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Mechanical Keyboards
What are mechanical keyboards ? Mechanical keyboard, unlike membrane keyboards, have physical key switches. This keyboard has a richer feel and are made to last long, really long. Common keyboard (or membrane keyboard) uses rubber dome where as mechanical keyboard uses high quality switches. Mechanical key switches gives an unmistakable, stronger feedback as you type. The feedback can be in form of a bump, hearing a click, or bottoming out to the switch. Mechanical keyboards are also highly customizable based on key switches, LED lighting, keycap material/colors, legend printing method and much more. This keyboards can be your best partner whether you love gaming, typing or are a casual computer user. Why is GK/SK keyboard popular ? These budget mechanical keyboards have an awesome build quality with a great typing experience at an affordable price. Moreover, these are hot swappable keyboards which allows its users to swap between any key switch of their choice. What is difference between GK & SK keyboard ? This is probably the most common question we come across, and there is a lot of confusion regarding this. Let us give you some background to make it easier for you to understand the choice of naming behind these keyboards. Initially, GK keyboards used to come in two variants: 1.Optical GK – IR PCB supports Optical key switches 2.Mechanical GK – Normal PCB supports Mechanical key switches Most people refer to these keyboards as only “GK” and tend to drop “optical” or “mechanical” from its name. It started causing a lot of confusion in the community. Therefore, we decided to rename the Optical GK to just SK. 1.Optical GK -> Renamed to SK 2.Mechanical GK -> Still referred as GK To resolve this confusing problem ,we have renamed the optical GK61 keyboard to SK61 which comes with optical switches and all the GK keyboards come with mechanical switches. Quick summary:The SK61 keyboard which is currently available with brand name as “Skyloong” is the same product which used to be called as GK61 in the past under the brand name “6+”. So, the GK61 keyboard price hasn’t been jacked up, rather the product name got changed,unless you choose the present real GK61 with mechanical switch. Can I customize GK/SK keyboard with different key switches or keycaps ? Both type of keyboards are hot-swappable, however, the compatibility varies. SK keyboards are only compatible with MX style optical switches, but are not compatible with mechanical switches. On the other hand, GK keyboard are only compatible with MX style mechanical switches, but are not compatible with optical switches. Regarding the keycaps compatibility, both these keyboards are compatible with MX cross stem style keycaps.
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