Curious which keyboards people prefer
For the last 3-4 years I've been using dasKeyboard 4 professional,
and been absolutely loving it from the day I got it!
It's a mechanical keyboard, quite heavy, 1.3kg (2.9 lbs), which sounds ridiculous, until you try it! You put it somewhere and it stays there! No chance u'll move it by mistake!
As you can see it has a pretty simplistic design, most notable on it is probably the volume knob.
Nothing really special about it as far as buttons go, the only additional one it as are the mute, sleep and the media control buttons.
While I like the mute and the media buttons I have to say for me personally the sleep button is the only downside of this keyboard. I honestly lost count of how many times i accidentally pressed it, it's pretty much in level with the rest of the keyboard and very sensitive so I don't even notice I did it, PC just goes straight to sleep -,-
Above the sleep and mute button, on the side, there are 2 USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports, which offer up to 5Gb/s connection.
The bottom side, as you can see doesn't come with the standard risers which u have to clip out and which (lets be honest here) usually break within 6 months, it comes with a big fat ruler that has magnets on it.
That way you cannot possibly break the riser and in case you are in need of a ruler it's just a grab away.!
One last thing to mention about dasKeyboard is it's switches,
it comes with option of 2 switches, the Cherry MX Brown and Cherry MX Blue,
I took the MX Brown ones, compared to the blue ones they have a more soft tactile bump which makes the sound less clicky, quieter basically, although thats still not even close as quiet as non mechanical keyboards.
The blue one's are louder but offer an even better typing speed.
Some graphs from the dasKeyboard website (where you can also find the sound examples) on how they describe it:
Definitely recommend it, although there are even never models out there now days, I like this model so much that the only thing I would consider is switching to the same one with a backlight.