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Any keyboards suitable for desktop pinball without breaking the bank?
GSGregg:
--- Quote from: sleepy on March 07, 2015, 04:52:42 AM ---Look at the price of bacon!.....Prices are up.
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I thought bacon was down due to some pestilence in Hog Heaven, judging by all of the fast-food joints' efforts to get customers to "add bacon to any item" the last few years. Not complaining, of course; I've added quite a bit of bacon during that time.....
News re mechanical boards 'n' switches: The patent has expired on Cherry MX, and they're being cloned by Kaihua, a Chinese outfit, under the brand name Kailh ( http://imgur.com/a/7ujle )
---but apparently you still wave goodbye to a C-note to get a board. Plus, there may be quality issues from cutting corners.....
Logitech has improved on the design with their Romer-G switches, available in the G910 board, but the price is up near $200! (Hey, it's only.....)
--- Quote from: sleepy on March 07, 2015, 04:55:12 AM ---I did buy a $7 Inland USB Optical Mouse recently. It runs like crap.
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Sixty-seven months ago (but who's counting?) I bought a Logitech V220 Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks that's still acceptable although it often gives a rapid, imperceptible double-click that opens whichever program's icon happens to be behind whatever I wanted to 'x' out of. I've heard complaints about having to change batteries in those things monthly if not more frequently, but the last battery I took out had been in for six months. Can you say, "Your mileage may vary"?
EDIT: Hah! As if to emphasize the mouse's affliction, I got notified that I had already posted (I pressed only once.....)
GSGregg:
Note to Stephen King: I'm no longer languishing "Under the (rubber) Dome". After watching a few balls come down the right inlane and continue merrily over the intermittently flaccid right flipper to the center drain while my decibel-laden profanities bounced ineffectively off the walls of the room, I decided to commit my fourth Logitech K120 to the Deep and pull the trigger on a mechanical keyboard. Having been unimpressed and dissatisfied with my trip to the closest Fry's a month ago (see reply #2), I drove to the much closer Best Buy and checked out three boards with identical prices (how do they DO that?); Razer Black Widow 2014 Gaming Keyboard with Razer mechanical switches 'Designed for Gaming' (probably Kailh Cherry MX clones), Logitech G710+ (not sure whose switches are used---maybe Kailh) and Corsair Vengeance K70 with genuine German-made Cherry MX Red. I was leaning toward the real thing when I saw that the Corsair was the only one that listed Windows XP compatibility, so that settled it. $130 later, plus tax, I'm stabbing at keys with fairly bright red backlighting. Whoopeeeeee! Of course, I can kill the lights if I so desire.....
Results were pronounced and immediate. I've been trying to nail JP's AFM_vp914_v2.4 (the desktop version recognized by PINemHi Leaderboards) and watching my average plummet in recent weeks, but the first night with the new board got me a new personal best; not enough to dethrone xio for first place, but who knows.....?
Goodbye, sub-$20 boards!
GSGregg:
--- Quote from: GSGregg on April 02, 2015, 08:31:42 AM ---not enough to dethrone xio for first place, but who knows.....?
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Correction: nailed that down tonight (today, actually) with 115,091, 969,960. Shouldn't take long for xio, ced, DedRok_V and LMTR14 to get wind of it, but it feels good to be driving Ralph Kramden's bus for a bit.
Oh, yeah---the keyboard must have had something to do with it, right?
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