Five Mechanical-Switch Keyboards: Only The Best For Your Hands

[Guest]

How the hell can you give the blackwidow with 2NRKO 10 points in anti ghosting? Did razer pay you to do this?

 

[steve11]

You are misinformed.

 

[michaelahess]

[citation][nom]steve11[/nom]michaelahess am I correct to assume you said and meant rubber domes have more keys you can press at once and are designed for gamers? It's obviously not right when most of then are 2kro with wasd cluster key roll over; Compared to most mechanicals they are either the same (like blackwidow), or offer at least six keys to be pressed at once. A mechanical is definitely technically better than a G15 or the like.[/citation]

Pretty sure I said no such thing.

 

[spitfire6000]

Why did the reviewer pick such a crappy lineup of keyboards to test?

In my experience with 100-200 dollar mechanical keyboards, the Razer blackwidow ultimate was the biggest piece of crap you could ever get your hands on. HORRIBLE build quality.

The reviewer really should have included the Das keyboard Professional S, and the Filco.

 

[Guest]

The article is a translation from german site. Currently there are no other keyboards with a German keyboard layout.

 

[Guest]

For keyboard aficionados there was and is no keyboard ever made that can compare to the IBM Model M13 keyboard. It's loud and has an incredible tactile response, built like a tank, and represents the result of decades of research that IBM did on their world beating Selectrics typewriters. They made these keyboards for 20 years up to the late 80's or early nineties. For a gamer maybe something else is better. But if you make your living writing, then the M13 is a 20th Century masterpiece.

The only thing modern I have ever tried that compares with the M13 are the DAS keyboards. Although I haven't tried any of the keyboards in this article, it's hard to believe that any of them are as good as either the IBM or DAS.

 

[Guest]

It's silly to complain about the non-traditional typeface for key legends unless you're recommending the keyboard to a beginning typist. For any moderately advanced computer user, we rarely look at the keyboard anyway, and we know what key we're looking when we do.

 

[kludge420]

The SteelSeries 6Gv2 is a brilliant keyboard with a seriously fatal flaw: you can't remap the SteelSeries Key.

This means if you also want to use the keyboard on a Mac or like to remap your keys to better fit your use patterns you're SOL. If they would just fix that fatal flaw I would be all over this or the 7G but with that crippling flaw I just can't buy this keyboard.

 

[Guest]

i want a mechanical zboard merc stealth ^^

 

[loddhal]

I assume the USB to PS/2 adapter doesn't give the USB device, PS/2 characteristics?

 

[starstrike5]

I am in agreement that the !

 

[Guest]

Hello can anyone tell me how come a USB keyboard like the ROcat Ryos MK pro has nKRO when only the ps2 keyboards are suppose to have that ?

 

[33333333]

Next time you should use keyboards with the ANSI layout only. lol @ the uninformed people complaining about EUROPEAN/GERMAN layouts, which aren't avaliable in the US. Not every place on earth uses the same keyboard layout, ok, americans? Yeah, having the RETURN key farther away is uncomfortable, but you can't find ANSI keyboards everywhere.

Now, why does the article claims that MX Clears were designed to feel like rubber domes? They were designed to feel like heavier browns with a more pronounced tactile bump. Rubber domes don't even have a tactile bump. Get your shit straight.

 

[33333333]

[citation][nom]nonzenze[/nom]Anyone know where you can get a split keyboard with real switches. I'm still using an old Apple keyboard (EKB-905 with an AAUI-USB dongle, lol) with the dedicated reset button in the top left because it's one of the only sufficiently clicky splits I can find.[/citation]
I know of the Ergodox, which goes for $300... There's also the Kinesis. Same price. =(

 

[Zach Coleman]

Having tested the majority of these keyboards i find that some of the reviews are a bit off. for example the black widows keys feel a bit wobbley and poorly made, this is mainly because the keycaps are bad quality and not a sturdy back plate. I have found that for the price i think das makes the best "feeling" keyboards. The backlit keyboards no matter the price never seem to feel as good as generic non illuminated keyboards. Compare any of the keyboards reviewed to a das and im 99% that das will feel better. While my opinion is probably biased as I currently own a keycool, filco, and das i do strongly feel that illuminated keyboards just are never as good. Brother owns a ducky and while that is probably the best feeling illuminated mx series keyboard it doesnt compare to my filco (same switch). if you are buying a keyboard for under a 100$ i would reccomend Leopolds from elite keyboards. 100-130 das or wasd keyboards.
130+ Filco. If you like mechanical keyboards i promise if you buy any of those keyboards you will not be dissapointed. Sorry for sloppy review english is not my first language hope this helped.

 

[Zach Coleman]

Having tested the majority of these keyboards i find that some of the reviews are a bit off. for example the black widows keys feel a bit wobbley and poorly made, this is mainly because the keycaps are bad quality and not a sturdy back plate. I have found that for the price i think das makes the best "feeling" keyboards. The backlit keyboards no matter the price never seem to feel as good as generic non illuminated keyboards. Compare any of the keyboards reviewed to a das and im 99% that das will feel better. While my opinion is probably biased as I currently own a keycool, filco, and das i do strongly feel that illuminated keyboards just are never as good. Brother owns a ducky and while that is probably the best feeling illuminated mx series keyboard it doesnt compare to my filco (same switch). if you are buying a keyboard for under a 100$ i would reccomend Leopolds from elite keyboards. 100-130 das or wasd keyboards.
130+ Filco. If you like mechanical keyboards i promise if you buy any of those keyboards you will not be dissapointed. Sorry for sloppy review english is not my first language hope this helped.