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| Finished! |
The Das Keyboard (a
Model S Professional For Mac, part no. DASK3PROMS1MACCLI) is no longer
naked, and the
practice I got in on the Razer was definitely time well spent: Everything worked perfectly the first time, and I’m not embarrassed by any of my solder joints. Total time was about 4 hours all told. Call it 1.5 hours to get it apart without breaking any of the plastic clips and desolder the Cherry MX Blue switches it was originally equipped with, two hours to solder in the Kailh Box Navy switches (pausing a couple of times to test things), and a final half hour to reassemble everything and put the keycaps back on (cleaning them as I went).
I love these “thick click” switches! Definitely an improvement over the light, plasticky sound the board had before, and the feel is much better. I’m definitely a more accurate typist with these higher actuation force, gobs of feedback switches. It’s not quite a Model M or the Unicomp SpaceSavers I was using, but it’s pretty damned close...
Typing experience:
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| Swapped the stock Cherry MX Blue switches for Kailh Box Navy switches. |
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| Pausing to test switch operation with Inspect |
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| Reassembly in progress. The daughter card with the USB hub is visible top right. |
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| Case is back on. Now to clean and reattach the keycaps. |
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| Almost done. |
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