Why the h*ck are quality keyboards so expensive?

Why the h*ck are quality keyboards so expensive?

>Ten years ago
>Buy a Dell
>They throw in some $10 keyboard
>Lasts me 10 years
>Looks like new after some cleaning
>Buy a $100 mechanical keyboard
>Keys are fading after a year

wew

>>Keys are fading after a year

Do you claw your keys?

Replace keycaps with a quality set and never have complaints again.

>$100 keyboard
>have to pay another $30 to fix it each year

Ya blew it and picked the wrong keyboard, now suck it up, pay the $30 and the keycaps will last you forever.

is that a little girl drinking wine

that is not ok

I still have my 8 year old $10 belkin rubber dome. works a charm.

same reason this thing is so expensive

Not sure if hair dryer or earphones.

I see somebody watches AvE.

Because it's a Dyson?

What the fuck?

I have some $10 logitech keyboard from like 3 years ago that I use for most of my day every day and have had zero problems. Maybe don't get a keyboard where every key is a separate bespoke mechanical part that can fail.

that isn't me but i agree with him

p messed up that i have to spend $40 on pbt double shot keycaps because cooler master was too cheap to make decent ones.

that's literally half the price of my keyboard on caps

I have the ruler

I've had the same cheap rubber dome keyboard for over 10yrs and other than the semen stains and grease it's still like brand new.

Honestly, I wish my keycaps lasted less time, and showed more wear. I would say I am typing for about at least 4 to 5 hours a day straight, and I have owned this keyboard (HHKB P2) for three years now, and it looks exactly the same as when I got it. I guess that is dyesublimated PBT for you haha.

>$40 keycaps
>last 2 years

i'm using a 15 year old dell keyboard right now
a few shiny keys, but the letters are all still as new

Things become cheaper when they're mass produced.
Many custom color keycap sets are made in tiny batches through group buys working in conjunction with a tiny manufacturer.
Imagine tiny kickstarters organized by some guy on some keyboard forum, collecting money and sending it to the manufacturer as a custom order.
That's how tiny the demand is for mass manufacture of keyboard parts.

Since nobody mass produces doubleshot keycaps anymore, they've gone up in price, and you're lucky to get doubleshot 2-tone PBT caps for less than $100.

Plus, it doesn't hurt that computers used to cost $3000 back then, they could spring for top quality materials for their peripherals.

A keyboard is a keyboard, it doesn't have to be 200$+, It just has to work. Your electronics work as well as you treat them carefully. My keyboard is at least 4 yrs old, I found it at my workplace 6 months ago. We did a lot of recycling and disposal of electronics at my workplace so we find cool old electronics in alright condition every few days.

Anyways, you can find good used and refurbished electronics anywhere you go. Just be perceptive. If you live in a city, hit thrift shops, second hand stores, and neighborhood computer shops.

>Just don't be a retarded consumer is the lesson of the story.

There is actually a huge market for keyboard keys considering the scope of \computers today. Material science and manufacturing have also come very far also, so components arent really a factor.

I've been using the same $15-20 logitech keyboard for the past 17 years. I'm on my second one, and I don't understand why people bother with expensive ones.

It's just a fucking keyboard man...

I have never, in over 20 years of using computers, had key caps "wear off". What the fuck do you people do, glue sand to your finger tips?

>I am used to mediocrity

Good for you, bet you buy AMD processors too. I'd rather never use a computer again and become fucking Amish than type all day long on a rubber membrane again.

My keycaps are a temporary buff I cast on the entire keyboard before a raid, using the "summon keyset" ability

Lol, I am using a G710+ since almost 2 years now and it works perfectly fine plus has no wear to it.
Keys don't have anything printed on them, they are illuminated by leds that you can turn off or set to different strengths.

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>mediocrity
mechanical keyboards are a placebo
mechanical keyboards will not last as long as cheap keyboards
mechanical keyboards will not make you more productive
mechanical keyboards don't feel better

when a cheap ass $10 keyboard lasts for decades while a mechanical that costs ten times as much will have problem after a few years, there is something wrong

Kek, being this butthurt and denying facts.

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i'd rather not wake up the whole neighborhood

I'm the OP and I honestly prefer typing on my mechanical keyboard over the Dell, but it's very minimal.

It's worth the price, but I just have an issue with the quality.

Oh yes. Not like normal keyboard don't make any noise. Not like a normal person wears fucking headphones while using a PC. Headphones? Pffff, I rather listen to shitty audio from speakers, right.
And WOW, yes mech. keyboards are SOOOOO loud. My neighbours always complain about it.