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I received my TEK yesterday, and wanted to share some impressions.
I had always been in the mood for a 60% keyboard, but being a lover of mmo’s, the need for a dedicated f-row was always in the way of buying one. I don’t type 10 fingers; have my own style better than 2 fingers but worse than pros.
Initial thoughts, this keyboard is tiny and quite heavy regarding the size. Of course I knew that from pictures, but reality is always something else. The usb cable is ok, I’ve seen worse, but although many being better. The palm rest won’t be used by me, don’t like or use them.
Further thoughts, the keycaps are fine regarding thickness, but the printing is something I don’t like, the lettering can be easily felt, can’t tell, how long the lettering might last. For a price tag like this it shouldn’t be a problem to include at least some blank modifier caps, especially regarding the nowhere to get unusual sizes. To be fair it is a common problem to get nice caps on other keyboards too, at least here in Germany. But the unusual size makes it even worse!
The switches, wow, a real pleasure to type with. Smooth and not being scratchy at all. For comparison I’ve a Coolermaster with cherry browns and used keys I hardly have used on my htpc.
The lesser wobble is true, if this could be measured at all, I would say about 50 percent less than cherry switches.
A mate here told me the switches are supposed to be smooth and not scratchy, because they’re lubed. My answer had been, that I don’t care about brands, for me it’s the result that counts, and I can’t see any reason that other companies, selling cherry based mechas for high prices, are hindered to provide me a more pleasing typing experience.
The “flatness” of the case. I don’t like it that flat and have raised the back a bit for my liking. I do understand the mantra of being ergonomic, the matrix layout etc., but you’ve been smart enough to decide to let me detach the palm rest if I want, so let me decide the angle of the case, too, and some adjustable feet won’t do any harm.
The layout, I’m mistyping like hell, but I like it very much so far. I’ve used the layout designer for my own positioning of the modifiers and have get to used to that, a few more days might help. The designer works like a charm and is very easy to use and right now I can’t imagine anything you can’t get.
Inspired by one handed keyboards I made a setup for left-handed typing only, therefore I moved the right side of the keyboard to the left side at the num-layer and assigned a second numlock-key to the left bottom side. Works like a charm. Note: The black mods don’t show my actual setup, but 2u blanks from the new keyshop from pimpmykeyboard are on the way: http://keyshop.pimpmykeyboard.com/
So far I’m very pleased and time has to tell if problems might occur. But I do have 2 years support from my local vendor, who won’t let me down if needed.
Is it perfect, no, I like clears more than browns, I admire the look of floating keys a lot more. After the 30 days of the return time I’ll plastidip the case and the 4 middle modifiercaps gunmetal gray for a more pleasing visual experience for me.
It might not be a smart idea to rotate on women/men on daily basis, but I haven’t heard about jealous keyboards yet and it’s nowhere written, that we can’t have more than one or two … mechas :-)
Feel free to disagree, but except my point of view too.
Cheers