rosewill rbg kailh mechanical KB

[gorobei]

after reading about the rosewill apollo, i went over to the site and came across this:
rgb backlit 10key-less
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16823201071

it uses the chinese knockoff of the expired patent cherry mx. looks like a single rgb led whereas the rgb mx uses 3 separate leds.

if it ever comes out in full 101 and rgb, i might splurge just to test it.

 

[postmortemIA]

Cherry had 30 yrs to perfect the design. There's no way that knockoff is remotely as good.

 

[Destiny]

Cherry had 30 yrs to perfect the design. There's no way that knockoff is remotely as good.

If they filed their utility patent well - which is required for USPTO approval, once it expired any company can use that patent filing to create MX switches because it is now free art.

 

[bononos]

Cherry had 30 yrs to perfect the design. There's no way that knockoff is remotely as good.

If the knockoff is a direct copy then theres no reason its can't be as good.

The problem with the Rosewill is that the list price is $150 which is very steep for clone switches. Amazon's price is $100 but there are illuminated keyboard with real cherries at that price also.

 

[Cerb]

Looks they also ripped off Ducky's cabling (gee, let's design a new keyboard, and copy the competition without even thinking what we're doing).

 

[gorobei]

review from techreport
http://techreport.com/review/26755/rosewill-rgb80-keyboard-reviewed

some issues with start menu key and color control in non gaming mode. probably better to wait to see if they work this out.