Future production rounds of these Novelkeys Creams, which are still being sold as of the day that this document is being written, stepped away from this issue. Both switches from these initial sample reviews, as well as the first small-scale production run after their announcement had a strong chemical smell to them that disappeared over the course of a day or two if left out in the open air to breathe – which had never been seen in switches to date. With most of the reviews showing relatively positive praises for some aspects, the switches did have their initial setbacks – the most notable of which were their smell. These samples, in turn, spawned a wave of reviews prior to the actual first sale of these switches. However, rather than jumping quickly to the en masse sale like most Novelkeys switches do now, these saw a few more steps.Īround late September of 2018, roughly a month after their initial announcement, Novelkeys had several sets of samples produced and scattered to many of the more popular voices in the community, including LightningXI, Chrisswires, TopClack, TaehaTypes, and many more. With an actuation weight of 55g, and a bottoming out force of 70g, these linear switches were to debut at $0.65 per piece – which at the time was towards the mid-high tier in terms of linear switch pricing. Formally being announced by Mike of Novelkeys in mid-August of 2018, the Novelkeys Creams were to be the first mechanical keyboard switch to be entirely made out of POM – top housing, bottom housing, and stem. I may or may not be getting asked constantly about my opinion on these switches, as well, and felt that maybe I needed an official longform opinion on them.Īlluding to my prior comment about the history of these switches, the Kailh Creams or Novelkeys Creams (the latter will be how I refer to them), have not only had an odd trajectory as of late, but even started out in a fashion slightly different than most other switches. Due to how old these switches are compared to some insanely popular options that are being currently being lauded in the community, I don’t think that this is too far out of the scope of this theme. However, I feel that the Novelkeys Cream switches have had a relatively unique trajectory over their year and a half long life span and are a bit deserving of a review as a result of this. While I hope that the documents that I have planned alone will be enough to keep you interested and satisfied, I want to thank you in advance for sticking around in the upcoming months.Īlso continuing the break from tradition, I’m aware that the ‘From the Vault’ series was started as a means to review and discuss modern switches that have since fallen past their limelight. Not to fret, however, as in lieu of this change of schedule, I’ve written several documents ahead of time to release over the course of my work time such that you all can still keep to the normal expected pace of reviews from me. While I am currently unaware of where I will be, I may be rotating major cities every few weeks and thus I won’t be able to review new switches in the same capacity that I normally can, if any were to pop up. Additionally, due to the decontamination units being placed close to hospitals in major cities being hit by the pandemic the hardest, I am going to be required to travel and stay in hotels for most of this time. While normally this wouldn’t be worth mentioning, I’m bringing it up as it is going to require me to be working 12-hour days, most days of the week for the next couple of months. Over the course of the last week I have been lucky to obtain an internship with a rather famous research and development company working on decontaminating N95 masks on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. So, initially I tend to start out these reviews with a little bit of a joke or anecdote prior to actually jumping into the review material, though I’m going to start this document with a bit of news, instead.
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