You wish your relationship was as intimate as me and my low profile keyboard

The Corsair K100 air side showing how ultra low profile it is.

Katie Wickens, person with opinions

Katie Wickens cartoonish in yellow.

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This week I have been mostly playing Sons of the Forest. Although me and Kelvin have something special—he keeps crawling back even when I toss full-size logs in his face, ON ACCIDENT—I don’t think even the new best boi of video games (opens in new tab) can live up to my love of low profile keyboards.
This month I have been mostly testing keyboards.
My low profile board was pried from me last week. In it’s place, Razer’s newest Blackwidow offering. With linear yellows (gross, why, Dave?) and a line of macros on the left side, I’ve had to basically retrain myself to use it.

Before I fully barreled my way onto the PC hardware scene, I was rather partial to a chiclet keyboard—now hear me out. They were bouncy and felt faster to type on than any standalone keyboard I’d previously had my hands on. Of course, I now understand that past Katie was objectively wrong, and that mechanical keyboards are superior in every way to membrane boards. And yet, as I tapped away on my Razer clicky greens (I know, I’ve got my flaws), a part of me still pined for the short actuation of a chiclet board. 

That is, until I finally got my hands on a low profile mechanical gaming keyboard. Little did I know this would be the start of a beautiful love affair.



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