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How I Lost Interest Towards Mechanical Keyboards
How I Lost Interest Towards Mechanical Keyboards
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This is how I lost interest towards mechanical keyboards through my keyboard adventures from 2013 to 2020.
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This is a great video, but it doesn't appear you ever really tried very many switches. You seem to gravitate towards clickies … but haven't tried any particularly good ones like box click bar switches (jades, navies, pinks, etc)?
Personally, I just went right back to Cherry MX blue when I first tried the Model M. I didn't see what was so special about buckling spring until I tried a Model F. It is so much smoother and more consistent. Capacitive buckling spring has been one of my favorite mechanisms ever since, along with Alps (and Clickiez). Box clickies aren't far behind.
I do like both Topre and Niz, and they and Alps are my favorite tactiles, but I like Niz a bit more than Topre.
There's so much yet to explore. You really need a switch tester, even if just sticking to boring old MX.
I'm going to keep laughing about the thought of trading in Topre for Gateron black.
a quality chiclet keyboard is better than any affordable mechanical keyboard
This is how I feel about Operating Systems and just keep going back to Windows. I don't even like my Android phone. Hope ReactOS can one day pick up where Microsoft dropped off.
bro barely touched the surface of the keyboard hobby and lost interest 😅
Actually the same. Ended up with hybrid Razer Ornata and never looked back to mechanical because I tried like 10 different versions and none of them actually brought any value in terms of usability or performance or just good old QoL.
This sounds like someone who decided to jump into the deep end before they could even swim and wants to complain about how they almost died. Like you can buy hotswap keyboards and never have to solder anything ever. You can do more research into what keyboards are the best and just buy the one you want instead of going through this crazy DIY journey when you arent remotely ready.
I still own my first mechanical keyboard like 6 years later. I got a Ducky mecha mini with brown switches. Absolutely love it still.
I didn't know Estonia also uses 1a
My endgame switch is Alps whites. But given that I can't acquire a reasonably modern board with them since you know, they've been discontinued at this point for decades, I'm perfectly happy with my Niz plum keyboard.
It kinda feels like you haven't tried any of the custom metal barebones kits or switch configurations. Try and buy a Sugar65 or something that is inexpensive/good build quality and you can they try all of the MX switches that you haven't had a go at. You could buy switch sample packs as well of all the switches that you've mentioned you'd like to try and get the feel for them without financially committing to a full set
K-Mart used to have mechanical keyboards on the bottom shelf in the back of the store for $6. I bet I have a few old ones in a closet next to a Pentium 166 IBM Aptiva pc that $5000 but the entry to the dial up aol internet. All the lettering on them is probably worn off, at least wasd is for sure.
holy, i don't speak yapanese. Someone give me the TLDR
Unicomp makes reproductions of the keyboards with the original equipment. It's sort of a mom and pop shop based in Kentucky, but you should be able to find their website decently enough
In your ABS versus PBT comparison, you are unfairly maligning SA keycaps made by Signature Plastics. SA keycaps are big, beefy keycaps made of ABS.
Get an IBM Model M keyboard. Works PERFECTLY and lasts a lifetime, until the next heavy ironcast POT "falls" on it from the sky. Maybe installing a pot-filter above it could prevent such a natural disaster. Is that what they call firewall?
I built my first board 2 years ago.
It took me about 2 years in total to research parts, & what I have is almost perfect. I can spend hours ad hours going goober parts. testing switches you name it & I always come back to my first build. the only thing that I added was I got the Tofu V2 not that long ago as at the time I wanted mine the Tofu was selling for $400 ish.. & I just couldn't do that, so I got the ID67 which was cheap & did me well. but not being a plate mount I was never happy.
It cost me $560 & I find it hard to look back.
I have a couple of others I like but nothing is like my first xD
I will be trying some new switches soon & I too want outlook at light but anger springs so see ho that works for me.
other than that I am very happy with where I'm at with it.
eesti eesti eesti!!!
Mechanical keyboards like this just made me go back to scissor switches. The keyboards are cheap enough when they start to wear down I just throw them away and get a new one. I don't care about customization.
1:40 it actually looks good, as having a different color for control keys (+ space bar and windows key) adds to the visual ergonomic. That said (as some "positive" way to look at it), I agree with your argument, of course. Something else: in 2013, mechanical keyboards were NOT "relatively unknown": they were the very first PC keyboards since the 1980's-90's, and widely used up to around 2005. They were left aside because of their noise, especially for work environments, but they're sill the most reliable and durable keyboards.
One of my early keyboards from the 80's 90's was mechanical, and another one I had used reed switches! beautifully silent!
This is actually pretty similar to my trajectory in the hobby.
I got into it around 2013 as well. Started with a Daskeyboard 4 Professional with Cherry MX blues. After weeks of pouring over every single review I could find comparing MX browns to MX blues at the time, I decided to go with blues because I was in college and writing a lot of papers, and blues were marketed as more of a "typist" switch at that time.
Just like you, as I dug deeper into the world of keyboards, I eventually stumbled across discussions of buckling spring keyboards, and I ended up purchasing a Model M from Unicomp.
I've gone through many, many keyboards over the years, but I've settled on 2 "endgame" boards:
1.) My Leopold FC660C with 45g silent topre switches
2.) My Model F Labs F77 Reproduction with capacitive buckling springs
I haven't typed on keyboard with MX style switches in probably three or four years at this point.
Curious is n-key roll over a thing?
You and I had the same first mechanical keyboard. At the time, I thought that board was cool. But I quickly grew to hate it and its super loud switches.
Them nails, though.
Mechanical keyboards are great if you are seeking to type slower than you can on a scissor switch.
I've built a few keyboards from kits such and the plank and preonic. I expect that there is a hand wired keyboard in my future along with 3d printing. I've seen a number of keyboards that I like but at this point due to the limited availability of QMK/VIA keyboards I'm caught up in the Keychron family. K6 Pro, K2 Pro, and in the not to distant future the Q9. One I got my first plank, and had the option to program the keys with the QMK software, it put an end to my use of non QMK keyboards. I also like the smaller footprint. You did not make any comment about mice in your journey, I suspect that you had a similar journey to your current mouse as you did your keyboards. I did as well. Currently sporting the Logitech M650 in a Left hand configuration. My journey started on a Teletype Model 33 ASR, then the IBM models M and F-122.
Meh.. my experience with mechanical keyboards was bad. Too expensive, easier to break, too loud. Thus I'm keeping on using cheap and quiet membrane keyboards.
Mechanical keyboards came first, grew up with the GOAT… the IBM Model M.
Mechanical keyboards were not "relatively unknown" in 2013.
They have been "known", being the main kind of keyboard starting in the 1980s.
It's just that membrane keyboards became more common for a while, because they were cheaper.
The last decade they just RETURNED to popularity. They were not new, not relatively unknown.
"Interest in", not "interest toward".
Orange keys from razer are the best 😀
mech keyboards are popular since the 80s my man lol
browns last longer but blues easy to press so easier is better
This is awesome
Hah, very similar story to mine… I will be trying the new low profile Gateron switches though to see if that is maybe a better feel for me.
For me, this is madness 😅. I go to the shop, test some keyboards, and bring the best I feel, either mechanic or membrane, and be happy. BTW, I use so many different keyboards, on laptops, PCs, low profile keys, membrane, mechanical, that they are no problem for me. Interesting enough, i am a pianist, i play the keys 🎉🎉❤
after hearing mx blues i turned off the video
I was surprised that there wasn't a part of the video where you got your feet wet in custom mechanicals. All the work you went through to replace switches on prebuilts when the process of building a nice custom (past 2020) is around the same cost and most likely much less effort. But hey, everyone has their own subjective opinion and it's cool you found something you really like.
Dawg pls cut ur nails
This is a rabbit hole I never want to go into and I am never paying more than 20 euros on a damn keyboard.
Been in this hobby for over 10 years, and had to pause and comment when i saw the poker.
Just pulled that out of my closet last week, used to be my laptop keyboard.
Really want some Topre one day, but im all about light somewhat quiet linear switches ever since I tried MX Reds
Have you considered creating a luxury topre keyboard? Similar to a mechanical keyboard, a luxury topre keyboard has a noticeable difference compared to a low or mid tier one.
You can find the old springy bois at goodwill regularly
i just removed one of my swtiches from my none hot swap bnord, and got knows how bad it was, like i was literally spent about 20 mintues for one switch can't believe that you removed all of them back then
Always when i see the shitty fucked up keyboards on marketplaces i think "Who sells them?!" and "Who the fuck buys that modded junk?!" – now i know 😉
TTC Bluish White is topre-ish, you should check them out!