Because the feel of a keyboard is more than the quality of the keys. . It is also a sense that the rest of the keyboard is made from quality materials instead of cheap flimsy plastic.... its like putting a v12 Lamborghini engine in an old rusty vw golf mark 1 without upgrading any other parts of the car
Cherry keyboard here. No, not just Cherry switches, Cherry keyboard. They're a bit more expensive, but well worth it.
And, it doesn't have a Windows key, and has the ctrl key where it's supposed to be, left of the A. (What marketing idiot thought that caps lock was more important than ctrl and decided to switch them around?)
ahh cherry mx switches.. red, brown, black, blue, white, green etc..
expensive, but just as good as the old IBM keyboards.
my ncore retro uses cherry mx white and my roccat uses cherry mx red
those 2 and my 2 IBM model M's are my best keyboards, then I have some older CBM keyboards that are also pretty nice... the rest? crappy crappy cheap rubber dome..
my ncore retro is my primary keyboard when I write novels.
most top end mechanical keyboards allows the disabling of windows keys.. the ncore and roccat are no exceptions
The IBM model M is a very very nice keyboard. I have 2 myself both from 1986. I myself am from 1989.
But! Expensive mechanical keyboards CAN compete with the model M.
I have a Nanoxia NCore Retro and a Roccat Ryos MK Pro and they are both just as good but both have better looks...
I am a sucker for both quality keyboards and lights... the ncore retro have no lights but it does have the Victorian typewriter look
Both keyboards are very expensive.. especially the ncore retro
But Quality vs cost? In that regard the model M wins hands down..
I am the AC above... small correction.. I am from 1979 not 1989.
well it really depends on what you want to compare with...
did a guy who owns like 10 supercars waste money because he can only drive one car at the time?
Still.. for now... there is such a thing as security in numbers... sure they can do what they want, but if they forsome reason come after one guy then they also need to come after n other guys...
Datamining is hard to avoid and if you try, you stick out like a sore thumb.
I've been looking for a photonic quantum analog chip to put in my transspacial Heisenberg compensator... the femtosecond direct writing will really help improve the harmonic resonance manifold of my transwarp conduit.
Don't forget to install a flux capacitor as well as putting it together with a hydrospanner and a sonic screwdriver.
I hear the EPS relays are really hard to align precisely with the a flux capacitor without using a sonic screwdriver.
More often than not you will also need to install a tribophysical waveform macro kinetic extrapolator and adjusting it with a cronometer.
Remember that you will also need a borg transwarp coil in order to utilize the transwarp conduit.
The chinese invented that chip just in time. How else are we going to make our machines go....
What if they made a product that instead was a PC-Card, that would then incorporate the basis unit and also work in a varity of "sleeves" that could be produced by third party companies? Then the same pc card (with sim card) could work in devices that already have a pc card slot (with appropiate software) aswell as in laptop computers aswell as in custom phone sleeves (that should be produceable by third-party companies) for the open standard that the PC-Card should support ?
That would be some tech worth using!
I have heard that Apple is using some kind of special applet system that only works in their own Safari browser and only supports limited functionality.. what we need is a true linux pda phone that will run usermade linux programs, programs that will run natively on a linux machine aswell as on a linux pda phone unit. The user who wishes to create his own programs or even modify the os on his phone then has the means he needs. Also the os will then give him an api to work with and offer access to the hardware in the phone.
It would then be nice if the pda phone supported memory cards (MMC and SD), had a camera, had usb ports and had a pcmcia port. That would in my opinion, be the ultimate phone!
Ps: Perhaps the phone would need a special window manager and keyboard + mouse driver though:)
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Indeed.. and they are called... 00, 01, 10 and 11 (0, 1, 2 and 3, very fitting since an array also begins at index 0) :-)
Because the feel of a keyboard is more than the quality of the keys. . It is also a sense that the rest of the keyboard is made from quality materials instead of cheap flimsy plastic. ... its like putting a v12 Lamborghini engine in an old rusty vw golf mark 1 without upgrading any other parts of the car
Cherry keyboard here. No, not just Cherry switches, Cherry keyboard. They're a bit more expensive, but well worth it. And, it doesn't have a Windows key, and has the ctrl key where it's supposed to be, left of the A. (What marketing idiot thought that caps lock was more important than ctrl and decided to switch them around?)
ahh cherry mx switches.. red, brown, black, blue, white, green etc.. expensive, but just as good as the old IBM keyboards. my ncore retro uses cherry mx white and my roccat uses cherry mx red those 2 and my 2 IBM model M's are my best keyboards, then I have some older CBM keyboards that are also pretty nice... the rest? crappy crappy cheap rubber dome ..
my ncore retro is my primary keyboard when I write novels.
most top end mechanical keyboards allows the disabling of windows keys.. the ncore and roccat are no exceptions
The IBM model M is a very very nice keyboard. I have 2 myself both from 1986. I myself am from 1989. But! Expensive mechanical keyboards CAN compete with the model M.
I have a Nanoxia NCore Retro and a Roccat Ryos MK Pro and they are both just as good but both have better looks...
I am a sucker for both quality keyboards and lights... the ncore retro have no lights but it does have the Victorian typewriter look
Both keyboards are very expensive.. especially the ncore retro
But Quality vs cost? In that regard the model M wins hands down..
I am the AC above... small correction.. I am from 1979 not 1989.
If your CPUs run idle, you have wasted money.
well it really depends on what you want to compare with... did a guy who owns like 10 supercars waste money because he can only drive one car at the time?
That is quite a bold assumption.
Not at all; it was a statistically-likely guess. Now go change your diaper.
I'll do yours if you do mine? :-) Don't you worry, I have changed many diapers ;-)
Still.. for now... there is such a thing as security in numbers... sure they can do what they want, but if they forsome reason come after one guy then they also need to come after n other guys... Datamining is hard to avoid and if you try, you stick out like a sore thumb.
I've been looking for a photonic quantum analog chip to put in my transspacial Heisenberg compensator... the femtosecond direct writing will really help improve the harmonic resonance manifold of my transwarp conduit.
Don't forget to install a flux capacitor as well as putting it together with a hydrospanner and a sonic screwdriver. I hear the EPS relays are really hard to align precisely with the a flux capacitor without using a sonic screwdriver. More often than not you will also need to install a tribophysical waveform macro kinetic extrapolator and adjusting it with a cronometer. Remember that you will also need a borg transwarp coil in order to utilize the transwarp conduit. The chinese invented that chip just in time. How else are we going to make our machines go....
The quote was probably made well before poster Armonk existed.
That is quite a bold assumption. You do not know the first thing about this user.
a phone without a notch.. in other words... a phone as it should be.... (except for the lack of a removeable battery though)
What if they made a product that instead was a PC-Card, that would then incorporate the basis unit and also work in a varity of "sleeves" that could be produced by third party companies? Then the same pc card (with sim card) could work in devices that already have a pc card slot (with appropiate software) aswell as in laptop computers aswell as in custom phone sleeves (that should be produceable by third-party companies) for the open standard that the PC-Card should support ? That would be some tech worth using!
I have heard that Apple is using some kind of special applet system that only works in their own Safari browser and only supports limited functionality.. what we need is a true linux pda phone that will run usermade linux programs, programs that will run natively on a linux machine aswell as on a linux pda phone unit. The user who wishes to create his own programs or even modify the os on his phone then has the means he needs. Also the os will then give him an api to work with and offer access to the hardware in the phone. It would then be nice if the pda phone supported memory cards (MMC and SD), had a camera, had usb ports and had a pcmcia port. That would in my opinion, be the ultimate phone! Ps: Perhaps the phone would need a special window manager and keyboard + mouse driver though :)