Comments on: CM Storm QuickFire TK Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

By: JD Kane

JD Kane — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:56:00 +0000

There are actually plenty of options available if you want a good, basic mechanical keyboard. CM Storm itself offers the QuickFire Pro – I bought one when a local store put it on sale (couldn’t resist), and I like it a lot, to be honest. If my QF Pro had Cherry MX Blues, it might supplant Das Keyboard Professional (itself a no-frills plank) as my daily driver.

But these are no means the only basic mechanical keyboards available out there.

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:06:00 +0000

The problem is that a lot of these companies cater to gamers, so the best option for someone like you who may want not a gamer focus, LEDs or other bling, would be to look at options from companies like Filco, Ducky and others.

The sub-Reddit for mechanical KBs is a great resource for finding out about all sorts of different options (but, a lot of them are also much more expensive than $100).

http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

By: Marfig

Marfig — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:12:00 +0000

I’m getting a bit scared of what I perceive to be a new trend of mechanical keyboard with heavy changes to the key configurations.

I’m always on the lookout for something that can eventually replace the dome keyboards I’ve been using for the past… 15 years(?) There’s however the matter I use my keyboard mostly for typing and gaming only comes a distant second. But if mechanical keyboards start to get this apart from traditional key configurations, I don’t think this will become an option.