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I got my partner hooked on mechanical keyboards by lending her my blackwidow. Only two weeks later she has been offered an ugly Apple rubberdome by her co-workers together with the urgent suggestion to take the offer...

Ha. I often take my KBC Poker with browns in to work, and it's only drawn favourable comments so far.

mhinsch wrote:I got my partner hooked on mechanical keyboards by lending her my blackwidow. Only two weeks later she has been offered an ugly Apple rubberdome by her co-workers together with the urgent suggestion to take the offer...

Yeah, those things are loud!

I tried to use a BS keyboard at work...
It wasn't a good idea. I pissed off my co-workers

Same for me I use my Noppoo with browns at work and so far nobody complained about the noise. I also tried red (which I don't fancy too much for typing) and no problem either. I suppose blues are really noisy

First day at new job: g80-3000 with blues
Second day at new job: g80-1800 with ergo-clears xD

I still get complimented on my "machine guy typing" though.

I would go insane if I had to hear blues at work, but I don't really like them anyway. Both myself and my employee have Cherry browns and no one in the office seems to care. I will say, though, that I don't think they're any louder than the standard-issue Dell rubberdomes everyone else has, and they are certainly quieter than the newer scissor-switch Dells people are getting.

They are not pleasant yea. But those co-workers dont know the old IBMs

I've annoyed my colleagues with a Model M for two weeks. They didn't complain but I've got some curious looks. Now I am typing, I hardly dare admitting it, on a Cherry MY board. Just for testing my hand-dyed key caps, you know.

Kurrk wrote: I hardly dare admitting it, on a Cherry MY board. Just for testing my hand-dyed key caps, you know.

But.... What do your co-workers say about those colors???

The trick is to let your co-workers use your keyboard for the day. I have converted 3 colleagues using this method
We're now a symphony of clicky goodness!

In the openspace where I work, my Filco tenkeyless in MX brown is a bit noisy but not much all the Noppoo, Filco, HHKB lite and HHKB pro around. A little bit noisier than the average rubber-dome Dell keyboard.

Mrinterface wrote:But.... What do your co-workers say about those colors???

They have stopped questioning my sanity, at least while I'm around.

I tried to convince them of the superiority of mech keyboards but they're happy with their rubber domes. Well, let them.

MYs are, if at all, not that bad.