If I may make a slight detour from my regular blogging (what regular blogging? I hear you ask. Shut up, I've been busy I reply), I would like to squeal with delight about this keyboard*.
I've been using a loaner display model at my university's LAN party. While I had already decided to one day purchase this keyboard after merely looking at it for a few minutes, it took me under 30 seconds of actually using it to fall in love with it.
Part of the reason that I'm so enthralled with it is because it is a mechanical keyboard (cherry red somethings, which apparently is the best kind). I had never previously used a mechanical keyboard for an extended period of time, and not only does it feel great to type on one, it sounds great too. My inner programmer, already antsy from lying dormant for too long, awoke with a vengeance the instant I heard the clack of the keys.
The keyboard screams quality, from the brushed metal look to the braided cord to the shiny metal volume wheel. Add in a comfortable (if a little small) wrist rest and shiny blue back-lighting, and the end result is a keyboard I can see myself using for a damn long time. While I don't particularly need the macro keys, I have found them mildly useful in the past, and the model without the macro keys also does not have the backlight, and is therefore not worth the slight decrease in price.
But of course, everything good has a downside, and this keyboard's downside is its price. All the mechanical keyboards I've looked at have been expensive, and although this keyboard ($130) is about $20 cheaper than Das Keyboards, it's still $129 more than I can afford to spend superfluously.
But fuck it, money is temporary, and CLACKY-CLACK BACK-LIGHTING is slightly less temporary.
* The more I type, the more delightful clacking I get to hear.
I've been using a loaner display model at my university's LAN party. While I had already decided to one day purchase this keyboard after merely looking at it for a few minutes, it took me under 30 seconds of actually using it to fall in love with it.
Part of the reason that I'm so enthralled with it is because it is a mechanical keyboard (cherry red somethings, which apparently is the best kind). I had never previously used a mechanical keyboard for an extended period of time, and not only does it feel great to type on one, it sounds great too. My inner programmer, already antsy from lying dormant for too long, awoke with a vengeance the instant I heard the clack of the keys.
The keyboard screams quality, from the brushed metal look to the braided cord to the shiny metal volume wheel. Add in a comfortable (if a little small) wrist rest and shiny blue back-lighting, and the end result is a keyboard I can see myself using for a damn long time. While I don't particularly need the macro keys, I have found them mildly useful in the past, and the model without the macro keys also does not have the backlight, and is therefore not worth the slight decrease in price.
But of course, everything good has a downside, and this keyboard's downside is its price. All the mechanical keyboards I've looked at have been expensive, and although this keyboard ($130) is about $20 cheaper than Das Keyboards, it's still $129 more than I can afford to spend superfluously.
But fuck it, money is temporary, and CLACKY-CLACK BACK-LIGHTING is slightly less temporary.
* The more I type, the more delightful clacking I get to hear.
