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This came out yesterday apparently, must have been another secret special order by some Chinese guys, that passed by our radar:




Lasered POM keycaps, Red switches, N-Key rollover.

Based on the Raptor K1 board, probably also features the USB hub, though I am not sure.

Available for 1200 Yuan (~182 USD) at TaoBao.
The outrageous special order price makes it probably lose compared to the limited edition filco with red.

Apparently no USB hub afterall.

thats a strange looking numpad, dimensions must be pretty warped

xis wrote:thats a strange looking numpad, dimensions must be pretty warped

I agree. A very hard buy considering Filco's looks so much better.

Did Cherry cut MX red pricing?

Crazy9000 wrote: I agree. A very hard buy considering Filco's looks so much better.

Well, Cherry has never been about looks but functionality and efficiency.

sixty wrote:Apparently no USB hub afterall.

http://kbc.5d6d.com/thread-5398-1-1.html

hub still an expensive keyboard...

That hub would be nice, but i'm not gonna drop that much for another Cherry.

This is another keyboard with the weird g80-1800 format. I thought to get a K1 for my first mech. keyboard because it is relatively cheap to buy at ebay.de. Besides from that i use the numblock a lot for gaming and need a big "0"-key, and so i dropped that idea.
If i want a space saver so i buy a tenkeyless board without any kind of num block.

Btw i ordered yesterday a Filco 105 Majestouch German Tactile keyboard from keyboardco .

I kinda like the 1800 layout. In fact I probably favor it over tenkeyless. The only quirk I have are the small ctrl/alt keys, which is no issue if you use a 1800 without windows keys though.

Yes, it's a good layout. Some people don't like it. But is a very good compact keyboard.

If you prefer tenkeyless, you could remap it to tenkeyless in software and remove the caps off the switches that you don't use. I considered doing that to my first G80-1800 when I first got it, but I got used to the layout before I could get my thumb out of my behind.

I am now used to using the numpad's nav keys instead of reaching for the cluster on top of the keyboard. I have noticed that I now sometimes use the numpad cursors even on "full size" boards.

Random fact of the day: A G80-1800 manages to be narrower than an IBM SSK despite having a full complement of 101 keys.

what about the ricercar spos?