After all shits and months without keyboard, it hurts. How I wish I was rich able to afford daskeyboard, FILCO, leopold, PFU. All those tier 1 keyboards. Than I look at the price of tier 2 keyboards, varmilo, ducky, cherry, unicomp. Still too expensive. I'm too poor for a decent keyboard that can type. So I look at the shit tiers, akko and ikbc. Those that are good at nothing other than the price. I sattle on the akko 3108. Should arrive in a week or so. At least it should be better than those so called "gaming" keyboard like razer, cossair. Through I heard that mid range cooler master use to be quite good, but still not my taste.
Whats even the point of getting a $100 keyboard? The way I see it, all of these keyboard fanatics are mesmerized by the rainbow LEDs.
Not at all, many of them have no LED. All tier one have no Led lights. Only cheap keyboard gets Led lights. Cherry is the only one in tier 2 that have lights. Ikbc have lights, Akko recently have a new lights model. Only shitty brand have lights. And even 3rd teir Ikbc and akko are still light years ahead of razer and corsair.
Honestly, I got a couple of cheap keyboards from my highschool when they were getting rid of old ones right before I graduated. They are still running nearly 20 years later. I don't even need to buy a converter to USB because I bought a USB hub for my first laptop around that time that still works. Even when I wanted something wireless I just bought a cheap $30 keyboard/mouse combo from the store. They work fine. The only reason to buy expensive inputs is when you're wanting to slightly increase your APM (action per minute) for games. Even then you're likely to be better off increasing your internet connection speed. If you have the money to spend on them, kudos I guess. I did something similar when I wanted a Wacom graphics tablet. Sadly, it's rarely been used because I went back to paper.
Honestly, once you get use to the good keyboard it's hard to switch back. Like you can barely type with the bad keyboards. Some time good keyboard is really addictive, once your tried it. I bought my Akko 3108 for 50 dollars, now cherry have over 50 over years it's Patons have most likely ended, so the price really come down. It use to be about a hundred dollars. But now is very cheap, cherry switch + PBT keycaps.
CM had a $60 mechanical keyboard that used Cherry clones. It would be generous to call it quite good, but it was great for the price. They've since discontinued that keyboard. The newer ones are more expensive, in the $80-90 range. At that price, CM has some stiff competition.
We have cooler master here with about 80 with cherry switchs, I heard they were good. But my new keyboard have arrived, quite solid build compared to many of other keyboard brands.