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A comment on The Kinesis Advantage, Unicomp Space Saver, and Das Keyboard, two years later.

Re:The Kinesis Advantage, Unicomp Space Saver, and Das Keybo... by dvdhsu on Sunday August 07, 2011 @03:26AM (#2856089)
There is a huge difference between Cherry MX Blues and Cherry MX Browns. [1] The amount of sound they make drastically differ, and they have very different amounts of tactile feedback. Even if you gave somebody who knew nothing about mechanical keyboards a Filco Blue and a Filco Brown, they would definitely be able to tell the difference.

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1. http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Cherry+switches+and+b...

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Re:The Kinesis Advantage, Unicomp Space Saver, and Das Keybo... by jrockway on Sunday August 07, 2011 @07:20AM (#2856405)
Yes. The Kinesis keyboard has a speaker that makes a noise when you press its cherry brown keys, though, so that might be what's confusing him. I was confused when I first played with one -- "this doesn't sound like brown to me".
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Re:The Kinesis Advantage, Unicomp Space Saver, and Das Keybo... by blutonium on Sunday August 07, 2011 @05:00AM (#2856239)
Spot on. I'm surprised he likened it to a 'Canon vs Nikon' debate. Transitioning from membrane to mechanical is the biggest difference though... Love my Cherry Blues.
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