Mechanical keyboard introduction to buy Tips

Mechanical keyboard This once a lot of people in the eyes of "silly big black, expensive clumsy" PC input device with the domestic game market booming back to people's vision, this comeback after the mechanical keyboard products on the market has become rich and colorful, so people dazzling. Many people are confused before buying a mechanical keyboard, so what is the choice of a mechanical keyboard? This time the author for everyone to answer some of the small knowledge of mechanical keyboard, to help you understand, select, use mechanical keyboard.

What is a mechanical keyboard? Mechanical keyboard good, where?

Mechanical keyboard is a mechanical switch as the trigger mechanism of the keyboard type, and the most common thin-film keyboard is the structure below the key, the membrane keyboard is a "rubber bowl", and the mechanical keyboard is a black plastic pier in the middle of different colors of the small stick, "pier + stick" The overall structure is called shaft switch, commonly known as "axis.

▲ Membrane Keyboard structure

▲ Mechanical Keyboard structure

Because the structure of the mechanical keyboard is very different from the membrane keyboard, the independent mechanical switch structure and material can maintain a stable and excellent feel for a long time. Life and feel is the biggest advantage of mechanical keyboard, a variety of shaft can give users more choice, there is always a shaft body suitable for you.

Q: What are the outstanding advantages of mechanical keyboards?

A: Long life, multi-touch.

Q: What are the disadvantages of mechanical keyboards?

A: The most prominent disadvantage or expensive, the small disadvantage is heavy, expensive is because the mechanical keyboard production cost is much higher than the membrane keyboard, axle body switch price is calculated according to the number of a few cents more than 100 shaft body also to hundred dollars cost, some positioning high-end mechanical keyboard even key caps and PCB materials work also strive to perfect luxury.

Second, what kind of person needs a mechanical keyboard?

Why write this paragraph? If you have decided to buy a mechanical keyboard, you can skip this section directly. The author of this paragraph is to give themselves do need but still hesitate to write the user. If you use the computer in the process of the following two situations, I strongly recommend that you buy a mechanical keyboard.

1, ordinary thin-film keyboard life in the hands of more than a year, or even shorter.

2, the daily use of membrane keyboard in the process of the finger is very easy to fatigue, or have been unfortunately suffering from the sheath inflammation.

Mechanical keyboard The biggest two advantages: life and feel can be to a large extent to solve the above two problems. Take the Cherry MX black axis For example, this shaft body theoretical life of up to 5000W times, the number of presses per day according to 5,000 times to calculate the words will take at least 27 years to reach the theoretical life of the keyboard, in fact, even if there is a large number of character input requirements of the profession (programmers, Taobao customer service, professional writing workers), The number of keystrokes per day cannot be reached. This means that the mechanical keyboard in the hands of ordinary users may become an "heirloom" general existence. In terms of long-term use, the cost of using a mechanical keyboard with a good hand is similar to or lower than a thin-film keyboard.

Q: Does the hand feel of the mechanical keyboard really have the legendary so good?

A: Feel the problem varies from person to man, listen to other people's advice is only one aspect. The author's friend is someone with cherry black axis typing can play pleasure, also have great God rely on a home-made green axis mechanical keyboard lol playing to a district of telecommunications diamond segment. Therefore, I suggest that you have the conditions, you must go to the peripheral physical stores actually feel the different shaft body feel. To pick out the most suitable for their own mechanical keyboard.

Three, starting from the shaft body, choose a suitable for their own mechanical keyboard.

Shaft body as the absolute core of mechanical keyboard, its quality and characteristics directly determine the user's experience is good or bad, so the choice of mechanical keyboard, the most important thing to pay attention to is the "axis."

In the early development of the mechanical keyboard, cherry is not the axis of the Overlord, ALPS, Omron, NMB have good shaft products appear, even cherry in the early also exist ml, MY, MX three different structure of the shaft body, MX as the most recognized axle body switch on the market, Its 30-year history is legendary.

Domestic shaft supplier started late, but later on, in the low-end market its products with a huge price advantage in repeatedly breaking the price bottom of the mechanical keyboard, in the high-end market snake, ceasefire and other top peripheral manufacturers of the selection also represents the international market on the domestic shaft supplier shaft quality recognition.

The following is an example of the common MX axis body and two domestic excellent independent axle body for the simple explanation of the characteristics of these shaft body:

MX Black axis: Round bow, strong feedback, short trigger, no paragraph sense, large pressure grams, usually think black axis suitable for "Big King" type of game players.

MX Tea shaft: There is a slight paragraph sense, the pressure grams of light, all kinds of features comprehensive but not prominent, commonly known as "Tiger Balm." Because of its most people can adapt to the fingers are very good, feel and relatively light so also some people call "finger horse kill chicken", typing games can be selected.

MX Red axis: Round bow, no paragraph sense, the lightest pressure grams. Overall feel light, want to play the game and feel too tired, there are a lot of text input requirements and feel the blue axis too noisy people, the red axis is a very balanced choice.

MX Green axis: The representative of mechanical keyboard, strong sense of paragraph, strong feedback, high pressure grams, domestic film and television drama involving the publication of court judgments of the bridge section is very common "Pa PA, PA pa ..." Dubbing is generally the voice of the blue axis keyboard. Because of its strong sense of passage, in the typing process will have a noticeable rhythm, known as "typing Artifact", is the heart of the word worker good.

Thunder Snake Green axis: Paragraph feeling strong, paragraph transition smooth, pressure grams of light, feel crisp as the MX shaft, in the author to complete the "four-male hegemony!" flagship RGB backlight mechanical keyboard horizontal evaluation of the process for the author left a deep impression. As a special axis of the Thunder snake, the game performance is no doubt, used to type is also very good.

Ceasefire QS1 axis: The key process is very short, pressure grams of light, no paragraph sense, I describe the QS1 shaft body feel is three words "short, fast, slippery", for the pursuit of extreme speed of the game players.

Q: The domestic mechanical keyboard is not reliable?

A: Domestic shaft mechanical keyboard is not can not buy, in fact, a lot of domestic peripheral brands such as Zhou Rapoo, Kai Cool and other manufacturers of the introduction of mechanical keyboard product quality reputation is good. After all, the use of cherry MX axis mechanical Keyboard prices are still high, for many people, affordable is the king, buy cheap and affordable domestic brand is more sensible choice.

Q: What kind of shaft is suitable for me?

A: The author of the above on the shaft body of the review only represents the mechanical keyboard within the consistency of the point of view, shaft preference is definitely individual. Recommend or in the knowledge of a certain mechanical keyboard on the basis of the physical peripheral store experience after the choice.

Advanced Questions:

Q: What about the domestic axis?

A: The Thunder Snake Green shaft and the QS1 axis are the shaft body product which the Kaihua participates in the development, basically represents the domestic axle body switch the top level. Domestic shaft body Type Multi-type miscellaneous, the parameters of the close to the actual shaft body experience is also very different. Quality control aspects of Kaihua at present, the rest of the manufacturers of products have netizens reflect the shaft body feel inconsistent situation appears.

Q: The shaft body plate has a great influence on the touch of the button?

A: Yes, no plate mechanical keyboard experience is the original shaft body feel, and there are steel plate button touch bottom feedback and percussion sound will be more than the keyboard without plate. The reason for this is not many netizens think cherry workmanship is not enough to use steel plate, but cherry supply OEM shaft body at the bottom only a fixed column can only be fixed by steel plate, and the original shaft bottom has three.