Specially for Mac fans - stylish mechanical keyboard

http://matias.ca/tactilepro3/

@qwerty123

Big thing to understand here that such keyboards are quite big and high marginal market. So always double check everything you see.

Claiming that Cherry switches is some high tech shit that no one can copy is just nuts.

Good find Vitaliy! I finally got a new computer system, and am searching for an ideal keyboard.

Although I love the numeric pad sometimes, I would much rather have a keyboard without this, so that mousing (or trackball or trackpading) is more comfortable. I can always use one of those spare numeric pads when necessary (or numlock or something).

Let us know about that keyboard @kavadni .... looks like something that I might want!

@Sangye

Last time I checked you can't change keyboard on notebook to another one.

As for notebook keyboards, best ones are considered the ThinkPad old keyboards (mine favourite is TP600E one).

If you so like them, you can get Thinkpad keyboard (even can find old models on ebay).

@Sangye

I think it is more about good keyboards. Like mechanical ones and buckling spring ones.

http://en.360buy.com/product/genius-m1-mechanical-keyboard-black/586351.html#

Seems to be cheapest mechanical keyboard

Price: $32 + about $11 saver shipping

Got two Model M keyboards from @eatstoomuchjam.
Quite a nostalgia. They need cleaning and some keys need new keycaps and repairs, especially spaces are strange.

The IBM Model M keyboard is a time traveler. You might be slightly surprised to see one on a friend's desk, as if it might foreshadow by only a few minutes the naked arrival of a Sarah Connor-hungry Arnold Schwartzenegger. Like the Terminator, the existence of a Model M today is an anachronism. In the recent past, the world used computer parts made by people in different places instead of receiving the entire trough on the slow boat from China. It still mattered more what a computer did than what it looked like. Manufacturers presumed you cared that their products last longer than a year. Trying to mend computer hardware instead of rebuying it wasn't an entirely quaint and hilarious waste of time. From such a time the Model M has traveled.

From: http://plope.com/Members/chrism/25_years_of_the_model_m

Found small thing about Model M cleaning - http://www.preater.com/modelm/

Btw considering Cherry above, I see that seller relisted next batch http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHERRY-NEW-PC-KEYBOARD-G81-1800LUMUS-0-16-USB-/140755070768

I am adapting now to Razor keyboard. Typing on it, especially after initial adaptation, is like having constant prolonged orgasm :-) Typing speed returned to my T600 days, may be even more.

Happy Hacking Keyboard, Filco, Realforce. My younger brother is way into this.

@jrd complete with a TrackPoint! sweet mother of.. that device looks funtastic. I was already in the stages of designing my 'DESL' for a Thinkpad keyboard, so I guess I don't have to anymore.. mm or maybe I do.

Too bad that while at work I must use these keyboard abominations from Dell (miss my T43, X41 at home)

" I wish I could rip the keyboard off my IBM Thinkpad T43 (before Lenovo), and have it on a desktop-surface-level layout, and use it for everything until the end of times."

You can get a T43 keyboard for PC as well :)... its called Ultranav http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ultranav_keyboard_04.jpg

@vitaliy .. I bought the coloured keyboard, as I was trained in AVID 15 years ago .. it helped me refamiliarise after 12 year break .. once you know the keyboard and set up your own shortcuts, colours are redundant.

I was worried that the colours would hide my main point ..
'while it's subjective .. these keyboards are beautiful to use imho' They sell plain ones too

@Vitaliy_Kiselev - you're right, not a lot of differences, but at least the key font isn't quite as obnoxious, and a little bit of a nicer key layout. Localization isn't something I think about a lot, so that's probably a big factor.