What kind of keyboard did I see in a store recently?

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punchy71

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Greetings,
I was recently in a brick-and-mortar retail store that sold computers and accessories and noticed that they had a new keyboard I've never seen before. Only instead of being marketed with the computers in the computer department it was on display in the video game department being sold with them. It was clearly a computer keyboard though.
It was a special "gamer's keyboard". It was unusually high quality for a keyboard than I have seen in many, many years. The single best feature it had was buckling spring keys like the old IBM keyboards used to have back in the 1980's that made the very loud and audible "CLICK" or "CLACK" when you pressed them. The keyboard was black in color with electric, day-glow lime green trim, letters and logo on it. Unfortunately, I forgot the make and model and it wasn't cheap either. I don't know what kind of connector was on the end of it but hopefully it will work with computers and not just video game consoles (wink). There was another model keyboard sitting next to it that was similar to it only it didn't have the buckling spring keys and it had electric blue trim instead of green. It appeared to be made by the same manufacturer of the other one. Anyone know what I'm talking about.

Thanks.
 
Yeah that's almost deffinitly a Black Widow (probably Ultimate, because most stores don't sell the old Black Widow). It uses mechanical switches, not the buckling springs the IBM Model M (or other old keyboards) used (though they may feel and sound somewhat similar), or the rubber domes almost all cheap keyboards use. You don't have to get something as expensive as the Black Widow Ultimate if you don't want to spend that much. BTW, yes it's a PC keyboard. They don't make keyboards for consoles (the PS3 works with some standard PC ones), except something like the Xbox Messenger Kit.

Do you type or game?

Cherry MX Blue: Typing
Cherry MX Brown: Silent, Typing & Gaming
Cherry MX Red: Typing & Gaming
Cherry MX Black (what the Black Widow Ultimate uses): Gaming

There are more switches then these, but those are the ones I can name off the top of my head. BTW, Blacks aren't only for gaming, and Blues aren't only for typing. That's just what they are (much) better at.
 
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