I think it's possible to preorder it at wasdkeyboards

Sorry, I meant mechanicalkeyboards.com

They have everything in stock on wasdkeyboards.com actually, but you won't get original keycaps. In return you can customize them any way you like, choose colors etc.

This actually is the POK3R, just rebranded: http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/mechanical-keyboard/wasd-vp3-61-key-custom-mechanical-keyboard.html

And here it's available for preorder: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1233

On the plus side...i ordered something from mk.com and it arrived 2 weeks earlier than the listed date

at mechanicalkeyboard shipping costs adds 44$ to the netherlands

ugh

Sounds like you guys like the POK3R... I would love to buy one of these https://ergodox-ez.com/ but they are soooooo expensive.

Wow, that's a nifty looking keyboard 🙂

It uses Gateron switches. Never tried those.

The angle of the wrist when writing on this thing.. looks painful!

yeah. I don't keep my hands perpendicular to the board so that my shoulders are pressed in. it's not like my fingers are equal lengths

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Writing on the net Surface now 🙂 Got Windows 10 installed and will check out the touch issue with the DataGrid tonight.

how do you like the surface?

It's pretty good. I think my next computer will be a Surface Pro 4. As long as I can combine it with the POK3R it's great.

The fan noise when running IDEA is a bit excessive, but I think it will be better on an i7.

@edvin you can also join @thomasnield and me on the System76 bandwagon. I've been using a fast desktop from them

I might consider it. The nice thing about the Surface Pro 4 is that I'm not bound to a keyboard layout. Today I tried writing on a normal ISO/Norwegian 100% keyboard and I was totally lost. I'm getting faster on the POK3R, but it's hard to move back and forth, I guess mainly because of the different logical layout.

the pok3r is heavier than the surface pro

you may need to go 40% to stay mobile

Nah, I'm pretty sure I can't program on a 40%.

yeah right...we'll talk in a month

Cool 🙂 I like system76.

@carlw that website you linked mk.com links to a completely different site

@ron oh...that was shorthand for mechanicalkeyboards.com. hope it wasn't anything bad 😬

no it wasnt 🙂

@edvin they have a ridiculous looking 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD w. 3200Mb/s reads and 1900Mb/s writes

That's about the same I have in the monster down stairs. To be honest, the difference from a "slow" 600Mb/s disk isn't all that noticeable.