Luckily
- no custom fees.I've been typing on it for 30 minutes so far. First impressions:
The switches feel just right. No "wow" factor, just exactly what I expected them to be. I fell in love with my Poker MX Brown and was very anxious about Topre, mostly because I've seen people comparing it to Reds and Reds are very much not my kind of thing. The tactile bump is not as noticeable as with Browns, but it's still there and feels good. The sound gives me that warm fuzzy feeling, much quieter than the Browns. I'm not sure if the switches are worth the price, but...
... the layout is just perfect. It is very hard to bottom out on on that keyboard; ctrl is where it should be, the backspace key is easy to reach with my right pinky (and not that hard to adjust), so I'm occupying the home row most of the time (wow, finally!). A quick vim session made me appreciate the editor even more. The cursor keys combo is very easy to use and I had absolutely no hard time adjusting, even though I barely use cursor keys (thanks to the Poker I got very used to emacs keybindings for shell/OS cursor movement, so C-P, C-N, C-F, C-B etc.).
So far I think it's the perfect keyboard for me and I'm done with trying things out (at least for some time).
I'm pretty sure I have found my daily driver and I would recommend this board to every vim user out there without a doubt.
