Ole Juul
Veteran Member
I'm looking for comments from anybody who uses Cherry Blue or Green key switches.
I'll probably buy a WASD keyboard in a while. They seem about as good as any and they offer a tenkeyless with coloured keys which is what I want. So, I got a few switch samples to look at. I expected most of them to be very soft. They are. In fact they are so soft that I'm sure you can depress them by just staring hard. However, after reading many, many reviews, I thought that the Cherry Blues might be OK. The sample I have is quite soft, as I expected, but figured I could get used to that.
What I'm concerned about is that for over 20 years I haven't typed on anything other than a Model M, and before that a model F. Neither of those are hard, but have a nice feel. I'm worried that, despite the price, Cherrys will feel flaky to me. I'm also concerned that they may have a short life span. I usually consider anything that doesn't last 25 years as being cheap crap. My low maintenance car is older than that, so a pricy keyboard should be fine. No? But I heard someone mention 5 years which sounded scary! Of course to an 8 year old, 5 years sounds like a long time. I'm pretty impatient, but at my age I'd still be prepared to wait that long for a bus. People writing about keyboards on the net appear to be very young. Anyway, surely an expensive keyboard will last 100 years - OK maybe not, but give me 20.
I see that WASD also supplies Cherry Green switches which are rated at a little harder than a model M. (Greens a little softer) Anybody using either of those?
I'll probably buy a WASD keyboard in a while. They seem about as good as any and they offer a tenkeyless with coloured keys which is what I want. So, I got a few switch samples to look at. I expected most of them to be very soft. They are. In fact they are so soft that I'm sure you can depress them by just staring hard. However, after reading many, many reviews, I thought that the Cherry Blues might be OK. The sample I have is quite soft, as I expected, but figured I could get used to that.
What I'm concerned about is that for over 20 years I haven't typed on anything other than a Model M, and before that a model F. Neither of those are hard, but have a nice feel. I'm worried that, despite the price, Cherrys will feel flaky to me. I'm also concerned that they may have a short life span. I usually consider anything that doesn't last 25 years as being cheap crap. My low maintenance car is older than that, so a pricy keyboard should be fine. No? But I heard someone mention 5 years which sounded scary! Of course to an 8 year old, 5 years sounds like a long time. I'm pretty impatient, but at my age I'd still be prepared to wait that long for a bus. People writing about keyboards on the net appear to be very young. Anyway, surely an expensive keyboard will last 100 years - OK maybe not, but give me 20.
I see that WASD also supplies Cherry Green switches which are rated at a little harder than a model M. (Greens a little softer) Anybody using either of those?