For many gamers, engineers or text workers, the quality of the keyboard feel has a great impact on the work (manipulation) efficiency, so it prefers the professional mechanical keyboard . In order to meet this high-quality user group that is not short of money, many models with standard mechanical keyboards have appeared in the notebook field. Is this type of product worth our choice?
The pain of the laptop keyboard
is restricted by a slim figure. Most laptops are equipped with ordinary X-shaped film keyboards, with short key strokes and not very good feel. The reason why mechanical keyboards have a better feel is that they have more complex mechanical axes, such as brown axes, blue axes, , red axes, and emerging silent axes, short axes, fast axes, etc. Each hit is very paragraph-like and neat and straightforward, and the "da da da" sound is unstoppable.
transplanted from the desktop to specially customized
In the early days, mechanical keyboards could be included in the standard configuration only a few extremely thick top gaming laptops, such as the MSI GT83VR with a keyboard design, which has a thickness of up to 42mm~69mm and weighs about 5.5kg.
It is precisely because of its huge size that the Cherry Speed Silver-Shaped RGB Steelero Mechanical Keyboard transplanted on the desktop is embedded on the C side. The touch feel is infinitely close to the traditional mechanical keyboard, attracting the attention of many enthusiastic gamers.
As the notebook is swept by the wave of full-scale thinning, the axis structure of traditional mechanical keyboards has obviously exceeded the standard and cannot be directly stuffed into the C-side space of the notebook. To this end, notebook manufacturers have cooperated with micro switch manufacturers to customize many ultra-thin mechanical keyboards suitable for notebooks. The mechanical keyboard jointly developed by
Gigabyte and Omron
Gigabyte and Omron (OMRON) is used in the top AORUS 17G series of top games itself. It obtains the sensitivity and accuracy of the complete mechanical axis with half the volume of the traditional axis, and has a 1.6mm long key stroke that is quickly triggered. It uses the blue axis known for its crisp paragraph sense. The feedback sense is passed back to the fingertips along the axis body, enriching the user's input experience.
ASUS optical axis mechanical keyboard
ASUS 's top gaming laptops mainly focus on "optical axis mechanical keyboard". Taking ROG Ice Blade 5 Plus as an example, the optical axis mechanical keyboard of this product adopts a desktop keyboard layout, has 1.9mm key stroke and supports OverStroke flashing technology. While bringing excellent input feel, the response time of 0.2ms is triggered faster.
Dell and Cherry
In order to cater to the wave of lightness and thinness of notebooks, Cherry has specially prepared a new generation of Cherry MX ultra-lightweight mechanical keyboard shaft. Dell calls the customized keyboard with Cherry "Cherry MX X-type Gull Wing Mechanical Keyboard". The shaft height is only 3.5mm (most of the shaft height of traditional mechanical keyboards is 18.5mm), which has been reduced by nearly 6 times and can be used on notes with a thickness of less than 20mm. Each key adopts an X-shaped gull wing structure + horizontal spring shaft body design, with a long key stroke of 1.8mm, outstanding key sense and unique key sound.
Cherry MX X-type Gullwing mechanical keyboard has been used in products such as Alienware x17 R2 and Lingyue 16 Plus. It also has a single-key AlienFX lighting effect on Alienware, which can provide a smooth and shaking gaming experience.
MSI and Cherry Cherry
MSI is also a partner of Cherry Cherry MX ultra-light and thin mechanical keyboard shaft. For example, the new Titan GT77 focuses on the "Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile ultra-thin mechanical keyboard". The keys are designed with a golden cross-point contact system inside, and the key range reaches 1.8mm, bringing players the best feedback and precise operation in the game.Judging from the official promotional structure diagram, the cherry keyboard structures of MSI and Dell are basically the same, and different titles are used only for promotion.
Emerging pressure-sensitive keyboard
In addition to switching to mechanical keyboards, some manufacturers have also used other technical means to improve the feel of tapping. For example, Lenovo Saver Y9000K 2022 has upgraded the pressure-sensitive keyboard, which supports 256-level pressure sensing on the four most commonly used buttons of "WASD", which can achieve an operating sense similar to the linear trigger of the gamepad in the game. For example, in racing games, you don’t just press the button to fill the steering wheel, and you don’t just press the accelerator to the bottom with just press the button.
Look at mechanical keyboard rationally
Due to the changes in the structure, we cannot expect the ultra-thin mechanical keyboard on the notes themselves to restore the feel of traditional desktop mechanical keyboards 100%. We can only say that they are stronger than the film keyboard with X-shaped architecture, presenting the "click" feedback experience to the maximum extent. In addition, taking Dell Lingyue 16 Plus as an example, the Cherry MX X-type Gullwing mechanical keyboard of this product is an optional configuration, which costs an additional 1,500 yuan. With the same overhead, I believe that more players are more inclined to purchase a combination set of laptop cooling bracket + external high-end mechanical keyboard, right? Therefore, whether a laptop can be equipped with a mechanical keyboard is only a plus, and it is far from the required option.
