Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy Ars Technica's guide to keyboards: Mechanical, membrane, and buckling springs.

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The Dome Switch Keyboard Widely used, the membrane is sculpted with a raised dome for each key. (2) A keyboard that tolerates dirt and spillage that would otherwise cause a regular keyboard to fail.

A mechanical keyboard eliminates the membrane and instead uses an individual switch per key. This moves the making-contact mechanism away from the main circuit board into each switch.

We deconstructed a membrane keyboard below to demonstrate what you’re pushing against. Mechanical keyboards increase the tactility of the typing experience by using spring-loaded switches.

Topre is basically a high-end membrane keyboard that adds a metal spring to each rubber dome and senses keypresses via capacitance (like a touchscreen) instead of physically completing a circuit.

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Membrane keyboards that share one circuit board struggle with this, and competing inputs can cancel each other out. Mechanical keyboards are also easier to clean, repair, and customize.

To clack or not to clack, that is the question. Pictured below is a budget keyboard, similar to the countless used everyday in schools, offices, and homes.The layout is a near direct copy of IBM's ...

To that end, I recently bought a new mechanical keyboard online for only $30 to see just how far they’ve come. Like with other niche hobbies, it’s easy to spend more than you should because ...

We deconstructed a membrane keyboard below to demonstrate what you’re pushing against. Mechanical keyboards increase the ...