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Mechanical Keyboards
Ok I'm currently using a Razer Blackwidow keyboard, and I love the way the keys sound. Love the nice green backlight. Hate that it does shit like cc or mm or ss on a fairly regular basis, so I'm looking into purchasing a new one. Opinions Go!.
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These things are built like tanks. It's survived moves, spilled coffee, and who knows what else over the years. Though if you like blacklights and all that, it's maybe no the best choice - I bought it because it has almost no lights, and I even got one with blank keycaps (So shiny! So chrome!). I am not a person who likes LEDs on my stuff. I do know that a lot of people really like the Ducky keyboards, which have a lot more flashy colour and light options.
The biggest decision with a mechanical keyboard is always going to be the switches though. I have browns, which are still a little clicky, but not nearly as loud as blues - I think they're a really nice middle of the road in terms of loudness, stiffness, etc. Blues are awesome for typing if noise will never be an issue and you don't really plan on doing a ton of gaming (other than Achaea anyway). Blacks and reds have always seemed a little bit pointless to me - who would buy a mechanical keyboard that didn't have any feedback in the keys?
My only problem has been that I have worn the inked letters on some of the key caps down over the past four years. This is fine since I touch type, although I would probably look at a Ninja if I were to buy another one these days (letters inked on the front of the keys instead of the top, just ends up looking cleaner overall).
No backlight at all, although the lock LEDs are bright enough that I had to put tape over them to blunt them a little. Solid Cherry MX Brown switches, never had a problem with rollover even when playing WoW, SWTOR, GW2, Doom, what have you that is not Achaea, and perfectly solid to type on for long periods of Achaea or coding or other writing.
You can choose between none or 3 different backlight options.I has about 16 programable keys on the left..plus a numlock set on the right.Volume button ext.
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And speaking about being built like a tank im pretty sure this fucker was built from the black box they put on airplanes.
Blues are pretty loud. If you look a loud keyboard with a lot of feedback, you would not be disappointed.
My current has been working great so far. GIGABYTE Aivia Osmium mechanical keyboard. Cherry red, I believe. Comes with a simple little plastic key puller that makes removing keys for cleaning so much easier.
Just to mess around with people, I used it to change around random keys. F5 is now F12.
When you spend your life hammering nails into hardwood, you get a hickory shaft hammer with a balanced head, that has a claw end for pulling nails out.
When a huge part of your life is spent typing on a keyboard, you get a top of the line keyboard, with all the bells and whistles ...
I'll pay $200 for a touch sensitive, mechanical, A-shape-key, backlit keyboard. What's more though, is that I'll buy two. One for home and one for the office.
I'll add another $15 to that if they'll give me a matching high end optical mouse, with a carbon-fibre mouse pad.
But that's just me, because my hands are on a keyboard 8 hours of the day, and that's when I'm not playing Achaea.
That is not true of keyboards. The difference between a mechanical keyboard and a rubber-dome keyboard is gigantic. It's astoundingly easy to tell the difference and virtually everyone prefers mechanical when they try them.
They also tend to last a lot longer. Like I said, I've had the same keyboard for almost a decade. While it's true that replacing a $10 keyboard every year doesn't add up to the same price, it does make the price seem a little more reasonable.
My only gripe with it is the small left-hand Shift key, but most keyboards seem to be going that route these days
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