Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 3:28 PM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #47

minimaxir wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The operative phrase in the original comment was “without mentioning”.

> The operative phrase in the original comment was “without mentioning”. As a reader you wouldn't be weirded out if the first section of the article was to justify why an affiliate link was used? That would annoy me as a reader a lot more than having an affiliate link used without mention. I mean, I'm not sitting there trying to trick people into clicking links. The blog post is just an honest look / opinion on the k…

Post by equalunique » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #46

vladharbuz wrote: post #3

> Jokes aside, I totally understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards. I’ve used them and it is satisfying to hear that clickity-click sound and the keys do feel amazing but that just doesn’t work for me due to being on so many pair programming calls and recording video courses. I don't like it when people equate mechanical keyboards to loudness. They don't have to be loud! My keyboard has MX Clear switches which ar…

I wouldn't say I'm a mechanical keyboard expert in the sense that I personally spent months assembling and disassembling a few of them while putting on custom switches and all of that but I have used (and listened) to a few of them in situations where it was in a controlled environment (I know what the room is like, the mic used, positioning of everything, the switches, etc.) and I haven't found any mechanical keyboa…

Post by lewisflude » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 3:34 PM UTC

daguil68367 wrote: post #38

lewisflude wrote: post #33

I'm a keyboard enthusiast, I have a collection of ~15 mechanical keyboards with various switches, hand lubed, modded (spring swapped, stem swapped) various materials and sizes from the plastic HHKB to the monstrous TX1800 (fits the keys you'd find in a full size keyboard into the frame of a TKL). I'm happy the writer has found a keyboard that works for them. Although I think that they'd be able to get a better typing…

I've heard keyboards that use dome with slider designs, like Packard Bell keyboards, are about as cheap as generic non-mechanical keyboards, but avoid the mushy bottom-out, making the typing experience infinitely better.

Post by equalunique » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC

bakli wrote: post #2

I don't even remember why scroll lock exists

Post by nickjj » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

the_jeremy wrote: post #50

sonofgod wrote: post #48

> Your rollover is the worst possible value you get. > With the Amazon Basics keyboard I’ve seen as high as a 6 key rollover when pressing spui c "As high as" implies that you've also seen lower. Which isn't the rollover of the keyboard. My crappy two-key rollover (QWA fails) keyboard supports that specific keystroke combination.

Unless he edited it in the last 10 minutes since your comment, it already says > Out of everything listed about this keyboard, its rollover is its biggest weakness as it only supports a 2 key rollover in the worst case.