Hi everyone,
Been lurking on the forums for about a month and registered 2 weeks ago. I didn't know about mechanical keyboards until some of the keys of my current Apple aluminium keyboard stopped working for no apparent reason. While searching keyboards on google I came across geekhack and I'm glad I did.
I will be building a PC in few months and moving from Mac to PC and I wanted to have mechanical keyboard to go along with it. I can't stand rubber domes. Apple's scissor switch keyboard served me well but I need something better.
I could not decide which switch to choose for a while, I'm not a hardcore FPS gamer nor a typist, keyboard will be mainly for general use (chats, forums, emails, etc.) and playing mmo games (waiting for SWTOR and GW2) and occasional BFBC2/TF2.
I dont think I will like blacks, they seem like rubber domes. I hate the feeling like typing on a carpet lol. Blues are making too much noise although unique and intriguing, I will probably endup hating after an hour. So it seemed brown switch is for me. I was thinking of getting Tesoro/Xarmor brown switch ones, as they looked shiney
but unfortunately its hard to get in UK so I gave up hope of getting those.
All other keyboards looked so basic and hated the looks, but the Filco Ninja MJ2 Tenkeyless has grown on me and decided to get it. I'm used to @ being on 2 (Apple Keyboard
) and the enter key is a bonus so going with ANSI instead of ISO layout.
But I'm still worried as I havent used any mechanical keyboard before, I do understand that switches are personal preference but still I would like to have your input. And the other thing worries me is the loud pinging. I hope Keyboardco's next batch wont have that problem.
PS. Sorry for the long post, I thought I would share a bit since its my first post.
