So we reached out and are working on trying to make this happen. Right now there's interest in doing a drop, but we're working on details with pricing and quantity. I'll update if we figure anything out, but this isn't forgotten.
Can I ask you what it's like to press keys in the row immediately below the home row? Specifically, if your hand has some downward momentum, can you trigger the keys using that, or must you tug the keys back towards yourself?
I did some reading and (without having physically tried either red or brown) I think I would indeed prefer the reds / LF for the ability to actuate at 45g on the reds instead of climbing to 55g momentarily on the browns right before actuation.
I plan on leaving the keyboard's click sound on as part of training myself where actuation is.
The idea of putting in those extra 10g and the textured feel of the browns that some describe (and that I can hear on sound samples) seems like it would go against my personal preferences (again, without any personal experience)
Ah you are corect. "There does not need to be an option that receives 200 votes, the poll overall just needs 200 votes to be flagged for the buying team. We would work to source the top choice, but the other options are possibilities if we cannot source the first one." Mally H, Customer Support. Hmm... if we take that "cannot" literally, then the prospects for the LF seem dim... :/
Re: 'cannot'
"Typically we try to work out a drop for the first choice since it was the highest voted, but if a distributor or manufacturer tells us that we won't be able to get inventory for that option, we do our best to source one of the other voted poll options." -- Mally H, Customer Support
I already have two Kinesis keyboards (identical: one for home, one for work) and I've been looking for something with a matrix style layout but more portable. The TrulyErgonomic is the closest of the selection though a typematrix or an ergodox would also be up there.
I am utterly undecided about the keys under my thumb.
On the one hand, kinesis, ergodox, etc make it clear to me that normal keyboards leave the most flexible digit on my hands underused.
On the other, those thumb keys make the keyboard a lot larger: compare the footprint of ergodox with the 60% keyboard you released the other day. And I only use about half the keys on a regular basis.
I suspect that I am in a minority but apart from Dvorak layout and being able to tweak the punctuation placement a little, I don't really want anything fancy.
That said though bluetooth support would be nice. USB feels a little too 20th century :-)
I've seen a Maltron keyboard in person at work, and they struck me as looking rather large and clunky, but perhaps better for folks with large hands. Also as an owner of a Kinesis, of really like something with full function and numeric keys. Looking forward to this drop.
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