04-06-2020, 06:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2020, 06:35 PM by Mattias Westlund.)
As I'm doing a lot of typing nowadays I find myself in need of a better keyboard, and I was wondering if any of you guys have any suggestions.
Right now I'm using an ASUS Cerberus Keyboard, which is OK I guess, but it has a couple of issues. The main one being that you have to hit the keys dead on or they will sort of stick. The plunger part of the key cap is fairly tall and catches on the shaft if you hit the key at an angle, and forces you to press it down harder to make it register. This is very annoying when gaming and leads to a clunky typing experience. It's also not particularly pretty with its stealth fighter aesthetics.
I also have a Logitech G105. This one feels better to type on, but the location of the macro buttons to the left makes it nigh unusable since I keep hitting those when going for the Esc or Ctrl keys. It also suffers from very dim backlighting only in blue.
My requirements are as follows:
Right now I'm using an ASUS Cerberus Keyboard, which is OK I guess, but it has a couple of issues. The main one being that you have to hit the keys dead on or they will sort of stick. The plunger part of the key cap is fairly tall and catches on the shaft if you hit the key at an angle, and forces you to press it down harder to make it register. This is very annoying when gaming and leads to a clunky typing experience. It's also not particularly pretty with its stealth fighter aesthetics.
I also have a Logitech G105. This one feels better to type on, but the location of the macro buttons to the left makes it nigh unusable since I keep hitting those when going for the Esc or Ctrl keys. It also suffers from very dim backlighting only in blue.
My requirements are as follows:
- NOT a mechanical keyboard. I've always used rubber domes and I actually prefer them because they're quieter. I know there are quiet mechanical switches, but I can't motivate spending $100-200 on a keyboard anwyay.
- Good [strong] backlighting that allows you to set a single color all across the keyboard (i.e. no "unicorn barf" keyboards with differently colored areas).
- Visually fairly simplistic and traditional, not the keyboard equivalent of the Batmobile.
- A numeric keypad, since I use it a lot for DAW work.
