Which keyboard size do you prefer?

[7bit]

Which keyboard size do you prefer?


This poll is only about the PCB size, not about the layout of the sample keyboards!

[7bit]

reserved.

[RC-1140]

PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

[rodtang]

Can someone tell me what board has 4x12? It seems kinda small...

[Maarten]

5x14 here

Voted 5x13.5 as its the closest thing.

[7bit]

Can someone tell me what board has 4x12? It seems kinda small...

[7bit]

PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

[kint]

voted 7x20 having an ~130 key in mind. This I would love. Out of existing ones I'ld say 7x18, 104 key like the cherry 1800.

[7bit]

voted 7x20 having an ~130 key in mind. This I would love. Out of existing ones I'ld say 7x18, 104 key like the cherry 1800.

The 7x20 would be my favourite (plus a numpad). How would your layout look like?

[Findecanor]

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

[off]

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet! (plus it's not an option here )

[7bit]

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

OK, let's see:

A split keyboard with 5 rows and 7 columns, plus a function row with 4 keys?

[off]

hm, maybe you do- it is not an ergodox on second thought...


*edit; then again, if you cut two from the main pcb and move that to the 1x4 which you cut as well, it just might be

[RC-1140]

PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

Don't you think I don't know this? I just might have used the wrong smiley to mark my statement as ironic... Interesting. Normally I am the one who doesn't get it if you use sarcasm or irony...

But nevermind. I would really love to try a Neo on 7bit layout once, but I would love to have it on an IBM 122-Key Terminal board. The bigger and the more keys the keyboard has the better imho. Tipros might have 122 Keys as well, but they're too small. Honestly I don't get why somebody would want to sacrifice his numpad only to have the mouse closer to the keyboard. I don't use my mouse that often anyway.

[7bit]

PCB size? The PCB on my Model M 122-Key Terminal Boards is pretty small…

IBM Aircraft Carrier Boards FTW!

I mean the PCB size where the switches would be placed on.

Don't you think I don't know this? I just might have used the wrong smiley to mark my statement as ironic... Interesting. Normally I am the one who doesn't get it if you use sarcasm or irony...

But nevermind. I would really love to try a Neo on 7bit layout once, but I would love to have it on an IBM 122-Key Terminal board. The bigger and the more keys the keyboard has the better imho. Tipros might have 122 Keys as well, but they're too small. Honestly I don't get why somebody would want to sacrifice his numpad only to have the mouse closer to the keyboard. I don't use my mouse that often anyway.

Tipro, small?

Just attach 2 numbads, one left, one right!

Or 8x16 modules to both sides and beat kbdfr by 8 units!

[Findecanor]

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet!

Only as an ugly prototype.

And I post it because it wasn't among the available options.
Other than that, I would not mind a 5 × 18.5. "Tenkeyless", but I almost never use function keys.

[off]

2 × (5×7 + 1×4)

Ey you don't have that yet!

Only as an ugly prototype.

Pics?
Is it a prototype from clay or actually functional?

And I post it because it wasn't among the available options.

Touché!

[7bit]

Seems to be HHKB, platemounted, with LEDs is the favourite!

[fossala]

HHKB FTW

[cactux]

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[Acanthophis]

Who provdies me with free samples of different keyboard sizes so that I'm no longer a keyboard size noob and therefore can vote in this poll?

[captain]

I am coming to like the Pure better than any other layout I have, mostly for use with the MacBook and iPad, but I'll stick with a TKL Filco for the desktop.

Pure = 5x15?
TKL = 7x19? (gotta account for the gaps)

[kbdfr]

Of course I voted for the 8x40 Tipro

But I think I will shortly convert it into a somewhat smaller 8x32, i.e. the basis unit (staggered 8x16) with a matrix 8x8 on either side. And then I will connect additional Tipros depending on the specific task I have to perform.

[7bit]

Seems 5x15 will be the winner!

[huttala]

I'm tourn between the Noppoo and the Filco TKL, love em both but I think I like the red switches on my Quick fire rapid better then the Noppoo's brown switches.

So what I really need to do is to desolder all the switches from the noppoo and switch them to reds to know which board I like the best.

Anyone wanna trade? =D

[7bit]

This is about PCB sizes, not layout, nor switches!

[Peter]

7x20 Access-IS AKC127 http://www.access-is.com/pdf/AKC127_Pro ... al_MSR.pdf

388 x 165 mm without MSR for a keyboard with 127 programmable keys, that's just slightly larger than a 10-keyless in
a minimalist-case .

[off]

8x40->8x8+8x16+8x16+8x8

..he's the TiproMan!

awesome plan.

[JBert]

5x15 (size of a Poker) is the ideal gaming / laptop keyboard for me, if you can squash in an Fn key and a RAlt.

For typing / data entry, the model F layout works great and yet doesn't take up too much space (if you move the cursor keys to an Fn layer, that is).

[kint]

7x20 Access-IS... .

nice, thanks for posting.

...The 7x20 would be my favourite (plus a numpad). How would your layout look like?

I haven't thought about the exact layout yet - and when I just did I realized it would much rather be 7x22, depending on how tight its packed.


I just don't like the unused space between the F row and the numrow, would place shortcuts (red)/Macros (violet) there, and would like to have a single Macro column (blue) on the left. Apart from that its just media keys (green) and some system keys (orange). Pic up/down moved for keybased web surfing. Pretty much the occasional gaming- web/common used function layout, nothing geeky.
If I'ld really have to pack it in 7x20, perhaps something like this:


edit:
Main concern is just to use the space of the case as efficient as possible in regard to the PCB.