Although i do have to ask why Razer Greens when all the awesome Kaihl BOX click bar switches are available?
I think a clicky switch should not be louder on the up-stroke!
- I don't see why people say MX switches are scratchy.
They
were noticeably scratchier than the competition a couple years ago before Cherry renewed their tooling. Vintage switches are smooth, and new switches are smooth. It is those from the mech gaming craze-era that are bad, and many people's opinion are of switches from that time.
What the heck are they programming that needs a keyboard larger than a 65% is what I'd want to know.
If you do programming in Microsoft Visual Studio, you need to use the F-keys: especially for debugging. Some functions are with Shift. In that case, having the keys is more useful than saving space.
Personally, (for programming or just text-editing) I am also used to having all 6 keys in the nav cluster above the arrow keys, except for Insert.
Not all 65% have the Del key, and those that do usually sacrifice Home
and End for it.
Not all programs support Ctrl+A/E for Home/End, but pretty much all programs support the dedicated keys and in text editors there are combinations with Shift and Ctrl with Home and End that are useful.
Years ago, Ripster wrote a guide on how to smelt and cast lead in your backyard BBQ grill to make weights to fit inside the bottom case shell.
... To put in his Filco, which was made from thin plastic. That was a mod to fix a deficiency.
Having a keyboard
designed to have a brass weight from the start, inside an otherwise solid and relatively heavy enclosure of solid aluminium is a different thing.
I'd bet that many of those aluminium cases are already heavier than Ripster's leaded Filco.