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I recently got fed up with my MacBook’s keyboard and bought a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches. I cannot believe how _pleasant_ I found it- I haven’
by jes5199 7y ago
I recently got fed up with my MacBook’s keyboard and bought a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches. I cannot believe how _pleasant_ I found it- I haven’t used a mechanical keyboard in nearly 20 years but it feels like coming home, almost like I’m a kid again
- andreareina 7y agoI feel like keyboards that are built to be good to type on are underrated even by people that spend a lot of time typing. I recently started using a mechanical keyboard and like you say, I didn't know what I was missing until then. And this with the early 2015 MacBook Pro (i.e. the last one before the butterfly switches). I thought that not having the trackpad at my fingertips would be annoying (I use my thumb so I never have to leave home row), but in practice I don't switch between the keyboard and mouse enough that it's an issue.
- wodenokoto 7y agoI recently switched to and switched away from mechanical keyboards. They are absolutely terrible. Super tall keyboards are painfull to use, the mechanical switches have terrible feedback for when a keypress is registered. Never again. They sound good, though.
- jes5199 7y agoI got the silent red switches, which have basically no tactile feedback at all. It doesn’t bother me
- zapzupnz 7y agoNot all mechanical keyboards are made equal: there are the switches to consider, the actual build of the keyboard, the design of the keycaps (there are low profile Cherry MX-compatible keycaps, for instance).