Opinion: I dumped my mechanical keyboard because it wasn’t my type

By Kane Fulton

Introduction

After tucking its USB cable neatly to one side, my gleaming mechanical keyboard was lowered back into its box like a sinking sea vessel accepts its watery fate.

Having only owned the Corsair Vengeance K65 for six days, you might call my decision to return it premature. But almost a week of hammering at its keys like a destroyer of tiny ants trying to do an impression of the world’s most annoying broken metronome has sapped the joy of typing out of me.

Mechanical keyboards are infamous for having louder keys than traditional membrane keyboards, but for several reasons the K65 and I just didn’t click.

Mechanical animal

I became interested in mechanical keyboards after reading an article by TechRadar Associate Editor Kevin Lee earlier this month that detailed how MSI designed the GT80 Titan: the first gaming laptop to pack a mechanical keyboard.

The MacBook Air’s keyboard is awesome – I’ve happily typed hundreds of thousands of words on it in the last four years, but this ringing endorsement of mechanical keyboards from the gaming community made me wonder what all of the fuss was about.

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Source: techradar.com – Computing Components