I recently got a Keychron Q11 split keyboard. The quality of the keyboard is so good that I think the people involved in making these keyboards must be truly keyboard lovers.
The Q and Q Pro series are a dream come true.
My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards
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#42That's hardly any. I think I get 9 months out of a keyboard.
Currently using a Cherry Stream TKL. Probably the best keyboard I've had for years and it was dirt cheap.
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#43I never understood the Mac keyboards. For me a are a sensory deprivation chamber.
I am wielding a ROG Falchion Green Cherry MX Gaming Keyboard. Is a backlit keyboard with good feedback and sound. But there is a hollow sound to the keys that is not ideal.
My favorite keyboard I cannot use because is not backlit.
The CoolerMaster Storm QuickFire Rapid - Tenkeyless.
The keys are so smooth to the touch and there is a slight high pitch to the keys action sound. Very solid action. My precious.
I love it. I cannot use it in the dark. It is a discontinued model. :(
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#44I really don't understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one. They also don't take up that much space really. If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.
Distance to mouse means I either have to stretch my arm in long-term unhealthy positions leading to shoulder, neck, and upper back pain, or offset the keyboard and have the non-keypad not front and center.
Typing numbers on a single row is not an issue for me, so numpad brings me little benefits and significant drawbacks.
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#45I really don't understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one. They also don't take up that much space really. If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.
I don't have one and it's annoying and not annoying.
Annoying because, yes entering numbers is a problem.
Not annoying because the mouse is closer.
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#46Found a Logitech keyboard with no missing keys next to a dumpster back in 2007. I took it home, cleaned it up, replaced the torn and tattered USB cable, been using it since then.
Whenever someone complains about their keyboard Bluetooth not connecting, or their batteries dying, I gently raise it in the air and point at it.
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#47I never understood the Mac keyboards. For me a are a sensory deprivation chamber. I am wielding a ROG Falchion Green Cherry MX Gaming Keyboard. Is a backlit keyboard with good feedback and sound. But there is a hollow sound to the keys that is not ideal. My favorite keyboard I cannot use because is not backlit. The CoolerMaster Storm QuickFire Rapid - Tenkeyless. The keys are so smooth to the touch and there is a sli…
> My favorite keyboard I cannot use because is not backlit
Out of curiosity, why not?
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#48until you start spending hundreds on a single board and obsess about switches, keycaps, materials, acoustics, etc. it is not unhealthy at all !
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#49One of the 5 keyboards on your list you used all the way through university, and there's only 2 keyboards after. This feels far from an unhealthy obsession to me.
I have to admit, I was expecting something different when I saw the title.
Just one of my hand-build, custom switch, aluminium-case, custom-firmware,"artisan" keycap, mechanical keyboards would buy all of those on OPs list, probably twice over.
It's good that OP is keeping a lid on their keyboard buying habits (as with anything), but realistically, OP isn't even in the same _universe_ as the people with the _real_ unhealthy keyboard habits.
There are/were people on the mechanical keyboard sub-reddit whose keyboard collections reach into the tens of thousands of dollars.
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#50I really don't understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one. They also don't take up that much space really. If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.
I learned the 10-key before I learned touch-typing, so I tend to use it a lot. It's just so convenient.