I'm thinking about getting mechanical keyboards for my boyfriend and/or me, but I'm worried that our priorities are at odds with what mechanical keyboards are like.
My boyfriend:
- He mostly games, types little.
- I doubt he ever bottoms out.
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Me:
- I only type, never game on my desktop.
- I always bottom out.
We're both currently using super-cheap keyboards we got on Newegg (mine is a Rosewill scissor switch, his is probably some dome thing). I just want a more tactile and less mushy feel, but I'm not willing to sacrifice a lot of travel distance.
Do you think there are mechanical keyboards out there for us? Or should we just stick with our current solutions?
Awww.. poor you....
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The only truely quiet mechanical keyboards are the TOPRE Silent... and standard RUBBERDOME..
ALL MX will be loud even with o-ring dampening...
The matias quiet pro, is "SUPPOSE" to be quiet, but IMO they're not that much more quiet than dampened MX,
And a major issue is they don't make custom keycaps for the quiet pro alps switches, so you can't personalize your keyboards in the future...
If there's nothing wrong with what you have now.. There really isn't any reason for you to go mechanical...
The only reason, most of the people made the leap here was because of "false promises" made by manufacturers, or nostalgia
Since I'd assume you are too young to remember model M, nostalgia's out.
And as for the manufacturer claims of, IMPROVED accuracy, and SPEED... Sean Wrona sets record on any keyboard anytime...
Though now he speaks differently since he got sponsored by DAS keyboards.
You also DO NOT want to get a DAS because they switched oems and are no longer the quality they used to be.