My Mechanical Keyboard
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My Mechanical Keyboard
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#2It's a bit odd to compare the MacBook Pro's keyboard to a mechanical keyboard. I mean, mechanical keyboards are great, but laptops with mechanical keyboards are almost nonexistent due to the extreme bulk required. Sure, there are many laptops with far more key travel than Apple's latest offerings, but it's not fair to hold them up to that standard...
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#4I get the obsession this guy has with keyboards. It may be a pretentious luxury problem, but if we didn't have those, we'd have a problem...
But I don't get the 5000-word Apple-rant of an introduction. It's not that he's found a notebook with an excellent mechanical keyboard – it's just an external one. Now if you need a keyboard that probably costs 200$, and is actually thicker than most notebooks of any kind, and you have to attach it to /some/ computer anyway, then Apple just doesn't seem part of the equation.
Keyboard enthusiasts should be singing Apple's praises right now. Not because their new keyboards are great (haven't tried) but they've put it on the agenda in the first place. Just like the retina Macbook made everyone scramble for high-dpi displays (now followed by wide-gamut displays).
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#5I don't know how to tell this, but I had this realization immediately. I didn't understand why everyone is praising almost gummy keyboard, where mechanical is the sh*t. Anyhow, those gummy ones are not without it's qualities, but I totally get what you are saying.
I for example stopped buying ipads when they switched from wide connector to small one. Just didn't feel like having another set of connectors and stands. Those ipads still work, and I still use old cables. I yell at kids not to break them, because aftermarket cables will not charge ipads (devious apple).
I just want alternatives, I am not against Apple, it sucks lately, but we should have MSs and Apples, but strive to go towards Linux and open source.
Oh yes, Go Cubs buddy!
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#6> This keyboard makes real noise — more of a clacking than a typing sound but satisfying just the same — and I had forgotten how much I love the noise.
I hope the author realizes that others might not appreciate the sound. I find it very hard to do work when someone else in an office is typing on a buckling spring keyboard.
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#7IMO the keyboard is the software engineer's most important tool. I feel most at home on a Chromebook keyboard (ctrl and alt keys on both sides with no win or cmd keys), but I can't find a good external Chromebook keyboard. Even if I could find one, it probably wouldn't be mechanical or wireless (two more keyboard features I love). I'm with Joe, today's keyboards make me sad.
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#8OK, one more thing, (I am typing this on blue switches mechanical keyboard). I broke previous one, well 'O' stopped working (vim).
Anyhow, mechanical keyboard doesn't mean you have to break the budget, I am quite happy with this one I paid $37:
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#9It's really annoying having to sit at work and listen to mechanical keyboards all day. I would not inflict that on my coworkers.
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#10I think people always are easily obsessed and get attached to things they touch. Those things becomes extensions of themselves. I am that way about my smart phone, keyboard and headphones. I could replace the monitor tomorrow without thinking twice about it. Get a new hard drive, new router, even a new a new laptop because I don't touch but use an external keyboard.
But, as soon as my IBM Model M keyboard stopped working last month, it really bothered me (it was my fault for spilling coffee on it). So I got my backup Cherry MX Blue keyboard from Rosewill (also a nice mechanical keyboard for only $60 or so) and then proceeded to take apart my IBM keyboard in the evenings, to see how it works and fix it. I just got a new membrane for it and am doing what's called a "bolt mod" replace plastic rivets in it with bolts.
It is completely irrational spending all this time on it, but it am really attached to that particular keyboard.