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I recommend the razer black widow ultimate (clicky, glossy body) or the black widow ultimate stealth (silent, matte body). Both are great keyboards with great quality. I ordered mine directly from their shop, which is a good idea if you can't find it in stock.
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CptChiggs said something about the stabilizers as well. What's the difference? I've only heard about the switches.
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The longer keys like backspace, enter, shift, and spacebar have stabilizers because they are too long to be supported by a single switch. Cherry MX keyboards either have Cherry- or Costar-style stabilizers. With Cherry stabilizers those keys have something that resembles two additional MX key switches on the ends, which causes additional force to be required on the keys and contributes to a feeling that some would consider "mushy." Costar stabilizers use a thick wire insert, which results in the all keys requiring uniform pressure. Though the preference is not universal, more people seem to prefer Costar stabilizers. I would agree with those people.
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Get a Ducky Shine. I'm in love with mine. So many LED choices.
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I too am looking to buy a mechanical keyboard and from what I've read I'm contemplating between customized Max Keyboards and the Ducky Shine. With the 20% group discount on the Max's, both would be around the same price. However, the Max nighthawk is a rebranded Xarmor and I've heard that their quality wasn't so good so I don't know about that. The Duckys have a solid reputation while the Max offers more features. Hopefully if Max has quality control under control their keyboards won't have any problems. Max is a new company so hopefully their boards are better than xarmors ( monoprice.com also rebrands the same board [nighthawk] and their qualtiy is pretty good so...).
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If you've heard and you know, then why ask?
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KBT pure and KBT race have not been mentioned if you like compacts.
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post #18 of 47
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Originally Posted by invena View Post

KBT pure and KBT race have not been mentioned if you like compacts.
I love my KBT Race! My only complaint is that some keys have lost their backlighting, but it's still amazing to type on.

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Edited by Kokin - 6/27/12 at 1:22am
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post #19 of 47
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I too am looking to buy a mechanical keyboard and from what I've read I'm contemplating between customized Max Keyboards and the Ducky Shine. With the 20% group discount on the Max's, both would be around the same price. However, the Max nighthawk is a rebranded Xarmor and I've heard that their quality wasn't so good so I don't know about that. The Duckys have a solid reputation while the Max offers more features. Hopefully if Max has quality control under control their keyboards won't have any problems. Max is a new company so hopefully their boards are better than xarmors ( monoprice.com also rebrands the same board [nighthawk] and their qualtiy is pretty good so...).

Max keyboards are not rebranded Xarmor. Qpad, xarmor, iOne, Max are all very similar. However, out of those 4 Max and Qpad are of way higher quality. Just the build of Max/Qpad is way better than Xarmor/iOne.

Don't think for a second Max Keyboards are crappy boards. They're built very sturdy and have gold plated connections, braided cables, on-board memory, and get fantastic reviews. Heck, Xarmor and Max even have different color circuit boards.

Ducky's are good but I don't like Cherry stabilizers.

Not to mention Max customer service is superb. Heck you even get a 10% discount for liking their facebook page if you don't do the group buy. I didn't have $120-150 to spend on a Max, so I went with a Quickfire Rapid. But I wish I went with a Max in some ways because it has a lot more features.

But... Quickfire Rapid w/Reds + this for me.

*Disclaimer, I might not be completely correct on all of that but it's what I've read on various forums, such as CustomPCReview. I know for a fact though that Max is higher quality than XArmor, but very similar to QPad. I don't know a ton about Ducky's, but a lot of people on GH don't like them. The Shine is good though, no doubt.

*Edit* Kokin, that's one nice looking board.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zorphon View Post

Max keyboards are not rebranded Xarmor. Qpad, xarmor, iOne, Max are all very similar. However, out of those 4 Max and Qpad are of way higher quality. Just the build of Max/Qpad is way better than Xarmor/iOne.
Don't think for a second Max Keyboards are crappy boards. They're built very sturdy and have gold plated connections, braided cables, on-board memory, and get fantastic reviews. Heck, Xarmor and Max even have different color circuit boards.
Ducky's are good but I don't like Cherry stabilizers.
Not to mention Max customer service is superb. Heck you even get a 10% discount for liking their facebook page if you don't do the group buy. I didn't have $120-150 to spend on a Max, so I went with a Quickfire Rapid. But I wish I went with a Max in some ways because it has a lot more features.
But... Quickfire Rapid w/Reds + this for me.
*Disclaimer, I might not be completely correct on all of that but it's what I've read on various forums, such as CustomPCReview. I know for a fact though that Max is higher quality than XArmor, but very similar to QPad. I don't know a ton about Ducky's, but a lot of people on GH don't like them. The Shine is good though, no doubt.
*Edit* Kokin, that's one nice looking board.

You "know for a fact" how? Have you owned both and observed clear differences between them?

Looking at the images, those keyboards are absolutely identical down to the fine details like the mesh patterns on the wrist rest and in the top right. They all even have the same light with mysterious 'G' label next to the Caps Lock light! XArmor came before all these other clones and they are produced by iOne, who is a well known OEM for many companies.
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