Oh joy, now I'm experiencing key bounces (chattering) with the D key. Press it once and I can get 2 or 3 inputs of the D letter. Talk about getting screwed left and right. Hey, if the S key starts acting up, then this would be a sad situation.
Gratz on Zelgius, even if his fodder is lack-luster and so is he. He can getchu some nice feathers at least.
As for the mechanical keyboards... It's less about price and more about proper care and decent build. Either way, mechanical keyboards are essentially like car tires. No matter the price you pay, you WILL have to replace them eventually. That's what the reviews are for, sis. If a keyboard is garbage, people will let you know. A good mechanical keyboard should last at least 5 years, 10 years max. If you have cats, pets, or pollen-y plants around your keyboard - expect it to last just 5 years.
A default keyboard would be like the one I showed you. It doesn't cost much to make them and ofc you can get a great one for around 50 dollars. But when you start tacking on features like compact design, special keycaps, extended keyboard/key count, RGB control, and wireless, the overall lifespan drops. Especially with wireless/bluetooth which should be avoided at all costs.
Black Luna is broken, though.
With the price thing, I meant that I'm going to be more skeptical with mechanical keyboards and researching them before I settle with one. The Redragon K552, when it works, is fine and that's what some people experienced and shared to the world. Stupid me just didn't look into the bad reviews. It was also only $29.99 when I bought it, so if it didn't start to malfunction, then it would really been the steal people said was. That said, I could have gotten regular old membrane keyboard for less and it probably would have been fine. I don't remember ever using membrane keyboard that was faulty. Hard to use, extremely dirty and not taken care of, but they still worked like an old car refusing to die. And now it's starting to get to the point where it's taking like +4 presses for the A key to work, so I'm going to try and make this post short as I can.
Anyway, this stupid keyboard did get good reviews and it was cheap, so that's why I went with it. I do regret it now that it's malfunctioning since I don't have a lot of money to throw around, but as a starter mechanical keyboard, I like it. It's way better than using a very crappy membrane keyboard, but a decent membrane keyboard would still be fine. Regardless, this stupid thing failed to last a year from I guess regular use. All I do is type with it and game with it. It hasn't been thrown around, slammed on, or anything abusive or extreme. I don't have pets or plants in the room either, so for it have issues after around 6 months, yeah... I mean, some people still use or look for the old IBM mechanical keyboards. At least the body is still in good shape and the LED back lights still work. Meanwhile, function...
The keyboard you showed me I did find some stuff on it off Amazon saying it's good and checked the bad reviews on it on Amazon, but what bothers me is that it looks like the Redragon with a different body. Granted, keyboards usually don't look all the different from each other, but all I can think of is this is another clone being sold under a different company (name). Redragon, Eagletech, Qisan Magicforce, probably Tecware, and a bunch more. Here's a video on this if you have time to spare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xXwQQZGE1U. Tecware isn't covered, but I'm very suspicious.
I thought you might have been talking about them, but just decided to attempt some not so clever word play. Yeah, I can understand not wanting to spend money, but if typing is something you do very often, then it might be worth saving for. It's not like you'll be replacing keyboards often. Although, if you're okay with doing simple repairs and like your current keyboard, repairing it might be a cheaper and easier option in the long run.
Regardless, at that price range, you're just paying for features and personal preferences, not necessarily build quality. If you're leaning towards Ducky, then I don't think you will need to worry about build quality, they're all generally good at that price. LEDs are also cheap and given the customization on pricier keyboards, likely easy to replace.
It's your call though, so I'll stop butting in.
This keyboard some people have said was hot-swappable or that you could replace the switches which I'm guessing you could probably do regardless of if can be hot swapped. Problem is for me is that it's my only keyboard, so I'd rather do something like that if I had a backup. That, and it was only $30 when I bought it call me Scrooge, but I don't want to invest money into it.
From what I gathered, $100 looks like the average for a new, likely well-built mechanical keyboard. Anything over is as you and Lil Puddin said, it's for extra features and customization. Below that, however, you can still get a good, new mechanical keyboard, but it could be a hit or miss. Ducky seems like the Toyota of mechanical keyboards which is one reason I'm looking at them. The other reason is that mechanicalkeyboards.com has a clearance and returns section if I wanted to pay a little less. Amazon Warehouse has been good for me and if choose to go with a returned item from mechanicalkeyboards, hopefully it works out.
I do appreciate your thoughts on this. As a very indecisive person, it helps me sort things out and focus or refocus on what I'm trying to decide on. For instance, the phone issue I had where Lil Puddin redirected me back to I don't need a super expensive phone and really hammered it in that I don't want the OnePlus 6 as great of a phone, hardware and kind of software-wise, that was. So, don't worry about butting in.
Edit: And now the D key is sometimes not registering an input. Chattered D inputs or nothing. Fantastic. And speaking of more death, some people have had their keys die on their Ducky keyboards. Actual keys not the LED. I hate everything. I swear if this Leopold I dropped a Benjamin and some inexplicably decides to die in whatever various ways it wants to. Maybe custom mechanical keyboards are the way to go...
) and one pot this whole week (AI killed themselves before I could break a pot). Apparently T21 and higher is pretty stress free which would be nice.
