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Quoted from dodgydogman

Why are some mechanical keyboards so much more expensive than each other if the switches are standardized. What is so much better about a £150 mechanical keyboard compared to a £40? Is it just brand?

Not much, if you talk about standard design ones (aka not the black widow for example). There’s some electronics, quality of the circuit board, plastics used in the casing etc. There’s also minor differences in the design, and some use different size keys for certain things.

What do people think/know about the Blackwidow, I really fancy led backlighting O.o

Quoted from Koeitje

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Crap coating on non-standard key caps. What is not to like?

Okie dokie, I found one interesting keyboard, which is the Coolermaster CM Storm Trigger. It has a wrist rest and red led light which are actually better from my opinion than the blue ones in blackwidow. Any opinions about this keyboard?

Non-standard will mean that you will never be able to change the look.

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/l955eVgBYnQrgMJzqfeaHqs3/full.png

Quoted from Jörge

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Are you happy with a non standard layout board?

I’d highly recommend a Race/Pure over that board.
If you want fullsize, then a Ducky Shine would be my recommendation.

What if I just couldn’t live without wrist rest?

Quoted from Koeitje

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Yes it’s mine.

Anyway, these are standard (tenkeyless). Standardisation isn’t about key placement its about cap size and shape. Those keys would fit my keyboard without a problem. I could use my caps on those tenkeyless without a hitch.

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http://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_list&c=41

Ducky offers them.

Man, it’s getting expensive O_O Maybe I’ll just live without fancy led lights and go with the QPad MK-50

Quoted from Koeitje

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Yes it’s mine.

Anyway, these are standard (tenkeyless). Standardisation isn’t about key placement its about cap size and shape. Those keys would fit my keyboard without a problem. I could use my caps on those tenkeyless without a hitch.

[…]
http://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_list&c=41

Ducky offers them.

It depends what you mean, most of those keys would yet, but the Esc wouldn’t for instance? Nor the right shift.

Filco? What switches? Had a Filco TKL with blues, but now I just have the Poker on the middle row on the left ( the top let and middle right were also mine in that pic)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeyoda/7475293572/in/photostream

Quoted from Koeitje

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The escape key is a tab-sized key. The shift key, whichever that one is of that crowed bunch, is a standard bottom row key like alt or control.

Brown with double-shot caps. (like your escape key ;))

So you purely meant using standard sized keys, didn’t quite understand what you meant, I was meaning if you were to buy a standard 87 key set for instance, you wouldn’t have all the correctly sized keys :)

Nice, my current escape key is triple shot I believe :D (it’s a geekhack key from QWERkeys)
The dolch are probably my favourite non blank set :)