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I'm looking to replace my old membrane keyboard with a new mechanical one. I do a lot of typing (coding) on it, so I'm looking for something that feels good after a few hours of typing.

What I'm looking for:

-around 100€

-full layout (numpad)

-palm rest

-if it has backlight, it has to have an option to turn it off

 

Is mechanical the way to go, or should I look into ergonomic keyboards?

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I'm looking to replace my old membrane keyboard with a new mechanical one. I do a lot of typing (coding) on it, so I'm looking for something that feels good after a few hours of typing.

What I'm looking for:

-around 100€

-full layout (numpad)

-palm rest

-if it has backlight, it has to have an option to turn it off

 

Is mechanical the way to go, or should I look into ergonomic keyboards?

mechanicals are ergonomic in a way :D

 

programming was made for qwerty keyboards, most program builders were made to have shortcuts all over the keyboard.

any keyboard that makes you feel comfortable is the keyboard you should get.

 

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The WASD CODE is a really nice keyboard that was designed by programmers, although any keyboard that you feel comfortable typing with will obviously do the job just fine.

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I'm looking to replace my old membrane keyboard with a new mechanical one. I do a lot of typing (coding) on it, so I'm looking for something that feels good after a few hours of typing.

What I'm looking for:

-around 100€

-full layout (numpad)

-palm rest

-if it has backlight, it has to have an option to turn it off

 

Is mechanical the way to go, or should I look into ergonomic keyboards?

for years I've been programming I never encountered any keyboard specifically made for programming(unless you used a layout other than qwerty that was made for programming). I've encountered keyboards for Content creation though.

 

but any mechanical keyboard would be much more ergonomic than membrane ones. IMO best for typing would be cherry MX browns.

 

Keybaords with tons of dedicated macro keys would be great for programming, but they're much better use in content creation but they will still help quite a bit on programming. I used to use a blackwidow ultimate which had macro keys on the side which used to easily assign a few processes in unity and monodevelop.

 

if you want a keyboard with a lot of dedicated macro keys go for a k95 rgb. afaik it also has a wrist rest included.

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