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GSGregg:
I just wore out my fourth set of Shift keys in four years, and I'm starting to think that the $20-and-under bracket may no longer be a good place to shop. This time, rather than the keycap(?) actually breaking, the rubber-dome membrane has been split by hard'n'fast keypresses so that the wall of the key wedges into the split and is slow to release, leaving the flipper raised while the ball sails past.

Since nobody makes a modular keyboard on which individual keys or portions of membrane could be replaced, I started reading up and found out about mechanical keyboards using Cherry MX linear switches. Real Nice, but I don't need the other hundred and someodd switches to BE Real Nice; just the Shift (flipper) keys.  :Banghead: : Oh, well.....

I sorta gravitated to the Corsair Vengeance K65, but I'd like to hear about whether those switches are known to stand up to hard, fast, and occasionally angry (right?) keypresses as are common (at least with me) in desktop pinball. Sure, they're guaranteed for umpteen million presses (who's going to keep count?), but I think the guarantors had more conventional typing in mind.

GSGrouse

Itchigo:
They may be guaranteed for umpteen million keypresses, but that's because they're not planning on you hitting the same key every time. If you didn't use vp, you be using different keys and your keyboard would last a lot longer. That's why they can make a claim like that. All about marketing. :Study:

Not much you can do about the membrane. I'd try a different brand of 20$. :Green:

If a 65$ one lasts 2 years and the cheap ones, 20$/year, well you do the math. :Content:

GSGregg:
Well, I went through another sub-$20 keyboard, and it was early enough for Fry's to be open, so I headed over there with a floor full of three dismantled Logitechs on which I couldn't combine any parts to make one good one. Relying on less-than-vivid memory of prior research and not troubling to reassemble a board so I could brush up, I planned on parting with about $85. The Maytag Repairman would have attracted more response.

After two trips to where all of the 'help' was hanging out and two return trips to the keyboards aisle to fruitlessly wait for some of that 'help' to materialize, I figuratively flipped the world a bone and headed for the door. Suddenly I encounter.....'help'! The first two didn't know the Corsair product line, but a third 'knew' which model introduced the Cherry MX switches, and so I returned to the keyboards aisle---to find that he was wrong! My $85 (or hopefully less?) outlay would suddenly be $110, so I cast another bone and went home to reassemble the most recent casualty. No; I didn't buy another sub-$20 Logitech, either.

Yet.    Maybe never?
Hey....."it's only pinball", right?   :Whiteflag:


GSG

sleepy:
I'm thinking with the minimum wages being increased, that the cherished $20 and under keyboard is probably now like $40 and under. Maybe $29 or $39.
Look at the price of bacon! And I stopped at McDonalds tonight. I bought two Big Macs, two medium fries, and four apple pies.
It came to $15.65. Prices are up.

sleepy:
I did buy a $7 Inland USB Optical Mouse recently. It runs like crap.

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