I made my way here from OCN. I am looking to hop into the world of mechs. I am pretty open to advice seeing as there is a bit of selection out there. I am currently waiting on a response from Xarmor about how much the U9BL will be with an educational discount and for black friday. I type regularly on forums, I am in college and although I'm mostly done with paper writing courses, there will be more in the future.I also am going to be a programmer, so even though its not a lot of time typing line for line.. its still a lot of time on the keyboard. In addition to all that, I am also a gamer. I play some of everything. Some MMO, Some FPS, ect ect. I am not looking for anything specific besides a better experience with my keyboard. I don't care if it makes a lot of click click click either.
Infact, I have a 10$ logitech at the moment that I am using.. and I would *RATHER* hear clicking than the "rattle rattle rattle" type noise it makes. Not saying its a well defined rattling but, its the best way I can phrase it because, the keyboard itself does infact make noise when I type. I've had my eyes on the black widow, I am really considering xarmor. USB or PS2 is fine. The main prerequisite I have is that you have a reason for suggesting what you suggest and when I get it, I not feel like I'm still using my 10$ crapboard. (not that I am having any problems with this one.. just really not the funnest to use). I mean, not trying to brag or anything here.. but, my fans in my case are probably the cheapest component and they msrp 20$ (not that I paid that much for em).. SO at the moment the part of my comp I touch the most is also the cheapest...
I prefer to keep the budget under 130$ (before S&h).
I am trying to not cave in to too many gimmicks but, a lot of people like the fact that ps2 ports offer interrupt based speed which means, thats the fastest your going to get.. I don't mind that the black widow has ultrapolling.. even if its slower.. It is still probably better than my current keyboard and it has the added bonus of being usb which means, I won't have to worry about upgrading mobo in 3 years and not having my ps/2 port need to be adapted.
At any rate I'm pretty open so far. BW or U9BL are what I have my eyes on.
I'm kinda leaning towards the U9BL for following reasons.
+Wrist rest. (I don't know if I will seriously end up using it but, I am hoping if I do and I like it, maybe I won't have carpel tunnel XD)
+ NKRO (its not needed and the BW would probably do just as well tbh I've never had any major problems with keys rolling but, never know what button holding games I may need to play in future).
+Not shiny.. I think aesthetically it looks pretty good and I hopefully won't have to clean it daily.
I was wondering if this board sounds like it would work well for me or if maybe I should consider something else?
Also one thing that bugs me is I noticed it and BW both have rubber coating.. I am worried about that wearing down/coming off and looking like crap.
I was wondering if the rubber does end up looking like a bad case of diarrhea if its possible to replace the keys.. I used a laptop for 3 years almost up till about august. So I'm use to not really being able to replace keys.. (also where the concern for the rubber comes in seeing as the trackpad had rubber coating on the right/left click and it came off and looked horrible).
However, I see people taking the mech key's off like its nothing. I'm thinking that would be good if I ever needed to clean/replace keys.. I just don't know if they are replaceable.
So. Any advice?
If there is a list of questions I can fill out to help you guys answer sorry I didn't see it x.x if there isn't feel free to ask.
