Hello, my name is Jason, and I have a new addiction... mechanical keyboards.
I have been a PC enthusiast since the mid 90s. I have always looked over, now in my humble opinion, the most important part of the PC experience, the keyboard. I had always been one to drop thousands on the latest and greatest hardware inside my case and purchase the best mice I could get my hands on, I was always meh about my keyboard.
Well, in the last few months I was watching a lot of hardware reviews on the YouTubes, and once in awhile a mechanical keyboard review would be in the cue. I would normally just skip it and find another soundcard review or video card review, but one day I decided to sit and watch one about a keyboard. I couldn't help wonder to myself, why would anyone be so excited about a darn keyboard. Well, this individual in the review kept stating how wonderful this type of switch was, and this kind of switch, and the actuation point and click and clack and bump point and so on and and so forth.
This guy was really into this darn keyboard. It sounded like it was the begin all and end all of computing. So I started watching other videos from different reviewers. They as well were excited about mechanical keyboards. After about a month of watching video after video on YouTube about mechanical keyboards, which many of the videos talked about geekhack.org, I decided I must try this for myself.
So the next I got a chance to go the mall here, I went to Exite, Kuwait's version of Best Buy, and saw a Razer Blackwidow Stealth on the shelf. I decided, heck, might as well give it a try.
HOLY CRAP! I have been missing out for almost 20 years of using PCs. So, at my tower I would have this nice keyboard, but my media server still had a lesser keyboard. So, the next time I was at Exite they had the Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth on sale. So I put the Ultimate on my tower and the plain Stealth on my server.
And I kept watching reviews. They kept talking about WASDkeyboards. Well, I got one. The Ultimate is on my Server, I'm typing right now with the WASD on my tower, and I'm bringing the Plain Stealth back and forth with me to work to use on my work laptop.
But does this end here? Oh heck no. Unfortunately Razer doesn't have anything on WASD. So I just ordered two more. One for my server and one for work. I will be sending the Razers back to the States for my brothers.
Well, that's my story, so far. I decided to join up so I can learn even more about the real keyboard experience that is mechanical in nature.
I am one of those Linux/Windows Dual boot guys, so that you know. I'm just weird like that.
Thank you for reading.