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What If scenario - mechanical keyboards cease to exist

ManOfDisguise
By ManOfDisguise
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more of a thread for fun

 

 

Boom! One day you wake up to find out your mechanical kb is gone!(if you own a mech kb that is). You soon find out that mechanical keyboards have ceased to exist and dissapeared.

 

 

Also say which brand and model would you buy and say why.

 

 

 

I personally would get a simple, wired, membrane keyboard(nothing gamerish even though i game a lot) because i see no point of buying gaming membrane keyboards(other than maybe backlight but even normal keyboards have that).

It wouldn't be such a problem for me to get used to it as I think mechanical keyboards arent even much better if better at all compared to membrane(however i only used mx blues and now am using mx browns). It would take me around a week(but probably even less than that) to get used to the new keyboard.

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I don't use a Mechanical keyboard..

If I were to use one I would get used to a different keyboard quickly, since my school doesn't have mechanical keyboards :P

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I'd go back to my old Logitech Illuminated (scissor, membrane) quite easily.

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topre masterrace

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I'd go topre but adjusting from greens to anything takes quite a while.

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topre masterrace

 

 

I'd go topre but adjusting from greens to anything takes quite a while.

 

Topre is still mechanical.

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Topre is still mechanical.

no, its not actually. There is no physical switch like the is with a cherry switch. They are a capacitive switch.

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Anything from a Model M would be difficult. Topre if it's allowed, otherwise chiclet.

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i would go to chiclet. yeah there no travel distance but there accurate :P

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Chiclet, I type much better on my laptop chiclet keyboard than I do on my MX blues

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seeing as i made my keyboard and numpad i would probably just make new ones now if cherry mx switches,alps switches,buckling spring, all vanished i would just have to find a new switch or recreated buckling spring setup for my own keyboard

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I'd go with chicklet.

Or pen and paper.

I'd fight to the death if someone tried to take my k95 though

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I would cry a little

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topre is a capacitive switch, so topre all the way. what i currently use.

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Well... I may start said day with a few tears for my now missing Logitech G710+ (which i love to death btw) and now.. at this point I would go get myself a Logitech G19s as its just about the only membrane keyboard i can tolerate these days. If i had the chance i would hunt me down a keyboard with topre's as i hear they are quite nice as well :)

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I'd probably switch to Topre.

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