It’s kinda weird to me, how small layouts are popular with keyboard enthusiasts. You’d think they’d look at a 100% layout and go, I want more keys. not less. Like, all the popular group buys, and keyboard sets and stuff, should be for stuff that looks like cross between a Cherry G80-9009 and Space Cadet keyboard.
I wanna go on a mechanical keyboard site, and mainly see things that look like Hyper 7 keyboards.
The image alone doesn’t really show how cool the G80-9009 actually is. It has 12 extra F keys, that you can assign key macros to. The screen on the top, lets you display what both the regular F keys and extra F keys do.
There’s also a Calculator lock key, that puts a calculator on screen, that you can use with the numpad.
So sad that there aren’t modern consumer keyboards, with this type of functionality.
As a mechanical keyboard enthusiast myself, I've found that "trendy and looks cool" tend to win out over functionality. Take the coiled cable trend. Because of the coil, the cable is much longer than it needs to be. Well, the signal from your keyboard and the power from your PC degrade over distance, leading to poor performance (in theory) and inadequate power for some RGB keyboards.
And they're not complete without a totally unnecessary "aviator connector," which was never intended for this use and is therefore prone to failure.
The trendiest, most expensive hand-made cable offers worse performance that the generic brand you buy at a big box store for a fraction of the price.
Looks dope, tho.

































