Specifications:

  • Full size (80ish+ size with a reduced numpad will also work)
  • ISO key layout (as in, a proper Return key. ANSI can burn)
  • Numpad
  • Wireless (if possible)
  • Don’t need any RGB
  • I don’t care about keycaps, so any leftovers will do. They don’t even have to be representative of the actual key, random letters and symbols will be fine, even duplicates

When I wasbinto RC Helicopters i liked flying, but didn’t get much entertainment feom building. This other guy liked building but didn’t care that much about flying. I was hoping to run into someone similar here.

EDIT: The helicopter sory as I posted it elsewhere, in case anyone cares. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2517850

  • Moghul@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 year ago

    Uh… Just buy an off the shelf model. Keychron and Leopold make good keyboards for example. I’m sure others will post other recommendations, but what’s your budget, which continent do you need it shipped to? Maybe you have local tech shops that sell computer peripherals.

    • wvstolzing
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m really happy with my Leopold which I’ve been using for the past 3 months. I used to have Unicomp before that; and while the typing feel was a little better than the brown switches I currently have on the Leopold, its build quality was lower, and eventually it just died on me thanks to what I later found out was a notoriously failure-prone controller they used to use back then. I’m told that Unicomp’s build quality has improved a lot since then.

      … though the frustrating thing is that I was able to get the Unicomp only because I was living in the US at the time; and the Leopold I got thanks to relatives in S. Korea. Where I live, ‘mechanical keyboard’ is treated like a synonym for ‘gamer keyboard’, and all the BS associated with that.

      So excellent off the shelf brands exist, though one has to do some local research first.

      • Moghul@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        No offense taken, and it totally does. Kind of a pompous name for a peripherals company but they do make high quality stuff, so fair game, right?

    • vettnerkOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Budget: Undecided. No hard limit, as long as it’s reasonable. maybe 150-200 usd equivalent.
      Location: Norway.

      Keychron looks like they have what I’m after. The Q5 looks nice.