Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE. (updated for 2019)

Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE.

VIDEO: Questioning QWERTY.

Here's my main driver, a KBP V60 with quiet matias switches, which are based on ALPS design. Bonus launchpad S included, for the musical types among you :P

I had been meaning to take pictures of my keyboards for awhile and finally got around to it. Buckling Springs, ALPS, & Cherry switches galore!

Just got this guy in the mail the other day from the second wave of shipments from Massdrop. I ended up getting the clears because I wanted a keyboard that I could take places and not annoy people too much with clicky sounds. I have to say though that I'm loving the clears a lot more than I thought I initially would. It is a very sturdy and heavy keyboard, but I don't think that it gets in the way of it's portability.

An ortholinear 60% board made by Ortholinear Keyboards! Lots of layout options, and a completely programmable PCB - programming and assembly services available!

A few months ago, after moving into my new apartment, I decided that I was ready for an upgrade to my PC. New CPU? Nope. New graphics card? Nope. More RAM? Nah. I decided to try my hand at my first ever mechanical keyboard. After doing some Google research and attempting to sort through what others thought the best 'starter' mechanical keyboard was as far as reliability and quality one name continued to come up: Das.

Corsair is today throwing another card on the table by releasing the STRAFE, a mechanical gaming keyboard that may be limited to red backlighting but supposedly lacks no practical features over the RGB models. The truly interesting part however is that the STRAFE has an MSRP of just $110, nearly half the MSRP of the K70 RGB ($200).

Ripster55 here from /r/MechanicalKeyboards

Pardon the crappy quality..

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