A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
Numpads have to be designed, prototyped, tested and built using new parts and moulds. This most likely costs as much as it would for an entire keyboard to be designed and built. Since not many people want to buy Topre numpads they've had to keep the price high so that they dont loose money on them. Plus, Topre is generally more expensive than MX. If there was a sudden influx of people wanting Topre then they'd probably be a lot cheeper.
I hope that makes sense, my C grade English isn't the best. This is one heck of a numpad though and if you dont mind spending $140 you're in for a treat.