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sashkin2013-08-29 13:22:28
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sashkin, 2013-08-29 13:22:28

Keyboards: Cherry MX vs short stroke?

All over the Internet, here and there again, another developer begins to sing an ode to mechanical keyboards, saying " how beautiful they are and how I lived without them before, I will never return to the old horror ." I also believe that a working tool should be of high quality: it’s like with food that can be cooked with an ordinary knife, but it’s more convenient, comfortable and faster to do it with a good knife made of good steel sharpened to razor sharpness.
I am interested in the opinion of developers who have changed their keyboard to another one based on cherry mx keys. But they replaced not from cheap analogues with the usual long keystroke (everything is clear here), but those who switched from keyboards with a short stroke like laptop or, for example, Apple ones. I somehow switched to the Apple one purely because of the short stroke, and this alone is very convenient for me - the fingers travel a much shorter path and the typing speed increases. When I sit down at someone's computer with a regular keyboard, I have quite strong discomfort precisely because of the long stroke - it feels like my fingers fall long and tediously into some kind of hole and then they have to get out of there. In general, it seems that part of the time I spend pressing and releasing a button and my fingers are no longer fluttering over the keyboard making short and quick presses,
So here's a question for "defectors" from laptop and high-quality short-stroke keyboards to cherry mx's: how do you like the transition? Has it become more convenient? Strongly annoying long stroke? Do you regret that you changed the short move to a long, but high-quality one? In general, I will be happy with the general impressions.

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Max, 2013-08-29
@7workers

Do you care about someone else's opinion or your own feelings? Buy it and try it. I went through 4 not at all cheap keyboards until I realized what I needed and now there is no doubt. From time to time in the store I go “poking” at the exhibits to once again make sure that I made the right choice. Logitech K750

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Pilat, 2013-08-31
@Pilat

The key travel is good, worse when the hands are used to a normal keyboard (Microsoft Natural, a huge curved ergonomic), but for some reason it was discontinued. I have already searched the entire (well, or half) Internet.

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