello World! It's been a lo-o-o-ong time since my last stay here at Deskthority. I suppose I felt that I just got a little "too into it" (although I don't think it's actually possible to get too into these things...) and decided to re-focus for a while. Lot's of keyboard related stuff happened sinc...

i usually switch between raised/flat/in lap keyboard positions, mostly it's raised - flat when i'm completely sunk in my seat and in lap when i'm in input-clerk mode; sometimes i do switch randomly just because... i can. Exactly. Just because. :) I haven't actually ever even tried using a keyboard ...

Hey fellas! It's been a while... Making a comeback now, key by key :) I don't think I've put any thought about having my keyboard(s) raised or flat on my desk. So I started wondering, for example, how does it impact on typing speed and accuracy, how does it relate to ergonomy... What's your cup of t...

Yeah and I'll try to pull out one of the switches and tear it down to pieces during the next couple of days

I don't have a pic of the Tulip nor do I have the board. I threw it away since it was just a rubber dome junk. I will be posting pics of the rest of the boards in my next review.

Edit: I found some pics from the original seller:
http://imgur.com/a/PgjrN
http://imgur.com/a/5XWHv

The switches on my NTC are like the one in the pic when it comes to shape, form, tabs and whatnot:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Alps_w ... ky_001.jpg

However, I'm not 101% certain if the typography of the ALPS is exactly the same...

Excellent information, thank you! I should open up the NTC at some point to take a closer look on the back of the switches for traces. I'm also a bit suspicious for them being actual complicated type of ALPS... I feel the same regarding the difference in sharpness between ALPS blacks and whites, it'...

Welcome to the forum! I consider myself as a rather newbie as well. Thanks for your review! I personally think that there's never too many reviews Don't worry about the grammar, you'll get away with it - hey this is a European forum!

I t was early July, 2012 and I kept trying... I wanted to like Dell AT101W. Why didn’t I like it? Well, I knew why I didn’t like it but what was causing it to be like that? Or perhaps... Perhaps it just was supposed to be like that... I needed to try another ALPS board! I wanted the clicky one, the...

I t was close to mid-summer (which here in Finland equals to like two weeks after the summer has actually started) 2012 and I had just received my first ALPS board. After a while of digging information about which ALPS board to get, I concluded that Dell AT101W was the perfect entry-level ALPS boar...

Take a look at my reviews on the white and the black one:
http://deskthority.net/news-reviews-f4/ ... t3470.html

Noppoo has excellent "bang for the buck" ratio, even with its downsides.

Any ideas who is the original manufacturer of the KPT switches? These guys sell some more recent "KPT" labeled switches http://www.activecomponents.com/Catalog-Switches-Sensors_406.aspx?searchTerms=kpt&SortBy=StockDesc which are being manufactured by KIE, in otherwords, these dudes http://www.kie.co...

I visited Clas Ohlson and bought CRC electronic cleaner and CRC white lithium grease (sprayed) containing PTFE. Using the latter one now on a couple of switches and keys to test. This one shouldn't eat the plastics. I ended up spraying the whole plate instead of just dipping one switch by one. I fe...

I visited Clas Ohlson and bought CRC electronic cleaner and CRC white lithium grease (sprayed) containing PTFE.

Using the latter one now on a couple of switches and keys to test. This one shouldn't eat the plastics.

Please advice on or link to the kind of lubes that are suitable. I'd be interested in giving some to my Dell.

Hi Robstero!

Have a look at my reviews! You might find them, well, at least entertaining because I have quite recently went through the same In a frighteningly short space of time, something strange has come over me - I appear to have become, umm, a wee bit obsessed by keyboards.