🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Apr 3

If you want Cherry MX keyswitches for future use, you might want to stock up. Cherry announced last year that production was moving to China, but today Mouser Electronics sent me an obsolescence notice for Cherry MX Blue.
:-(
#MechanicalKeyboard #CherryMX #CherryMXBlue

EDIT: sorry if I caused any alarm. As several people have informed me, just replace the MX1A prefix with MX2A.

Show threadResunaApr 4

@brouhaha

What's the particular advantage to Cherry branded switches made in Germany?

Also, wasn't the blue switch basically obsolete as soon as keyboards started using microprocessors and doing debouncing in software?

Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Apr 4
@resuna
I don't know how Cherry's Chinese-made compare to their German-made. Could be the same. But I don't think any of the MX switches are functionally obsolete. There are many alternatives, and many are less expensive, and maybe some are as good or even better, but with MX you always know exactly what you're getting. The force profile and tactile feedback (for models that provide it) are fairly precisely specified and consistent.
Show threadResunaApr 4

@brouhaha

Well, they're consistent, but none of the big three are particularly *good*. Blue is some kind of weird nostalgia trip, red is soft and mushy with basically no feedback until you bottom out, and the brown is kind of tentatively tactile at best.

But blue is particularly weird. The whole "click" thing was a mechanical debouncing design that made sense back in the 80s when keyboards were all random logic or if they had a microprocessor it was a rotten potato.

Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑
@resuna
I personally prefer MX Clear, but some of my friends prefer MX Blue. I'm not inclined to tell them they're wrong.
Apr 4 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadResunaApr 5
@brouhaha People have all kinds of attachments to retro game consoles too.