Razer Blackwidow Keyboard versions?

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i wanting to get the normal version of the blackwidow without the lights and show.

but there are 2 versions, the one with a short shift key and long enter key and the one displayed in most pictures with short enters key and long shift key.

does anyone know which OCUK sell?
 
cool thanks. thanks for input mate.

i do prefer UK, least i only buy a keyboard once in 2-3 years :)

EDIT; lol, i would have realised that it was the US edition if i realised the " and @ had switched around. (i did have a sneaky suspicion but didn't want to gamble)
 
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i got mine from OCUK, althou its the ultimate not the standard
and its the uk layout

has large enter key, and long right shift, short left shift
 
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Brian8bit said:
The "fat" enter key is european ISO layout. The "long" and "thin" (single row) enter key is US ANSI layout. OCUK will probably sell the european ISO layout. Though you only limit your choice of keyboards if you use a single layout.

Personally I prefer using the US ANSI layout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#United_Kingdom
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I much prefer the US ANSI layout as well. Pretty used to it from living in Australia. The " key is in a much better location, great for programmers!

I'd miss the Alt-Gr key, £ and € on ANSI though.

I'm still can't decide from going US ANSI or UK though. If I got ANSI at home, I'd just get irritated with the keyboard at work.
 
r0cky said:
I much prefer the US ANSI layout as well. Pretty used to it from living in Australia. The " key is in a much better location, great for programmers!

I'd miss the Alt-Gr key, £ and € on ANSI though.

I'm still can't decide from going US ANSI or UK though. If I got ANSI at home, I'd just get irritated with the keyboard at work.
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That's one of the things I liked about the ANSI layout, the position of the quotation mark key. The hash symbol could be better placed though on ANSI. Put it where the pipe symbol is and move the pipe symbol in between a short left shift and Z.

The Alt Gr key still functions as such on ANSI. The only annoying thing with a lot of keyboards is the lack of second or third level legends on keycaps, so you either have to google where something might be or hold a modifier and hunt and peck at the keyboard until you find what you're looking for. But once you know where it is on a different layout, it's like riding a bike, you don't think about it.

I moved to ANSI simply because there were more mechanical keyboards out there in ANSI than ISO layout. But I found I came to prefer the skinny return key and the key layout more than I did ISO (though neither is perfect). For myself, I would buy two keyboards, one for work and one for home, so I wouldn't have to switch between keyboards. Maybe something with Cherry MX Reds or MX Blacks for work so I didn't annoy other people in the office and something with Cherry MX Blues, Buckling Spring or white Alp switches for home so I could CLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACK as much as I wanted.
 
Ctrl+Alt = Alt-Gr, so that's a work-around on US keyboards. Looks like the US international keyboard would be better, that does have the Alt-Gr.
 
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