The SIIG MiniTouch I ordered and received last week is going back to Amazon tomorrow. It doesn't have mechanical switches. According to the label on the box it has "enhanced conductive rubber key switches" which "last over 20 million keystrokes."
I had to go to:
http://www.ergocanada.com/ergo/keyboards/mechanical_vs_membrane_keyswitches.htmlto find out what a conductive rubber switch is. Anyway, it ain't mechanical, and so it's going back. Who knows, it may even be a decent membrane keyboard. I don't care, it's still going back.
It was worth $46 to satisfy my curiosity, but not worth $46 to keep. I have too many keyboards already.
The cover of the installation guide lists as one of this keyboard's features "high-quality keyswitches for the click and feel that typists prefer." That's what the SIIG web site says too. Not true. It doesn't really click, not like the Model M's or the Northgate Omnikeys/Avant Primes or Stellars.
The Fentek web site says it has "high quality tactile feedback." Which is very vague indeed. Before I ordered the keyboard from Amazon, I sent off a query to Fentek to ask about the key switches on this thing, just like iMav did. I don't know about iMav, but they never got back to me (it's been two weeks).
This is pure speculation, but I'm guessing that this keyboard once did feature mechanical switches. I'm basing this on the CompUSA listing I posted about above, for the AT version of the MiniTouch, which says that it has Alps key switches. So I'm thinking that both the SIIG and Fentek sites are intentionally vague to obfuscate the transition from mechanical switches to rubber dome technology. Again, just speculation.