Controversial Opinion: I Am Enjoying Typing on a Cheap Logitech Business/Work Keyboard More Than My High-Price Mechanical Keyboard

[artemis789]

Hi folks.

Just posting in the "Gaming Peripherals" sub-forum with a bit of a controversial post.

I've been running mechanical keyboards for the best part of 15-20 years.

I have tried what I feel are the "classic" switches, in this order:

• Cherry MX Black switch with O-rings.
• Cherry MX Brown switch with O-rings.
• Cherry MX Red switch with O-rings.
• Cherry MX Blue switch. No O-rings.

Filco is the brand I favour, and I would recommend that brand to anyone starting out with mechanical keyboards.

Just recently, for work purposes, I have "downgraded" to a cheap Logitech mass-market keyboard (Logitech K120).

My experience of it? My typing is quiet, quick and efficient, and I can hear myself think. Typing feels comfortable. I can type while video calls are "live", without disrupting the call. I don't miss the "clack" at all.

I will be sticking with the cheap membrane keyboard, and will treat it as a "consumable" item, as the marking on the keys will inevitably wear. Even then, it is affordable.

In certain respects, I feel that I have now left the "rabbit hole" of mechanical keyboards.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has abandoned their mechanical keyboard, and their thoughts on doing so.

All the best.

 

[Zefan]

Membrane gang here (Microsoft x4), I've had it for well over 10 years and it's just dandy. Mechanical keyboards are overrated.

 

[whitecrook]

yes the mech keyboards are nice, and if doing a lot of typing they are really good if you get the right one. But typically I'll just use standard dell keyboards for all the reasons you stated. I had to switch to the dell for nightime gaming since the clacking of a mech keeps everyone awake. What I usually insist on though is full size keys and double height return key. These chiclet style keyboards are no good for anything imo. In the living room PC, the main consideration of a keyboard is ability to pick it up easily, and also not accidentaly hit any keys like Sleep. So sometimes a keyboard can be subjectively better than another even if it is objectively 'inferior'

 

[Gray2233]

I'm a more of a mechanical advocate, I favour brown switches for general use over anything else that I've tried. I'm really not keen on the way membrane boards feel in use, but I also don't have any issues with the noise they generate etc either.

Has to be a full sized board at that, I'm not fond of the 60% etc options that have become popular as I make frequent use of the number pad.