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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by gatehouse on Saturday January 18, 2014 @03:16AM (#7080514)
Also Leopold 66 key keyboards are almost as austere as HHKB, but they have an arrow cluster with similar placement to laptops. I have the 66key touch mini, it isn't bad but I like the HHKB a little better and it's hard to go back and forth.

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,compact

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by snogglethorpe on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:26AM (#7080938)
Ah, thanks for the pointer... I haven't yet come across any really worthy competitors to the HHKB until now (lots of stuff in the "small keyboard" and "nice feel" categories, but they always seem to screw something up...).

The Leopold looks like a worthy alternative to the HHKB, with a very similar vibe, especially as they allow you to swap Ctrl / CapsLock via a dip-switch (I wonder if they sell alternate keycaps with the labels swapped too). It seems to occupy a nice price middle-ground between the HHKB Lite (2) and the HHKB Pro, and has nicer switches than the HHKB Lite (to tell the truth, I don't mind the HHKB Lite's feel, but it's a little on the cheap-n-cheerful end)...

[The only significant difference in layout seems to be the "\" key.]

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by avtar on Sunday January 19, 2014 @12:09PM (#7085002)
> I wonder if they sell alternate keycaps with the labels swapped too

I was looking into this a few days and it doesn't look like Leopold doesn't sell extra single keycaps or sets. You can browse their site (Korean) to confirm http://leopold.co.kr/

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by gatehouse on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:03AM (#7081008)
Yeah, the \ is swapped with the backspace key, which unfortunately I use a lot. The 66key has it in the normal place, but HHKB moved it south. HHKB has the ~ on the right top which is different as well.
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