Best keyboard in a long while: Manhattan-Products model SKB-2 Slim Keyboard

Nice tactile feel. Very slim. Cheap (around $10 here in SE Asia).
keys are not "loose" and feel like "metal" though plastic. The
keyboard does not shake like most cheap plastic kbs. Has a "metal"
feel and is heavy, which is good since you don't want it moving around
when you press it. Very silent.

Better than some Microsoft Natural $100 keyboards I have bought in the
past.

Designed in the USA and made in China according to their website.

Might buy a second one as a spare just in case since it's hard to find
a good kb.

RL

On Dec 10, 8:18 am, RayLopez99 wrote:
Designed in the USA and made in China according to their website.

Might buy a second one as a spare just in case since it's hard to find
a good kb.

Good keyboards, in some circles, premier quality is presently
considered the gaming keyboard. How such fallacy arises to surface
among an élite cadre of reviewers on Newegg is probably by dint of
association. Among most things I seem not to have noted, inasmuch for
what passes by interests earlier during this month's festivities and
greater deliberations for U.S. sales purposes, all but for these
keyboards. All close to third generation residuals, tactile units
marked as low as half off at $50/US. I as well have one, a still-
working FOCUS tactile unit, the last remains from the same-named
company that bought out OMNIKEYs and DELL's Northgate keyboard
interests;. . .a tenacious if at all substantive mention to second
generation tactility among relatively old keyboard tactile units once
only superceded by a few field units reserved by severely prohibitive
costs for scientific purposes. Although, there really is no mistaking
these newer boards do appear nice, back-lit individual keys among
premier units along with some ability for macro assignments more
generally available, so on and forth in fulfilling a transcriber's
want of arduousness by equipment over hours of dedicated if not
aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting
withal for the gamer to purvey.

On Dec 10, 11:22*pm, Flasherly wrote:

aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting
withal for the gamer to purvey.

That's interesting--but you can summarize what you said in plainer
English and maybe recommend a keyboard maker? You mentioned OMNIKEY
and DELL which I think were cited favorably.

Backlit keyboards--that would be an annoyance to me.

RL

On Dec 11, 11:54 pm, RayLopez99 wrote:
On Dec 10, 11:22 pm, Flasherly wrote:

aggravated playtime usage, online, in some distant virtual setting
withal for the gamer to purvey.

That's interesting--but you can summarize what you said in plainer
English and maybe recommend a keyboard maker? You mentioned OMNIKEY
and DELL which I think were cited favorably.

Backlit keyboards--that would be an annoyance to me.

RL

I just happen to have a OMNIKEY, which simply came rebadged for a
NORTHGATE with DELL computers. I bought mine sometime later, after
the NORTHGATE period, at the hefty price then of $100US dollars. I
also over time broke it whilst writing English, amongst other uses,
trials and tribunes, nevertheless I do believe I still have it, around
about on the shelves of Obsolete Items, located somewhere. Then, once
having broken naturally did **** me -- I bought a FOCUS FK 7200/USB
(made in China);- an understanding being, to me, is the FOCUS brand is
at some point "carrying" the OMNIKEY moniker, though somewhat lighter
and whatnot, for an extant or residual resemblance to the OMNIKEY at
least remaining. The above-mentioned are the only two keyboards I've
personally used.

Not to worry, though, (as luck would have it), the OMNIKEY has been
resurrected in all its glorious fame and reputation (how shall we say,
for commiserate pricing), as a prised and genuine artifact of computer
history. ...without further ado

http://www.ergonomicsmadeeasy.com/st...prime-keyboard

(I might also suspect ties to Northgate and Omnikey within an IBM
keyboard design framework.)

A past for moving along, forward into semi-practicality to enter the
Gaming Arena of modern keyboards, not your dad's. All aside, mightn't
one think a keyboard would really matter to a vaster populace of
hordes mushing merrily along with squishy little rubber-booted, $10US
interpolators;- hence a niche marketing for computer seriousness
connotative of having evolved into gaming via mechanical keyboard
switches. . .

{filtering, as follows. . . }
Home
Computer Hardware
Input Devices
Keyboards (x)
Price : $200 - $300 (x)
Text Search Terms: mechanical keyboard (x)
(1-4 of 4 Results)

{linked, ibid. . .}
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...S&Pagesize=100

Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised
input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept"
priced below, although I'm sure any number, besides, the $100US
Rosewill I first mentioned for $50 of Black Friday, would blow my
FOCUS out the water.

On Dec 12, 1:30*am, Flasherly wrote:
Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised
input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept"

If you really want to learn about mechanical keyboards, geekhack.org
is the place to do it. Cherry switches are cheap, compared to other
switches in the mechanical keyboard world (Topre switches are triple
the price of Cherry switches). I've had an IBM Model M, a Unicomp
Endurapro, a Das Silent, and a Noppoo Mini, before settling on a
Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry browns.

As for "gaming keyboards", they are really just your typical mushy
membrane keyboards with bells and whistles attached. It's like
customizing a Fiat 500 with multiple lcd monitors, an upgraded the
stereo system, reupholstered seats, lowered springs, big tires, and a
custom paint job; all the bling does not change the fact that it's
still a 100 hp Fiat 500.
--
// T.Hsu

On Dec 12, 11:47 am, wrote:
On Dec 12, 1:30 am, Flasherly wrote:

Cherry(tm) switches being the highest priced exception for specialised
input to include hostile environs;- pretty much a "gaming concept"

If you really want to learn about mechanical keyboards, geekhack.org
is the place to do it. Cherry switches are cheap, compared to other
switches in the mechanical keyboard world (Topre switches are triple
the price of Cherry switches). I've had an IBM Model M, a Unicomp
Endurapro, a Das Silent, and a Noppoo Mini, before settling on a
Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry browns.

As for "gaming keyboards", they are really just your typical mushy
membrane keyboards with bells and whistles attached. It's like
customizing a Fiat 500 with multiple lcd monitors, an upgraded the
stereo system, reupholstered seats, lowered springs, big tires, and a
custom paint job; all the bling does not change the fact that it's
still a 100 hp Fiat 500.
--
// T.Hsu

Spring-loaded underneath a rubber dome capacitative switch, Topre goes
under its own name, or as a Fujitsu customized Happy Hacking
Keyboard. IBM Model M's used an expired patent coil spring tension
for a pivotal "buckle" collapse in deriving auditory and tactile
feedback;- electrical contact then is at membrane sheet common among
modern dome switch keyboards. Das Silent seems to have improved on
that latter aspect with gold key switches. Quite an array of Cherry
switches -- runs like gamut like a Johnny Walker scotches from red,
black, blue, and gold -- with the Cherry browns striking a middle
ground, more important than typing to gaming, at where feedback occurs
already for a depressed key, upon release. Topre is using a
combination of the rubber dome and underlying spring for precisely
changing an underlying sensor's capacitance;- nothing much to
reinforce the mechanical aspect of your Browns, though a point to that
overall smoothness is one well regarded. Browns, which Nippo also
uses, and, last, Enduropro's bucklers.

Then those N-Key functions, though common enough, in brief appear as
flavors of a musician's better keyboard, at which point the range
narrows into only a few "true" functionality (associated with PS/2
adapters and such).

That filter at Newegg originally started not for tactile, but
mechanical, which was intended for convenience to eliminate any of the
various thicknesses and on emphasized layers of rubber boots, spring
combinations, for perhaps an array of better options consistent with
pricings over $100US.

Hey - did I fail to mention, thanks. . . .hope it was as good for you
as me. Enjoyed the quick overview. Offhand, I'd have to say the
Topre line could, as well, prove most intriguing over four available
provisions;- though they appear somewhat delicate with an added factor
of slivers of contorted metal contacts riding and reinforced by
underlying springs. The confirmed best being Topre, which apart for
precision milling and variable capacitance switching, I couldn't say
wouldn't be something of a curious take on an evolutionary schism
preferable for, hm . . . mushboarding.

On Dec 13, 2:27*am, Flasherly wrote:

Hey - did I fail to mention, thanks. *. . .hope it was as good for you
as me. *Enjoyed the quick overview. *Offhand, I'd have to say the
Topre line could, as well, prove most intriguing over four available
provisions;- though they appear somewhat delicate with an added factor
of slivers of contorted metal contacts riding and reinforced by
underlying springs. *The confirmed best being Topre, which apart for
precision milling and variable capacitance switching, I couldn't say
wouldn't be something of a curious take on an evolutionary schism
preferable for, hm . . . mushboarding.

Thanks for that review...lots of detail but something lost in the
forest for the trees at least for me.

I do like this Manhattan-Products model SKB-2 Slim Keyboard because it
has a "scissors" feedback that has an abrupt tactile feel to when you
press the key...no "mush" to it.

RL