System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard

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15 points·moojacob··6 comments

Why all mechanical keyboards needs to have those weird RGB lights? I understand that it might be useful to have backlighting, but why it's always RGB? And before anybody will tell me - you can turn it off - yes, I know, but why it's there in the first place? I know that gamers like to have those shiny lights because these are additional points for their skill, but I'm not a gamer.

The funny thing here is: The key caps are opaque, so you won’t see all that much of the actual key print anyways.

System76 seems to only do US keyboard layouts. I’d assume it down to cost, but does it actually cost that much to do alernative layouts? I might be underestimating the work is involved, it’s just that you can get $20 no-name keyboards and the material cost can’t be that much high for a nordic vs a US layout.

Do you mean ANSI vs ISO? I am under the impression that once you produce an ISO keyboard (e.g. with big enter key) any layout just means different key cap prints and telling the software about it. If they don’t even support ISO in the first place, there is no path for international layouts afaik.

Interesting, I never realised that non US/ANSI keyboards are all ISO. I was under the impression that you needed something customer for at least a large number of countries.

I don’t believe they have an ISO keyboard. Others have previously complained about the same issue on their laptops.

To be fair, I don’t think I’d order from a US company and get a single keyboard shipped half way around the world on the ground of environmental concerns alone. I feel bad enough that Apple shipped my last laptop from Korea to Europe.

$100 USD for shipping to Australia - thats bonkers.

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