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posted by martyb on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the shallow-premise dept.

You may not think much about the switches that sit underneath the keycaps of your keyboard, but there's a large contingent of enthusiasts who really, really care. And for those users, Cherry's various MX-branded switches are somewhat of a standard. Because they include a number of mechanical parts, though, you won't see a lot of laptop-like thin mechanical keyboards or mechanical keyboards on more than a handful of laptops.

The trend, however, is clearly going toward slim keyboards — and that's not lost on Cherry. So at CES this week, the company is introducing a completely new line of keyboard switches that may just be small enough to bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops (or at least more niche gaming laptops) and thinner keyboards. These new switches are low-profile versions of the Cherry MX RGB switch, a switch that features colored LEDs and which is especially popular with gamers. The company tells me that, if successful, it'll launch thinner versions of its other MX switches, too.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/12/cherrys-new-low-profile-switches-may-help-bring-mechanical-keyboards-to-more-laptops/


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:31PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:31PM (#623300)

    Well yeah, you can do that with any laptop, that's no revelation. Lots of people who use a laptop on the same desk every day have some kind of USB keyboard they plug into it, especially in corporate settings where docking stations are the norm. But that doesn't help when you take your laptop with you somewhere; no one is going to bring their 104-key keyboard on the plane with them, or to the coffee shop, etc.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:45PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:45PM (#623308)

    Maybe not a 104 but an 87 (tenkeyless) is portable and usually the same width as the laptop. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Tenkeyless_keyboard [deskthority.net]

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