Lol... They make it this big so that they can bring TKL options in the future (The T would be for ten, twenty, thirty, and the they will add 2x or TT and the likes)... 😂
Impressive size and it looks like a pretty impressive base to make a retro computer keyboard. Now I'd like it to have the "Return" key in vertical orientation to allow for the extra key found on some Euro keyboards. That's going to be a great movie prop though - like for a new "Wargames" movie.
I kinda dislike this trend too. For my productive 3D/CAD/Engineering workstation PC, i want at least a numpad. I'm currently using a "110%" keyboard with three region layouts and some special keys for the most common software shortcuts. I speak German, Lithuanian, Russian and English [UK]. For gaming or recreational PCs, i don't really care that much about the keyboard to be honest, because i barely use it. On my gaming PC i replaced an old PS/2 Cherry G80 that was half broken with a 50€ cooler master which has some sort of chinese fake knockoff cherry mx brown switches. Have it for a year and it works fine so far. //edited: Another issue i have with most mechanical keyboards i see on-line: they often are only english layout with the narrow return key. I'm used to have the taller dual row one which looks like an upside down "L".
Handle, pfft. Back in the day, you could swing a keyboard by its thick-ass cable and use either the giant AT-style connector or the keyboard itself as a weapon.
I've been making the joke that I hate the trend of 60% keyboards and would prefer a 160% keyboard and I'm so happy someone made it! The fact that the degree symbol isn't on regular keyboards is a crime!
dude ill be real you started goin over all the functions of this thing and all the keys and disassembly n shit and i started crying, i feel like im looking at like. a biblically accurate angel, this thing is insane.
I love that this thing actually has the keyset-completist philosophy of the original Symbolics Ivory keyboards (yes, Lisp machines), down to the semantic keys and geometric symbol row at the top.
@@TurboLoveTrain The LispM keyboard does provide () keys that do not require holding the shift modifier. The greek symbols are for symbolic math and some APL support. Lisp's MacSymA was the symbolic algebra program, and there was a more comprehensive symbolic package on an extra CD. I think what surprises people the most is the C compiler toolchain! Which uses the type-tagged RAM features of the LispM to provide debugger traps in case of a fault of almost any kind!
@@BrianTRice77 I would never ever trust a computer interpolator to process symbolic representation inputs for any equation system that matters. Truthfully the old symbolic math pretty antiquated and a big reason physics has been in a dead end for decades. Ram tagging is neat and all but x86 is antiquated and ARM isn't much better in addressing. L1 should be a phased array intermeshed between layers not a separate block--this isn't the 70s. It would be better to be using ternary instead of binary as well but IBM will never let that happen on their watch.
5:45 We need to bring back the split spacebar standard. A few years ago I bought a 60% layout keyboard with a split spacebar and the gaming utility of two keys for your thumb is insane, sprint is now almost as universal as jump in videogames and having both activated by your thumb feels so good it makes every other keyboard obsolete. Five-part spacebar is a bit much yes but splitting the spacebar with just space/shift is perfect.
@@purplelord8531 I'd only need a 1,25 size key placed under and between N and M. Looks like shit though. A big fat spacebar is so much more aesthetically pleasing. Like I like retro keyboards. A split spacebar on my dream keyboard would look so wrong.
So excited to see this coming together. I had an R3 and managed to sell it in order to fund an R4. I have a set of Zeal Clickiez waiting to go in, as well as a set from the SA Hyper 7 group buy as mentioned. Easily a four-figure board but it has been my dream “endgame” since getting into the hobby
Hey Thomas, been watching your videos since I was in high school 8 years ago and as an American I always got a kick out of your imperial unit conversions. Nowadays I’m proud to say that I’m a career botanist and can now understand both your metric and imperial measurements! Happy 10 years of keyboards mate, cheers 🍻
I've been on a break from the hobby for two years now. It took this thumbnail to drag me back in. When I heard "VIA" that closed the deal. I just have to look for my SA Space Cadets. They've been waiting for this keyboard!
I've no idea what you would even need a keyboard of this size for in non industrial applications, but it's ridiculous and I'm glad someone was nuts enough to make it. (we use painfully large and old keyboards at my work and while I don't like them that's mostly a layout issue and not a size problem)
Lots of jobs use large amounts of modifier keys, video editors being an obvious example. Also Streamers often will buy streamdecks. This could be great for them. Also programmers often will do meta programming, and assign those actions to alt keys
This is the type of thing I wanted for FFXI, when I still played. running 3 characters at once with all the macros and commands, addon commands, targeting, etc. This would have been amazing.
The time when I could purchase such a beast has long passed, sadly. I held out for the Boston which never got off the ground until it was too late for me.
Also, where are the international keycaps? I guess it's in another one of those sections in the software shown for customisation, but I hope they are also buyable when ordering one of these.
In its house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. And when it needs to type something, it uses this board. I'm absurdly late - but wonderful review worthy of this beast of a board, thanks !
I don't really know why I as a 60% and Numpad enjoyer Clicked on this Video but it is a very cool Board for sure! With the Typing demo at the end I really wonder what this Board would sound like with a deeper maybe even Long Pole Switch as the hollowness doesn't seem that crazy for the size of this Monster.
I feel like you might be interested in the PlaketXL kit. It's a custom kit, but it's an interesting spin on the battleship terminal keyboard in a compact form!
Haha that's actually really interesting! There was also a tiny version of the hyper7 built at some point, the Hyper40. I missed out on that one but that would've been really cool :D .
I just want a keyboard that's a *bit* bigger, not that big! Give me an extra F row on top and a numpad with A-F, 128key. Why are enthusiast boards only tiny or gigantic!
The IBM 122-key versions used on mid-frame and mainframe terminals is almost what you want (F13 is above F1, F24 is above F12, etc.) The numeric keypad isn't quite the way you want it, but it is set up rather handy for data entry with an undocumented, unlabeled character advancement key where Num Lock is on conventional keyboards.
love this, in mid-90s i did an internship where i'd file planning details typing into a mainframe, and you'd have a custom keyboard, which function keys mapped to the application you saw. it was super relaxing to enter stuff like this. at least when you did it off-hours, it could more laggy the more people used it. but i want some silly thing like that, likely to be overwhelmed at the end and not using all the extras ;-)
The keyboard thunbnail had my jaw dropping, as I never seen a keyboard that looked like this. Then the guy did the voice over, and it cracked me up, hahahahaha. But it is a perfect reaction of that thing, hahahahahahaha
i will say something insane. based on the position that the two halves of my split keyboard are positioned if that keyboard had 5 columns in the clusters left and right i could simply use the ends as a splits keyboards and all the middle parts as shortcuts.
Fan-f^cking-tastic looking thing, and the sound isn't bad either!! I mean, this is a HUGE case with a galaxy worth of empty space. Awesome review man! :D
I think I love this thing so much, I do like my small board for gaming and playing D&D since it gives me more of a desktop to work with but I do really like this
They so needed this keyboard as a prop in the film Arrival so when the cephalopods got board spunking on the windows they could have used a normal keyboard
I did animation, computer modeling and now do computational physics simulations and have exactly zero use for anything larger than a 101 keyboard. Most of the stuff I used was key bound on a mouse with a dozen buttons on it and the rest was on the keyboard. I've also done side work for non profits doing image editing on GIMP as well. WTF are you shortcutting that isn't already there or you cant use an ALT programmable function for? Do you have a one button mouse?!?
You can drop a small stiff (maybe 2-3mm) wire with a rounded nose on it that has been formed into a small hook and use that to pull up on the PCB at a nearby switch hole as you depress the new installation switch into place. Using the hook only to hold back against the down pressure you apply when inserting the switch. Also, it sounds like small bare PCB segments or plastic rib like segments could (should) be made to sit under the PCB either permanently or during change-outs that set the ride height and angle of the PCB. Strange that it has no 'underpinnings'.
Can somebody explain to me the practicality of having the numpad on the right side of the keyboard, instead of the left? Unless you're left-handed of course...
You have the numpad on the right as you have cursor and navigation keys on the right as well. While you use most of your right hand for data entry, your thumb is in control of moving around as it hovers over the cursor keys. In gaming its great for lefties to have it there since WASD sucks as a lefty (the hands are too close for comfort) and you have the whole numpad for commands.
@@CathrineMacNiel As far as I can see, it would be better for right handed people to have the entire numpad as well as navigational keys, ins, home, del - all of that - on the left side. This would allow me to perform data entry and navigation just as easily, with the added plus of letting my right hand perform actions with the mouse simultaneously. I suspect having numpad, etc. on the right side of the keyboard is a vestigial design from the time where people only used a keyboard and not a mouse. If we disregard the mouse, then the keyboard design starts to make sense. But for current day users, it's only convenient for the relatively tiny minority that still only use a keyboard for navigation (although, I don't think they'd suffer from a more sensible redesign either).
That's very cool to have with all the extra keys, but if I really want that, I'd probably want those extra keys as a separate device. I do have a numeric keypad attached to the pole arm which I can use with Blender. This frees up space for me to use my mouse on a 23" wide custom keyboard tray.
Now I just need LED keyswitches so I can have a rainbow-shiney circus going on and I would be happy as a pig in shit! Oh, and IBM buckling spring technology as well. Daddy needs his THUNK when typing.
OMG I would love to be able to afford this keyboard (I think the price is reasonable). I hate small keyboards and as I have big hands (I'm 6'4") this looks perfect. Also as a huge macro user I could find so many uses for those keys. Plus the keybiard has a certain Alien Isolation feel to it which I love. I hope it does well. Thanks for the review!
I don't think the versions of the board with 1U top rows are "older". the PBT key set actually comes with 1U keys you can put there, and you can absolutely stick two switches and caps in instead of a switch and stabilizer. bitshifter's keycap set actually makes use of this and the top row 2U keys are POS-mount. also of note is that the production PBT set comes with purple, red and white accent legends in addition to the blue ones you got
if you do change the switches later, a dedicated typing demo would be fun as copium until I get the actual board myself. by coincidence, I went with box jades :)
1. Unprecedented Size (3:00-3:08) "592 CM wide compared to the F1 122's 56" and "183 [keys]" (up to 213 keys in older versions) - SHOCKING: This keyboard is wider than an IBM Battleship keyboard and has nearly twice the keys of a standard full-size keyboard 2. Extreme Weight (2:41-2:55) "5 kilos... that's the weight of 2 and A2 IBM model M keyboards combined or 25% more than a Model F battleship" - REVELATION: The case version weighs more than two vintage IBM keyboards combined 3. Price Range (13:43-14:03) "almost a grand" for fully assembled version, while "barebones version... is less than 400" - BOMBSHELL: Even the basic version costs as much as multiple regular mechanical keyboards 4. Stabilizer Requirements (15:23-15:31) "full set ships with 34 2 un stabilizers and one 7 unit space bar stab" - SHOCKING: Requires more stabilizers than most keyboards have total keys 5. PCB Design Risk (12:05-12:14) "the PCB isn't held in place by the case the switches are the only thing that's holding the PCB where it is" - REVELATION: Unique design challenge where removing all switches could cause PCB to fall into case
"70 percent keyboard? Sorry, mine is 170 percent"
That's the only 70% keyboard I would accept
Lol... They make it this big so that they can bring TKL options in the future (The T would be for ten, twenty, thirty, and the they will add 2x or TT and the likes)... 😂
Impressive size and it looks like a pretty impressive base to make a retro computer keyboard.
Now I'd like it to have the "Return" key in vertical orientation to allow for the extra key found on some Euro keyboards.
That's going to be a great movie prop though - like for a new "Wargames" movie.
And it scales up to over 200%
I'm tired of everyone wanting smaller keyboards. This is the direction I want to go! BIGGER!
I have wanted something like this for so long!
If only I could buy the top part separately, I could have something ergonomic too!
Goes with bigger hands.
i never understood that. Do i look like i have the hands of a gnome?
I cramp up when i have to use tiny keyboards. Thats why i dont like laptops.
@pedro_peyote I'm 6ft tall. Not gigantic but I feel cramped on most keyboards. Would love a standard of some slightly wider spacing and key caps.
Damn skippy. As I always say. If it dont have a numpad, it aint a keyboard.
This keyboard is a big F you to the "small keyboard only" meta of the hobby. I LOVE IT
Agreed. Small keyboards have gone to absurdly impractical.
Ironically, the same people who love 40s also tend to love H7
@@benton__ There is a 40% version of the Hyper7 xD .
@@Chyrosran22...I want both
I kinda dislike this trend too.
For my productive 3D/CAD/Engineering workstation PC, i want at least a numpad. I'm currently using a "110%" keyboard with three region layouts and some special keys for the most common software shortcuts. I speak German, Lithuanian, Russian and English [UK].
For gaming or recreational PCs, i don't really care that much about the keyboard to be honest, because i barely use it. On my gaming PC i replaced an old PS/2 Cherry G80 that was half broken with a 50€ cooler master which has some sort of chinese fake knockoff cherry mx brown switches. Have it for a year and it works fine so far.
//edited: Another issue i have with most mechanical keyboards i see on-line: they often are only english layout with the narrow return key. I'm used to have the taller dual row one which looks like an upside down "L".
Finally a keyboard with enough keys for modded minecraft
Oh you ain't kidding 😭
Lol
I dont need it. I dont need it. I dont need it.... I neeeeeeeeeed IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!
Same. I don't need it, and I don't even like the layout, but I fucking want it.
This keyboard has a handle. A MOTHER-ASS-FUCKING HANDLE. HOLY FUCK.
...Why do I suddenly want to see the case painted in Gamecube indigo now?
It's for the keyboard warriors, with 5kg they can finally take their battle-spirit to real life and use it as a mace.
@@ragetistVery clever! XD
...and wheels.
Handle, pfft. Back in the day, you could swing a keyboard by its thick-ass cable and use either the giant AT-style connector or the keyboard itself as a weapon.
I've been making the joke that I hate the trend of 60% keyboards and would prefer a 160% keyboard and I'm so happy someone made it! The fact that the degree symbol isn't on regular keyboards is a crime!
never in my life i have clicked video this fast.
Finally, a keyboard that actually meets my needs
A video of yours talking about what a streamer could do with one of these would be insane.
Great minds think alike.
I'm sorry Minivan, i have found a new love
Put the minivan in the garage, I'm taking the omnibus to work.
I ditched my sliderule and abacus just to have this keyboard.
That case would be an opera house for clicky switches.
Mine is being built with Box Jades so we'll soon find out.
dude ill be real you started goin over all the functions of this thing and all the keys and disassembly n shit and i started crying, i feel like im looking at like. a biblically accurate angel, this thing is insane.
I love that this thing actually has the keyset-completist philosophy of the original Symbolics Ivory keyboards (yes, Lisp machines), down to the semantic keys and geometric symbol row at the top.
Hyper, Meta, _and_ Greek. All in a single keyboard!
I've never met anyone that wrote lisp codes so fast they needed separate buttons for the symbols.
The recursion is the hard part--not typing ();%$#@&
@@TurboLoveTrain The LispM keyboard does provide () keys that do not require holding the shift modifier.
The greek symbols are for symbolic math and some APL support. Lisp's MacSymA was the symbolic algebra program, and there was a more comprehensive symbolic package on an extra CD.
I think what surprises people the most is the C compiler toolchain! Which uses the type-tagged RAM features of the LispM to provide debugger traps in case of a fault of almost any kind!
@@BrianTRice77
I would never ever trust a computer interpolator to process symbolic representation inputs for any equation system that matters. Truthfully the old symbolic math pretty antiquated and a big reason physics has been in a dead end for decades.
Ram tagging is neat and all but x86 is antiquated and ARM isn't much better in addressing. L1 should be a phased array intermeshed between layers not a separate block--this isn't the 70s. It would be better to be using ternary instead of binary as well but IBM will never let that happen on their watch.
I’m talking about an equivalent to Mathematica. Don’t be obtuse.
This solves all my Star Citizen Keybind issues. 11/10
5:45
We need to bring back the split spacebar standard.
A few years ago I bought a 60% layout keyboard with a split spacebar and the gaming utility of two keys for your thumb is insane, sprint is now almost as universal as jump in videogames and having both activated by your thumb feels so good it makes every other keyboard obsolete.
Five-part spacebar is a bit much yes but splitting the spacebar with just space/shift is perfect.
side note - the more you split your spacebar, you have to deal with smaller and eventually less stabs
all 1u gang
@@purplelord8531 Hard agree. I for one have found my forever layout with the Planck (and its cousin the Let's Split)
@@purplelord8531 I'd only need a 1,25 size key placed under and between N and M.
Looks like shit though. A big fat spacebar is so much more aesthetically pleasing. Like I like retro keyboards. A split spacebar on my dream keyboard would look so wrong.
@@user-lv6rn9cf8m doesn't look like shit if it's all 1u.
Never thought about it but it sounds amazing indeed
This keyboard looks like it can launch rockets
Based on the keys, this is definitely a keyboard for software development.
So excited to see this coming together. I had an R3 and managed to sell it in order to fund an R4. I have a set of Zeal Clickiez waiting to go in, as well as a set from the SA Hyper 7 group buy as mentioned. Easily a four-figure board but it has been my dream “endgame” since getting into the hobby
Ooof, even I am getting jealous now xD .
4 figures for a keyboard? And I thought I was outrageous for blowing a few hundred.
Aircraft Carrier??? I'd call this a Mothership! 🤣Awesome review as always man!
I was thinking of a nuclear power plant control panel.
Battlestar Clickittyclattica
This is the Dreadnought. Everything before it is thusly a pre-Dreadnought.
Hey Thomas, been watching your videos since I was in high school 8 years ago and as an American I always got a kick out of your imperial unit conversions. Nowadays I’m proud to say that I’m a career botanist and can now understand both your metric and imperial measurements! Happy 10 years of keyboards mate, cheers 🍻
Cheers mate :D .
I love it, A Keyboard approved for Nuclear Reactors.
I've been on a break from the hobby for two years now. It took this thumbnail to drag me back in. When I heard "VIA" that closed the deal. I just have to look for my SA Space Cadets. They've been waiting for this keyboard!
That is the most spectacular and gorgeous looking keyboard I have EVER seen!! Macro keys for literal DAYS upon DAYS!!
I'd get banned from youtube if I described the degree to which I love this keyboard. Let's just say it ain't family friendly.
I've no idea what you would even need a keyboard of this size for in non industrial applications, but it's ridiculous and I'm glad someone was nuts enough to make it.
(we use painfully large and old keyboards at my work and while I don't like them that's mostly a layout issue and not a size problem)
Lots of jobs use large amounts of modifier keys, video editors being an obvious example.
Also Streamers often will buy streamdecks. This could be great for them.
Also programmers often will do meta programming, and assign those actions to alt keys
worthy compensation for all the toy boards shown lately
This is the type of thing I wanted for FFXI, when I still played. running 3 characters at once with all the macros and commands, addon commands, targeting, etc. This would have been amazing.
The time when I could purchase such a beast has long passed, sadly. I held out for the Boston which never got off the ground until it was too late for me.
What happened? You got married?
@@reptilespantoso bought about a dozen keyboards and a couple dozen keycap sets and a mountain of artisans - had to cut back a lot ;)
@19:10. Lemmy would have loved this keyboard. If not for the typing, for the bludgeoning...
All that space and the keycap set only includes function keys up to F12?
If they don't include keycaps for F13-F24 here, where then?
Also, where are the international keycaps? I guess it's in another one of those sections in the software shown for customisation, but I hope they are also buyable when ordering one of these.
The positioning of the function keys also a deal breaker for me.
You can just rebind and move the keycaps @@ticler
In its house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. And when it needs to type something, it uses this board. I'm absurdly late - but wonderful review worthy of this beast of a board, thanks !
I don't really know why I as a 60% and Numpad enjoyer Clicked on this Video but it is a very cool Board for sure!
With the Typing demo at the end I really wonder what this Board would sound like with a deeper maybe even Long Pole Switch as the hollowness doesn't seem that crazy for the size of this Monster.
lol, I love the "you win some you lose some, it's all the same to me" comment at 19:05
Three or four of those will get you started with basic functionality on Elite Dangerous.
Not sure why, but I see every Hyper7 video as a hallmark of the channel🔥
at least they give us the options of box whites and jades, with a big old battleship something sharp feeling and pingy seems nice to me.
This keyboard looks amazing, also first time I see a video from your channel, I absolutely love your deep voice! :3
cheers :)
I feel like you might be interested in the PlaketXL kit. It's a custom kit, but it's an interesting spin on the battleship terminal keyboard in a compact form!
Haha that's actually really interesting! There was also a tiny version of the hyper7 built at some point, the Hyper40. I missed out on that one but that would've been really cool :D .
"Howdy ya'll by like, totally dude stones throws"
I know exactly how big that keyboard is...
19:07 THE ACE OF SPADES! THE ACE OF SPADES!!
I just want a keyboard that's a *bit* bigger, not that big! Give me an extra F row on top and a numpad with A-F, 128key. Why are enthusiast boards only tiny or gigantic!
Battleship and battlecruiser keyboards also exist! They seem more like what you're after.
Google the Boston keyboard kit
The IBM 122-key versions used on mid-frame and mainframe terminals is almost what you want (F13 is above F1, F24 is above F12, etc.) The numeric keypad isn't quite the way you want it, but it is set up rather handy for data entry with an undocumented, unlabeled character advancement key where Num Lock is on conventional keyboards.
How do you plan to lay out the A-F keys?
love this, in mid-90s i did an internship where i'd file planning details typing into a mainframe, and you'd have a custom keyboard, which function keys mapped to the application you saw. it was super relaxing to enter stuff like this. at least when you did it off-hours, it could more laggy the more people used it. but i want some silly thing like that, likely to be overwhelmed at the end and not using all the extras ;-)
Also, as I use alot of rendering and slicer software for my 3d print farm I could see myself using this absolute chad of a keeb.
I was like oooh looks fancy, than I hear the intro and I just had to subscribe.
You have a good voice for this sort of stuff
Yep, that was EXACTLY what I first thought when seeing this board. I also dropped my glasses when my eyes shot out of their sockets.
When you need to do code by 9 and fight a bear by 12.
That's a PROPER keyboard. A true tribute to mechanical keyboards!
Huge keyboard review and D2 talk. Thank you
+100 for the deadpan Motörhead delivery. S-tier snark
The keyboard thunbnail had my jaw dropping, as I never seen a keyboard that looked like this. Then the guy did the voice over, and it cracked me up, hahahahaha. But it is a perfect reaction of that thing, hahahahahahaha
I've been wanting a stainless steel keyboard that matches my desk, thank you for the video
i will say something insane. based on the position that the two halves of my split keyboard are positioned if that keyboard had 5 columns in the clusters left and right i could simply use the ends as a splits keyboards and all the middle parts as shortcuts.
Finally, a keyboard I can use Emacs with
The problem with us dweebs is that we cannot tell seriousness from sarcasm in certain references... This is one such moment.
Fan-f^cking-tastic looking thing, and the sound isn't bad either!! I mean, this is a HUGE case with a galaxy worth of empty space.
Awesome review man! :D
Your opening line was great!
I think I love this thing so much, I do like my small board for gaming and playing D&D since it gives me more of a desktop to work with but I do really like this
I've have no use personally for this type of keyboard, but I love that it exists!
Excellent review man. Great intro LOL
Award for "Intro of the year." goes to......
I personally could use that for OBS because I have 18 cameras and I use all keyboard shortcuts, no StreamDeck, so that is right up my alley!
I'm going to buy one and only use it for scrolling.
Target market: Music producing software engineers, who occasionally direct live television broadcasts when they're not competing in MMORPG tournaments
I have absolutely no need for a massive powerful chonker like this but holy fuck do I want one
When your keyboard is so chonky it comes with its own handle
Wow! That is truly a thing of beauty.
They so needed this keyboard as a prop in the film Arrival so when the cephalopods got board spunking on the windows they could have used a normal keyboard
Now put Ellipse’s discrete beam springs in it.
No full size enter, no arrows separation, no pg up down home end separation, all keys same size, this shit is an ergonomic nightmare to use.
I can't say I would ever need the extra keys but that is a damn good looking keyboard
This is cool but I can't get past the nagging feeling it's not complete without buckling springs.
Couldn't wait for this, very excited to watch :)
It tickles my brain when you intentionally don't give the measurements in wacky units, love it
I have wanted one so much!
I need this keyboard. now. Like, all the macros for photo editing, video editing, general linux shit.
I did animation, computer modeling and now do computational physics simulations and have exactly zero use for anything larger than a 101 keyboard. Most of the stuff I used was key bound on a mouse with a dozen buttons on it and the rest was on the keyboard. I've also done side work for non profits doing image editing on GIMP as well.
WTF are you shortcutting that isn't already there or you cant use an ALT programmable function for? Do you have a one button mouse?!?
@TurboLoveTrain I'm on arch so having a one button macro to open up konsole and updating would be nice, also just for the lolz
@@berniejo5307
Thanks--that's actually what I consider a reasonable answer.
You can drop a small stiff (maybe 2-3mm) wire with a rounded nose on it that has been formed into a small hook and use that to pull up on the PCB at a nearby switch hole as you depress the new installation switch into place. Using the hook only to hold back against the down pressure you apply when inserting the switch. Also, it sounds like small bare PCB segments or plastic rib like segments could (should) be made to sit under the PCB either permanently or during change-outs that set the ride height and angle of the PCB. Strange that it has no 'underpinnings'.
"I feel the sick.... the sick for the click!" --Maverick
Can somebody explain to me the practicality of having the numpad on the right side of the keyboard, instead of the left? Unless you're left-handed of course...
You have the numpad on the right as you have cursor and navigation keys on the right as well. While you use most of your right hand for data entry, your thumb is in control of moving around as it hovers over the cursor keys.
In gaming its great for lefties to have it there since WASD sucks as a lefty (the hands are too close for comfort) and you have the whole numpad for commands.
@@CathrineMacNiel As far as I can see, it would be better for right handed people to have the entire numpad as well as navigational keys, ins, home, del - all of that - on the left side. This would allow me to perform data entry and navigation just as easily, with the added plus of letting my right hand perform actions with the mouse simultaneously.
I suspect having numpad, etc. on the right side of the keyboard is a vestigial design from the time where people only used a keyboard and not a mouse. If we disregard the mouse, then the keyboard design starts to make sense. But for current day users, it's only convenient for the relatively tiny minority that still only use a keyboard for navigation (although, I don't think they'd suffer from a more sensible redesign either).
I miss oversize shift and enter keys😢
That's very cool to have with all the extra keys, but if I really want that, I'd probably want those extra keys as a separate device. I do have a numeric keypad attached to the pole arm which I can use with Blender. This frees up space for me to use my mouse on a 23" wide custom keyboard tray.
Music Creation / Video Editing / 3D modelling / Excel / Photoshop / Code Creation
back to the executive 80s love it.
Add a trackpoint and put the function keys back over the number row and this would probably fit perfectly into my workflow.
Fun fact: this thing doubles as a defensive weapon if a rogue shooter breaks into your office.
This is a massive case. I am really curious about how Zeal Clickiez or other modern clicky switches would sound inside it.
Finally a keyboard with enough keys for half of star citizens keybinds.
it's asking for some kind of "all-in-one" computer based on that keyboard!
People said my 80HE was ridiculous price wise.
$360 AUD vs $1700 for this beast.
This 80HE is budget in comparison lol
Now I just need LED keyswitches so I can have a rainbow-shiney circus going on and I would be happy as a pig in shit! Oh, and IBM buckling spring technology as well. Daddy needs his THUNK when typing.
OMG I would love to be able to afford this keyboard (I think the price is reasonable). I hate small keyboards and as I have big hands (I'm 6'4") this looks perfect. Also as a huge macro user I could find so many uses for those keys. Plus the keybiard has a certain Alien Isolation feel to it which I love. I hope it does well. Thanks for the review!
That intro alone was worth a sub lol. Gorgeous keeb too!
in cart one was 961 US. i got two. good review
First impression: are we going to the moon? Running a nuclear power plant?
Needs more blinkin lights.
I bet this will be very popular with users of the Bloomberg Terminal, the number of keys is insane.
Not only you are UNEDUCATED ! You are also talking bllsht for usless sht !
A+ intro.
"Look at this muthafuckin unit" made me instantly subscribe 😂
I don't think the versions of the board with 1U top rows are "older". the PBT key set actually comes with 1U keys you can put there, and you can absolutely stick two switches and caps in instead of a switch and stabilizer. bitshifter's keycap set actually makes use of this and the top row 2U keys are POS-mount.
also of note is that the production PBT set comes with purple, red and white accent legends in addition to the blue ones you got
The first 6 seconds are on loop when I quickly have to bust a nut.
Holy moly canolly.
What a THICC keyboard. Does it have a sister?😂
if you do change the switches later, a dedicated typing demo would be fun as copium until I get the actual board myself. by coincidence, I went with box jades :)
1. Unprecedented Size (3:00-3:08)
"592 CM wide compared to the F1 122's 56" and "183 [keys]" (up to 213 keys in older versions)
- SHOCKING: This keyboard is wider than an IBM Battleship keyboard and has nearly twice the keys of a standard full-size keyboard
2. Extreme Weight (2:41-2:55)
"5 kilos... that's the weight of 2 and A2 IBM model M keyboards combined or 25% more than a Model F battleship"
- REVELATION: The case version weighs more than two vintage IBM keyboards combined
3. Price Range (13:43-14:03)
"almost a grand" for fully assembled version, while "barebones version... is less than 400"
- BOMBSHELL: Even the basic version costs as much as multiple regular mechanical keyboards
4. Stabilizer Requirements (15:23-15:31)
"full set ships with 34 2 un stabilizers and one 7 unit space bar stab"
- SHOCKING: Requires more stabilizers than most keyboards have total keys
5. PCB Design Risk (12:05-12:14)
"the PCB isn't held in place by the case the switches are the only thing that's holding the PCB where it is"
- REVELATION: Unique design challenge where removing all switches could cause PCB to fall into case
Absolutely awesome.
They've so got to do a Space Cadet version.
I actually like Cherry MX blacks. My Wyse WY-60 terminal has them.
Well yeah but that has actual vintage blacks :p .
@Chyrosran22 Mine has hardly been used.