A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
- Cherry MX Red switches (or similar?)
- Standard layout (104 keys) (not opposed to ergonomic)
- Sturdy base (prefer black or a dark color)
- Detachable USB cable
- Media controls with a roller/scroll wheel
- Per key RGB lighting
- Shine through keycaps (I want PBT, I think?) (mostly black or dark to start with, I can buy more keys later, right?)
- I'd like to keep this under $150, but I'm willing to spend a bit more if it will get me everything and is significantly better.
I'm looking at a Corsair Strafe that has all of this except the detachable USB cable and is only around a hundred bucks. Are there better options for me? I'd really like it if my first purchase checked all of these boxes and got me hooked.