...when its clearly a personal, subjective choice, I know 
Just want some advice on what's a good, reliable, well built brand nowadays. Currently have a corsair K70 red (non RGB) with cherry red switches. Beautiful for gaming on, utterly vile and exhausting for typing on. I have to hover my hands over the keys and continuously correct and delete other keys that a gnat has landed on or if I've wafted over. Far too sensitive for typing. It cost me £110 and and it was great for gaming, the main purpose of this PC, but fast forward ~8 years and I need/want a new one. It's beyond saving with cleaning.
Requirements:
- not cherry red switches, as above, awful. I'm literally tense and aching typing this post.
- not blue, they're too loud/clicky. Brown?
- budget, not sure, let's say up to £150. I don't want to go nuts spending hundreds, but a keyboard is literally the thing I interact with the most, even more than the mouse, and it needs to last years, so I do not begrudge spending on 'premium'
- thinking about it, half the ergonomic issues is this desk is small, so the keyboard is offset causing me to twist. Not good. Perhaps a TKL or a more compact one might work better.
- RGB - yeah not gonna lie, I'd like it. Motherboard is MSI and fans are LianLi so if I could integrate it without another piece of software, great, but not a deal breaker.
- macro keys- hmmm, not really fussed, and as above, I can't really fit a bigger keyboard. I had them on my G25 years ago and they were great, but they were far from a gaming necessity.
- not Razer. Nothing against the brand, just never been a fan of their style or ergonomics.
I'm aware I'm talking mx switch types, as this was the rage and the main player when mechanicals came back as a fashionable thing for gaming. I know there are other, better options, but I don't know anything about them really. Not really anywhere I can go and have a play first either.
So, can you recommend brands to look at? Models to avoid?
Thanks!
Harry
Just want some advice on what's a good, reliable, well built brand nowadays. Currently have a corsair K70 red (non RGB) with cherry red switches. Beautiful for gaming on, utterly vile and exhausting for typing on. I have to hover my hands over the keys and continuously correct and delete other keys that a gnat has landed on or if I've wafted over. Far too sensitive for typing. It cost me £110 and and it was great for gaming, the main purpose of this PC, but fast forward ~8 years and I need/want a new one. It's beyond saving with cleaning.
Requirements:
- not cherry red switches, as above, awful. I'm literally tense and aching typing this post.
- not blue, they're too loud/clicky. Brown?
- budget, not sure, let's say up to £150. I don't want to go nuts spending hundreds, but a keyboard is literally the thing I interact with the most, even more than the mouse, and it needs to last years, so I do not begrudge spending on 'premium'
- thinking about it, half the ergonomic issues is this desk is small, so the keyboard is offset causing me to twist. Not good. Perhaps a TKL or a more compact one might work better.
- RGB - yeah not gonna lie, I'd like it. Motherboard is MSI and fans are LianLi so if I could integrate it without another piece of software, great, but not a deal breaker.
- macro keys- hmmm, not really fussed, and as above, I can't really fit a bigger keyboard. I had them on my G25 years ago and they were great, but they were far from a gaming necessity.
- not Razer. Nothing against the brand, just never been a fan of their style or ergonomics.
I'm aware I'm talking mx switch types, as this was the rage and the main player when mechanicals came back as a fashionable thing for gaming. I know there are other, better options, but I don't know anything about them really. Not really anywhere I can go and have a play first either.
So, can you recommend brands to look at? Models to avoid?
Thanks!
Harry
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