/mkg/ - Mechanical Keyboard General

it still has the original keycaps so probably not. pic related is the KB.

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haha no. Gateron browns are ok. Cherry Browns are scratchy with barely a bump. They feel like linears at times.

This. I would like to add that any keyboard over $150 is a complete waste. Just start wiping your ass with your money at that point. Even nice retro ALPS boards aren't more than $100 most times.

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why are they so fucking expensive?

Nah some are worth it.

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Cause "handmade" and shit. Honestly it is a bunch of rich kids buying them cause they don't actually work and use their keyboards.

>no playback buttons
>no volume wheel
>half inch 8 pixel lcd screen
w h y

It's the modern day snowflake culture. These keys are mass produced in China like all these hyper expensive "custom" keyboards. The people that buy this shit aren't rich.

>Giant fucking knob
>nO VoLuMe WhEeL
.....

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oh, it looked like some gay decal from that previous image. Still though, why a volume wheel but no playback buttons? And is that owl keycap a custom one or did it come with the keyboard?

there is clearly a wheel on that brainlet

You can configure playback buttons with QMK. Also the plan was to make the knob a multipurpose setting function so you can use it for volume, switching functions of keys, etc.

And no... it is a custom. The owl doesn't come with anything and it is just a prototype render.

no the massproduced ones sell for like 10 bucks, the ones in the OP sell for 30, it's the money launderers that "sell" them for $100+

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that's a franken keyboard, its missing a keycap and others have been replaced.
Honestly i would go for a perfect keyboard rather than trying to be cheap

Those are mass produced...

How much was this thing again?

Clack Factory isn't tho, and he sells them for 30 bucks. The insane prices were just a money laundering scheme

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click clack is hand made, even if it does look like it's mass produced. he used to stream his builds and it would take him about an hour to make. the chinks do make mass produced clones of his keycaps. i've never seen him sell a keycap of his for more than 40 bucks. looking at the prices the scalpers are charging doesn't mean he sells them close to that amount. most artisans rarely sell for 40 bucks.

>Clack Factory isn't tho,
They are literally mass produced... At best you may have some chinks pouring some resin in a mold. So instead of the millions from injection molding you get 10,000s. Nobody is making custom keycaps except for a handful of artists working for commission and these keys aren't cool.
>click clack is hand made
You snowflakes have a very weird definition of what constitutes handmade.

The base is mass produced, but the actual design is hand sculpted.

>hand sculpted.
Into a mold.

its even simpler, the fact that its hand made doesn't add up value rather is the fact that its a low production run because of the limitations humans have.

If Rolex brags about handmade has no value because they can produce what ever their target its. Its just a marketing thing.

How is 10,000s low production?

Rolex has different tiers and they are sold out non stop with the higher quality models. They can't keep up with demand. Just getting high quality materials like non chinkshit sapphire glass is difficult in that market. Retards like you thing the iphone watch is what Rolex should be compared too.

I can't think of many companies/markets with such a blatantly false handmade claim like Clack keys.

>10,000s
Clack Factory has never made anywhere close to that for any design. His claims aren't wrong though since the design is indeed handmade.

>Spend $300 on Truly Ergonomic keyboard
>wrist pain goes away

feels good man

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why didn't anyone tell me that blacks feel like rubber domes and just all around suck to type on. I bought silent blacks for my GMMK since I needed something quiet (have a roommate now) and wanted to try something new from my blues, and black is my favorite color so I thought it would be cool.
Shit feels like trash and typing on it is unironically too tiring after using it for a couple of hours.

Wow you really do think these keys are something special? You poor snowflake.

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Wow those are so fucking ugly

Should've got yellows

>linears feel like rubber domes
They feel nothing alike, I honestly don't get this meme.

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Probably talking about the mush on bottom-out because he got silents

I essentially want a filco TKL but with blue backlight

Pls suggest

Ducky or maybe CM
Also apparently Durgod is made in the same factory as Ducky so they should be good too

If it's mass produced explain how his early (pre mech keyb consumer explosion) runs were as many factory seconds as factory firsts and had unique fxe stamps in the cap

whats the absolute best keyboard for under 60$ ?

I could care less about the history of his work. Making batches of 100+ just for one color variant of a key is mass produced.

>could care

There are runs he made where production was only possibly 30 factory first caps, even 100 is not mass produced. It was originally just art. You say you *cough* "could" care less for the history, yet that's the appeal itself.

hacks obsess over gear because they can't cut it where it counts

Is Ducky good or bad? I see that they're surprisingly popular.

subjectively yes

They're decent prebuilts.

Any other market they say the original sculpt is handmade. You're buying a casting. But like I said he's got the special snowflake market nailed and special snowflakes are mighty ignorant about how to actually make things. Absentee fathers and all. The custom casting market is the closest thing and you're talking about castings that at max are 15 items. Often times unfinished and left in bronze to make it easy for the end user to finish treating it how they want. Or you can compare it to the custom scale model/garage kit market. Lot less snobby bullshit in that and far higher detail along with skill of the work too.

What would you say is the best prebuilt?

Leopold

ducky

whats the difference between kaihl box naive vs jade?

I watched videos but people dont really detail the force difference between the two. I really like the sound and the reviews, just trying to figure out which one is best to go with. I'm currently using some blue switches.

Leopold, but Ducky is still a solid 8/10

One of those aluminum case hotswap boards, especially if it supports QMK.

About 20g of spring force. Due to the lighter spring it's easier to bottom out with jades so I prefer the navies. Navies are heavy switches though. Both box pinks and noble yellows are somewhere between navy/jade and white/pale blue. Haven't tried those two though so I can't really say which is the closer to the middle.

varmilo (they have good sounding stabs)

>whats the difference between kaihl box naive vs jade?

novelkeys.xyz/products/novelkeys-x-kailh-box-thick-clicks

will white keycaps turn gross and yellow after you use them for a few years?

depends on the type of plastic they're made out of. PBT wont ABS will

I'm buying a new keyboard.
I currently use Cherry MX Brown switches, I'm wondering if it's worth switching to Cherry MX Speed switches or if I should just stick with the Brown ones.
Please help I can't decide.

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Live a little, try something new.

Alright I will, thanks for the help user.

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I've been eyeing this used "like-new" $76 Filco for a few days now, but also want to buy a brand new Ducky One 2 Skyline for 93 USD
I can't fucking decide which one is the better buy, maybe you guys can help me?

Get the Ducky since it comes with doubleshot PBT and hardware level programmable media keys and macros as stock. The Filco uses pad printed ABS, so you need to spend an extra $20 for usable keycaps, plus another 15 for a replacement controller in order to get similar functionality to a Ducky.

Thanks, guess I'll buy the ducky then.

How the hell do I clean this shitty keyboards?

How do you guys feel about this keyboard? drop.com/buy/drop-mito-laser-alt-high-profile Pic related.

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A brush and compressed air nigga.

ugly and lgbt

I like the purple case and the layout, not a fan of everything else.

Filco

Varmilos are nice, but I recommend you to avoid prebuilts. The best thing they can do is to lube the stabilizers. No clipping, no band-aid, nothing like that. And no lubed switches. Literally, anyone can build a keyboard nowadays, why do you need a prebuilt?
Stabs are rattling as fuck
ugly caps, shitty cases
This

>no Home
>no End
This is an incomplete keyboard.
Why would anyone buy this? They obfuscate the fact in the description so that somebody will buy this without looking at a high-res photo?

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I've got a version 1 Corsair k70 with red switches and it's alright to game on but I can't fucking type on it as my work laptops got a chicket board and I spend 80% of my time on that. Are there any smaller mech keyboards that don't have massive throw on the keys and that I'd like better?

cm mk730 or ducky one 2? I can't decide.

Just got a G413, every single rewiew i read post buying says it's shit, but i really like it. Are romer G underrated or the rewiewers just ultra base towards them?

I'm considering a tkl gmmk as a first mechanical keyboard. Where the fuck do you buy cheapish not cancer black keycaps? the gmmk ones have an ugly stencil font.

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don't fall for the meme. if you really like it and can afford it, go for it but that's way too much money for a keyboard that doesn't really give you anything special.
I've gone through that phase of buying the expensive stuff and I regret it. if you want to spend on keyboards, look into ergo options and special switches.

my entire setup cost less than $300
u got scammed frog poster

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why would anyone care for a page up and page down button over literally any of the other keys missing on that board xd

you can change it what you want... You can reconfigure any key or function you want since it is QMK compatible.

ducky one 2 because floating keys are cancer.

Nah romer-g are hot garbage

Light Linears are shit to type on. I typed in shit by just resting my keys on my keyboard time to time.

Would this one be better? It's priced at $230 includes keycaps and switches. Aluminum material and QMK

is this the Mechanical Keyboard General?

Yes.

Razor huntsman with purple is best. No dust works with lasers, nice clicks,nice feedback, you can turn the lights off.

The rest is shill bs.

Razer just rebrands Bloody's optical switches and adds a "because Razer" markup.

Forgot link currently out of stock but I can wait.

is this a bad time to buy a hhkb pro2? When do the next hhkb pro 2s come out?

wut kb ?

It's a dactyl manuform.

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But why are they hot garbage?

On the definition of mechanical:
If I were to populate a PCB with momentary switches and program that to behave as a keyboard would, what have I created? Is this keyboard mechanical? It has discrete switches, though lacking travel. Discuss.

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Scratchy with barely a bump. I honestly thought they were linears at first. Unique keycaps so options are very limited. I don't know if it is present now, but when I tested my friends and it was extremely inconsistent on where the bump was.