Keyboard quieter than a Logitech K120?

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    As a cheap plastic keyboard it'll have a ton of resonance, so I'd imagine it won't actually be that quiet.

    I use the Logitech G915's and 815's as my standard keyboards and since they're low-travel keyboards with a relatively solid base, they'd be quite a bit quieter.

    Apple Magic Keyboards will be quieter still but you're paying way, way over the odds even compared to something relatively expensive like my keyboards for the fruit logo, for something that may be quieter but objectively worse in every other keyboard metric compared to the 815/915.
     
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    I picked the ThinkPad because the person doing the measurement of noise says I'm pretty much silent enough on my ThinkPad laptop. It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be noisier than the laptop, but then it was cheap and I can give it other uses.

    Which kinds of switches are you using on those mechanical keyboards so they are not noisy? I've never seen silent mechanicals in person, so I have no idea how loud those are.

    (I have a blue clicky and I love it.)
     
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    pondo said:
    I recently bought two of these Cherry keyboards, one at Amazon and one at Microcenter. Pretty good for $30 or so, scissor keys, quiet. I like the feeling of the scissor action, after using some mechanical keyboards for a couple years I decided I like a more "Lenovo laptop" keyboard feel.
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    Ooh that's a good tip. I loved my UltraX and these seem like a good successor for that line. Gonna order one to see if they are any good and maybe get more for work + spares.
     
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    BTW, I'm typing this on the ThinkPad keyboard. It's pretty nice, actually. But I think it's a bit louder than my laptop (will know for sure Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest).

    Also, luckily the GitHub thread explaining how to do the fn/ctrl swap had an update midway through. The original method was messing with the internal wiring. But someone found a way to patch the firmware updater, swapping two bytes to do that through the firmware. Otherwise I think I would have had to return it.

    (I'm not prepared to revert my laptops to the Lenovo fn/ctrl setup.)
     
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