[P&D] Your comprehensive Keyboard thread! - Page 5

On December 22 2010 19:52 antas wrote:


Hi mate,

welcome to the mech club

IMO, first of all you should base your consideration on what are you going to do with the keyboard?

Are you going to use it mostly for typing? Or are you going to use it mainly for gaming? What type of gaming?

I was probably going the same thing as you, I did some research, look others opinion and then watching/listening videos of some keyboards, and finally going to the market to feel it with my own hands. In the end I choose FILCO brown. (I tried blue and black too before I decided).

My reason for brown:

1. I use my keyboard mostly for typing, and for light gaming. I play mostly soccer (FIFA series) with my rumblepad, and some RTS (mainly SC2). So for this reason it seems that blue/brown is the only way to go. I don't really like the feel of black switch when typing on it. Black might be good for FPS or any games that mostly will be bottoming the keyboard.

2. The sound. I found that I actually like the sound of blue the most. But the clicking sound might be annoying for my house mate. So I decided to get the brown in the end.

Now it comes the fun part: Even the sound of the brown is not as silent as I expected to be, lol. To make the sound minimum I supposed you need to be a touch typist (without hammering/bottoming the keys too much). Although it doesn't have the clicking sound, but the sound when the keycap hits the bottom and when it bounce back is still a bit loud :D

So, again I think you'll need to consider on what are you going to do with it first before jumping to conclusion.

Cheers ^^