hi! while this will be my first actual post on these forums. i've actually been lurking like crazy (or so it feels) for a few weeks now. something oddly addicting when it comes to the world (yeah, world. i only just recently how in depth and hardcore keyboard technology got) of mechanical keyboards.
anyways. on to the point. i gamed
HEAVILY on a
15 inch laptop scissor switch keyboard for over 4 years. i just recently switched over to a desktop. my
muscle memory was soo developed and used to the compact layout of my laptops keyboard that i said
"screw it" and went to fry's and bought a wireless scissor switch keyboard with a similar layout too it because i was soo used to how typing and gaming on my laptop felt. i didn't want to
"relearn" and re develop my muscle memory for a standard layout. my laptop keyboard always worked out well for me. or so i thought at least.
anyways.
i'm an avid starcraft 2 player. high masters throughout, although i haven't consistently solo'd since season 1 though. somehow i stumbled accros what hardware pros used on the teamliquid forums or something and read something real brief about mechanical keyboards. basically just breezed or skimmed over it and said whatever to myself when i saw it if you know what i mean. thing is. mechanical keyboards just in general throughout the community kept popping up more and more often i saw. don't ask me how. but i stumbled upon this website. it was probably motivated by the fact that my "laptop esque" mini wireless keyboard wasn't really satisfying me. i'm not particularly picky , [(or so i'd like to think lol ) so the thing just flat out wasn't going to work out if i was having troubles with the same thing still.anyways....
commence project "BLOWING MY MIND OPEN TO THE WORLD OF MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS." i was soo hooked on lurking this site as well as gathering outside information such as the mechanical keyboard guide over at overclock.net that i basically studied up on mechanical keyboards for a good 2 weeks or so i'd guess. my only real reluctance in regards to maybe getting one was the steep price most mechanicals go for. if i were to tell a good bunch of the people i socialize with how much i spent on a keyboard recently they'd look at me like i was crazy for instance.
to make an extremely
tl;dr OP thread short for your guys sakes. i ended up buying a
cherry g80-3494 mx red switch board for $170. i also spent $40 on
a g81-1138hbu ( a MY switch board ) for the doubleshotted off white colored keykaps to use on the g80. (yes i'm aware i spent well than more than what i could have potentially have on both boards or something equivelant but your guys god damn website broke me one night and i just splurged on ebay). by the way. typing on a MY switch board is an
absolute horror. those things have to have be made with durability in regards to their life expectancy for POS or something as well as cheapness as their top 2, and probably only 2, priorities right?
in the end. OH MY GOD TYPING AND PLAYING ON A
MX RED SWITCH KEYBOARD IS AMAZING. PARTICULARLY IN COMPARISON TO MY OLD LAPTOP SCISSOR SWITCH.
PLEASE ENLIGHTEN MORE PEOPLE WHO SPEND A SIGNIFICANT TIME ON THE COMPUTER HOW AMAZING MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS ARE!
anyways. hope this wasn't tl;dr for too many of you guys. thx =P
p.s. interesting little tidbit. after having ordered my g80 and g81 kap harvest board i went looking through my families old computer crap while it was being shipped here. this god damn website got me hooked on mechanical keyboards like it was crack cocaine i swear. and i couldn't ever rationalize to anybody why lol. either way. i found a old
full sized 1994 ibm model m buckling spring switch board of my dads and started using it while my new boards were being shipped. ( also sexy as hell to type on. however a model m buckling spring board isn't exactly ideal for what i gauged my preferences in a keyboard to be after all my studying, in the gaming department at least. but still badass nonetheless from everything i've gathered and read about mechanical keyboard history. )
oh, and yes i know prolly tl;dr.
and be nice pweeze =) i'm new =)
p.p.s. here's a link to a casted youtube game of mine with 22k views in which i end up losing the game for my side by accidentally nuking both mine and my allies 200 supply armies in a spectacularly embarrassing fashion. point of information. this game was played when i was still using my laptop trying to game on that tiny 15 inch screen in my defense. either way. i might be half retarded for legitimately forgetting that i dropped a nuke in that spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cFcQ8pvaIU&feature=player_embedded#at=1320I'm Far fyi. cherry mx red switches are sexy. that is all.
