Ive been looking for a keyboard recently and I think Ive decided on cherry blacks. Problem is everywhere I look no one has anything available with blacks. Massdorp keyboards, the ones with cherrys available dont have a black option. The sites that sell keyboards...all of the keyboards with black are OOS. Its strange. Anyone know anything about a lack of availability of cherry blacks?
So on from that Would black be good for me. Right now Im using blues, but I want to try something different. I think the blues are a touch light for me but I type well on it. I have 2 boards with clears ans I like them but they are too stiff for me. A lot of typing on the and my fingers get tired. Im going to switch them to ergos but I need a soldering iron, working on that.
I hear a lot of talk about reds being really light and Im afraid they may be, so I decided on blacks but I dont want to have the same problem I have with the clears.
loki993: Yes, MX Reds are very light. If you like any kind of resistance when you type, you probably won't like them.
Yes, the springs in MX Clears are slightly stiffer (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX) than the springs in MX Blacks. But Clears are also tactile, like MX Blues—you feel a "bump" when they actuate. That makes them feel more complicated, which can make them feel even heavier.
Blacks are smooth (no bump), and IMHO, they give just the right amount of resistance to make typing feel good. Like most mechanical switches, Cherry MXs actuate only halfway through their travel—so the farther you push them past that point, the more time and effort you're wasting. Because Blacks are harder to bottom out ("mash"), you can learn to float along on them, typing as quickly and easily as possible. (Ironically, Reds are too light to do that... Typing on them without bottoming out is more trouble than it's worth.)
You can probably tell by now, I think MX Blacks are awesome. If you have the dough for a new board, I highly recommend a SteelSeries 6Gv2:Show Image(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VYzXGY9f7Kc/maxresdefault.jpg)
It's one of the most solid boards ever. With its compact steel case and first-class construction, it's gotten mostly 4- and 5-star reviews. There's no backlighting—and yes, it has a "big-ass" Enter key, but you quickly get used to that, and the rest is pure typing goodness.
You may get the best deal by ordering one directly from SteelSeries (https://steelseries.com/gaming-keyboards/6gv2) for $99 plus free U.S. shipping. They're usually $10–20 more elsewhere, including eBay. Be sure to get one with Blacks, since they're also made with Reds.
Used boards with MX Blacks appear on eBay, but you have to look for them. CM Storms are good-quality, less expensive boards that include Black-switch versions. Besides gaming boards, some of Cherry Corp.'s Black-switch POS (retailing) boards turn up now and then that you can get in good shape for just $25–45. Deskthority's Cherry MX Black page (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Black#Keyboards_with_Cherry_MX_Black) lists some specific Cherry boards with Blacks. If the switch color isn't shown in the photos or described in the text, you search the Deskthority Wiki (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page) for certain model numbers too. Hope this helps! – A.
(Ironically, Reds are too light to do that... Typing on them without bottoming out is more trouble than it's worth.)
Steelseries keyboards actually have a really annoying problem - double pressing keys... If you press a button once, it sometimes registers multiplate key presses... If you google a bit you'll find lots of people with the same issue... The 7g has the same issue.
Steelseries keyboards actually have a really annoying problem - double pressing keys... If you press a button once, it sometimes registers multiplate key presses... If you google a bit you'll find lots of people with the same issue... The 7g has the same issue.
I've never heard of that happening with the G6v2. Mine's been trouble-free since I got it over a year ago.
If you look hard enough, you can find people having problems with any product. People are much more likely to post complaints than to post about things that work well.
If some SS boards have had that problem, it's news to me. And are you sure it involved the 6Gv2 too, or have you just assumed that? Every hardware company has occasional "problem" products, so it's usually more helpful to stay model-specific.
If you're typing on blues and they're a touch light, greens might be the way to go. The lack of a tactile bump will have you bottoming linears all the time, which will probably hurt your hands more than the blues do.
THIS IS WHY I LOVE ME MY DUCKY SHINE 69 FIRE EDITION.So tell us how you really feel, lol. ;D
(too bad the Year of the Goat's rGB backlighting and the Shine 5 Nature White made me retire it) . But I keep hooking it back up if I want to type a lot. I would donate my kidney from my already disabled body (disorders) for a MX Green shine 5 ~__~).
If you're typing on blues and they're a touch light, greens might be the way to go. The lack of a tactile bump will have you bottoming linears all the time, which will probably hurt your hands more than the blues do.
If you're typing on blues and they're a touch light, greens might be the way to go. The lack of a tactile bump will have you bottoming linears all the time, which will probably hurt your hands more than the blues do.
Yeah..im a hard typer I bottom everything out so I'm afraid greens may wear me out too
Have you tried Montereys? They're so delicate that they made me type super light all of a sudden, I've never been influenced by a board as much. They're also a delight to type on. The boards they come in are all fairly flimsy though, a bit what I expect modern keyboards to be like xD .If you're typing on blues and they're a touch light, greens might be the way to go. The lack of a tactile bump will have you bottoming linears all the time, which will probably hurt your hands more than the blues do.
Yeah..im a hard typer I bottom everything out so I'm afraid greens may wear me out too
Buckling Spring.
Have you tried Montereys? They're so delicate that they made me type super light all of a sudden, I've never been influenced by a board as much. They're also a delight to type on. The boards they come in are all fairly flimsy though, a bit what I expect modern keyboards to be like xD .If you're typing on blues and they're a touch light, greens might be the way to go. The lack of a tactile bump will have you bottoming linears all the time, which will probably hurt your hands more than the blues do.
Yeah..im a hard typer I bottom everything out so I'm afraid greens may wear me out too
Buckling Spring.
Keyboards are too big. There is a way I can figure this out with modern switches.
Buckling Spring.
Keyboards are too big. There is a way I can figure this out with modern switches.
SSK?
Kishsaver?
Buckling Spring.
Keyboards are too big. There is a way I can figure this out with modern switches.
SSK?
Kishsaver?
Yeah not spending the money required to get one of those and I don't really like the look of the vintage keyboards like that, not to mention even the space saving ones are still pretty big relative to a modern TLK or 60 percent. I usually only like the vintage keycaps.
Maybe but most of the SSKs Ive seen cost more than my whole computer and thats just not appealing to me.
Though I have thought that maybe I could get a hold of one and somehow make a smaller custom case for one. Maybe if I run across one in a surplus shop or thrift shop. I fear the days of finding decent stuff in places like that are long gone though now that people look everything up on the internet because if its old it must be valuable.