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SkinnyPupp · 02-08-2014, 10:36 PM

Aren't there any good mac compatible keyboards? I know the stock keyboard is horrible with those stupid chicklet keys. I can't believe people accept that...

As for super high end keyboards, as long as they are expensive for a reason, it's a bit more acceptable. If they were just covered in embellishments that do nothing but raise the price, I would have a problem with it. As an analogy, I would say it's like comparing a $1500 watch to a $200 watch. Both probably tell time pretty much the same way, and you can get $200 watches that look just as good. But the $1500 watch will be engineered and built with greater care an precision, and better components than the $200 watch.

In the same way, a $250 keyboard made in Japan with capacitive switches, PBT plastic keycaps rather than ABS, dye sub printing rather than laser etched, etc, etc, will have these advantages over a $80 keyboard. They will both type the same, and you might not even like the more expensive one. But there's at least a reason for it to be expensive, IMO. There's nothing I hate more than things being expensive just because of the brand that it is sold under.

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SkinnyPupp Hacked RS to become a mod Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong Posts: 55,118 Thanked 25,920 Times in 9,111 Posts Failed 1,574 Times in 720 Posts Member's Picture Albums	Aren't there any good mac compatible keyboards? I know the stock keyboard is horrible with those stupid chicklet keys. I can't believe people accept that... As for super high end keyboards, as long as they are expensive for a reason, it's a bit more acceptable. If they were just covered in embellishments that do nothing but raise the price, I would have a problem with it. As an analogy, I would say it's like comparing a $1500 watch to a $200 watch. Both probably tell time pretty much the same way, and you can get $200 watches that look just as good. But the $1500 watch will be engineered and built with greater care an precision, and better components than the $200 watch. In the same way, a $250 keyboard made in Japan with capacitive switches, PBT plastic keycaps rather than ABS, dye sub printing rather than laser etched, etc, etc, will have these advantages over a $80 keyboard. They will both type the same, and you might not even like the more expensive one. But there's at least a reason for it to be expensive, IMO. There's nothing I hate more than things being expensive just because of the brand that it is sold under.