Are mechanical keyboards worth the price?

[davidy]

The Filco? That aint expensive. I gave my sister a Das Pro that cost $175. This same board but in silver for windows: newegg.com/das-keyboard-4-professional-for-mac-dask4macsft-usb-wired/p/N82E16823830016 is now $185! Really a nice kb I almost wish I had kept it for myself. My 1st was a logitech full gaming kb, blue backlight. Then I grabbed a super low profile 75%? keychron, no numpad with optical switches and customizable backlighting. You won't find optical switches on the regular keyboards ever. Keychrons are nice and come with a plastic dust cover which I didn't know till I unboxed it. Nice but not as nice as it should be so I looked for one that had a proper cover and grabbed the Asus ROG Falchion. Fully modular and the cover is as much of the keyboard as are the keys themselves. The Falchion is actually my favorite because of this. I figure if it's a good gaming board it will also work for typing in general which I hate. Just gotta pretend when you're typing you're trying for high score.

The real trick is in trying to find a decent KVM that allows you to use one keyboard, one mouse, and one monitor for 2 (or more) pc's. Anybody know of one that actually works please tell. The junk you see that pretends to work doesn't at all with any modern hardware that pc's use now.

[NightCoder]

The Filco? That ain't expensive.

I wrote it's relatively expensive and that's true! So, $150 + transport costs + import fee = about $185. Still, it was a justified investment and I wouldn't want to miss it. I've never been guided by what others have or believe is good, I am happy to forego this competition.

[richb]

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[jeffreyC]

Add me to the list of IBM Model M fans, I use original IBM, Lexmark and Unicomp versions and like them all.

The only desktop keyboard I have that is not a Model M is an IBM UltraNav (has both a touchpad and pointing stick, like a ThinkPad), sadly not buckling spring or sleeve.

[NightCoder]

So when we talk about mechanical keyboards, a few other aspects come into play, such as the layout of certain keys. Of course, these are not the same everywhere and are often fundamentally different. In this particular case we are talking about the cursor keys, whose arrangement cannot always be described as ideal. This video describes how this changed over time until a certain order was able to prevail. (Runtime 15 minutes, 44 seconds.)