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For something like 25 years, my main keyboard was one or another vintage early 90's mechanical keyboard. First an IBM model M, then (when the layout of our new home meant my loud typing interfered with my partner's sleep) an Apple Extended Keyboard II with its whisper quiet damped Alps switches.
Every so often I would get dissatisfied with the huge size, heavy weight, and (with the Apple keyboard) finicky USB adapter on my vintage keyboard and I'd go investigate the market for modern mechanical keyboards. And every single time I ended up deciding to stick with using whatever antique I currently had.
Then, earlier this year, when I got dissatisfied again and went looking for alternatives again, the set of circumstances led me to actually leave the fold of antique keyboards at last.
I knew I would be buying at least two keyboards (a main one and a backup that would see occasional use when I had to tinker with a friend's desktop or do maintenance on my media PC). So I looked at what was available and affordable, read a few reviews, and bought a Keychron keyboard. I tried it out and it was good enough to retire the antique I had been using, but a few little things about it weren't quite what I wanted. Then I spent a month or so reading far too much about keyboards and doing far too many searches, etc, to find a keyboard that wouldn't bother me. Once I bought that, the original keychron became the backup and I was able to sell my antiques.
This post summarizes the things I learned along the way.
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And that's all I can think of right now. If you are in the market for a keyboard you will love, ask me questions in the comments and I will probably think of stuff I have forgotten.
Every so often I would get dissatisfied with the huge size, heavy weight, and (with the Apple keyboard) finicky USB adapter on my vintage keyboard and I'd go investigate the market for modern mechanical keyboards. And every single time I ended up deciding to stick with using whatever antique I currently had.
Then, earlier this year, when I got dissatisfied again and went looking for alternatives again, the set of circumstances led me to actually leave the fold of antique keyboards at last.
I knew I would be buying at least two keyboards (a main one and a backup that would see occasional use when I had to tinker with a friend's desktop or do maintenance on my media PC). So I looked at what was available and affordable, read a few reviews, and bought a Keychron keyboard. I tried it out and it was good enough to retire the antique I had been using, but a few little things about it weren't quite what I wanted. Then I spent a month or so reading far too much about keyboards and doing far too many searches, etc, to find a keyboard that wouldn't bother me. Once I bought that, the original keychron became the backup and I was able to sell my antiques.
This post summarizes the things I learned along the way.
( Read more... )
And that's all I can think of right now. If you are in the market for a keyboard you will love, ask me questions in the comments and I will probably think of stuff I have forgotten.
