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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: CX23882 on Sat, 15 August 2009, 05:34:21
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Has anybody else tried the MX Blues whilst wearing earplugs? To me, they don't seem much different from the Browns. I think that a lot of the tactility you "feel" is a trick of the mind based on the noise that you hear making you think you should be feeling tactility.
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I suspect this is probably true enough. When I wear earplugs and type on my M, it actually feels squishy to me, and I can't type as well on it.
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they are definately 2 different switches and not just with a simple difference of the sound though. The switch is built differently so that in the blue, there are 2 levels of pressure you apply before the key is detected. The first one lets you push about 1/4 of a cm down, then after that the click comes. There is definately a little bit of force required to press through that click, and then it makes an audible tactile noise yay! For the browns, you press about 1mm down, and then you hit the pressure point where you have to press a little bit harder to get the key to be detected by the keyboard. Its just a direct up and down. Definately a difference.
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If you look at the internals of both of them, you'll see the blue has an extra moving part which causes the click and alters key feel due to inertia.
The brown is basically a solid plunger tripping the switch and hence doesn't do that much.
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I definitely think that the blue clicks differently than the browns. The blues have this snappy feel when it's actuated while the browns feel like there are bumps on the switch as it's being depressed.
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I definitely think that the blue clicks differently than the browns. The blues have this snappy feel when it's actuated while the browns feel like there are bumps on the switch as it's being depressed.
I have never tried brown cherries, but you have a very good description of the blue cherries. There is a snappy feel. It's hard to miss the tactile point even is one is typing fast and with a lot of force.