Your Next Keyboard Needs To Be Mechanical

Image: Kotaku

Whether you're into coding, word processing or gaming, a mechanical keyboard can make a huge improvement to your output. Boasting individual mechanical switches underneath each key, they provide a higher level of reliability, are more durable and can even help with RSI. Plus, they just look and sound so cool.

This video breaks down all the reasons mechanical keyboard are worth your time.

The video below comes from our friends over at Kotaku. It explains why a good-quality keyboard is so important in the digital age while simultaneously showing off a dizzying array of mechanical models: some built, some bought. For more information about mechanical keyboards, check out our Lifehacker 101 guide.

[Via Kotaku]

This story has been updated from its original publication.

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NegativeZero @negativezero

Aug 10, 2017, 9:23am
Nope. Not as long as all everyone's making are the same straight keyboards. If I could get a mechanical version of the MS Natural Ergonomic I've been using for the last decade or so, then maybe I would, but until then, standard key keyboard for me. Not getting wrist injuries is preferable to having clicky keys.
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- cykninja @cykninja
  
  Aug 10, 2017, 9:46am
  The Ergodox might suit you. Lots of control of the exact tilt and angle required. Then pair it with a wood, gel or leather wrist rest: https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/ergodox-ez-keyboard and https://www.massdrop.com/buy/Noko-Leatherworks-ErgoDox-Wrist-Rest
  
  Or maybe a split like this Mistel on massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/mistel-barocco-md600-mechanical-keyboard or this Ultimate Hacking Keyboard which is on preorder: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
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  - NegativeZero @negativezero
    
    Aug 10, 2017, 10:48am
    Ergodox looks more like a torture device than a keyboard to me. Like, forcing a prisoner to use it would violate the Geneva convention. It's those stupid extra buttons.
    
    "Ultimate" hacking keyboard is just a normal one that's split through the middle and has stupid dongles you can attach. Just having the split isn't enough by a long shot.
    
    I use one of these:
    https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000/b2m-00012
    
    Though it doesn't picture it with the extra attachment on the bottom to raise the front of the keyboard up. It has a very subtle curve to it where the center of the key area on each side is ever so slightly concave.
    
    I've tried heaps of other keyboards, ergonomic and otherwise, and just keep coming back to this one.
    
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Cameron @moonhead

Aug 10, 2017, 11:41am
I'm waiting on a mechanical version of the Logitech keyboards with the LCD screens in built. Main reason I haven't changed my old g510 out yet is because of that.
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- Si @si
  
  Mar 14, 2018, 9:50am
  Im not sure that will happen, it seems like they are going down the mobile "companion app" route, my g910 has a little slide out phone holder thing to put my phone in for that purpose
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