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I’m going to against the grain a bit. If you liked and want the oldschool Thinkpad feel, look into getting a Topre board. Check out Leopold or Niz, both are decent topre clone brands.
Also, if you live in a metro area check and see if there’s a mechanical board gathering, possibly giving you a broader flavor of what’s out there that might fit your taste.
For switches:
Durock Shrimp or Gazzew U4 switches for slightly on the premium side. If you feel .65 per switch is a bit much, I highly recommend Haimu Whisper (.30 cents per) or Wuque WS silents - not as thocky as Shrimp or U4 but more comfortable to type on, imo.
Didn’t even know that sort of site was a thing. I do have a few kits I want to pass onto people who will be able to use them. Thanks!
- Space65 with Shrimp silent tactiles
- Canoe with Boba U4 silent tactiles
- …waiting…waiting…for PAL…waiting.
How do you like the MTNU? How’s the height compared to CYL, any transition mistype(s)? Lovely setup really.
If it’s anything like their mini pc business, it can be hit and miss - best to wait a bit. Seems their business model (at least on the pc side) is to pump out the latest trend and move on and not really fix any issues that crops up. Also they are based out of china so you might have to eat the shipping cost for any “fix”.
Always liked Susuwatari but could never get myself comfortable with MT3 profile. So glad for the reminder, placed an order - finally going to get my own set of Susuwatari, thanks!
Are you in the US? I see a few XDA sets in darker schemes like this one: amazon link for dark theme set $25
Double check and make sure it has the coverage for your specific keyboard, I don’t recall which brand(s) but something like Razor or the like have non-standard spacebar size 5.5u , etc.
Am with kilted_ on this one, possibly look at one of the other uniform profile like KAM as he mentioned, or DSA. XDA is not very comfortable to type on extensively, and tends to wobble on lighter switches.
I’ll toss another silent tactile into the ring: Durock Shrimp tactiles. I use Zilent 62g, U4 62g, and Shrimps interchangeably and like them the most for the consistency(least spring pings/scratchiness), smoothness, and bump.