Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops

Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by brokenmachine on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:12PM (#16147107)

The problem with those Kailh is getting keycaps. At least the cherry one will be compatible with MX keycaps, although I don't know where you'd get low-profile ones from. Hopefully they're available as spare parts soon.

As an ergodox user, I'd also be really interested in a mobile low-profile Atreus, but I need more keys, at least like an Atreus64.

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Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by isr on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:15AM (#16185949)

There's an atreus62 variant available (I have one, love it). You can order the components (or prebuilt models) from profetkeyboards.com

Personally, I shift the letter keys out to the sides by 1, so the pinky's only have 1 column to deal with, and there 2 extra rows in the middle. This also has the effect of rotating the wrists outwards even more - comfy!

As it turns out, I don't even need the full 62 keys (and have even pulled 8 keycaps off!). Depending on your preferred layout, you might also get away with <60 keys.

But a low-profile variant would be nice :)

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Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by brokenmachine on Sunday January 21, 2018 @08:09PM (#16201125)

Oops, I actually meant atreus62.

But maybe an atreus64 would be better (if it existed) because I would like some more thumb keys like my ergodox.

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