Do you know if the maker has a twitter or something so we can keep up to date with it?
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Darn! Could you share your thoughts on it?
Oh my goodness, I would love to see the keymap for this.
I'm interested in something like this that allows something like split keyboard tray mount. The Glove80 also has a pretty elegant tripod mounting option, since you mentioned low profile switches. The Ferris Sweep also has a greater pinky stagger, and you may also consider using Ergogen in the future to make something that properly matches your hand curvature!
That's actually how I got my first KA2! At that time I worked in an org of around 30ish engineers, so there was confidence that if it didn't work out for me I could pass it along to someone else in the org. Maybe that could work for you?
I find that something with more texture on my lap helps, like a towel of some kind, or a board with an exposed PCB helps a lot. I've also heard the Atreus works really well on the lap.
My universe for an aluminum Swoop case...
I really wish low force switches could be more stable :( My 12g chocs were the most comfortable typing experience I've ever had in terms of RSI pain reduction and ergonomics, but they also kinda suck in other parts of the experience.
Thank you so much for such a detailed comparison! Glove80 is definitely still on my watchlist. Personally, I have very small hands and I just don't use any of the keys my hands can't easily reach and prefer to remap things into layers. So the KA360, I probably only use 50% of the keys (my corneish zen is a 3x5 and that's very easy for me to use). The same will definitely be the same with the Glove80, if I ever end up using one.
I feel very lucky that I haven't had any bluetooth issue with my KA360. And weirdly enough, I like the ABS keycaps (but I'm not particularly well-versed in keycap materials). There seems to be quite a lot of people who feel otherwise though.
I am eagerly looking forward to your long term review. I am mostly concerned about long term reliability when it comes to the Glove80, something I know is less of an issue with the KA given its longer history building and supporting keyboards.
The price tag on it feels ridiculous! I saw a youtuber call it "eyewatering" which I very much agree with. Part of the reason why I ended up writing this was to understand the price the spectrum of other comparable boards (that yikes, I've paid for!). I am more comfortable with the price now, haha
I use many layouts and am totally comfortable switching between them. I primarily use Colemak-dh and QWERTY and each of my boards have a slightly different layers keymap.
You'd be surprised how flexible the brain is. I was able to do this after 25+ years of only QWERTY.