If you have ever looked in one, you will see there is like a large sheet of rubber inside the keyboard and each key will press against a location that pushes the membrane in contact to a circuit board below. Traditional keyboards (before mechanical) are essentially membrane keyboards. If you are also new to mechanical keyboards, here is what I’ve learnt. Terms like Cherry MX came up frequently, and there are colours like red, brown, blue, yellow, etc. It took some research to understand what exactly are these keyboards and what makes them click (pun intended). In recent years gaming mechanical keyboards had gain popularity and opened up a new segment. There weren’t many mainstream developments that caught my attention. The last time that a keyboard caught my attention was the Microsoft Natural keyboard from 1998. Looking for a keyboard nowadays is so much more than what it used to be. Hence the inner desire to change has been lingering for a while. Especially when I switch from my work MacBook Pro, with a Mac Keyboard layout, to my Mac Mini with the Windows layout, it gets somewhat annoying.
LOGITECH K200 VS MECHANICAL MAC OS
While I’ve figured out the few key mappings to use a Windows keyboard on Mac OS X, it has always been a bit of an annoyance. However as I moved from Windows Vista (yup, the last PC I owned ran Windows Vista), to Mac, the keyboard didn’t really change. This post is typed out with the Keychron K1.įirst, why the upgrade? The Logitech K200 had served me well for many years. Now, I’m updating my keyboard from an old Logitech K200, to the Keychron K1 that is pictured above. One of the first updates was the addition of the Samson Satellite USB microphone, which I’ve wrote a bit about here. With that, I’ve decided to update my home office set up.
It’s now the first week of June 2020, and I foresee continuing this WFH motion to continue for many more months. I’ve been working from home since returning from my last business trip to the USA in Feb 2020.