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| Got my first mechanical keyboard. |
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| joe411:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on April 20, 2017, 12:33:37 AM ---can someone explain to me what the difference is between what everyone has mentioned so far --- End quote --- The switches used for mechanical keyboards are not all the same. The most popular company that makes them, Cherry, labels them by color. Basically the main difference between the switches would be how much resistance a key would have when pressing it. For example, Red switches are less resistant than blue switches. |
| Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: joe411 on April 20, 2017, 08:39:42 PM ---The switches used for mechanical keyboards are not all the same. The most popular company that makes them, Cherry, labels them by color. Basically the main difference between the switches would be how much resistance a key would have when pressing it. For example, Red switches are less resistant than blue switches. --- End quote --- There's a lot more to it than just resistence, there's also switches that have tactile bumps (brown, blue have them, red doesn't for example), some are clicky (blue is clicky and brown and red aren't for example), and then you have the total press force. |
| Foxscotch:
--- Quote from: Mr Queeba on April 19, 2017, 11:12:39 PM ---But if anything, there is one keyboard that stands above all, a keyboard that I've never had the pleasure of touching: The IBM Model M, AKA one of the greatest mechanical keyboards to grace the Earth. --- End quote --- imagine how absurd it would be for someone to say they loved sushi, having never tried it |
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