Saitek Eclipse II VS G15 v2 ??

[cl0ck_ed]

Which one to go for guys? I think they both look great. My brother has the G15 and it feels nice but the macros buttons never get used and i wouldn't use them. The lcd is a nice touch though and is usful for flicking through itunes.

But I don't think an extra £20 for the lcd is money well spent.

Has anyone any experience with these keyboards?? I want a keyboard with a really positive key stroke, and not spongy/squishy like my £2.54 labtec atm.

Any views on the two?

 

[Kerotan]

If you can wait till tomorrow- i have a G15 on its way I'll let you know how I find it, I think the G15 has better backlighting, with less bleed between keys, it was that which swayed me in the end- I had been intent on a blue backlight but I got a G9 the other day, and the orange colour actually looks real nice!

Then I realised today that I'd actually spend £95 on just my desktop lol and I felt a little stupid...

 

[ionicle]

i have had the G15 mk1

and i currently have the Saitek eclipse mk 1 ...

the latter is the better of the two for quality of typing, the former is better for features...

 

[cl0ck_ed]

If you can wait till tomorrow- i have a G15 on its way I'll let you know how I find it, I think the G15 has better backlighting, with less bleed between keys, it was that which swayed me in the end- I had been intent on a blue backlight but I got a G9 the other day, and the orange colour actually looks real nice!

Then I realised today that I'd actually spend £95 on just my desktop lol and I felt a little stupid...

That would be great, yeh is alot of money. I have a G5 and love it.

 

[cl0ck_ed]

i have had the G15 mk1

and i currently have the Saitek eclipse mk 1 ...

the latter is the better of the two for quality of typing, the former is better for features...

Great, thats all i need to know. I do the the G15 is too much for what it is.

If the saitek feels nice and solid its the keyboard for me.

 

[Mr. Smith]

I HATE the spacebar on the saitek it needs quite a whack to work, crap design. I only ever had MS ones before that and never had issues... Next keyboard is going to be awesomely expensive to avoid any quality issues...

Oh, other than the spacebar thing it is a nice solid kb...

 

[ionicle]

i never had that issue with my saitek ....

 

[jackvdbuk]

dont leave out the relucsa, i have it and its a quality keyboard, looks good, great design and layout

also quite a bit cheaper than the G15

 

[AydST]

being quite large in the finger department I much prefer the G15 but I do prefer the Mk1 over the Mk2

Can't use the Saitek keep hitting wrong keys with my sausage fingers and the Lycosa sucks even worse

 

[Bungral]

I HATE the spacebar on the saitek it needs quite a whack to work, crap design. I only ever had MS ones before that and never had issues... Next keyboard is going to be awesomely expensive to avoid any quality issues...

Oh, other than the spacebar thing it is a nice solid kb...

Eclipse or Eclipse II?

 

[Rastalovich]

I can`t promote the G12 V2. Even tho I love the V1, the V2 just doesn`t offer anything +ve for me.

How can u screw up a model revision so much ?

 

[Kerotan]

Well I got my G15 today, and i'm really chuffed with it. It's a bit wierd to type on atm, as the keys are narrower than my previous labtec, so i keep pressing the wrong ones, but it's really easy to depress keys and they still give satisfying tactile feedback

The first thing i did was map G6 to Ctrl, as I keep pressing it by accident so it might as well be Ctrl for now as i don't have another use for it right now.

The "lock windows key" key is pretty useful for gaming, and the little LCD is not gimmicky at all, it's actually really useful for seeing where ur CPU is getting stressed, whether a game is using loads of RAM etc, as well as displaying songs which is handy without having to bring up your media player each time.

The backlight is OK, there are a couple of keys which imo look as if they could do with a little clean at the back to allow the light to shine through fully. It's really hard to get good pictures but this one kinda shows the backlighting.

 

[cl0ck_ed]

being quite large in the finger department I much prefer the G15 but I do prefer the Mk1 over the Mk2

Can't use the Saitek keep hitting wrong keys with my sausage fingers and the Lycosa sucks even worse

The keys aren't any smaller than a standard keyboard are they?? The G15 seems a standard size.

Well I got my G15 today,

The backlight is OK, there are a couple of keys which imo look as if they could do with a little clean at the back to allow the light to shine through fully. It's really hard to get good pictures but this one kinda shows the backlighting.

That is looking alot brighter than my bros G15.lol

 

[ionicle]

bleugh

dont like the colour

the blue version on the V1 was far better...

prefer the layout though

looks good

 

[Kerotan]

Colour is actually not too bad, kinda subtle and doesnt grab your eyes when you're lookin at the screen. I admit a blue V2 would probably be my fav choice [watch them bring one out next week now lol] but I guess I could always do something like this if I was too bothered about the colours, would be a challenging and interesting project I reckon.

 

[tomglenn]

I have the Saitek Eclipse II and I absolutely love it.

Extremely comfortable and I haven't experienced any issues with the spacebar.

If you have a girlfriend though, be prepared to accept the fact that the backlight is going to be set to purple/pink when she's around! haha!