Mechanical Keyboards – In under 500 words
Here at Jellie Tech headquarters, located at the bottom of a recycling plant’s discarded electronics pile, we occasionally get a relic from the past dropped on our heads. Today it was a Commodore PET. Weighing as much as an elephant this monitor, tower and keyboard fusion was once a useful piece of technology. Hate keyboard cables or changing batteries in your wireless keyboards? This keyboard came attached to the “tower” and monitor.
Keyboards have changed immensely since their early days. Gone are those days of keyboards that are attached to the computer. The future of keyboards now is…customizable key switches, user specific sizes and RGB lighting. Yes, if your keyboard cannot signal the mothership from inside your house and sound cool in the process then you cannot call yourself a keyboard aficionado.
Our team at Jellie Tech breaks down what all the new keyboard jargon is all about.
Keycaps
This is the focal point of a keyboard. The first thing you see when looking at a keyboard typically are the keys. Keycaps are the stylized keys that are pressed. Keycaps themselves can be customized including changing their shape, font and color just to name a few options.
Keyswitches
The switches take the pressed key signal and send it to the computer. Key switches sit in the keyboard case and under the keycaps but depending on the type you use they can be noticeable. If you want to change the sound of your keyboard then change the switches.
Size
Keyboards do have a variety of sizes and selecting one depends on your preferences.
- Full-Sized Keyboard: Has alphabet, horizontal numbers row, Function keys, a matrix layout number pad on the right side, and arrow keys.
- Tenkeyless (TKL) Keyboard: Has alphabet, horizontal numbers row, Function keys, and arrow keys.
- 75% Keyboard: Has alphabet, horizontal numbers row, Function keys, a matrix layout number pad on the right side, and arrow keys.
- 70% Keyboard: Has alphabet, horizontal numbers row, Function keys, a matrix layout number pad on the right side, and arrow keys. However, the arrow keys and Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys are close to other keys.
- 65% Keyboard: Has alphabet, horizontal numbers row, a matrix layout number pad on the right side, and arrow keys.
- 60% Keyboard: Has alphabet and horizontal numbers row.
- 40% Keyboard: Has alphabet and other necessary keys such as return (enter), shift, and control. Even the spacebar is small.
RGB Lighting
RGB keyboards allow for backlighting the keys and some keyboards also have a lighting animation once a key is pressed.
So there you have it, keyboards explained in under 500 words.
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