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Looking at social media activity lately, mechanical keyboards seem to be getting more and more popular. Almost unlimited customization options! Do you want a colorful keyboard? Glittering RGB lights? Even with the customization of the “switch”, the mechanical buttons run “independently”. You can create a keyboard using your design! Yes, all of that is on this one input device. There may be one or two foreign terms from the sentence above, it’s only natural. Maybe this keyboard is foreign to some people, because they didn’t have time to find out, or didn’t have time to try it firsthand. Maybe even because they are not interested, and feel the same when using a membrane keyboard. If you are curious and curious about this one keyboard, let’s continue.
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What Is a Mechanical Keyboard?
For those of you who are a user, a seller, or even a keyboard enthusiast, what did you think of when that question came to you? You may imagine a lot of “small” objects, with a variety of less common terms. We will try to summarize and explain briefly.
Switches Explain Everything
The most noticeable difference between mechanical keyboards and other keyboards is that they have switches under the keys. The switch in question is a combination of several “moving” parts, including the Bottom Housing, which contains metal contacts or commonly called metal leaf, and springs. Hard plastic “Stem” and in contact with metal leaf, they will become “switch” when pressed. And Top Housing is the “lock” of all these elements. When you press a keyboard key, the stem pushes the spring down, registers the key on the keyboard PCB, and is “sent” to your computer.
Quality Is Everything
I can emphasize, that mechanical keyboards are manufactured to be used in the long term. The quality of the material will of course be very influential. Doesn’t this make the selling price more expensive? Maybe, but not recently. If you find one button is broken, you can easily replace it, especially now that hot-swap technology is booming. Switch options are also increasingly diverse, you can customize the keyboard and adjust it to your needs.
When it comes to quality, let’s talk about rubber-domed keyboards. In short, this keyboard is manufactured so that it can be sold at a relatively low price when compared to mechanical keyboards. Keyboards that use membranes are relatively practical, but if you encounter one or two broken keys, you will have to disassemble and replace the entire membrane. Not all types of membrane keyboards have spare parts that are sold in the market.
Use Mechanical Keyboard
Based on personal experience, using a mechanical keyboard does provide a different experience. Even the keyboard I’m currently “retiring” from is still working fine, with no issues at all. One of the buttons is off, it’s also because of my mistake when doing the soldering. The interesting thing is the price of my old keyboard, no more than $30 in 2016-2017 I bought it. An object that has been used continuously, especially for a long time, doesn’t wear out? I hardly found this. Maybe my experience can be an illustration of quality. Moreover, now there are various kinds of switches with so many choices, the quality of the course has grown rapidly, very rapidly!
One thing that made me love it even more, to the point of writing articles about mechanical keyboards is the “feel” that I never get when using a membrane keyboard. The sound of typing, the feeling when the keys are pressed, and of course the more affordable prices. The keyboard I use is the Keycron K2 using a Gateron Brown Switch, everything is standard until I decided to do a little tuning. The results were completely unexpected! Starting from the typing feel, typing sound, and wireless(Bluetooth) functionality, everything is satisfying! I’m getting more and more curious if using a “premium” switch, shouldn’t give much better results? We will discuss this at another time.
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