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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Neo.X on Wed, 28 November 2012, 10:26:49
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Hi, I am thinking of getting a new MX switch keyboard, I have brown, blue, red, black and clear. So the next choice will be white or green. I heard that they both like quieter blue.
Can someone give me some help on the difference for those two switches?
Thansks in advance.
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Uh I don't know too much about MX white but isn't there a bunch of limited edition MX green board just came out?
Some are on sale too from what I've seen. I'd grab those now if I were you. In fact I think I've only seen MX white on one board right now can't remember which one, it's one of the smaller companies...
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They both have the same spring, whites are have a softer click because the legs on the slider thing that makes them click is slightly longer. Whites also feel a little less tactile to me but that might just be because of the difference in sound... I don't know. Greens are essentially a stiffer blue
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Going to bump this thread rather than post another one.
Anyone else have experience with MX Whites? Vortex has a few boards with them out already and Greens are readily available in the QFR and Trigger.
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Going to bump this thread rather than post another one.
Anyone else have experience with MX Whites? Vortex has a few boards with them out already and Greens are readily available in the QFR and Trigger.
Mx whites are great, like a quiet green. I'd recommend giving them a try.
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Mx whites are great, like a quiet green. I'd recommend giving them a try.
Is their spring different than Greens?
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Mx whites are great, like a quiet green. I'd recommend giving them a try.
Is their spring different than Greens?
Same, just slightly different slider to make the noise less clicky.
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i really like mx white sliders. i use lighter springs but the volume and tone is muuuuuch better than mx blue/green.
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Going to bump this thread rather than post another one.
Anyone else have experience with MX Whites? Vortex has a few boards with them out already and Greens are readily available in the QFR and Trigger.
Mx whites are great, like a quiet green. I'd recommend giving them a try.
They are not that quiet, with my jackhammer-bottom-out-always touch the thing is so loud you can hear them all throughout my house. If that is the case about greens then i wonder if i ever got my hands on green switches if they could be heard outside my house. lol
As for the whites feel, whites are actually fun to type on compared to my other keyboards i own or did own. but i found oddly that i am less likely to use excessive force with a 45 or 60 gram switch than with the ~80 gram whites. I started to hurt the keyboard and my fingers because my brain and hands kept feeling like it needed to pound on them to get them to work. what made it worse was i switch between 2 keyboards and one of them is the 45 gram hhkb, the difference in feeling was just too extreme to deal with. my mx white race now sits in my closet.
this is my experience and results may vary lol
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A video that showcases the difference between MX Blues (both plate-mounted and PCB-mounted), MX Greens, and buckling springs was posted a few days ago (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=38456.msg745250#msg745250). The Blues seem a little more high-pitched. I can't offer a first-hand opinion on how they compare because I have only one board and it has Greens, which I like a lot. I'm interested in trying all the other switches, though. The material your key caps are made of will also have an influence on the sound of typing.
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Mx whites are great, like a quiet green. I'd recommend giving them a try.
Is their spring different than Greens?
In my experiments with both, while the coin test showed roughly the same actuation force, it was consistently easier to prematurely actuate the white (with vibrations, normally) indicating that whites are probably very slightly (1-2grams or so) lighter. They feel the same to me. I believe the spring is the same.
Here are some photos for comparison
http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/dork_vader/Keyboards/