I'm fairly new at the forum scene, so bear with me.
So I downloaded Let Go on Sunday after church while sitting at McDonald's to kill time before I needed to be at work. With in 2 minutes of having the app, I found a "vintage IBM PC" for 50 bucks. So I immediately contacted the owner, called my boss to say I'll be two hours late due to a "minor accident" and drove off to pick it up ( real responsible 17 year old I am). Long story short, I got a 5150 (256k +256k expansion, modem card, dual floppy and a 20mb "Hardcard"), 5153 and a model F but no software.
Why is am I telling you all this? Well, I got another F XT to go along with my other F XT, an AT and a f107 to compare.
My f107 served as my control as I've had it the longest and what I was used typing on. My second F was my F XT which was in a pretty clean overall, but the Ebay Picture didn't show the shine on the caps. It has been extensively used, thus it has a "smooth and light feel" relative to my 107, my dad told me he liked the feel of the XT in that regard and he hasn't had a conscious exposure to mechanical keyboardmm). My AT was buried in dirt but but seen little use. which gave it a pingier sound and crisper key feel. Now here comes the twist, the 2nd XT felt extremely similar to the AT except for the fact that it's feel exceeds that of the AT! I My first XT had virtually no after ping on the more used key, second one definitely did.
From this I take that those who say that the XT has a better feel is really just have a more used board or some other thing of that matter and the opposing side have a had a relatively less used board. There was a noticeable difference in feel, which I think is mainly attributed to your mind thinking the key press was softer do to a less harsh sound.
That's my take, on the situation. To be honest it is a similar thing with Model Ms, I've had 2 metal logos, grey and a lexmark. The metal logos fell in the same boat as the Fs, grey feeling like the metal logo in better condition, and the lexmark 122 was more like the heavily used metal logo. The sounds to those more attributed to the weights of each generation, but still.
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