deskthority

I seriously doubt Russia does it out of good will. Implementation difficulties is more like it.

I think the most bulky and expensive thing I've imported was Kinesis Advantage and I've paid no duties at all.
Recently our customs installed more hoops for importing stuff (making some shipping majors abandon Russian market for private customers), but event after that you didn't pay anything if the ...

Welp. Put my dibs on the old 'bones. Silly thing is, according to the shipping calculator, sending the drop through MyUS will cost me maybe five dollars less than getting the regular NovaTouch on Amazon. Not that I intend using the stock version (or the stock o-rings) for long, but man!

@Hypersphere, thanks. Maybe I should order it now, without waiting till the drop's final day.

Then again, I probably won't have any caps for months. I've decided to skip on the current Dolch drop. It looks like they're on the thin side and my Topres won't thock as they should :roll:

@Muirium, Am I ...

I like the look of Dolch too. Then again it's kinda silly to buy caps before even knowing when the barebones NovaTouch comes out.

Another one: how big is a difference between Granite and Dolch?

Muirium wrote:

That picture is exactly what got me curious how would deep dishes on D and K feel.

Well, I think I could live without bumps too, it's just that they're already there on a lot of keyboards and I probably wouldn't go out of my way to get rid of them.

You mean, saw them off? Or just not buy anything with bumps?

Yikes indeed.

We did have an Acer XT beige box back at my first workplace in 1991, but luckily I don't remember this.

Well, standards are a good thing, I guess. Unless they're exceptionally bad standards.

Is Modern Selectric immune to this kind of exploit?

I wonder if the cheaper thumb-operated one is actually comfier.

Thanks!

But why would everyone want to be Filco?

By the by, I think I've forgotten to ask a very important thing: are all the modifier keys on the [ANSI] NovaTouch regular size? And is the space bar identical to CM Storm?

Thing is, I don't care for TKL boards; I want to see a full set of glorious keycaps on any keyboard used with a desktop machine, and that means full ANSI all the way (I give Pok3rs a pass in this respect because they must fit with the small footprint of my iPad).
I think my case is the opposite of ...

MX might be seen as a compromise too, if my hypothesis that I'll like Topres better is right. As for the caps, that's all highly hypothetical too, since I've no idea whether I can live with cylindrical caps or not. That said, I'm even typing on a chiclet Apple keyboard right now.

HiPro looks very ...

That's... impressive, to say the least

Oh. Now I see you point. BTW, that makes my Kinesis Advantage non-sculpted by your definition, all its bowl-shapedness notwithstanding.

I thought you were DT's Topre expert.

I thought I did add my residence. Oh well. It's Moscow, Russia, born and bread.

Doesn't Amazon Japan get you a Japanese layout keyboard? That's more keys to reprogram, but a shorter space bar.

I wish they made a TKL HiPro.

Well, the concave surface should mean they've a great chance of meeting fingers just right when they come at the caps at an angle, effectively doing the same thing that the sculpted profile, right?

Not sure I'm willing to handle the HHKB layout. It's nice having all those PgUps, Homes and Dels, not to mention the F-row.

As for the RF with the flat Win keys, I'm afraid getting it might prove tricky. All the eBay listings I've found and the current Massdrop with PBT spacebars show the old domed ...

But does any chiclet scissor keyboard saves any more space than, say, a ThinkPad scissor keyboard? I see why it's not really feasible to put full-blown mechanical switches and tall caps into a laptop, but why go chiclet?

Thank you both for the detailed answers!

One thing that scares me about the stock RF caps is that weird Win keys. They remind me of an old A4 keyboard and it's not a sweet memory. I would be awkward using them on Windows or Linux (I'm one of those people that actually uses Win- shortcuts a lot ...

Bumps aside, I think it would be nice to have deeper dishes on D and K.

Thanks for the reply, Muirium!

I was thinking of getting a Realforce and ending the game, but that's not as fun as custom caps, even though I don't have a budget to get a lot of them, leave along a lot of keyboards.

Maybe I will wait for Granite, if you say they're worth it. January is not that ...

No, I meant the Enter, the short left Shift and the tilde next to it.

BTW, I hope it's ok with you, but that looks like Ukrainian layout. Russian one would go «ФЫВА...» in the home row

Wait a minute. This layout is way closer to something Apple than what is shown on the CM site. How come?

Hi everyone!

Long time lurker here and on GH, since back when I was looking for a keyboard to alleviate my RSI, resulting in Kinesis Advantage—which is, I have to say, pretty nice in some regards and abominable in some others. And since I've took to coding lately, I've started looking for something ...