> As an EU resident, when I see that I think I'll have to deal with customs if i buy one :) Not much of an incentive.
Weird nationalism play there for me as well. For some reason japanese keyboard sounds artisan(given how many limited edition keyboards their scene builds) to me and american-made keyboard just sounds like grandure posturing. Especially since there are so many expensive japanese custom keyboards and none of them market themselves as being special BECAUSE they are japanese.
That said, QMK running decent quality mechanical keyboards nowadays are a rabbit hole with so many choices and price ranges that I find both this and the System76 announcement strange.
Edit: American-Made when used as a label to say how great your product is, absolutely IS appealing to national pride. Shipping cost is hardly relevant there.
Besides the shipping costs, there's also customs and VAT. So for a 100$ I'll probably end up with paying 300$. So yeah, not gonna happen, too bad Unicomp doesn't have a EU reseller.
They have more modern layouts including inverted T arrows. Just look at the pictures on the homepage...
Maybe after scrolling there are pictures of more modern layouts, but not before. 16:10 deskop monitor with the browser maximized.
> to me and american-made keyboard just sounds like grandure posturing
It makes me think of Razer requiring to be signed into a cloud account to configure your mouse and keyboard.
Yeah, I know they gave up on that, but only because of the backslash. That's no reason to buy from them again.
Maybe they do A/B testing if you see a non compact one when opening the page.
Hmm that would explain why my (Dell branded) buckling spring keyboard that i was using in the 2000s couldn't recover from a Pepsi spill.
> Go look at Model F reproductions. Those are solid keyboards.
Unfortunately the world has moved on and I want my separated inverted T arrow keys.
> New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard
As an EU resident, when I see that I think I'll have to deal with customs if i buy one :) Not much of an incentive.