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it will stop working within a month when dust/hair/dead skin cells(which is what dust is made out of) and other junk gets in the bearings as others have said. I mean the reason why no one makes a ball mouse anymore is cuz of the gunk, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to clean out those...
i have created 2 mech boards specifically cherry keys by using the ms ergo 4k, it was extremely difficult, but easier (and nicer looking) the second time around. I've since shelved these keyboards for a kinesis i've modded. if you want a new kinesis, it'll cost you i have bought 4 used kinesis...
blues are a good baseline to gauge how other switches will react
browns are clickless blues
reds are clickless and bumpless(no tactile) blues
blacks are even stiffer reds
whites are tactile blacks
goto a bestbuy or whatever and look for a razer blackwidow keyboard, these boxes have cutouts so you can "try" the keyboard while it's still in the box, or if you're lucky find a store that has keyboards laid out. You need a keyboard that has less "force", and the logitech boards use ALOT of...
what do you mean by "base platform" are we talking mouse or keyboard here?
if mouse
for the cherry mod, depends on mouse really, some mice doesn't seem physically possible to mod (like if you had to mod a rat7, you'd take out so much electronics, doesn't make it worthwhile,and the rat7 sucks)...
i modded 2 ms ergo 4k with cherry browns, in the end my daily driver is a kinesis (which still needs modding to be perfect), try a kinesis if you can, if you really like split ergo.
the kinesis is only split in half and "measured" it's shelved until i find free time, the current kinesis i'm using just has a few keyswitch mods like ergo whites and different keycap placement, that i believe only i do.
btw, used the mouse to play hours of diablo (game isn't that fun?) and had...
yea try one of the new cm storm keyboards they come in blues/browns, yada. if you want quiet blues, go browns (with tactile), if you want quiet blues and want more force in your switch, go black with no tactile, if you want quiet blues with the same force and no tactile at all go red.
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i've had this issue for years, i've fixed it since doing a mod a year ago.
mice use omron switches, while nice, use LOTS of force, after a few million keystrokes they start hurting, short answer i use a kinesis, cherry mx switches, so i modded my mouse with cherry mx switches, i have...