mech keyboard #2

Good morning crossies,

some might remember the post i made a few weeks ago:
http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=journal&mode=item&id=122450
Since i started playing Starcraft again, i am totally addicted to mechanical keyboards :D

I started using a older DasKeyboard II meanwhile with Cherry MX blue switches, not the IBM Model M anymore. But now i just recived my ZOWIE Celeritas (with Cherry MX brown switches) :D

I really wanted to order a Filco Majestouch, but when i spend 150€ on a keyboard i want it to have a german layout at least... and german Filcos won't be shipped by mid May... if at all.. so i decided to buy the Zowie Celeritas.

So i wanted to share this... and ofc show off for my ePenis @ crossfire :D

gold contacts:
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Game Mode (Windows Key is disabled and has "Ctrl" on it):
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Windows Mode:
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Cherry MX browns:
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First Impressions:

Cherry MX browns are feeling great so far. I used a DasKeyboard II with Blues before. They are a bit softer and do not have that "click + clicky point" like the blues... but they definitly feel great.. i would say even better for playing StarCraft than the Blues... but i guess that's just personal likes or dislikes.

The Zowie also feels great, heavy and solid case, some very long "rubber-lips" on the back side... and i mean veeeeeeeeeeeery long... guess it will never ever slip away by any mistake.

One little thing i dislike so far is that the signs on the keys feel like some sort of rubber or something, not lasered... so we will see in the future if they go away or get dirty quite fast or anything... but for all the rest, the keyboard feels just great !

So i'm off now, gotta play :D

P.S.
The Zowie Celeritas has a "RTR Technology" btw, which means you can increase the repeat response time from a key by times 8.


P.P.S.
I am aware i'm having a serious fetish :D
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Quote but when i spend 150€ on a keyboard


dude you need a life

Quoteyou can increase the repeat response time from a key by times 8


[irony]OMG really useful[/irony]
yeah, having the RTR at 1x atm too, kinda senseless for typing and RTS games... maybe for FPS... just wanted to share the info... i think it is kinda useless too tbh.

and well about the money... who cares :D
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dude you can buy better things with 150€ than a keyboard :)
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ofc u can, but if ur my age and working etc, 150€ isn't that much :D

and i am having a fetish for mech keyboards :D :D :D ... even thinking about buying one for work :D
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defo a fetish
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i know ... :D
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mr. big spender. give me 150 euros I'm poor
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If you spend a lot of time doing something, of course it will be nice to have that something be as good as possible. If you type all day, it's of course desirable to have a good keyboard.
Same goes to things like football. If you play a lot of football, you're probably going to spend 150€ on good football boots, maybe even more.

That gold contact thing is a bit useless, though, as that external "shield" of the USB isn't actually the part that takes contact, but instead the pins inside the cuboid-shaped connector are. But of course it looks nice :-P
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i connected it via PS2 anyways to have no ghosting
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Looks pretty nice! I have a Filco keyboard and I can tell you it's perfect for everything whether its just typing or playing games, it's just sick! :P
with what kind of switches ?
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I think they are browns I can't remember and I can't be arsed to take the key off to tell you :D
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what color have the LED lights on the upper right... you can see from the color what switchtypes you have :D
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red red red!!! :)
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think ur having black switches then
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she will be a porn star, thats for sure
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nah, she's just a slut
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Tight jeans = slut?
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Why you call her a slut then?
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probabilities
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Oh what do we have here? A one year old comment with a hot girl...
...hmm...
I can fap to this
*fap* *fap* *fap*
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what is wrong with your mouse....
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nice "rolling" button
i got shitloads of old mechanical keyboards, no need for spending this much cash like a mongol.
Atleast the Zowie logo glows! (Edit. EVEN IN 2 DIFFERENT COLORS!!!)

Is that still the very original DKT pad (before they printed it on the Titan)? Those were nice :[
yeah it is, it's like 6 or 7 years old :D
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That has to be the most pathetic youtube video I've ever watched.
related: Any Razer Lycosa owner has the same problem as me, which is that sometimes winamp just starts popping up, when i close it, another pops out (no i didnt press the touchpad). Or that suddenly just some buttons stop working, for example space or +?\ button and only way to get it working is plugging the power off and back on.
As Lycosa doesn't have mechanical keys this was not related.
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as it is a keyboard i say it is :D
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nice one, how much did it cost? and why dont you order the Filco Majestouch and just change the keys? http://www.chip.de/downloads/KeyTweak_33814993.html might be helpful, I e.g. changed the G1-G6 buttons on my G15 for ET scripts that I normally would've had randomly on the keyboard placed.
116€

and well i wanted the hardware layout to be german... i want the keys to have ä ö ü etc :D
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and why this keyboard is so expensive? I mean about 126 € for Zowie Gear Celeritas Pro (114 € for no pro version) in Sweden. It's because it's a Zowie?
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almost all mechanical keyboards cost >100€ ... only the Cherry G80-3000s are around 60€ ... and the Razer Blackwidow around 80 or 90...
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:S paint them black and just write with a pen or Tipp ex the new letters on it :p
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It still wouldn't type äöü.
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too bad you cant buy it in poland :(
jetzt drehense hier völlig am rad
brb getting some care
The repeat rate of the keys can be changed through windows anyway.. but at least you got a gold usb connector :P

Also am I the only one how likes having the windows key active when I play games? I can't imagine anyone accidentally hitting it, I just use it to quickly get to my desktop when I'm in game.
I smack it accidentally quite often but I still wouldn't disable it as it's only way to desktop in some games.
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seriously... like seriously
Currently switching between my Filco (cherry mx reds) and my Topre Realforce 87u.

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I like my Steelseries 6Gv2 with Cherry MX Black switches, it doesn't have a windows key on the left at all, its just a key to activate the media keys which is perfectly ok with me, I've never useed it to pull up the start menu anyways. The keys are vastly better than a regular rubber dome
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