deskthority

Another video review, this time of my Model M2 .

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvMPBSGVng

embed: Hope you enjoy .

I very much did enjoy it. I love all the insight you put into these videos. The history, known issues, and comparisons.

Please keep making these

I hope to keep making one every other week - as long as I can get enough keyboards of course xD .

Glad you enjoyed it

You should have an official Deskthority Weekly KB Reviews Show ... anywho, awesome review again

Ungh… these are coming out so much quicker than my slooooow writeups it's… ungh!

Nice review! Thanks for the typing demo, I've wondered how these sound.
It's dye-sublimated btw, not sublimed, I think.

zts wrote: You should have an official Deskthority Weekly KB Reviews Show ... anywho, awesome review again

This. We should have a corner on the main page.

zts wrote: You should have an official Deskthority Weekly KB Reviews Show ... anywho, awesome review again

Hahaha I don't think I'd have enough keyboards to sustain that for very long mate xD . I'd happily keep doing reviews as much as I can though, it just depends on how many keyboards I can get . It's interesting; I get a lot more responses to my reviews on this site than I do on GH (probably has to do with site demographics).

Nice review! Thanks for the typing demo, I've wondered how these sound.
It's dye-sublimated btw, not sublimed, I think.

Yeah they sound quite interesting. One thing I didn't put into the video; when you press a button, you can actually hear all the springs in the keyboard rustle in the M2. Obviously in the Model M this isn't an issue.

As for sublimed or sublimated; yeah, I wasn't sure either, but I just looked it up on a few verb conjugation websites and it would appear that "sublimed" is the correct one (e.g. http://www.the-conjugation.com/english/verb/sublime.php).

Not enough keyboards you say? Let me help you fix this.

XMIT wrote: Not enough keyboards you say? Let me help you fix this.

^^

Chyros wrote:

XMIT wrote: Not enough keyboards you say? Let me help you fix this.

^^

I can help too!

I have a videowriter keyboard, fujitsu peerless keyboard, and an apple keyboard waiting for you.

Redmaus wrote:

Chyros wrote:

XMIT wrote: Not enough keyboards you say? Let me help you fix this.

^^

I can help too!

I have a videowriter keyboard, fujitsu peerless keyboard, and an apple keyboard waiting for you.

I already have a video review on a Fujitsu Peerless and AEK/AEKII, if you're interested .

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... MmLRKpmbfB

Any chance you can create a thread where the first post is a list of all of the reviews you have done? That, and/or keep the Wiki current by updating it with your videos?

Good review as usual Chyros. Thanks.

XMIT wrote: Any chance you can create a thread where the first post is a list of all of the reviews you have done? That, and/or keep the Wiki current by updating it with your videos?

I have little experience with wiki coding so I'm a bit afraid to dig into there - besides, these are just my opinions, of course . I'll make a thread outlining all my video reviews now - if you guys think it'd be a good idea maybe someone could sticky it .

I feel your pain re: the wiki. I find editing the thing as anxiety inducing as whenever I touch code. Not because it'll break and catch fire (as code does) but because when I preview anything I've done it looks like shit. There's some manual code of style to editing (and especially creating new pages in) wikis that you must internalise. But as a total raving incompetent at anything that isn't laid out in English, I can't see it for the tags.

As for a sticky: nope. Not for a single user's work. But I could support a reviews index. Something like Matteo's Workshop Threads of Interest, for reviews instead. Every half decent review thread could be linked there, ordered by subject.

Great review as always, my only criticism would be that the M2 wasn't exclusively a cheaper keyboard, but also to fulfill a smaller form factor. If you recall, the M2 was released as a redesign specifically for the PS/1 systems and actually borrowed from the PS/55 5576-003 keyboards (which are very similar in profile).


The PCjr already had a far cheaper design than the M2, of which its 5576-003 heritage was already operating in Japan since 'regular' Model Ms were just too bulky. And the M2 form factor was ultimately used on the M15 as well--you wouldn't be able to market a split Model M as ergonomic since the profile is pretty 'generous'