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Please suggest nominees for the Best space-saving/tenkeyless/compact keyboard or keyboard family in 2013. You have to give a short motivation for each suggestion. It is not a requirement that the keyboard was released in 2013. If you think a vintage keyboard was the best, you can suggest it.

Current suggestions (this list is frequently updated):

• Ne0phyte's 40% Tiny Hacking Keyboard
• PJE's 20% OneHand chording keyboard
• IBM industrial SSK
• Ducky Nordic Mini
• Filco Minila Air
• jdcarpe's 40%
• IBM "Kishsaver"
• Ducky Mini v2
• Code Keyboard TKL
• WASD V2 TKL
• Photekq TEK-80
• HHKB Pro 2
• Access-IS AKC090
• Matias Mini Tactile Pro

If homemade custom boards are eligible, then I nominate Ne0phyte's 40% Tiny Hacking Keyboard:

A fine minimalist take of the already fine and minimal original! Less, less, less is more.

Even more minimalist and inventive is PJE's 20% OneHand chording keyboard:

IBM industrial SSK.

Ducky Nordic's Mini... One of the first commercial ISO mini-keyboards...

as much as I hate that keyboard, the Filco Minila Air is a great news in the keyboard panorama (compact layout+wireless).

Even though it is from over at GH:
jdcarpe's 40%:

GH isn't the problem. It's that huge spacebar!

But Spock tells me to shut up with my illogic. So…

Ne0phyte's is more radical, but there is no fun when people only have s limited choice for the contest.

7bit wrote:Ne0phyte's is more radical, but there is no fun when people only have s limited choice for the contest.

I hope next year we have more new options ;D

jdcarpe's 40% board

Hopefully next year we'll be able to nominate HyperMicro!

How about the Kishsaver?
Maybe it's too early to tell since most of us don't have theirs yet, but 60% Model F sure sounds promising.

Kishsaver:

• Unlike other Fs that suffer from plastic cases that crack, the entire case here is made out of thick metal.
• Weighs a metric ton as a result.
• Is capacitive buckling spring. Can survive the nuclear holocaust.
• The only F aside from other 4704 boards that has extra two modifier keys. Way ahead of its time in that regard, since even Ms didn't have them.
• Can easily be modded to ISO or ANSI like other Fs
• Will finally be had by those that wanted one, thanks to tin.
• Is technically now more common than even the Unsaver.

Nobody wants to nominate the GH60?
I'm not doing it either.

Parak wrote:Kishsaver:

• Unlike other Fs that suffer from plastic cases that crack, the entire case here is made out of thick metal.
• Weighs a metric ton as a result.
• Is capacitive buckling spring. Can survive the nuclear holocaust.
• The only F aside from other 4704 boards that has extra two modifier keys. Way ahead of its time in that regard, since even Ms didn't have them.
• Can easily be modded to ISO or ANSI like other Fs
• Will finally be had by those that wanted one, thanks to tin.
• Is technically now more common than even the Unsaver.

• doesn't work

Nominate all you want, but I think I'll wait for a controller before I vote for it...

• Halvar doesn't have one.

We have a winner!

Findecanor wrote:Nobody wants to nominate the GH60?
I'm not doing it either.

Well, since it hasn't been released yet, I didn't think to nominate it.

However, the Duck Mini v2 was released and is the first 60% I've come across with both MX and ALPS support*, so I'd like to throw that up for a nomination.



*I'm still kinda new here, so there may be other boards that have done that that I'm unaware of.

Findecanor wrote:Nobody wants to nominate the GH60?
I'm not doing it either.

Oh, I though this category was for commercial builds. I just nominated Komar's keyboard (or GH60) in two other categories.

mashby wrote:

Findecanor wrote:Nobody wants to nominate the GH60?
I'm not doing it either.

Well, since it hasn't been released yet, I didn't think to nominate it.

There exist several prototypes.

Halvar wrote:

Parak wrote:Kishsaver:

• Unlike other Fs that suffer from plastic cases that crack, the entire case here is made out of thick metal.
• Weighs a metric ton as a result.
• Is capacitive buckling spring. Can survive the nuclear holocaust.
• The only F aside from other 4704 boards that has extra two modifier keys. Way ahead of its time in that regard, since even Ms didn't have them.
• Can easily be modded to ISO or ANSI like other Fs
• Will finally be had by those that wanted one, thanks to tin.
• Is technically now more common than even the Unsaver.

• doesn't work

Nominate all you want, but I think I'll wait for a controller before I vote for it...

Might be considered a troll, but I'm typing on mine to make this post...

I nominate photekq's aluminum TKL: http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=5365. The case is beautifully designed and executed.

Absolutely. It's stunning.

How many votes do we get, by the way? This is going to be a tough category.

Code Keyboard TKL? Or WASD V2?

Well, thank you for the nomination. I'm also going to be voting for the GH60.

7bit wrote:Even though it is from over at GH:
jdcarpe's 40%:

Thanks for the mention, 7bit!

And the definitive caps to put on it! If my SPH topped 60% is anything to go by, they will be awesome-sweet.

My vote goes towards Photekq's tek80..that thing is gorgeous and took a lot work, time and effort to complete

PFU HHKB Pro 2

Best experience Ive ever had and I cant stop typing on it! Sounds like raindrops. The build is superior and the craftsmanship really shows.

Belfong wrote:Code Keyboard TKL? Or WASD V2?

Is this a nomination or a question?

Nomination!

I would like to nominate the Access-IS AKC090 keyboard.
Compact, programmable, with for once a well designed matrix layout (15*6 and not 12*8 like similar tipros) that allows to get a slightly modified standard layout.
http://www.access-is.com/pdf/Programmab ... boards.pdf