Are mechanical keyboards just a meme?

Are mechanical keyboards just a meme?

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i dont think you know what that word means

Not "just", but they sure are.

Yes, they are. It's just an excuse to spend money on an expensive toy and then show off on Sup Forums. Kind of like most of this board is, when you think about it.

No.
Rainbow keycap and RGB led are though

yes. the best keyboard ever made uses rubber dome. I tell /mkg/ that all the time but they don't listen.

Yes

and Topre is the biggest meme of all.

For the most part yes, all they might do to some is make the key presses more satisfying and marginally more comfortable than a brand new membrane keyboard.

for muh PC gaymenn, they are indispensable. I can never use a membrane ever again

hey guys! im pretty sure this thread is bait!


:D

all of Sup Forums is bait

It's useless for people who bottom out keys when they type.

Which happens to be 94.2% of all keyboard users

Yup

It is, I have a model m and none of these shitty chink cherry keys or topre garbage comes close to the feel of that model m.

Yes, mostly. And this is coming from someone who uses one and is about to spend $75 on another.

My highest typing speeds (120 wpm) have all come from dome-slider type key switches. A good keytronic or maxi-switch keyboard is what you want if you want pure speed and accuracy. Good laptop keyboards like those found on Thinkpads are also not to be underestimated.

The only real benefit of them is they make using the computer seem a little more fun, and they might last a little longer.

But I agree, you just keep posting the wrong picture.

No they're not.

It'll all make sense when you click.

I got one on sale for $19. It's better than a rubber dome at the same price at least. Whether it's worth it at full price is a different story

Cherry MX switches are definitely memes.

Topres are fucking great but I'm not spending $200 on one.

Go to best buy

Try it

I didn't realize the true memeiness of them until I spilled beer on my keyboard with green switches

they'll never click the same ;~;

Battlestation

>is x a meme
This needs to stop

It never will. In 1-2 years from now;
>is drr5 ram a meme
>are pcie ssds a meme
>is (new intel or amd cpu) a meme
>is (new nividia or amd gpu) a meme

are memes a meme?

What keycaps pls?

>1-2 years
>amd cpu

AYYTHENE

Did you know that:
>In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as "a unit of cultural transmission." Having first considered, then rejected, "mimeme," he wrote: "‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene.’ I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate ‘mimeme’ to ‘meme.’" (The suitable Greek root was mim-, meaning "mime" or "mimic." The English suffix -eme indicates a distinctive unit of language structure, as in "grapheme," "lexeme," and "phoneme.") "Meme" itself, like any good meme, caught on fairly quickly, spreading from person to person as it established itself in the language.
Now you know.

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>Richard dawkins
>like any good meme
Also Shakespeare wrote about and mentioned memetic culture long before atheists posted their blogs on reddit

is reddit a meme?

get yourself a tester pack, they're like $5 or something.

If you enjoy how they click then get them.

This isnt a hard topic user.

This, I just spilled one drop on my left control, damn thing never worked again. Whenever I spilled something on my regular keyboard I just had to wash the keys and it was like brand new again. Yeah, I'm clumsy, sue me.

>5$

Nah

The only ones that seem like a meme are the ones that don't come with a numpad

Nice percentage out of your ass

Depends on what switch you get

what keyboard is that?

cherry mx RED
BLACK
BROWN?

Yes. I took Sup Forums's advice and got a mechanical keyboard. Now every time i try to type 'O.P.' (without the full stops), it comes out as 'faggot'

please enlighten me

that is if you buy one each month, I've had mine for almost 10 years. Also, you can get really cool/decent shit for 100 bucks or so.

Buckling springs are not a meme, but everything else is

The durability is a meme, I'm on my third keyboard. If you spill sticky drinks in them, don't think your keyboard is going to necessarily survive if you follow an online guide and buy some special products. Sometimes a key just never clicks quite right again and it pisses you off so much you get a new keyboard.

Pure membrane keyboards are like typing on a marshmellow. Like I can do it and faster than a tablet keyboard but it's still really shit.

Scissor Switch membrane keyboards are fine. That's what I typically use on laptops. I don't think people can say say Lenovo keyboards, especially the old ones, are really all that terrible to type on. Still, I think the soft pliable nature of the rubber membrane leads to a degree of inconsistency in the keypress, and scissor switch designs mean short keystrokes.

Still the nice long keystroke of mechanicals is good. There is a HIGH amount of tactile and audible feedback which I think makes it harder to mistype. I type hundreds to thousands of words on average every day, a good keyboard is not an unreasonable purchase.

Straight up, they're LESS resistant to spills than regular keyboards. We are, in the case of cherry switches, comparing the resistance of individually lubricated switches and a simple rubber membrane to spills. Spills fuck with the lubricant in cherry switches, with rubber it's fucking RUBBER and you wipe shit off and its fine.

The durability is the most massive meme in existence.

Probably. I got a Filco TKL for $99. Hopefully will last until the day I die but that's the only benefit I can see so far.

HHKB Pro 2

The official memeboard of /mkg/

jesus christ that looks retarded

>tfw you feel for the cherry mx meme
I've never seen such a horrible designed switch. Already three of my blue switches are having trouble resetting, and going online has only led me to discover that this is actually a common problem.
I've spent $110 on my keyboard and now its ruined.
I should have just stuck with my buckling spring keyboard, even though it doesn't have a dedicated numpad.

Hey Sup Forums I was just browsing through pcpartpicker.com to check on Black Friday sales and Newegg is selling this Cherry MX Brown board (G.SKILL RIPJAWS KM570) for $60:
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823828007
Apparently, it hasn't been out for very long and there aren't many reviews for it. it looks pretty standard, only it doesn't have rubberized legs.

It's been awhile since I research mech keyboards because I wasn't ready to pull the trigger awhile ago but I knew I wanted a brown-switch full-size board. I had the CM Quickfire XT on my list and it looks like CM updated the model with RGB backlighting for $80. I remember a big deal being made about how they used Costar Stabilizers for the spacebar.
amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Mechanical-Multi-Color-SGK-4060-KKCM1-US/dp/B01F8W5PV8

So what do you do think between them? I don't care about LEDs or aesthetics as much as build quality. Any other models that I should be looking at that have been released recently? Should I wait for Cyber Monday?

Just get this keyboard in either black or white
massdrop.com/buy/e-element-rgb-keyboard

They are superior to membrane keyboards but the price does not reflect the value

Oh no 60 bucks for a mechanical keyboard. What will I ever do.

I got CMstorm with browns and I love it.

Meme or not, my fingers don't hurt like with my old shitty membrane.

Also when typing, there's that metalic spring echo after each fast stroke, it sounds great.

But say that you accidentally spill some liquid on the keyboard and ruin a few switches, can't you just order replacement switches from china and replace them?

Obviously that would work only on small spills.

More expensive ones yes, cheaper ones no.

i agree with this. i personally prefer to have a numpad. i understand that i could type combinations of numbers and letters faster if i used the top of the keyboard but for just typing long strings of numbers (which i sadly do frequently ) the numpad is unbeatable.

youve got to be shitting me. the "happy hacker keyboard"? thats a thing? i do think it looks cool and from what ive seen it has a good sound and feel to it but for $200??? do people actually buy this?

but honestly i want a cherry mx blue. i havent been able to get one because i had a roommate and i didnt want to infuriate them with the sound but i dont have that problem anymore so im about to purchase the gigabyte force k83 blue. so far its the best deal for a quality full size blue switch keyboard that doesnt light up.

Rosewill RK 9000 with mx blues is $60 right now

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i dont think you know what that word means

anything that has been heavily commercialized is a meme

Yes. That is why you need a Topre Realforce keyboard.

I'm typing this on my realforce 45g silenced keyboard. It's not a meme, $230 well spent. CherryMX doesn't even compare.

Topre Realforce. It's a modern mix between a ruberdome and mechanical spring.

Not the hhkb2 but I bought an official topre realforce.

I like them for typing. I type quickly and sometimes I miss a key or two. So I need some audible feedback to tell me whether I pressed it or not.

I want a capacitive switch with more tactile feedback. The Model F 4704 costs almost $260 for one in good condition. I do like how smooth topres are, but its just not enough. I still haven't tried capacitive springs, but I hear that they are lighter, quieter, and smoother, while still having lots of tactile feedback.

Exactly. I hated brown switches so I got reds. A few switches died and some key cap stems broke and I was fed up with cherry. I looked at when the most durable smooth quite keyboards were all recommended topre. I got a typeheaven but didn't like variable springs so I got a realforce with all 45gram spring. Even tho I expected to lose my 10-key I didn't realize till I started using it if you have the nums lock key on some of he the keys to the right of the keyboard become a ten key!

I then wanted the keyboard to be even quieter so I got sound dampeners just for the letter keys. I also disabled the left windows key so it doesn't fuck my shit up but I'm still getting use to using the right windows key. At first I hated the touchheaven and took a more expensive gamble on the realforce.

I suggest buying one from amazon that is fulfilled by amazon to try out then return it at no cost if you don't like it or want a different model.

The keyboard and mouse is what you interface with a computer. Fit it to your likening. I

I like my mechanical keyboard. It feels nice. And with the amount of time i spend using it, might as well have a keyboard that feels nice. Not saying that non mechanical keyboards do not, just saying mine does. I am satisfied.

I dunno man go to a store and try one.

Use whatever you like it's a fucking keyboard.

mechanical keyboards are nice, totally optional though.
But If you own more than one, waste money on muh custom keycaps, than it becomes a meme.

Unless it's a keycap like pbt that is invincible to wearing.

I think the problem here is that I was used to my model M with its unique typing experience, since its the only mechanical keyboard where the tactile and clicky feedback happen at the exact moment of actuation.

The problem is I got a job where a dedicated numpad was necessary, and even though my model M does have something similar to yours it was really cumbersome. I got a blue cherry mx since I wanted something similar (its not), but it ended up being a huge pain in the ass. The model M is too loud and big even though its a TKL, however the model F is thinner then most modern mechanical keyboards and is also a lot quieter then the model M. The problem is that the only layouts with a numpad and alphas cost $200-500 and need to be programmed.

I also just heard about matias quiet click and those seem to be interesting. They say the switch is quieter then rubber domes and provides more tactile feedback then any cherry mx switch. I might have to check those out too as well.

is this a meme? It looks super comfy

I had a model m when I was a kid but I destroyed it by spilling soda in it. Dumbest mistake I still regret.

For gaming it looks comfy but that's all.

my dad had Model M, nicotine stained to shit and loud as hell. He used to bitch at me for mashing the keys when I played lode runner

never would have guessed it would attain god status, pretty sure we just threw it out when we upgraded to 486dx windows 3.1 computer that came bundled with matching keyboard and mouse

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Yes. They don't actually exist, except in your mind and in images that get endlessly reposted across the internet.

Is asking if memes are a meme a meme?

>is this a meme?
yes

I think for 90% of the population they are.

But I spent probably minimum 4 hours a day on a PC, most of it typing, and a mechanical completely blew my mind.

That said -- My entire family hates using my keyboard (I brought it home this thanksgiving and they went apeshit on how loud/uncomfortable it is)... But blue swithches are also love-or-hate. Point being, you can get a cheap ass mech with great quality for sub 50 bucks. Replace your next keyboard with a cheap mechanical and see if you like it.

Well, if you really liked the experience but not the fragility, you can find mechanicals with water-drainage holes.


You could even rinse them with water should you spill...

However, at that point, there are also rubber-dome keyboards with the same functionality, if the clickiness wasn't a deal breaker for you.

not desktop threads
those are genuine autism

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Senpai, you don't like my totally kawaii DE ?!?!

I dunno seems handy for games. Only issue I see is if you play games where you type much it might be cumbersome.

Not sure why they never took off, they have existed for at least 10+ years now. For shooters they would be perfect.

Might be useful for other software with heavy keybindings

>model m


user, don't beat yourself up.

Unicomp is IBM's golden-boy for manufacturing Model M's (they BEAT lexmark for contract)
and they still produce brand new ones to this day.

at the end of the day, what good is it if you can't call your teammate a nigger for not following the meta. Also getting a separate numpad and binding the macros onto that looks and functions much better

lol no. Unicomp bought the tooling from Lexmark after IBM decided to stop making the Model Ms.
If you take a look at the Unicomp keyboards you see a square at the top left corner. That is where the Lexmark Logo went.

> Numpad

Not as ergonomic obviously and the genius of those devices is the thumb has a little joystick and other buttons.

I dunno I don't use one, but I see the appeal and why if you're hardcore you might like it.

Unicomp are great, and very competitively priced compared to mx keyboards.

They are durable as fuck too. Mines been through hell and back and still works and feels like brand new.

If ergonomics are an issue it's probably just best to limit the time on a computer.

>and here is my female repellent expensive internet maymay keyboard

very nice

>life = meme
>mechanical keyboard = meme

>mechanical keyboard = life