After using the keyboard for a few hours at work, something became really apparent: my wrists stopped hurting. I’m lucky enough, however, that it’s a desk job, and so I figured that the best place to try it out at would be during my day job. If it doesn’t have it, though, can remove the PS/2 adapter and plug the keyboard into the USB port, though you won’t have the n-key rollover functionality.Īs much as I love writing for GamerFront, I do have to have an 8-5 job in order to pay the bills. This is called n-key rollover, and to activate it you need to use the attached PS/2 adapter, which hopefully your computer has. While you might not be pressing every key at the same time, I’ve found that there are times in the past where I’m playing some sort of game and I just can’t react quickly enough as I’m pressing several buttons at once, and my computer lets out a beep to let me know that it’s too much for it to handle. The other big advantage with a mechanical keyboard is that because each key is its own individual switch, your computer will be able to register each and every keystroke if every key was pressed at once. It’s said that it requires a bit less force to use a mechanical keyboard than a rubber dome one. You don’t need to worry about accidentally pressing a key any more than you do on a regular rubber dome keyboard, as it still requires a certain amount of force before the switch is “activated”. Instead of using the rubber dome technology that most keyboards use, where the key has to be pushed down all the way to the bottom in order for it to register, a mechanical switch allows the use to press only part of the way before registering a keystroke. That’s because Das Keyboards are made with mechanical switches in each key. Pick up the keyboard, though, and you’ll notice that it’s quite a bit heavier than your regular keyboard.
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If you’re like me, you’ll like the fact that it has a nice long 6.6 foot cable, perfect for when I’m in full relaxation mode and I got the keyboard in my lap. They keys are pretty standard looking, a black matte, but Das has laser-etched the letters and numbers onto the keys, meaning that you won’t have it looking ugly in a few years as the paint starts to wear off like you do in some other keyboards. There are no fancy lights, no LCD screens, but rather you get a nice looking glossy-black keyboard with a couple of useful USB ports on the side.
The thing you’ll notice when you first open the box is the spartan look of the keyboard. The Professional Model S (Silent Version) proves it to me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done the same thing, but I’ve always subscribed to the idea that if the way you interact with your computer isn’t pleasing, then why bother using the computer? After all, what good is having a computer capable of playing Crysis 2 on max settings if your keyboard isn’t comfortable to use? Well luckily for us there is an entire industry out there dedicated to making great peripherals, and quite frankly Das Keyboard is at the top of the list as far as I’m concerned.
When it comes to building or upgrading a computer, it seems to me that people tend to focus on improving the speed of their computer, by adding more RAM, a better graphics card, and perhaps even throwing in an SSD to get their computer completely booted in under a minute.