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I thought the same until I tried a couple, and then tried going back to a membrane keyboard at the office. In addition to better wrist comfort, I also find that
by JustLurking2022 5y ago
I thought the same until I tried a couple, and then tried going back to a membrane keyboard at the office. In addition to better wrist comfort, I also find that I have fewer typos on the mechanical keyboard - my intuitive guess is that it's due to greater travel and resistance required to actuate a key. Everyone has their own preferences but, for something I use 8 hours a day as part of my profession, $100 for a decent keyboard seems entirely reasonable. Plenty of contractors have fancy trucks/tool boxes/tools that cost way more.
Also, it's not comparable to a stool for a guitarist - that would be my desk chair, which cost more than the keyboard.
- tasuki 5y ago> I also find that I have fewer typos on the mechanical keyboard - my intuitive guess is that it's due to greater travel and resistance required to actuate a key. In what way could greater travel and resistance lead to fewer typos?
- yeahboats 5y agoYou would be less likely to register accidental key presses.
- gh02t 5y agoHarder to accidentally bump extra keys unintentionally. Which is a problem I sometimes have on really low travel keys like on Macbooks.
- doubled112 5y agoAs a real world example: Cherry MX Red and clones engage at about a mm from the top and require almost no pressure to activate. Simply resting your hands on the keys is enough to get accidental keystrokes. Every single miss gets you a key press. Blues engage about halfway down at the click. You can accidentally touch keys without activating them. They are harder to press so resting on them doesn't activate them either.