I?m going to make a confession of bias right off the bat before I continue further with this review: I absolutely love mechanical keyboards. They?re a breed of hardware that signal an old school vibe where you could really hammer on the keys without fear of breaking something.

So it should be no surprise that we?ve seen mechanical keyboards become all the rage in the market. Even that $80 membrane keyboard is arguably obsolete and overpriced for what you get in terms of function and value; once you use a mechanical keyboard, you'll wonder how you survived without one. Investing a bit of extra money in a great keyboard is well worth the payoff, and the days of the cheap plastic boards may soon become a distant memory.