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beebo_bebop t1_j0wb53f wrote

color material & weight selection at the very least. possibly design of the stem leg profile, possibly choice of housing molds. zeals are made by gateron, gazzews stuff is made by otemu, soooo many are made by jwk like probably the majority you can think of with designer specific top mold branding

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ChairObliterator t1_j0w5uec wrote

A huge problem with the innovation here is that while it may be novel, and I would love to use one sometime, don’t get me wrong, is keycaps. Some spend a very large amount on keycaps, if not more for them than the board itself in certain cases. And the keycaps 99.9% of people own/collect/use are opaque. So you must use transparent keycaps in order for this to not just appear as normal RGB PCB underglow under normal operating conditions, which seems like it could be a sizable snag for many.

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TheSchneid OP t1_j0w1vxf wrote

Nice, yeah adding extra foam made it sound better, but sort of negates having the gasket mount though since it's all now tight, so if the bounciness is your thing, I wouldn't add any more foam under the board. I personally don't care about stuff VS bouncy, they both feel fine to me so I'm just trying to get the best sound I can.

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TheSchneid OP t1_j0ve0ln wrote

Yeah that's why I like this 1800 layout a lot more than the cramped 96% layout.

At least now there is a space separating the arrow keys from the 0 on the numpad.

Def takes some getting used to, the smaller right shift really threw me off for a while too, as someone that came from using a full size board for the last 25-30 years.

You get used to it eventually though. Maybe just stick with a full size of the smaller 0 is a concern though.

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Blue-Bird780 t1_j0vay8q wrote

How do you find the 1u 0 key on the numpad? I want to love 96% so much but I lean really hard on the left side of the 2u 0 so I’m not sure how I’d end up liking it. I’m Torn between a 75% and a numpad or a 96%. I’ve got a TKL right now but I kinda hate the dead space of the Insert/Home cluster that I never use.

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