Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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I want a proper mech keyboard, but I can't be arsed building one. What do I do? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifications:

Full size (80ish+ size with a reduced numpad will also work)
ISO key layout (as in, a proper Return key. ANSI can burn)
Numpad
Wireless (if possible)
Don't need any RGB
I don't care about keycaps, so any leftovers will do. They don't even have to be representative of the actual key, random letters and symbols will be fine, even duplicates

When I wasbinto RC Helicopters i liked flying, but didn't get much entertainment feom building. This other guy liked building but didn't care that much about flying. I was hoping to run into someone similar here.

EDIT: The helicopter sory as I posted it elsewhere, in case anyone cares. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2517850

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm really happy with my Leopold which I've been using for the past 3 months. I used to have Unicomp before that; and while the typing feel was a little better than the brown switches I currently have on the Leopold, its build quality was lower, and eventually it just died on me thanks to what I later found out was a notoriously failure-prone controller they used to use back then. I'm told that Unicomp's build quality has improved a lot since then.

.... though the frustrating thing is that I was able to get the Unicomp only because I was living in the US at the time; and the Leopold I got thanks to relatives in S. Korea. Where I live, 'mechanical keyboard' is treated like a synonym for 'gamer keyboard', and all the BS associated with that.

So excellent off the shelf brands exist, though one has to do some local research first.