Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops

Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by JohnBooty on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:44PM (#16147574)

Yes! If one's typing "correctly" on a mechanical keyboard, they would hear/feel the click and very little clack -- otherwise they're jamming the keys down with more force than needed.

Of course, some people enjoy mechanical keyboards simply because they just like... jamming the keys down as hard as possible and hearing loud noises, I support? And we all do that sometimes, I guess. But... that is definitely not the point of those mechanical keys.

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Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by DanBC on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:17PM (#16147977)

To be fair it depends on the keyswitches used, and the keys you trained on.

I learnt to type on real mechanical typewriters, where some considerable force was needed. It's taken some time to relearn gentler typing.

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Re:Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards... by mclehman on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:57PM (#16154202)

Personally, I just keep scaling up the springs in my switches. Started standard, then went up to 85g, sitting at 180g with 250g switches waiting to be put into a board. No gentle typing required and I never bottom out strongly while typing.

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