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Drop’s New Mechanical Keyboards Go Up to $500

posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-the-gamers? dept.

[2021-10-13 13:26:33 UTC; Updated to removed duplicated 1st sentence.--martyb]

upstart writes:

Drop's new mechanical keyboards go up to $500:

High-end mechanical keyboard and PC peripherals brand Drop (formerly Massdrop) today revealed its next lineup of prebuilt mechanical keyboards. The brand added options to three different series, with its most premium one, Paragon, priced at a whopping $500 apiece.

In addition to making its own products, Drop has a shop where keyboard fanatics can get everything from mechanical keyboard switches to unique and artisan keycaps, stabilizers, and even fancy, detachable cables. The keyboards released today are supposed to make it easier for people who don't want to build their own clacker to get an enthusiast-level option without having to deal with group buys, which take many months before you actually get a product in hand.

[...] Drop's Paragon keyboards are currently available for preorder but aren't expected to start shipping until around November 15.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Tork on Wednesday October 13 2021, @07:26PM (5 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @07:26PM (#1186744)
    They click in a way that provides more feedback as they're using the device. Given that we're on a tech-nerd site I'm not sure why this A.) this needs to be explained and B.) is somehow controversial.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:20PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:20PM (#1186791)

    Not everyone cares about keyboards enough to learn the nomenclature. Normal people also hate the clicking.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:01PM (2 children)

      by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:01PM (#1186821)

      Not everyone cares about keyboards enough to learn the nomenclature. Normal people also hate the clicking.

      So did you come visit a nerd site because you're lost and need directions to Facebook?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:44AM (#1186892)

        I appreciate mechanical keyboards. I'm also not delusional and fully in possession of my perceptive faculties, so I know that almost everyone else daydreams about beating you to death with your fancy loud keyboard when you start clacking away.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @08:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @08:24PM (#1187372)
        This isn't much of a nerd site actually. Just check out many of the nerdy articles and you'd see most of comments are politics or worse.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @01:55PM (#1186965)

    Got it. So if I have my touchpad emit a "click" noise when I use it, it is by definition a "mechanical" keyboard. (Anticipating your objection, I will also note that my touchpad gives me feedback when I use it; the harder I press on it, the harder it provides me a resistive force).

    Mechanical keyboards have nothing to do with "tech-nerd," by the way in that it is some superficial quality akin to whether some design has rounded corners makes it "tech-nerd" appropriate. Whether YOU may or may not have a fascination with them doesn't make it not worthy of explanation. The world may appear to revolve around you from your perspective, but rest assured it does not.