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Vira
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Feb 4, 2017
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rallyman7
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Feb 4, 2017
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ViraDo you know how it feels in comparison to a novatouch? Trying to get a 2nd board with a similar experience for the office without having to spend so much.
drakcheslav
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Feb 4, 2017
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rallyman7I'm currently waiting on this board to arrive. Got it from Ali, and from what I've gathered the feel is more similar to a proper Topre than to a Novatouch. The sound also.
drakcheslav
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Feb 4, 2017
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rallyman7I'm also planing on modding it with 55g domes if I don't like the feel of the 35g since I'm coming from blues.
Vira
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Feb 4, 2017
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rallyman7Take look at the 84 model, theres posts regarding the feel. https://www.massdrop.com/buy/plum84-electro-capacitive-keyboard/talk
Cannabat
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Feb 5, 2017
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rallyman7I have a hypersphere'd Novatouch and love it. I would consider the plum 35g EC switches to be very similar, quite smooth and very light. Can really fly on this board. I may get the 45g domes from eBay to try out. The plum 87 RGB I got is already silenced with little red rings, looks very similar to hypersphere rings.
Rudy
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Feb 6, 2017
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rallyman7I am sure they will feel very different because this is 35g and the novatouch is 45g. I owned a RealForce 87 that I modified to all 35g by swapping in the membrane of a Special Edition Japanese RealForce that was all 35g, and I also owned a Novatouch. The RealForce was awesome to type on for me since I like light weight switches, but the Novatouch was very fatiguing. The Novatouch switches felt too heavy to me, but I have wrist issues and I type all day (Software Dev), so it may be different experience for others. The only negative about the RealForce for me was the keycap profile, too tall and small finger pad.
Another difference between this in the Novatouch are the keycaps. The Novatouch includes very cheap and light feeling keycaps while this includes pbt which usually feels more solid and gives a better typing experience. Of course that can be easily changed out but it is more money.
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Theres a software to allow this keyboard to be programmable so I really recommend this to anyone. I'm using the Plum84 variant.