Are you one of those silly people that went down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards and now had to remortgage their house?
Do you want to give red switches a try because the default brown ones are too “scratchy”?
Or maybe you just feel like annoying your family members or colleagues with some green ones.
I’m any case, PCByte have you covered with $34 for either type. Not a bad deal for 120 switches if you’re into the whole mechanical keyboard thing.
lol i just want to buy a mechanical keyboard to see whats all the fuss!
Honestly unless you're doing a lot of typing I doubt you'll get any real benefit. I have tried quite a few expensive fancy mechanical keyboards and I have no idea why people care so much.
I acknowledge that some keyboards have a nice tactile feedback, but it's hardly an overwhelmingly pleasurable experience that makes the cost worthwhile. But then again, I'm not really a typist and I'd place far more emphasis on a high quality ergonomic mouse.
I think there is plenty of benefit to be had from a decent mechanical keyboard. There is a lot of variety for what they do though, e.g. some are better for gaming, some are more general for typing, you can get different weighted springs which are easier on the fingers, etc. etc.
Now that I've experienced some really nice smooth thocks it is impossible to go back to a standard keyboard. I definitely think there is plenty to appreciate with a nice keyboard, although some mechanical keyboards are cheap/nasty and if that's all you have used, I can see why you'd not see the point.
customisability, acoustics and feel.
It is also kind of unnecessary and I get why people think it may be silly. But yes, customisability, acoustics and feel.
I have tried quite a few expensive fancy mechanical keyboards and I have no idea why people care so much.
Just because you didn't get any benefit, doesn't mean the whole world has to agree with your holiness.
I personally hate the trend of keyboards having the look and feel of laptop keyboards… The laptop keyboards were designed to be small and compact to be able to fit in a laptop form factor with no consideration of ergonomics. You have Apple to thank for that chiclet-style keyboard trend.
I also find it annoying to have the number pad on the right side of the keyboard, which means I am usually sitting centrally between the mouse and keyboard, but typing at an angle towards the left. (Hence tenkeyless for me!)
I type a lot of reports for my day job and also occasionally game after work (or on the PS4), so that's my use case.
I know my hands and wrists feel much less pain from all the typing that I do. (I also use a trackball mouse for my day job, but that's a whole other story about ergonomics between my gaming and trackball mice.)
Each to their own of course.
The main thing I like about my keyboard (60% to TKL) is that I can sit in front of it and still have room for the mouse. Some people can’t live without the num pad, but personally full keyboards aren’t for me.
so if you dont really type that much or care about typing experience. sounds like you arent really the target demographic for an ENTHUSIAST product and therefore naturally wont see any real benefit. so its a bit misleading to give that kind of review with that context in mind
but thats not to say mech keyboards are meaningless for the average user. they absolutely have benefit
you only need to use a mech keyboard for a short while then go back to butterfly switches or even membrane to realise how horrible and different they feel
the main benefit of mech keyboards aside from the dozens of features and characteristics they offer is primarily CONSISTENCY. every keystroke is going to be exactly what you expect depending on the switch, build, lubrication, springs in your setup
with membrane for example. no 2 presses are the same. and its incredibly frustrating making typos or missed keystrokes because an exepected keypress didnt go through. completely breaks your workflow or mess you up in the middle of a game potentially
Just grab one and don’t go crazy. The main benefit I saw was the smaller form factor with 65% being the sweet spot.
+1 for your post
(Green) Heavy clicky:
65g Operating | 75g Bottom
This hobby is a dangerous slope
It ain't no slope, it's a straight drop.
I just want an affordable Dygma.
I bought the 39 Kogan wireless one. Very happy so far.
I heard good things about the yellows. What’s the main difference to the reds?
really nice spring (slightly heavier than reds) and decently smooth stock, but take very well to lube. These are milky housings too so the top-out will be a bit thockier. These are generally regarded as one of the best budget switches but also check out the akko CS series of switches as theyy're really nice options too
Thanks for the reply. Any good lube and tutorial you recommend for doing switches?
Anyone got recommendations for a budget mech build? or is it better to just buy a budget from keychron
I think the 'standard' when it comes to budget custom mechs is GK61 + Gateron Yellows. Lubing is recommended, and a good keycap set can be had for less than $50
Only thing with the GK61 is that it's a 60% keyboard, so no dedicated arrow keys. Takes a bit to get used to using the function key or mapping another key as a function key to get arrows again. If 60% is enough, there's lots of options at decent prices around.
You could go one step up to the 65% range and get something like the Ducky 2 SF, however I don't think they're hot swappable.
At 75% there's quite a few options and that might interest you. Keychron do a few including the K2 with a hot swappable model, and Royal Kludge have the RK84 which is also hot swappable.
Thanks for the detailed comment. I'll look into it
Will buy again & remortgage my home
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Why I am buying this….
Thanks OP