wolfeeh
One of Freddy's beloved
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So i had a Corsair K60 keyboard. it was lovely, I spilled a (whole) pint of water over it. many many keyboard recovery techniques failed to ever get it working again.
By the time I decided to write it off the Corsair K95 was out. I bought that.
over the course of five months;
a) I determined that the backplane was warped, it was unable to sit steadily on any truly flat surface, the problem was lessened by deploying the legs but I hate high-angle keyboardage, destroys my wrists.
b) potentially related to the warp, backlighting on random keys would not function at random times.
c) over the course of a few months key faults developed, wherein a keypress would not register and the key would literally need to be hammered 4-5 times to get a character out and/or keys would register multiple inputs from one keypress. I exhaustively stripped the keyboard down and cleaned it and reassembled it and the problem was not in any way alleviated - in actual fact there was no debris causing any obstruction anywhere.
determined that the keyboard was in fact fucked. manufacturing fucked. currently awaiting refund and collection from amazon.
Originally I was of the opinion that the K95 was the dogs danglies. even more so than the K60 before it. was a beautiful typing experience when new. however I'm not not confident I trust them enough to buy another K95.
so;
a) another K95, give them a second chance.
b) a K65 - I've had to downsize my computer desk, could potentially live with the narrower layout of a tenkeyless.
c) a DASkeyboard, may or may not be 88 key.
d) a Code keyboard, as above.
e) a WASD keyboard, as above.
f) Steelseries 7G
g) other?
I'm relatively feature agnostic, obviously the K95 had per-key backlighting, which quite frankly was awesome, but I don't need it, just like it. additionally on keyboard media controls are nice, but again, not necessary and lastly, the macro key bank was gnarly but again, does not complete me. basically what i want is the most lushest badass smooth accurate reliable typing experience, everything else is secondary.
also appreciate comments on o-ring dampeners and whether you feel they a) genuinely help suppress the sound and b) how much they affect the typing feel.
By the time I decided to write it off the Corsair K95 was out. I bought that.
over the course of five months;
a) I determined that the backplane was warped, it was unable to sit steadily on any truly flat surface, the problem was lessened by deploying the legs but I hate high-angle keyboardage, destroys my wrists.
b) potentially related to the warp, backlighting on random keys would not function at random times.
c) over the course of a few months key faults developed, wherein a keypress would not register and the key would literally need to be hammered 4-5 times to get a character out and/or keys would register multiple inputs from one keypress. I exhaustively stripped the keyboard down and cleaned it and reassembled it and the problem was not in any way alleviated - in actual fact there was no debris causing any obstruction anywhere.
determined that the keyboard was in fact fucked. manufacturing fucked. currently awaiting refund and collection from amazon.
Originally I was of the opinion that the K95 was the dogs danglies. even more so than the K60 before it. was a beautiful typing experience when new. however I'm not not confident I trust them enough to buy another K95.
so;
a) another K95, give them a second chance.
b) a K65 - I've had to downsize my computer desk, could potentially live with the narrower layout of a tenkeyless.
c) a DASkeyboard, may or may not be 88 key.
d) a Code keyboard, as above.
e) a WASD keyboard, as above.
f) Steelseries 7G
g) other?
I'm relatively feature agnostic, obviously the K95 had per-key backlighting, which quite frankly was awesome, but I don't need it, just like it. additionally on keyboard media controls are nice, but again, not necessary and lastly, the macro key bank was gnarly but again, does not complete me. basically what i want is the most lushest badass smooth accurate reliable typing experience, everything else is secondary.
also appreciate comments on o-ring dampeners and whether you feel they a) genuinely help suppress the sound and b) how much they affect the typing feel.
