Generally noisy, flashy and like someone bred a standard keyboard with an olde world typewriter, mechanical keyboards are not to everyone’s typing taste. However, there is an undeniable ever-growing hardcore fan following that not only swear by them, but actually almost obsess over them. You’ll find them lurking mostly in the online gaming arena, where the mech’s incredible flexibility and, yes, fancy RGB lighting is much prized in gaining the gaming advantage.
So, what do you need to know? Basically, they come in various sizes, the most common being 100 per cent, 80 per cent (TKL – tenkeyless), 75 per cent, 65 per cent and 60 per cent. They also come with ultra-durable key-switches that can be either linear (smooth action), tactile (bit of a bump on pressing), or clicky (bump and noise), dependent on preference.
