choice for first mechanical keyboard

[cairns84]

Hi

So my wife is going to get me new keyboard and mouse for our anniversary and im having really hard time deciding on what one to get. As i dont have a lot shops anywhere near that do a decent range of keyboards to try, except maybe MX reds, i was hoping for a bit of advice.

looking at the corsair sabre RGB mouse and for the keyboards im stuck

its between:

corasir strafe RGB MX silent
corsair RGB k95 Platinum with either speed or brown

or maybe something like the blackwidow chroma v2 with orange keys.

what i really like about the k95 is the macro keys and multimedia keys but without being able to test the keys myself its a tough choice.

 

[olivier renault]

Hope you have some desk space.

As for keys, Browns are a good compromise. That's what I've always used. They're like more towards typical keyboards than the reds.

For the actual keyboard, hmm dunno. Maybe the Logitech G610. A bit basic, but I like basic.

 

[EsaT]

"Mechanical" switches differ greatly in their feel from usual keyboard.
Instead of highest force in uppermost position with needed pressing force greatly diminishing during push mechanical have basically opposite behavior:
Basically highest at bottoming with mostly light or very light feedback before key press registering.
Because mechanical keys register press at about half way down the press instead of at bottom.

MX Red has nice low bottoming force for example in gaming use (that shift button for running/sprinting etc) but force before registering press is very light.
So after standard keyboard those could cause lots of accidental keypresses and there jsut isn't real feedback before actuation.
MX Black has similar linear force/resistance curve, but it starts higher making bottoming force higher

MX Brown has non-linear curve with higher than MX Red bump in force curve before actuation and then dropping, before settling at tiny bit higher than MX red for bottoming.
That would be best starting switch without having chance to try them beforehand. (some feedback/resitance before actuation)

MX Retro alias Blue has even bigger force bump before activation and extra sound effect for "good old" mechanical writer noise.