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My Favorite Mechanical Keyboard Switch — For Real This Time
I know that a bunch of you like to skim my articles to get to what you feel is “the point” before you move on with your day, so I’ll put the relevant information right here without some major intro: Gateron Yellow.
Boom. I just stated the switch I like right at the top of the piece. No long winded recipe-blog style meandering about how I felt the crisp air this morning or stumbled upon a little keyboard shop next to a cafe. Just the “thing” you were looking for, right there in the opening. You’re welcome.
If you’d like to read about why I love this particular key switch, or how I came to choose it as my current favorite, well then — you’ll have to keep going.
For the last six months, including the four months since I reviewed it, I’ve been using Razer’s Blackwidow V4 75 as my main typing and gaming keyboard. I refuse to use the term “daily driver” as I think it’s a bit silly, yet now I’ve made a passive reference to it in this sentence and thus had to type it anyway. Yay! Anyway, the Razer model is pretty darn good. It has a bunch of perks that keyboard weirdos enjoy like foam, lubrication, gaskets, and good “thocky” key sounds.
It also has tactile “Razer Orange Gen 3” switches in it which were newly designed for this model. They’re…totally okay. I’ve never really loved tactile switches, except for the nice muted sound they can…
