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I am thinking of buying (somehow. because these things doesn't exist in my country, and I am thinking I will have to build it from scratch) a MX Brown keyboard.

by speeder 11y ago

I am thinking of buying (somehow. because these things doesn't exist in my country, and I am thinking I will have to build it from scratch) a MX Brown keyboard... Anyone here know if their clicking is less obnoxious, or if they click at all? I do want the tactile feedback, when you feel the key giving away and can release it immediately, but I don't want to annoy other people (myself I don't get bothered by the noise...)

yannyu 11y ago
I used a Cherry Red keyboard in an office for a while. It was pretty noticeable for most people around me. The benchmark for keyboard loudness in my experience is the standard apple laptop keyboard noise or the standard apple USB keyboard noise. It seems like all mechanical keyboard switches tend to be louder than those, and will be noticed. It's possible though that depending on how you type, people won't care. I spend a lot of time writing text and type quickly and with force, so people could really hear it when I got going on my keyboard.
falcolas 11y ago
The clacking is entirely from bottoming out the key with browns and reds. O-Rings will take there of most of this for you, as will not typing with such force that you bottom out the keys. You generally have a good cm of travel after actuating the key during which you can let up with no appreciable impact to your typing.
taternuts 11y ago
I've been using an MX brown keyboard for over 3 years now, and switched from MX blues. As another poster said, MX browns do not have that extra click [0] but go straight down. Now while they don't have that extra click, they are still much louder than your average keyboard. If you really try, you can type kind of quietly if you don't bottom out on your keys too hard, but make no mistake, when you're furiously typing away you'll be heard. [0]-http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Blue.gif http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Bl...

by speeder 11y ago

yannyu 11y ago

I used a Cherry Red keyboard in an office for a while. It was pretty noticeable for most people around me. The benchmark for keyboard loudness in my experience is the standard apple laptop keyboard noise or the standard apple USB keyboard noise. It seems like all mechanical keyboard switches tend to be louder than those, and will be noticed. It's possible though that depending on how you type, people won't care. I spend a lot of time writing text and type quickly and with force, so people could really hear it when I got going on my keyboard.

falcolas 11y ago

The clacking is entirely from bottoming out the key with browns and reds. O-Rings will take there of most of this for you, as will not typing with such force that you bottom out the keys. You generally have a good cm of travel after actuating the key during which you can let up with no appreciable impact to your typing.

taternuts 11y ago

I've been using an MX brown keyboard for over 3 years now, and switched from MX blues. As another poster said, MX browns do not have that extra click [0] but go straight down. Now while they don't have that extra click, they are still much louder than your average keyboard. If you really try, you can type kind of quietly if you don't bottom out on your keys too hard, but make no mistake, when you're furiously typing away you'll be heard. [0]-http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Blue.gif http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Bl...