Cherry G80-1000 review (vintage Cherry MX black)

Could you please tell what exactly the difference in consctruction between vintage black's and modern black's? I'm using black's in office, just buy it used for only 30$. I actually prefer red's because it's so fast and light. But there's advantage of black's that they are quiet. I would like to know if I can improve black's some way, things I dont really like about them: they feels too heavy and looong.

I have a question.
I use a "G80 1000 LFADE /01" from Feb. 1998.
The switches under the cap are blue and also the article number says they are MX blue.
But they feel completely strange. You get a tactile feedback, like a little bump, but no click. Completely different to my other MX blue boards (G80-3000, TriggerZ, BlackWidow).
And it's not only the keys that you use a lot and could be worn out, but also Numlock and Scroll lock are like that.
Did they sell different blue switches?

How about the G81-8000LPDUS-2?

How do these compare to linear alps?

I'm wondering, what about vintage cherry mx browns? Are they just as rubbish as modern ones? If you happen to have a board laying around or you find a good deal on one, I'd love to see a review about it.

I NEED those Doubleshot keycaps!

Did you hear recently that Cherry updated their linear switches because of the Silents? Natural whites, reds, and blacks have new design stems and are supposedly far smoother than previous models.

Im using it right now xD

I have never really had any sense of my Cherry MX Black 'board being scratchy. It has a feel unto itself. I wouldn't say that it was the best for typing, but I can only sense a roughness when I'm depressing the key very slowly, which doesn't happen during my typing action. I find it to be good for gaming (not that I have time any more), but its main benefit is that it's pretty quiet for a mechanical. I can use it without annoying anyone nearby.

Well I own a modern cherry mx black board and this made me feel bad :(

Make Cherry Great Again

hey do you know of any keyboards with cherry mx vintage blacks that are still avalible in europe ?

I have this exact board, with those nice smooth MX Black swiches with diodes in them.
Problem is I don't like linears. I would like to solder some Kailh BOX switches in this board.
Am I gonna lose NKR because the diodes are in the switches?

will you ever try speed swichis

"... there is no screw anywhere in this mother fucker"
lol classic

Cherry feels like putting tiny wood bits and tips of slivers into dusty alps or rubber domes because of how scratchy the are.

The vintage one's sound way much better than the new switch's.

I own a MX 1500

I have this exact same board with vintage MX Black switches. I don't like linear switches, so I'm gonna replace them with some Kailh BOX Pale Blues/Kailh BOX White switches.
But these Cherry MX Black switches have integrated diodes, which complicates things a little.
I plan to resolder new diodes but on the other side of the PCB, opposite from the one where the swiches are. In that way diodes are not going to interfere with the new replacement switches.

where u buy

The modern ones sound like someone pleasuring theirself.

Your links "here and here" are missing... :(

In the keyswitch market, we have innovators like Kailh x Novelkeys and high end switches like Zeal. What does that leave Cherry with?

It's time for them to step up their game. They could start by restoring whatever manufacturing techniques were used to make the vintage switches and introducing some new switches like a first-party ergo clear.

This man Sounds like a murderer

Vintage Blacks from that era are maybe smooth... I just disassembled a board from 1992 (still Vints) and those switches were scratchy as heck. Again I disassembled a board from 1995 (not Vints anymore) and the switches were smooth. I think every time Cherry changed the tooling the first batches of switches were fine. This goes for Vints, Pretooleds, and Retooleds. All Vints being smooth is a myth.

I’ll put links here and here. No link.

Очень классно

So, Old Cherry = Gateron, pretty easy))

I like Popped Cherrys the best

Strange... My G80-3000 looks exactly like your G80-1000 and with the same print on the keycaps.
Maybe because it's a Norwegian version?
The article no. is G80-3040 HEN/02

Hi, are you willing to sell this keyboard? I am really looking for this for a while.

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Is this board programmable?

Coming from only watching his new vids, I was shocked when he started swearing LMFAO

Brilliant video.

"I measured this fucker with a tape measure" - Had me dying lol

Think about it, someone living in 1992 paid over $100 dollars for this thing. My Ajazz AK510 cost me only $75, has individual key RGB lighting, a chassis that doesn't flex, and SA profile PBT keycaps sitting on brown switches that, honestly, are quite pleasant to type on.

Looks towards wallet

Just bought a G80-1000 HAU and I needed to watch this again

hey, the switches don't sound scratchy as hell! That might be a record for cherry switches.

How they ever outdid alps, I'll never know

I had one of these a g80 with a card swipe originally a POS keyboard and it had some really nice blacks, I did morn its passing. Also mine was a black cased variant what really sold me on the g80 was its compact footprint for a full sized keyboard. I'm a heavy handed user and my current ride of SA caps on reds is noice but I yearn for gateron greens on a solid deck. For no other reason to get that super heavy key feel.

Tweeday?

shit, i need do find my granny's cherry keyboard right now!!

where do you get all these Keyboards from?

50p?! Absolute bargain

Easily worth 5$s - GMK nowadays multiplying this by 30