I found a topic that I am curious about.
Okay, calling all you keyboard warriors, what is your keyboard of choice to hammer out words to subdue the masses?😓 😆
Let's start with myself. I had a small wireless Microsoft Arc type 2.4hz USB connection type keyboard but it slowly died on me, so I replaced it with my brand new backup wired cheap Maplin keyboard I bought many years ago. Well, it didn't go well either as it got rather "sticky" with the return or enter key and the space bar, and on many occasions drove me mad as I thought there was an invincible person winding me up by pressing the space bar or enter key for me. It got to the point where I had to check the keyboard after each word I type. So I decided to replace it with some mechanical keyboards (going back to old school), but they are not cheap 😯
So I replaced it with a Ducky Origin Vintage exactly that wired model. Well, all I can say is that I feel freeee! I can type again! All I can say is that it is almost double the price of my old Microsoft Arc keyboard but it feels good. 😆 Mechanical keyboard is so nice to type on. As for my mouse it is a Logitech Bluetooth with a dongle (not sure what dpi) but I also use my new cheapo HP 150 wire mouse and I found it to be surprisingly very good (at 1600 dpi).
Then just last week I bought some 2nd hand Creative T40 Gigaworks series II speakers to add to my upgrade and they too are very good. I think the speakers are at least 10 year old but they still function perfectly. Bought them for £40 and cosmetically okay.
So what do you have? I am just curios.
I have a budget Logitech wired mechanical keyboard (possibly a 610) with Cherry brown switches that's lovely to type on.
I'm completely lost when it comes to the current crop of absurdly expensive gaming keyboards (ultra high polling rates, magnetic switches etc.).
I gather that there's an emerging a hobby of building your own & mixing switch types & componentry to maximise your gaming performance . I've even seen one reviewed with a concrete base plate. I have no gaming skills.
With all due respect, I suspect that your sticky keyboard fault is not a keyboard fault.
I have a clicky Logitech, I think it's Cherry switches. It's fantastic to type on but a swine to keep clean.
Whatever is on an M4 MacBook Pro.
iPad Pro screen. Sometimes my iPhone 16 Pro Max, but honestly, the ‘keyboard’ is too damned small to peck out more than a couple of lines of text. YMMV
Apple Magic keyboard at home, Logitech MX Keys S in the office.
Filco mechanical with cherry keys, quiet brown ones at work, loud ones at home. It's the cut down keyboard without a numeric keypad. I got sick of the spongy keyboards provided by my employer. They do require occasional cleaning but you can just pop out all the keys.
I've been using Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for decades. I'm on my second set of two (one for work, one for home). The originals were wired, I replaced them with wireless. Microsoft make excellent keyboards and mice, not cheap, but they work really well and literally last for decades.
I have one of these and its brilliant (black version with gray keys). Much better than the SteelSeries and Logitech keyboards I had previously.
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Logitech K410 has been my go to for many years. Portable enough and nice to type on. For my desk, however, I use a gaming keyboard with LEDs and Cherry switches. I don’t play games, but like the feel. Was my son’s a few years ago. Noisy on Teams calls so no multitasking if unmuted!
Cherry Stream wireless keyboard - Low profile keys which I prefer, good key action, batteries last an age, full size return key and number pad. Not massively clicky so can type whilst on calls.
Logitech Master MX3s wireless mouse - Nice size for longer hands, infinite scroll is awesome when working with large documents and spreadsheets, horizontal scroll is great for spreadsheets as well. Also nice quiet button action.
Microsoft make excellent keyboards and mice
They discontinued a lot of lines a couple of years ago, tends to just be Surface branded stuff now.
