Hey there,

I have a bit of a problem. I'd love to buy a mechanical keyboard, but I'm from belgium. We use AZERTY-keyboards here, but I can't seem to find any mechanical on the market. I found some French AZERTY keyboards, but the symbols are placed entirely different compared to Belgian keyboards so I don't want those. Does anybody know how I can get a Belgian AZERTY mechanical keyboard?

Thanks

n0ah

United States250 Posts

June 04 2013 20:50 GMT

I have no idea how much this would help, but after a few searches I was lead to this website:

http://www.materiel.net/clavier/cherry-g80-3000-38775.html

Maybe you'll find something useful there?

glhf

*EDIT*. I'm dumb. I realized that the keyboard I linked is a French keyboard. -_- My bad.

scudst0rm

Canada1149 Posts

June 04 2013 21:04 GMT

If Belgian mechanical keyboards even exists, you'll still have a very limited selection. I would try to get a good mechanical keyboard and use software to remap the keys to what you want. Perhaps you can even get keycaps for the special character keys if you really want to.

andeh

United States904 Posts

June 04 2013 21:41 GMT

If you get a das ultimate label-less keyboard, you can pretend it to be any keyboard you like !

xJuMMo

Belgium7 Posts

June 04 2013 21:45 GMT

Mechanical keyboards with belgian layout actually do exist, i am the owner of one. Got a CM Storm Quickfire Pro red switches WITH belgian layout. Was searching for a keyboard with red switches & belgian layout, and seemed like CM Storm was the only one providing that. Payed mine about €100 and got it delivered & arrived within 3 days. If i were you, i would definitely take a look: the price is decent, they are quite good & sturdy & they have all the popular Cherry MX switches (black, blue, brown & red).

Hope you can find what you are looking for!

Zergonomic

Belgium6 Posts

June 05 2013 15:49 GMT

Hmm, I'll take a look at a CM keyboard. Never heard of it before though. Is it any good?

YouthSC

United Kingdom355 Posts

June 05 2013 15:55 GMT

I would go for the Das Ultimate
Simply because it's Cherry MX Blues and has no keys written onto it. So it can be Belgium layout, Japanese, Urdu or whatever it is that you want to type. For me it would've been a good choice since I type Spanish, English, Chinese and Japanese and sometimes it's a pain in the ass to be typing letters that aren't in the keyboard.

But if not, seems like the CMStorm Quickfire Pro is the best bet!
From looking at the CMStorm website, that link is the only online re-seller that actually works.

a176

Canada6688 Posts

June 05 2013 16:24 GMT

some quick googling tells me corsair sells azerty mechanicals. im not sure about specifically being french or belgian. i would email them and ask, they are good on customer support

http://www.corsair.com/de

scCassius

United States254 Posts

June 05 2013 16:42 GMT

Get a WASD Keyboard.

btlVega

Germany53 Posts

June 05 2013 17:44 GMT

#10

You can by french ones here:

http://www.keyboardco.com/

French use AZERTY too, don´t they?

Edit: Sorry I should read the thread :/

But if you want to go with something like that, you can get a belgium Cherry G80 with black switches.
Google this: G80-3000LPCBE-0

randi

8 Posts

June 05 2013 18:21 GMT

#11

We do not have the same AZERTY layout.

You may buy the g80-3000, but be warned it is a bit poorly built (and has no plate).
Honnestly i moved to QWERTY (us-intl) which is quite better if you do some programming.

Edit : as to the Quickfire Pro, it is made by the EOM iOne, which is usually considered not as good as Costar-made boards.

MrGh0st

United States35 Posts

June 05 2013 18:53 GMT

#12

On June 05 2013 06:45 xJuMMo wrote:
Mechanical keyboards with belgian layout actually do exist, i am the owner of one. Got a CM Storm Quickfire Pro red switches WITH belgian layout. Was searching for a keyboard with red switches & belgian layout, and seemed like CM Storm was the only one providing that. Payed mine about €100 and got it delivered & arrived within 3 days. If i were you, i would definitely take a look: the price is decent, they are quite good & sturdy & they have all the popular Cherry MX switches (black, blue, brown & red).

Hope you can find what you are looking for!

+1 for CM Mechanical Keyboard!

Honeybadger

United States821 Posts

June 05 2013 20:35 GMT

#13

If you want cheap, CM seems to have the market cornered.

But QWERTY is such a standard, I'd honestly just learn that.

Most french that I know use QWERTY. I can type my french quite well on QWERTY, once I figured out the alt codes for ç,é,ê,ë, etc.

randi

8 Posts

June 05 2013 20:40 GMT

#14

with QWERTY us you need alt codes, with QWERTY international ' and ` become dead keys allowing `+e=è or '+e=é and so on.

Jellicent

Germany23 Posts

June 06 2013 06:29 GMT

#15

If you have the money, go for a "das Keyboard". Worth the money.
And since you can always change the layout on your operating system.. it's not a big deal memorising your keyboard layout. I'm using dvorak and learned it within a a week or two (also modified it) and it's the best for 10-finger-system typing.

But if you're looking for a Belgium keyboard on/imprinted layout I can't help ya.

neptunusfisk

2286 Posts

July 13 2013 12:49 GMT

#16

You can always move the caps and/or buy new ones with custom prints. I myself prefer blank caps, but at the moment I have letters on them (but in a totally wrong order :D + Show Spoiler +

)

DoubleAce

United States108 Posts

July 13 2013 13:31 GMT

#17

Honestly, as I mentioned before in the other thread go for

This steelseries Keyboard

I've heard good stuff about their other one 6gv over here, but my friend said its not good. This steelseries keyboard has kept me going since BW to Sc2 its good.

neptunusfisk

2286 Posts

July 15 2013 21:36 GMT

#18

On July 13 2013 22:31 DoubleAce wrote:
Honestly, as I mentioned before in the other thread go for

This steelseries Keyboard

I've heard good stuff about their other one 6gv over here, but my friend said its not good. This steelseries keyboard has kept me going since BW to Sc2 its good.

Funny guy posting a qwerty board (from steelseries, on top of everything) in a thread explicitly named "Azerty.."

ImgTrinity

3 Posts

July 15 2013 21:46 GMT

#19

Well, I'm belgian too and I wanted a Zowie celeritas (fanboy yeahyeah). But impossible to find it in the belgian layout so I just took a french one and tbh, it doesn't take so long to get used to it.

Cyro

United Kingdom20278 Posts

July 15 2013 22:06 GMT

#20

You could consider learning Dvorak layout as an option