For anyone interested in some well written articles on mechanical keyboards, switches, choosing a keyboard, or cleaning/ maintaining your keyboard, you may want to check out the links below.
This is a really good find! Had a skim read over the majority of the document and this could be incredibly helpful to anyone who is looking at purchasing or maintaining their mechanical keyboards!
Haha i remember that guide . Someone posted it on my mechanical keyboard thread a while back. Very good article, helped me a lot when i was choosing my mechanical keyboard!
Funny how I never consulted that guide even after seeing it just about everywhere =P Though there was one article I read on Tom's Hardware about mechanical keyboards which shed light on mechanical keyboards for me. Lemme dig around for it.
has MX brown switches, laser cut keycaps and NKRO as well, apparently full but I assume that to be over non usb.
also has a nice inbuilt feature which allows you to swicth caps and ctrl over with a button on the keyboard, means less dist between ctrl and numbers AND its a feature on board so not a macro
Will try to find a link for it later... to tired atm
I used that guide a lot when I was researching mechanical keyboards - very helpful and very insightful.
If anything, it's great to read for the sake of just knowing what a mechanical keyboard is and the benefits it offers over rubber-dome boards.
Fantastic link, good sir!
Wish i had of known about this guide before i got my keyboard, at least for next time i will be able to consult it before getting my next one!
Or even better is to try out a keyboard for yourself before buying. It's hard to do in a lot of places, and I didn't before I bought mine, but I'm still happy with black switches (browns are also nice feeling, hate blues).
If you can go to a lan you can probably try out some keyboards people have there. I even let people play a few games with mine at cityhunter last week cause they wanted to feel the difference between various keys.
I need to play a few games on my friends Black Widow at some stage. That's a blue switch right? And then I need to find someone with brown switches to try.
I need to play a few games on my friends Black Widow at some stage. That's a blue switch right? And then I need to find someone with brown switches to try.
From what I have read they have either the blue switches (regular) or the brown switches (stealth). The ultimate vs not ultimate seems to do with some extra features (e.g. key backlighting, usb in the keyboard) and cost ($100 extra).
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