On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > > Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > > keyswitches with a rated life in the tens of millions, and the Internet is > > full of mail-order vendors selling keyboards (from several different > > manufacturers) built with those Cherry keyswitches. > > How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 > or $15, is it better to pay $150 or even $250 for a quality keyboard, > or replace a $15 keyboard every year or even every six months?
There's really no comparison between a rubber dome keyboard and a quality cherry MX or gateron-based keyboard. I've been using a kinesis advantage pro with for about 13 years now, and I've recently picked up an ergodox;[2] both with cherry MX brown switches. Some of the newer mechanical keyboards coming out of the threads here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44940.1700 are also worth checking out if you've got the keyboard bug hard. 1: http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/don_lab/017_even_more_lab_desk_10232003.jpg 2: http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/ergodox_keyboard/ -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was: "We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel." -- Cory Doctorow