Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: They do ping.

[quote name="The Happiness Engine"]Never typed on a cherry MX switch, but I'm typing on an IBM model M repro that sounds like an army of mechanical beavers. There's only a handful of switch mechanisms. The shittiest are your membrane keyboards, that are just a rubber dome holding the key up, these are your $10 USB jobs and they feel "mushy" because you are literally mushing a piece of rubber. The (better) costlier, older design uses a spring and a tension bar, which gives you a crisp feel between "fully pressed" and "moving down, but not actuated". That makes a clicking sound of some sort depending on how exactly it's built. The ultra low profile pic on the <a href="https://www.cherrymx.de/en/cherry-mx.html">right</a> might help visualize it. Cherry make a fuckton of switch designs specifically for spergs to select the EXACT balance of noise versus "knowing the keypress actually triggered" because nothing fucks up your typing more than pressing F and not getting an F on the screen. $150 is a high-end keyboard, I've seen keyboards go up to $250 but that was a group of people who made keyboards their lifestyle.[/quote]