Sunday, January 14th 2018
Cherry Annnounces the Cherry MX Low Profile RGB Switches
CHERRY, the market leader and expert in mechanical switches in keyboards, is announcing the MX Low Profile RGB. This shallow switch features a brand-new design and combines the well-known characteristics of the MX switch with a low profile. This allows the implementation of mechanical keys in a much more compact format, making the CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB suitable not only for use in notebooks but also for building unusually thin high-end keyboards.
The CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB is the first truly new development in mechanical switches in more than 30 years. The company's R&D department has invested a lot of time and effort in achieving a total height of only 11.9 millimeters without compromising on characteristics and quality. The MX Low Profile RGB is about 35 percent shallower than the standard MX switches, and thanks to its unique design it can be used just as easily for mechanical keyboards in high-end notebooks as for unusually thin mechanical desktop keyboards. The new CHERRY switch was fully developed and built in Germany, its the "Made in Germany" seal representing the best product quality and the highest manufacturing precision.
Typical characteristics and Gold-Crosspoint technology
Despite its low height, the CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB offers the same perfect operation feeling that CHERRY's conventional switches have already established as a gold standard on the market. Although the actuation characteristics remain almost the same, the travel has been reduced from 4.0 to 3.2 millimeters. For a reliable operation, CHERRY has integrated its exclusive, high-precision and long-life Gold-Crosspoint technology. The contacts are self-cleaning and resistant to corrosion, with guarantees over 50 million keystrokes with no loss of quality. This also leads to a shorter bounce time for higher switching frequencies.
Housing with optimization for lighting
The housing for the CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB is transparent and designed for use with SMD LEDs. These compact LEDs sit directly on the PCB to benefit the shallow design of the keyboard. The design of the housing is optimized to ensure a uniform illumination of the entire key cap and to represent all 16.8 million colors of the RGB spectrum accurately.
CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB Red as first variant
The MX Low Profile RGB Red is the first variant that CHERRY will offer. It has the same properties as the regular MX Red variant, such as a linear switching characteristic and an actuation force of 45 centinewtons, making the MX Low Profile RGB Red perfectly suitable for gamers and fast typists.
The CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB is the first truly new development in mechanical switches in more than 30 years. The company's R&D department has invested a lot of time and effort in achieving a total height of only 11.9 millimeters without compromising on characteristics and quality. The MX Low Profile RGB is about 35 percent shallower than the standard MX switches, and thanks to its unique design it can be used just as easily for mechanical keyboards in high-end notebooks as for unusually thin mechanical desktop keyboards. The new CHERRY switch was fully developed and built in Germany, its the "Made in Germany" seal representing the best product quality and the highest manufacturing precision.
Despite its low height, the CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB offers the same perfect operation feeling that CHERRY's conventional switches have already established as a gold standard on the market. Although the actuation characteristics remain almost the same, the travel has been reduced from 4.0 to 3.2 millimeters. For a reliable operation, CHERRY has integrated its exclusive, high-precision and long-life Gold-Crosspoint technology. The contacts are self-cleaning and resistant to corrosion, with guarantees over 50 million keystrokes with no loss of quality. This also leads to a shorter bounce time for higher switching frequencies.
Housing with optimization for lighting
The housing for the CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB is transparent and designed for use with SMD LEDs. These compact LEDs sit directly on the PCB to benefit the shallow design of the keyboard. The design of the housing is optimized to ensure a uniform illumination of the entire key cap and to represent all 16.8 million colors of the RGB spectrum accurately.
CHERRY MX Low Profile RGB Red as first variant
The MX Low Profile RGB Red is the first variant that CHERRY will offer. It has the same properties as the regular MX Red variant, such as a linear switching characteristic and an actuation force of 45 centinewtons, making the MX Low Profile RGB Red perfectly suitable for gamers and fast typists.
22 Comments on Cherry Annnounces the Cherry MX Low Profile RGB Switches
In other news, of course they announce these now, it's been a month since I finally bit the bullet and gave up on slim keyboard to get a mechanical one instead. Which is really not worth its money, I might add.
I just bought a mechanical keyboard - just to check what I've been missing for the last 15 years, when I switched to low-travel keyboards (with a huge relief!).
Maybe they somehow got better, which I doubt. But since I'm thinking about turning laptop-only since 2019, this was the last chance. :-)
Flat keys dominated offices years ago. People are using them for 8+ hours a day - some a lot longer.
You've been under a rock for 10 years and missed the fact that we're mostly using notebooks now?Of course you can. It's muscle memory - your brain knows where the keys are.
I don't get the idea behind "finding keys". You're counting them or what? "s" is 2 keys left from "f"?We're talking about typing or playing?
And while I'm not really following "pro gaming", I do see a lot of gaming notebooks. And flat gaming keyboards. Who would these be for...? :-)
If you watch how typists work, they're hitting keys from above - not sliding fingers over them. They simply know where to struck.
I can totally believe that gamers do it differently. When I play and WSAD is for movement and ~10 or so keys around are for other actions, I do tend to "count" or slide fingers. That's simply because I'm not thinking "E" but "use" and the muscle memory is not associated.So maybe it's you, not the rest of the world? :-P
Have you ever tried flat keyboards? Either notebook or a discrete one? What if it turns out that you can type just as well - maybe even better and for longer?
www.corsair.com/en-us/gaming-keyboards
steelseries.com/gaming-keyboards
www.logitechg.com/en-us/gaming-keyboards
www.qpad.com/shop/en/6-keyboards
tesorotec.com/keyboards-new/
www.coolermaster.com/product/Lines/keyboards/
cougargaming.com/products/keyboards/
www.ttesports.com/productlist.aspx?c=2
www.razerzone.com/gaming-keyboards
Also, I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of habit. I've been using a classic keyboard for like 20 years before Apple made chiclets popular and I find them very unnatural to use. Not even Apple has claimed they're superior in any way. Just that they allowed the laptops to be thinner, which yet another thing I don't really get (I get that a 15mm thick laptop is easier to carry than a 40mm thick one, but why 9mm is considered more portable than 11mm is beyond me).
This is not how touch typing is meant to work, which really makes your argument pointless...
No seppuku, please. You're late for the Blue Monday anyway. :-P