Often I get asked by people in my personal life WHY? "It's just a keyboard, I can buy one for five dollars?" I tell them it quality. Although I think we have reached the point where any keyboard will last a lifetime and a day. I tell them its aesthetics. I tell them its the feeling of the switches.
But none of these reasons are why I like them so much. I myself still don't understand. It seems like a universal thing to love writing utensils, whether it be fountain pens, keyboards or type writers and I'm sure that there are different mediums that I haven't thought of.
So why? Because for me, is not something that I use as a tool for work. Some people are authors, and most people here I'd assume are in the IT field and use it a lot to script or program. It makes sense to them to have a tool that they invest their money in. But I also think there are a lot of us, like myself, who it is not the main tool they use everyday. I'm a university student studying electrical engineering and most of my writing and homework is writing out equations by hand in my notepad.
It just seems like such an obscure hobby. The benefits of a keyboard in many cases do not out weigh the cost. Let's face it. Its NOT cheap. A good set of keycaps will set you back anywhere between 80 usd for signature plastics to 140 usd for GMK caps. That's not even including shipping and conversion, which to Australia ends up running me about 170 aud to 210 aud. But I still persuse the hobby. Look at the korean customs, some of those are close to 500 usd, the recent Jane case was 400 alone. I've seen Clack factory caps go for 800 dollars.
I don't really know how to summarize this post because I've said everything on my mind so I'll leave it here.
