Mechanical Keyboards

I'm using a shitty logitech from...2002 I think? I'm leaning towards browns because reds feel too easy to press. Blues too noisy. Blacks, greens, and whites too hard to find any variety.

Any reason not to get a logitech G710? I like that it's the same brand as my mouse and that it comes with o-rings already installed. These are both very small things but I look at reviews and can't really find much to differentiate models.

You're right, my mistake on the blacks.

I was going to stay away from non-Cherry switches. Still seem too new to have detected any longevity issues.

Backlighting is a reason not to buy a keyboard, for me. Another point of failure = no thanks.

Also, those rainbow keyboards look pretty gay. I wanted to consider buying a keyboard for work and no way am I using something like that in public.

Here's my problem. Go onto newegg, go to gaming keyboards(does mechanical have to mean gaming?), filter list by anything that looks like it is a brown switch, then sort by amount of reviews and get the following:

Kailh Brown, Brown Mechanical, Brown Cherry MX, Gaming Keyboards, Gaming - Newegg.com

Pricing is all over the fucking place. Usually, if you filter your list well enough, there's some correlation between price and reviews.

Brown Cherry MX comprises the large majority of that search. Limiting it to just that switch doesn't help much. Prices are still all over the place which makes me think the market just isn't developed or invested enough.

lanx_sl said:

You are either a cherry mx user, or you are a kailh user, the switches from many subjective reviews say they are VERY different. How is it all over the place? the lowest for a cherry mx brown is 80 bucks to a high of 260, that's pretty standard, now. Obviously w/ more money, you get more features, whereas the 80bucks gets you a 104 keyboard.

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Some of those "features" look pretty fucking stupid. $40 extra(the two gskill models) so my keyboard can look like a rainbow instead of an annoying red? Why does the Corsair K95 cost double the Logitech G710 just for the same rainbow backlighting?

As I said, you take the same search in a different component, like video cards or cpus, and you get a much smoother correlation of price to reviews. This makes me think the mechanical keyboard market is underdeveloped or just always destined to be niche. Which is fine, not everything can be high demand. But it makes it real hard to determine which model is best for what I want because manufacturers bilking customers with useless features is quite typical of niche markets.

I was all set on buying a G710 but then multiple reviews of keycaps breaking after months of use made me hesitate. All I really want is a replacement keyboard because my spacebar is squeaky and gets stuck sometimes. Maybe I'll just buy membrane instead. "Gaming" peripherals are so stupid.