I love the Voyager so far. 💜

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How heavy is it? I’m afraid it might feel like a brick in the bag.

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Just the Voyager by itself is 419g.

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God I’m jealous l, are there any good alternatives for us poor people?

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For prebuilt, definitely an Iris keyboard without including switches and omitting the middle plate. If you’re fine going smaller then I recommend a prebuilt piantor which is similar to a corne but has a more aggressive pinky stagger. I very much recommend the Iris however since it’s the sleekest and well designed for its price with integrated rp2040 MCU making it feel “premium” compared to others in its pricerange with the pcb and mcu exposed in some manner.

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Lily58 or Iris?

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I think it depends on what you’re looking for. The Lily58, Iris, Corne, Aurora, and all other 40% boards I can think of have the thumb keys right up under the bottom row, which isn’t comfortable for me. Of course the Moonlander and Voyager aren’t 40% layouts, but I don’t use all the keys. But if thumb key placement isn’t a dealbreaker, those are excellent options!

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I forgot to say earlier… You have wonderful taste in keyboards and EQUALLY excellent taste in mechanical pencils.

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Thank you! 😊

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just curious but how would I get one of these? do I have to make it or is it something you can purchase as a prebuilt?

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You can only purchase it pre-built. 😊 https://www.zsa.io/voyager/

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You can only purchase it pre-built

nice def don’t have time to build one

thanks for the link!

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How is the moonlander? Worth the cost?

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I have the moon lander and like it a lot.

The downsides to it are that it is not wireless, and it has too many keys for me. If you keep everything on within one row from the Home row, you really only need like 36 keys.

Otherwise, I think it’s a great keyboard, even though it is expensive. 

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I have a Moonlander and think it is great. However, if I were to buy a new ergo split keyboard today, I would seriously consider a glove80: https://www.moergo.com/collections/glove80-keyboards/products/glv80-soldered?variant=44253212377361

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I’ve heard great things about the Glove80! I like a 40% layout, though, so it has way too many keys for me.

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I adore the Moonlander, and absolutely think it’s worth the cost. I plan to keep using both boards in different contexts.

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