<story><title>My Mechanical Keyboard</title><url>http://joeposnanski.com/my-mechanical-keyboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>I have about 5 mechanical keyboards (WASD, Duckys, DAS, ...) and yet if I want to type fast, I use an apple keyboard. The short travel distance of those keys really work for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for switches that are somewhere in between, mechanical but thin travel. I&amp;#x27;ve looked at some really esoteric and rare keyboards as well but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t fork $220 for a keyboard...&lt;p&gt;Anyways I totally understand his view though. I can&amp;#x27;t believe the latest keyboards on the macbooks. I couldn&amp;#x27;t stand them for 10 mins at the apple store trying to surf. My 2008 Mac book pro keyboard was the best thing on earth. I found it better than my older thinkpad (I know, hot topic).&lt;p&gt;And I bloody hope that they don&amp;#x27;t mess up the external keyboard in that fashion, or I will go out and buy 10 and stash them for the future. That&amp;#x27;s the only down side of the apple keyboard, they last a year at most, after which the switches get mushy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>A small tip which can help when typing with mechanical key switches: you don&amp;#x27;t need to bottom them out. Most barely have to travel 1&amp;#x2F;3 the total distance they are capable of traveling.&lt;p&gt;If you can learn to type on one without bottoming out, you will notice the same speed increases, as well as greater comfort while typing. Be forewarned: bottoming out is a hard habit to break.</text></comment>
<story><title>My Mechanical Keyboard</title><url>http://joeposnanski.com/my-mechanical-keyboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>I have about 5 mechanical keyboards (WASD, Duckys, DAS, ...) and yet if I want to type fast, I use an apple keyboard. The short travel distance of those keys really work for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for switches that are somewhere in between, mechanical but thin travel. I&amp;#x27;ve looked at some really esoteric and rare keyboards as well but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t fork $220 for a keyboard...&lt;p&gt;Anyways I totally understand his view though. I can&amp;#x27;t believe the latest keyboards on the macbooks. I couldn&amp;#x27;t stand them for 10 mins at the apple store trying to surf. My 2008 Mac book pro keyboard was the best thing on earth. I found it better than my older thinkpad (I know, hot topic).&lt;p&gt;And I bloody hope that they don&amp;#x27;t mess up the external keyboard in that fashion, or I will go out and buy 10 and stash them for the future. That&amp;#x27;s the only down side of the apple keyboard, they last a year at most, after which the switches get mushy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sulami</author><text>If you want less travel on your mechanical keyboard, you can use o-rings on the switches. Also dampens the sound when bottoming out. I personally use one per switch, but you can also go for two rings per switch which gives you laptop-like travel.</text></comment>