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Two new products were announced from CHERRY yesterday - see what you make of them!

MX Board 9.0 - http://cherry.co.uk/cid/new_products_CHERRY_MX_Board_90.htm?
http://www.cherry.de/pictures/produkt/prv700/gal_2000_G80-3980_Pers01.jpg

MX Board 8.0 - http://cherry.co.uk/cid/new_products_CHERRY_MX ...

Personally, I think the name-change is pants....

Daniel - won't go poking too far into the Article number page through sheer fear of messing someone's hard work up. One snippet of info though FYI...

The middle letter of some (not all - it's very confusing!) article numbers, relates to whether it will have Windows keys or not. For instance, G84 ...

I'll go back through my old stuff and see if anything falls out that's relevant on the M6/M7, no worries. However, one word of warning.....never, ever go by part numbers with Cherry products!! A bit of an example.

For many, many years we've had G80 (MX), G81 (FTSC), G83 (NTK - New Technology ...

Not a problem - happy to provide what I can on here.

Although it may not sound as if it's of any use to anyone else, the point is that ANY information on old/non-available switches has the 'danger' of being re-used to create a brand new version of that product that customers may buy, therefore ...

I was sure I read somewhere that gold crosspoint was patented by Cherry, but I can't find that now, only a catalogue that implies that it was a Cherry innovation. I discovered that some RAFI switches are also gold crosspoint (RS 74M, some RS 76M).

Did you see the link above to the Xerox keyboard ...

Hey, Daniel, don't shoot the messenger!

Look, I can actually understand where they're coming from. The specification on some switches may not have been made public knowledge at all - if products have been made specifically for one customer (hence the 'odd' colour schemes), then they aren't in the ...

Hi folks,

Not good news I'm afraid - I've contacted my colleagues in Germany and, as I suspected, they're unwilling to supply any other information to me that I can post on the forum :(

Basically, because of the risk of clone products being made in the far-east, they're just not prepared to let ...

Hi Daniel,

Phew, that's a whole heap of info to plough through!! I've read through some of it and seen the images of the switches from the far-eastern chap - in all honesty, most of us would never have either a) noticed subtle differences or b) been informed that there were changes, so the forums ...

I'd love to add to this discussion Daniel, but the info that I have is limited to say the least.

MX Orange - never heard of it in the UK.
Alps mount Cherry MX - nothing from our side in any documentation I have
MX Yellow - again, never heard of it as an 'official' product - I have seen a fake ...

Hi folks,

Just learned from our lovely marketing department that there's some 'new' keymodule info available on the Cherry site - click here for details: http://cherry.co.uk/cid/b2b_keymodules.htm?

The information has been available in shortened form on our switch website, but they've now ...

Muirium wrote:Fair enough, Robin. Thanks for passing along the actual reason. And feel free to give your pointy haired boss (or however high up the chain he is) a snarl from us!

GRRRRR.............and one for luck.......GRRRRRRRR......

I could be interested aswell but I don't really understand why it has to be ANSI only ...

Because 'they' want some of the idiot-money the yankee-south-koreans are spending on ....
YOU KNOW WHAT !!

How much did that gold idiot-skull sell for ??
A LOT more than what I can get for a genuine NIB ...

But why ANSI?

The simple answer is to do with markets. The biggest market for these keyboards at the moment is the far east and generally, they use a modified ANSI layout. The G80-3494 model series is currently NOT available as an ISO variant - believe me, I've asked for it to be done and this ...

A Mx-3000 for more than 160 € :-)
But :
60€ for a new one (no red switches sure)
60€ for a set of double shots keycaps
and logo red switches etc.
the price is not so bad.

Will it be ansi or ISO finally, the image says ISO and text says US layout 104 :roll:

Unfortunately, will be ANSI - the image ...

akuji13 wrote:Wrong layout, fullsize, bad case style, awful logos...nope, i am not interested.

Don't hold back now - say what you mean!

Maybe,first blacklight from cherry
unfortunately not TKL
Why Cherly, never made TKL?

Sorry - missed the backlit bit out. No, not backlit to my knowledge, just double shot moulded with red lettering.

The first backlit Cherry keyboard will be a small-footprint, non-mechanical keyboard due late ...

I don't really like the MX Inside logo but otherwise this sounds pretty cool actually. Are you collecting money now? Put me down for a light grey one - if they're white with red legends that is.

Not collecting the cash just at the moment - if there's enough takers before 5th July, then yes, we ...

Maybe,first blacklight from cherry
unfortunately not TKL
Why Cherly, never made TKL?

I'd love to answer the question....but I haven't a clue! I guess if there's a good market for it out there, it's something that could be considered at some point in time, but there has to be a sound business case ...

I guess it's an G83, a piece of poo in other words. On the other hand, G86-22000 is quite nice.

Ooohh..harsh!! Actually, the G83 series isn't bad - okay, they're not mechanical, but don't have a bad action in all honesty. Some time ago (10 years ish..), we changed the rubber sheet underneath to ...

Okay people of the Keyboard world, I'm looking for some feedback/interest in a 'new' Limited Edition 60th Anniversary Cherry G80-3494LYCUS.

During a recent visit to the UK by my colleagues in Germany, I asked if it would be possible to produce MX keyboards with double shot caps. Unfortunately, due ...

Just for info - RS = RUBBER SHEET - this will be a G83-6xxx series model of some form, in performing a quick check, it's a G83-6644 smartcard keyboard and is designed to be a low-cost model....

For Cherry, it's doubtful you'll find a $15-30 mechanical keyboard - at that range, it'll be rubber sheet ...

Thanks dirge, most appreciated. Watchers on the board now and just waiting for the bids to go up and up and up.....

Shipping now changed to being worldwide - Good luck to those who bid and thanks for looking!

Okay, maybe one for the UK only (don't know!!), but we're running yet another charity keyboard auction!!

Using a tried and tested G80-3000LSCGB-0 (yes, I know- no double shots....sorry...) we've managed to get our partners Devlin Electronics to laser etch the front of the keyboard with the Gadget ...

It's on ebay now folks - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290808870599&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT should take you straight there....

Yes, we did this in 2009 & 2010 - once with a standard G83-6105, the next with the G83-6191 (lower case) version. This is the first to be done with a ...

Okay people, I know (before I start!) that it's not usually the thing on here, but thought I'd give you all the chance - if, indeed, you want it.....

9pm this evening, ebay.

We're trying to gain a little publicity and at the same time, raise a good deal of money for a very worthwhile cause - The ...

Okay chaps (Ladies??),

Having the discussion with the factory at the moment to see whether they'll produce a custom MX switch for us and I really need your help.

The Ergo Clear switch. From what I can understand, this is some form of cannibalised 'hybrid' switch that you're producing yourselves ...

Thanks to those that voted - most appreciated. I've now fed this back to the factory, along with the other comments from the site, so we'll see what happens within the coming months. I'll keep you all posted....

We do make these still.... G80-3000LPCxx-0 / G80-3000LPCxx-2 or G80-3000LSCxx-0 / G80-3000LSCxx-2 or G80-3000LQCxx-0 / G80-3000LQCxx-2. Or, if you're needing a US variant, change the last x for a y....we've only ever supplied the LPC variant in the UK though, but that doesn't mean to say we can't ...