Some people can tell great wine from fine wine. They go to taste alcohol, visit alcohol. They mostly spend more money on alcohol.
I am not one of these people. If you show me the bottle, I can tell the vinegar with the wine. However, I am a little obsession with keyboards.
I’ve just done just to typing on Sanica for the past two months, this is a complete custom capsato keyboard that starts at $ 3,600 and may be the best computer keyboard built so far. I have also typed on a group of other people – those whose attitude towards keyboards is a bit more useful. My wife uses a mechanical keyboard because I put it on her desk. If I had taken it, she would go back to her $ 30 logic membrane keyboard with no complaints. I put Sankica on her desk. He said it was fine. I took it. She returned to her second keyboard.
The more common about your keyboards, Sankica is less impressive. I am not normal about keyboards, and Sankica is incredible to God.
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Nice
- Beautiful
- The feeling of incredible typing and sound
- Classic setting
- Just look at him
Bad
- There is no firmware’s re -memory yet
- Proprietary cable
- Expensive from bias
Senika is the first luxury keyboard of Norbauer End, a company that wants to be made for keyboards, in Lika cameras, in Porsche Cars, or Hermes Handbag and Scarf.
What is interesting about Senika is not that it is expensive. It is easy to make something expensive. This is interesting because it produces a keyboard of fanaticism to create the best potential keyboard, to prepare your switches and stabilizers, at preparations costs. It would be an interesting story even if it failed.
Ryan Noorbauer spent half the decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars that resurrect every part of the keyboard. He worked. Photo: Taha Kim / Noorbauer & to
You can read about the journey to prepare Ryan Nurbavier’s Sanica, which we have just published in the second article. The short version is this: Senika is a custom keyboard, a descendant of Norbauer’s post -housing that was prepared for the Noorbavier Topri Board, except here it is not just a residence that is customary. The whole keyboard is made of parts that you cannot achieve anywhere else, within the metal chassis, which is clearly manufactured to unnecessary precision, and the light -famous keyboard is accumulated by a small team of nerves in Los Angeles.
It is amazingly heavy, dishonest expensive, and incredibly pleasant, in such a way that only the enthusiasts of the Dead Keyboard will be fully appreciated.
Lack of a better word L. The, sensica feels Constant It weighs about Seven Seven pounds and looks like smooth concrete or worn stone. In this case the plasma is aluminum mild with ceramic oxidized finish, which has a hot brown texture form, but it feels completely smooth. It is difficult to lift it. It is nowhere to curl your fingers under it. This is to go to your desk and stay there.
Two color options for Senika: Trivorine (left) and oxide (right, unmanned caps). Photo for Nathan Edward / The Verge
The switches and stabilizers were developed by Norbauer & Company and are special to the company’s keyboards, which is still Sankica. They are the most interesting thing about the keyboard – the whole reason I wanted to test it. They are extraordinary.
The switches are a rough on the toppray capsatito dome design (found on the most famous hacking keyboard), but they are smooth and less rotating with a deep sound. Unlike every other toppaper -style switch, they are designed around the MX styling caps from the beginning, so housing cherries do not interfere with the profile caps. (This is much greater than his voice. It means that Sinika works with thousands of later caps seats, rather than he works rather than a naked hand that works with the topri boards).
Stabilizers, like switches, took many years to grow. They are firmly complicated and exceeded and exceeded, and they are undoubtedly the best stabilizer in the world. None of the steady keys have any confusion or tuition, and although the space bar is deeper than the rest of the keys, it is not much higher in my ears.
The switches and stabilizers, which are shown here, have the same “aerostium” design. Photo for Nathan Edward / The Verge
Typing experience is great. The keys are a large small collision at the top, a smooth down stroke, and a sharp -up stroke. The people in my review unit are the middle weight, which is believed to be like a 45 g toppur. There are light and heavy options.
The switches are silenced, not silent. Silicone rings on the slider and softens the stroke, and is a sharp between switch and PCB that calm down the down stroke and prevents the coil. (The switches are compatible with the constituencies to silence the third party. I tried an old silence X ring, and he did the right thing).
The switches and solid brass switch plates are gaskets between the plate, and the plate and the housing. Everywhere is the material of moist. The result is a deep, quiet ThockWithout Ping’s Indicator.
The keyboard’s information page states, “The sound of the gentleness of Sankica is often reflected in the rain. It deliberately has a vintage sound solid. Read whatever sound you want. Stuffy Executive Editor Jack Castrax, who did not read the Information Page but heard the bottom embedded typing test, Plus Said it looks like rain.
Whatever you compare, it looks like a sensicament and feels great.
Sanica is now available for pre -order, starting at $ 3,600, in the first edition of 100 to 150 units.
The unit I am examining is from the edition Zero – the first production run – which includes 50, which was presented in private sales to a small group of former Norbauer clients last summer, as well as testing, certification, and something else to review.
Edition came with Zero Sancas, including my review unit, closed source firmware that does not allow hardware -based key ramping, which is the biggest mistake for me. When Norbauer had given a commission to the firmware half decade ago, he did not choose to re -count for simplicity. It considered the software a standard layout keyboard to enlighten quite good, which does not mean taking the computer from the computer to the computer.
I do not share this opinion. I program the same function layer in all my keyboards, and whenever I arrive for a shortcut on Sankica, I am very angry with a moderate that is not yet available. But I have to admit to resetting this software-I am using the Carabinner element on Mac and the power tox keyboard manager on Windows is mainly tolerable in the short period. But re -make the hardware Is Important on compact keyboards, as the company plans to make the next. Norbauer Luka is working with Save, alias Ciplot. Third-party electrochemical PCB at the boy-new open source firmware that will allow again to be reset. This firmware will be available on Sanica, perhaps by the time the first edition keyboards are on the plane, but was not yet available during my test period.
Cable, of course, is customary. A non -coil version is also available. Photo for Nathan Edward / The Verge
Sanica uses four pin limo connectors at the end of the keyboard instead of USB-C. Photo for Nathan Edward / The Verge
There are some other rates. Sanica’s custom cable uses the USB-C and a lemon connector near the computer at the end of the computer. It looks very cool, and it maintains aesthetic integrated, but if Sanica is joining your desk in the rotation of other keyboards, it means that you have to change the cables each time. On the one hand, if you are buying 7 pounds, 6 3,600 keyboards, are you really going to remove it from your desk? On the other hand, if you care about the keyboards to buy it, you will probably have many good keyboards between which you want to wander. (Noorbauer is working on a USB-C Dongal with a short lemon, but was not ready even during the review period.)
Sankica has a flat typing angle. Most mechanical keyboards are higher than the front, with a typing angle between 3 and 11 degrees. Aergonumically, the flat (or negative) is better. An optional rise ($ 180, made from local hardwoods in South Africa) that you prefer, provides a three -degree typing angle. On a sink, I left it behind the keyboard Minus Three degrees angle, and now all my other keyboards feel strange. This can be the biggest impact of Sankica when my life goes ahead.
Sanica was used backwards with her optional rise. This is what looks like a peak performance. Photo for Nathan Edward / The Verge
During the last month or so, I have asked some friends and family members to try to type on Sanika. Most of them have desk jobs, and most of them use mechanical keyboards all day, but they are not keyboard nerves.
They, as a rule, are moderately affected. Everyone thinks it looks good, and everyone feels like it and feels like it, but they don’t fly. He did not destroy them for his catchers. Most of them ask where the number pad is.
At a functional level, Sanica does nothing more than $ 115 catcherone. In fact, it works less: there is no wireless, no back lighting, no volume noob, no hot swap switch, and (for now) no firmware wrapping. As a machine of typing, it is unchallenged, but perhaps not as if anyone other than the keyboard fanatic will take notice or care about it. And that’s fine.
If you are selling keyboards at $ 3,600, you have restricted your audience to two small and over -leaping groups. You have to be able to please the keyboard nerves on the ground that there is something about your keyboard that they can’t get anywhere else. And you have to persuade newlywed coders and status -affected desk jokes that you have pleaded with the keyboard nerve and that the price of this keyboard is half the enrollment level rollex.
Some fewer numbers of buying Sanica will surely do the same Because It is beautiful and useful, and they can afford it. And this is just as good as. But most, it is a luxury keyboard for a special type of keyboard fool. If your good idea is a loaded capsato board, Sanica is better than anything you can buy or build.
You don’t need to spend 6 3,600 to get amazing keyboard. Obviously. It is very easy to spend 6 3,600 on the keyboard. You can spend a great time with an off -shelf board that costs less than $ 100. Less than 10 % of the price of Sanica, you can get a naked bone cut keyboard, whatever switch and stabilizers and causes you want, and can gain more control over the final results than you have with Sinika. (Strong verification for the classic-TKL and the bowler light here). You can get a Real Force Keyboard for Real 250 and love the Topri Switch that launched Norbauer on the Sankica route all the years ago.
If you are smart, you will stop there. Or, if you are like me, you will find yourself after a decade with more keyboards than the computer, to spend $ 3,600 on the world’s best keyboard.
