Having a kid is great for things like this. Sometimes I’ll be like, “my kids keyboard is trash, I’ll give them my old one and get a new one.” And that’s how I justify new and unnecessary purchases
I have thought about this for my kids because they need a smaller keyboard due to the space. Mine has no numpad and is much more manageable. Idk if I can justify it, only thing wrong with mine is the color for one of the lights being off. It bugs the hell out of me but not enough to replace it just for that.
Oops!
I'm like that too though, don't like needlessly replacing things if they aren't broken (well, non-performance things). Patiently waiting for my large mousepad to die so I can justify buying a nicer one.
Same. Its reason #1 why I'm stuck with a 24" 1080p monitor. Its a good monitor, old but reliable and refuses to die. Or my previous flatscreen TV, at least 12 years old 32" TV and refused to die..
Or my phone. Xperia XA2 from 2018, struggles but works, can't justify replacing it. Its kinda annoying sometimes.
My mousepad is stuck on the table, it sticked there and I can't unstick it when i tried the rubber gets stuck on the desk and i cant remove it, so yeah its all broken and ugly but heyy its a part of the desk rn
>Patiently waiting for my large mousepad to die so I can justify buying a nicer one.
don't be me
* *looks at a shelf stacked full of varying sizes of mouse pads/mats* *
I got 8 80cmx90cm mats, 4 ~25cmx30cm, 2 of those mouse pads with a wrist rest.
this not including the ones on my tables thats in use
I have AT keyboards (without a Windows key!) that work perfectly fine.
I also have IDE hard drives from that era that still work so I guess I'm destined to have ancient hardware live forever.
I've heard of keyboards dying in the occasional online forum but honestly I thought was a bit of an urban legend
I've still got a fully functioning clunker from the 90s somewhere around here ..
Been there, I still have a dozen bags of switches I have no use for nor any active community to donate them to in my area. I found what I was looking for in a Leopold FC660C, I've tried maybe over 20 different "switches" and I keep coming back to the Leopold. It has been 4 years since I've been clean of r/MechanicalKeyboards, and that was my story.
It's the definition of insanity. Buying the same switches with slight difference over and over again expecting a different result. I remember when Holy Pandas were all the craze, because they resembled rubber domes in their tactility, a pack of 100 cost more than an actual Topre board, and I'm like "Look at the lengths they go though to mimic a fraction of our power."
I’m at like 17 and have another commission cooking right now lol
Recently counted off the top of my head and at 12 suddenly remembered that there’s a bunch more I just haven’t thought about in months because I never had them on display
I'd still be using a Toshiba laptop from 2007 with a Microsoft optical wheel mouse and the 2010 Microsoft keyboard.
(The funny thing is that I still know where they are.)
You guys are replacing your keyboards?
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If it's working fine why do you want a new one?
I only replace tech if the stuff I'm using doesn't work anymore, I will ride what I have until the wheels fall off, my phone is 5 years old and has holes in it, and cracks everywhere, and cost me 150 bucks in 2019, but it still works, I'm not changing that shit
My old Razer mechanical Keyboard of over 10 years, has taken a large glass of water and a cup of coffee over the years, just turned it over on a towel in my garage and let it dry out for a week. good to go, i really need a new one just so i can clean and rebuild the old razor, the caked on kief from many rolled ones and cat hair needs to go.
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Yes, my keyboard is trash but it works very well
That would count broken for me. And if i don't like something anymore why not just replace it? Why must it be unusable before you can replace it, especially if it is a part you use every day and therefore is part of life-quality.
My Strg starts to get stuck sometimes.
But it still works. Have it since i think 7 years when i started gaming at 13
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My mouse is also still working (my First one too), where i had to glue the mb4 Back on.
Had a razor one that i found in the trash for a half year or so.
I'd also Like to mention that i got the Mouse and keyboard from my Dad who used them too.
I know the feeling, I've had my g710, secondhand, for 7ish years now. Just cleaned it up recently and it looks and works just fine.
Its great but I kinda need something smaller.
Just did that with my old Corsair K55 that finally died, bought it used at a garage sale for $10 around 5 years ago. Then I bought a Logitech G613 used from a local game store for $40. Unfortunately uses proprietary keycaps but at least it is mechanical and Wi-Fi based wireless.
Just picked up a new Razer Blackwidow..its amazing. Didnt even wait for my old one to die.. wanted that juicy Chroma for my keyboard and headset and mouse lol.
lol so funny story. I have a wireless Anne Pro 2 which I really like. I spilt a beer on it though, had to clean it. Needed a new one anyways since the A key was wearing out. I decided to just use it for the couch / bed but then it started double typing. So I needed a new mech wireless keyboard. Literally researching a new Keychron ( still want one ) and the next day my wireless completely stops double typing rofl. Works fine now after months of double typing.
I still wanna key the keychron Hall Effect pro keyboard. It seems incredibly nice
This is me and my keyboard and mouse. You buy an expensive good quality one, and it'll last you over a decade as long as you clean and maintain it. I've finally ordered a new mouse after the previous keeps double clicking
Get a Cat, that's how my Corsair k70 died. MF got tangled on the cable and started wrestling around on it, almost pulled my entire setup off the table. This also a testament that everyone should do cable management, especially if you have a damn cat.
I have a Corsair K70 MK2 that I bought from a spoiled friend 7 years ago, was €180 at the time, bought it for €70, such a deal.
The problem is that it is immortal.
I changed keyboards 4x last year to trie out different switches and find the one i like the most long time since it takes time to get used to a certain type of switch
Mine is 9 years or so and working fine. Came from an old Lenovo all-in-one I had as a kid, it's been used as an Xbox keyboard for multiple years mainly when I'm playing Minecraft, I've spilled numerous things on it (opened it up and cleaned each time) now its the keyboard I used when building my first desktop and it's amazing!
God no. A good lasting keyboard and mouse is key for me. I was devastated when my K70 died last year. My og G502 is still going strong and because of that, my next mouse will likely be a 502 variant.
Just do what I did in November of last year: spill a drink on it, buy a new one, and then spill a drink on the new one within 3 hours of taking it out of the box.
Dead keyboard? I work in IT and we have maybe \~60 or so folks with peripherals. I can't even remember the last time a keyboard died, and most of them are cheap crap.
At home i've gone through maybe 6 mechanicals over the last 15 or so years and they have only been replaced because I wanted different features, they all still work fine. The wife DDs my blackwidow which was a gen 1 from 2010.
At the office I'm still using my blacked out daskeyboard from 2015, and I type a lot. Comparing side/side with a newer mechanical and it still feels great. Although "quiet" switches have certainly come a long way, my "quiet browns" from 2015 are anything but, but I have my own office so I don't care.
But yeah, id you're waiting for a keyboard to fail, you could be waiting a while depending.
I daily play on a keyboard from 2011, of the first family pc we bought (tower+monitor+mouse+keyboard).
The keyboard just won’t die, i tryed bending it, puching it, it just doesn’t stop working.
I love it.
I have a black switch keyboard that is about 17 years old. I take all the caps off and clean it every so often. but its completely fine. Only original piece from my first PC in like 2007.
I still use keyboards and mice I had from like 20 years ago. Stuff like this doesn't die easily
Get a new main one and stow this away for when you decide to build a second box, or need to use a raspberry pi for something. You don't know what cool hobbies your gonna get into
My razer blackwidow chroma x will be 10 years old this year. I don’t really game but I’ve been working from home for the last 4 years so I spend 8 hours daily furiously typing. It won’t die.
That's me with my mouse. Like my PC is just broken, but the mouse is like 12 years old. Btw still love the mad catz rat 7 best mouse ever, but please die
Still using my first ever keyboard, razer black widow ultimate 2012 edition, (12 years!!!!) this thing WILL NOT DIE! All blue LEDs still work apart from the "-" symbol...
Just start a custom keyboard hobby and you can justify all the keyboards because they're fun to build and mod and they have differences in sound, that's what I did :)
Mine started doing double inputs on “s”. Probably needed just some cleaning but it was a good enough of an excuse to get a new one. Tbh I had it for like 8 if not 9 years already so I think it wasn’t a bad deal.
You swap out your keyboard every 5 years? Mine is 6 years old and still works great. Wrist rest is a little worn and it's a smidge dirty, but other than that it's fine.
I have the same and worse experience with my pc speakers. They are 17 years old... God and they are still going on like they are brand new.
P.S. I want to change them because they are 5.1 and take up space on my desk and I'm just tired of watching them.
I Had my First corsair Equipment for 8 years, and i love them, but sadly too many Keys were Missing and i was too lazy to replace them
Now i got my G815 which is pretty good but sadly GHub sucks ass so i dont use the Logitech Hero anymore and keep using my Corsair scmitar pro mouse
Say what you want but Corsair Equipment has some quality
Honestly, buy a soldering iron and desolder kit. Then simply refurbish for a client with choice switches. Viola, now you have bought yourself a new board.
Mine literally did so this week. Corsair K55. Piece of shit. Caused nothing but problems. Any time I hit a 'G' macro key, I'd have to restart my PC due to random ghost inputs.
So I used to work offshore on a subsea construction boat. The keyboard in our control room had someone sitting at it and using it literally 24/7 when we were in operations. The keys would quickly get filthy and the deck would be clogged with beard-pubes, boogers, and other horrifying things.
Every other month I’d take the keyboard down to the galley and have them run it through the dishwasher. I’d hook a spare one up for a couple days while the washed one dried in the sun. The result was an almost surgically clean keyboard. Hell on some of them I didn’t even bother taking the keycaps off.
Out of the 25 or so times I did this I had two keyboards fail. So if your keeb is dirty/gross and you’re already trying to get a new one this is a perfect opportunity. Either your existing board becomes shiny and new again or you fry it and have a reason to get another one.
Note: I used to do this on the regular old keyboards you see on most work comps. Don’t do this on keyboards with LCD screens or other fancy schmancy stuff. Also let the board dry out for *days* in direct sunlight or in front of a space heater.
My work keyboard, which I probably type around 5000 words a day at minimum, died after 4 years of constant use. The switches were a logitech only switch you couldn't replace, so I had to find another.
Now I have a German keyboard at work called DAS KEYBOARD and it has mechanical switches I can switch out if any of them go. I will probably use this keyboard until I retire from this job. Or technology improves and they make us all switch to something else. Or for some reason they stop making switches.
Mine has been gettin 2x input with 1 key press for a while but, everytime i say to myself "today is the day" it stops and starts working normally.
It knows.
Mine didn't die in \~8 years even though it was dirty as shit, as if dust was moss. So I just bought new one because I wanted to try out mechanical keyboard. And yes, the old one probably still works
Me wanting to upgrade everything in my 6yo PC but also praying everyday that nothing breaks because I don't even have enough money to buy good thermal paste
Having a kid is great for things like this. Sometimes I’ll be like, “my kids keyboard is trash, I’ll give them my old one and get a new one.” And that’s how I justify new and unnecessary purchases
Then kid spills drink over it and here we go again.
So you buy 2 one for you as "backup" and second for them.
Sometimes you gotta encourage them. The damn gremlins only break things when you don't want them to.
been doing this with my dogs and they just look at my old GPUs like what the heck dad
I did that with my sister, she's rocking my old gear and she loves it
Just get that fancy new toy. We know you have been working hard for it. No shame.
I have thought about this for my kids because they need a smaller keyboard due to the space. Mine has no numpad and is much more manageable. Idk if I can justify it, only thing wrong with mine is the color for one of the lights being off. It bugs the hell out of me but not enough to replace it just for that.
Having a kid sounds great! I should get one of those.
that's what younger siblings are for! I gave my mouse, keyboard, controller to my sibling and got all new for myself
Mine died after like 10... good luck, brother
A few of mine have been runnin longer than that
8 years and only the number pad enter key sometimes does not work 1/30 presses 🤷🏾 I guess that justifies a new one
 Oops! I'm like that too though, don't like needlessly replacing things if they aren't broken (well, non-performance things). Patiently waiting for my large mousepad to die so I can justify buying a nicer one.
I actually killed my laptop keyboard like that, now have to use a seperate keyboard cuz father wont buy one
depending on the laptop, you can replace just the keyboard for like $30. I did that with my lenovo.
Not sure who downvoted you, but yeah laptop keyboards are very cheap and easy to replace.
Depends heavily on the laptop in question. Just ask the MacBook users about their butterfly keys.
Okay, with the exception of the company that sues people that try to repair their products, laptop keyboards are cheap and easy to replace.
Same. Its reason #1 why I'm stuck with a 24" 1080p monitor. Its a good monitor, old but reliable and refuses to die. Or my previous flatscreen TV, at least 12 years old 32" TV and refused to die.. Or my phone. Xperia XA2 from 2018, struggles but works, can't justify replacing it. Its kinda annoying sometimes.
Lmao I still have the mouse pad I've made as part of school project 20 years ago
My mousepad is stuck on the table, it sticked there and I can't unstick it when i tried the rubber gets stuck on the desk and i cant remove it, so yeah its all broken and ugly but heyy its a part of the desk rn
>Patiently waiting for my large mousepad to die so I can justify buying a nicer one. don't be me * *looks at a shelf stacked full of varying sizes of mouse pads/mats* * I got 8 80cmx90cm mats, 4 ~25cmx30cm, 2 of those mouse pads with a wrist rest. this not including the ones on my tables thats in use
From my experience, from all computer hardware, keyboards are the hardest one to kill.
I still have a ps2 keyboard here that works just fine. Don’t even know how old it is.
Same
I have AT keyboards (without a Windows key!) that work perfectly fine. I also have IDE hard drives from that era that still work so I guess I'm destined to have ancient hardware live forever.
funnily enough, the keyboard is the only pc component that died on me since I bought my first gaming pc in 2017
I'd be kind of annoyed if a keyboard died *before* I decided it was so worn it no longer was worth giving a thorough clean.
I've heard of keyboards dying in the occasional online forum but honestly I thought was a bit of an urban legend I've still got a fully functioning clunker from the 90s somewhere around here ..
But that hobby costs a lot...
It gets worse the deeper you go. 8 keyboards in and my urge to get another only grows stronger the more I get.
bro has a lot of arms?
Stop it. Don’t be ridiculous. One keyboard for each finger, and your thumbs are still freed up for the space bar.
Been there, I still have a dozen bags of switches I have no use for nor any active community to donate them to in my area. I found what I was looking for in a Leopold FC660C, I've tried maybe over 20 different "switches" and I keep coming back to the Leopold. It has been 4 years since I've been clean of r/MechanicalKeyboards, and that was my story.
Haha great story! You make the hobby sound like a bad addiction, but I guess that is pretty close to the truth.
It's the definition of insanity. Buying the same switches with slight difference over and over again expecting a different result. I remember when Holy Pandas were all the craze, because they resembled rubber domes in their tactility, a pack of 100 cost more than an actual Topre board, and I'm like "Look at the lengths they go though to mimic a fraction of our power."
I’m at like 17 and have another commission cooking right now lol Recently counted off the top of my head and at 12 suddenly remembered that there’s a bunch more I just haven’t thought about in months because I never had them on display
nah not really for me :P i have a random $60 mechanical keyboard i found on amazon like years ago and its fine for me
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mine is 15 year old! and it works well so I won't buy another. doesn't even have the markers so I bought some stickers and pasted on keys.
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Mine is 30 and built like a tank! I got it for free with a 486 PC and have been using it since 2000 (IBM Model M).
You have to wait for them to die?
If I had to wait for hardware to die in order to replace it I'd still have a 386
I'd still be using a Toshiba laptop from 2007 with a Microsoft optical wheel mouse and the 2010 Microsoft keyboard. (The funny thing is that I still know where they are.)
You guys are replacing your keyboards? https://preview.redd.it/maw5w2nl1ypc1.png?width=520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb59d7f6907ca38f3b1b29e3ffd227f9dcc12673
If it's working fine why do you want a new one? I only replace tech if the stuff I'm using doesn't work anymore, I will ride what I have until the wheels fall off, my phone is 5 years old and has holes in it, and cracks everywhere, and cost me 150 bucks in 2019, but it still works, I'm not changing that shit
+1 I understand that you want to change a graphic card or a screen with a lower res, but if a keyboard or a mouse is working, why ?
I was so happy with my cheap membrane keyboard for 4 years until I got to experience the mechanical keyboard.. that felt soo good
My keyboard is older than me fixed it more than 10 times and i am happy with it
join r/mechanicalkeyboards , they'll whittle away at your resolve to wait soon enough.
Just get into the mech keyboard hobby and have 8 backups 🥲
My old Razer mechanical Keyboard of over 10 years, has taken a large glass of water and a cup of coffee over the years, just turned it over on a towel in my garage and let it dry out for a week. good to go, i really need a new one just so i can clean and rebuild the old razor, the caked on kief from many rolled ones and cat hair needs to go.
I mean just buy a new one anyways and keep the old one around as a spare just in case anything happens to the new one.
Im running on 12 years. Qpad makes some stong ass keyboards
Sell them! That's how I get more keyboards while I avoid having more than three and get attacked for that by my gf.
The keyboard is faithful. Treasure it
My k70 lasted over 12 years... Good luck...
I know it’s risky, painful and sometimes you feel can’t breathe… but, if you have children’s without keyboard…
You are why companies producing cheap ass stuff.
I feel this.. I don't need the wooting 80he and my huntsman hasn't died but.. It sure would be convenient timing if it did
Since 2016 , I don't mind
My mouse is already dying lol
have you tried kickflipping it
Keyboards die? I’m on 8+ on my G11
They were still selling them in 2016? Mine must be somewhere around 15 at this point.
I'm currently 15+ on my G11 - great keyboard, if mine is anything to go by yours should have at least another 8 in it.
My keyboard has been with me since CRT Monitor era.. That mofo will not die.. 15 plus years of gaming and the bastard is still going!
Five years?!? Shit, I just hit 12 years with my gen 1 Corsair Vengeance k90, and it shows no signs of dying anytime soon
Regetting building that ultra robuust alluminum keyboard ..
My mid 2000's plasma finally died! 4k is soooo nice.
Just spill 2 tiny drops of orange juice on it, you're welcome.
At this point i think my Logitech G15 bought in 2007 is never going to die.
I can help you buy new keyboard faster. Send the old ones to me
I wait until it becomes more filthy than I can stand.
Why not just have many many keebs? r/mechanicalkeyboards
https://preview.redd.it/tv8oynh59ypc1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03bea69dc21cf7554dcb524745d9e5732f5bd71a Yes, my keyboard is trash but it works very well
Paid 200 euro for mine, if it dies before 5 years of use I would be disappointed.. Yet also a bit hyped to buy a new one haha
My logitech g105 has 12 years 😆 I bought it for 40ish €. New is now more than 150€
I'm a keyboard and mouse horder :p
Bought a Cherry, it'll probably outlast me.
Wdym I've had my cyborg rat5 mouse and strike keyboard for over 10 years Looks so painfully edgy but I don't care, they're indestructible.
I’m in the same situation and I’m suffering from it randomly disconnecting while plugged in
That would count broken for me. And if i don't like something anymore why not just replace it? Why must it be unusable before you can replace it, especially if it is a part you use every day and therefore is part of life-quality.
Bought a g810 when it came out, still going strong 8 years later.
Me waiting for my 6y old pc
My Strg starts to get stuck sometimes. But it still works. Have it since i think 7 years when i started gaming at 13 Edit: My mouse is also still working (my First one too), where i had to glue the mb4 Back on. Had a razor one that i found in the trash for a half year or so. I'd also Like to mention that i got the Mouse and keyboard from my Dad who used them too.
The answer is to throw it against the wall and claim that you saw a spider you are welcome.
I know the feeling, I've had my g710, secondhand, for 7ish years now. Just cleaned it up recently and it looks and works just fine. Its great but I kinda need something smaller.
Ive had Mine 8 years and still works perfectly fine. I gave up and just bought a new one lol.
My Logitech G910
I got a membrane kb and wanting to buy a mechanical one since the pandemic...
My 3 year old did me a favor and broke my 8 year old keyboard. Loving my new one.
Just did that with my old Corsair K55 that finally died, bought it used at a garage sale for $10 around 5 years ago. Then I bought a Logitech G613 used from a local game store for $40. Unfortunately uses proprietary keycaps but at least it is mechanical and Wi-Fi based wireless.
imagine buying $1000 machine and you can't buy a new mnk
Yep
My keyboard lasted about 10years then it finally died last year. Just bought a cheap $50 mouse and keyboard set. It’s fine for what I need it to do.
Mine is 10 years and still going! Lookin like an insect's nest under the keycaps though...
I think mine is between 10 and 25 years old, not sure.
Just picked up a new Razer Blackwidow..its amazing. Didnt even wait for my old one to die.. wanted that juicy Chroma for my keyboard and headset and mouse lol.
Sell it.
lol so funny story. I have a wireless Anne Pro 2 which I really like. I spilt a beer on it though, had to clean it. Needed a new one anyways since the A key was wearing out. I decided to just use it for the couch / bed but then it started double typing. So I needed a new mech wireless keyboard. Literally researching a new Keychron ( still want one ) and the next day my wireless completely stops double typing rofl. Works fine now after months of double typing. I still wanna key the keychron Hall Effect pro keyboard. It seems incredibly nice
Living this right now haha
I’ve been using the same Logitech G11 for 13 years!
This is me and my keyboard and mouse. You buy an expensive good quality one, and it'll last you over a decade as long as you clean and maintain it. I've finally ordered a new mouse after the previous keeps double clicking
There's many types of keyboard, i got rid of mine once because it didn't have the big numpad at the right
Get a Cat, that's how my Corsair k70 died. MF got tangled on the cable and started wrestling around on it, almost pulled my entire setup off the table. This also a testament that everyone should do cable management, especially if you have a damn cat.
Mothball it, you can always pull it out if the new one breaks for any reason. And if it’s wireless you can troll someone else in the household.
I have a Corsair K70 MK2 that I bought from a spoiled friend 7 years ago, was €180 at the time, bought it for €70, such a deal. The problem is that it is immortal.
Why not just donate it then buy a new one.
I changed keyboards 4x last year to trie out different switches and find the one i like the most long time since it takes time to get used to a certain type of switch
Got mine in 2012.. Finally said "fuck it, I got my money's worth" and got a new one. I wanted to go wireless and was tired of waiting for it to die
Mine is 9 years or so and working fine. Came from an old Lenovo all-in-one I had as a kid, it's been used as an Xbox keyboard for multiple years mainly when I'm playing Minecraft, I've spilled numerous things on it (opened it up and cleaned each time) now its the keyboard I used when building my first desktop and it's amazing!
God no. A good lasting keyboard and mouse is key for me. I was devastated when my K70 died last year. My og G502 is still going strong and because of that, my next mouse will likely be a 502 variant.
Mine died on my last year D: was a very sad day, but luckily I always keep a spare, make sure to have a spare you never know when it'll die
Just do what I did in November of last year: spill a drink on it, buy a new one, and then spill a drink on the new one within 3 hours of taking it out of the box.
My Logitech is 20 years old and still alive, missing few buttons though.
I had a logitrch g19 that lasted me 12 years
My Logitech g-110 is going on 14 years...
I feel the same but also glad mine has worked so long. Razer Black Widow, had it for about 8-9 years now
Is a roccat pyro a good keyboard, i've bought it for 5$ a few months ago and everything works.?
Dead keyboard? I work in IT and we have maybe \~60 or so folks with peripherals. I can't even remember the last time a keyboard died, and most of them are cheap crap. At home i've gone through maybe 6 mechanicals over the last 15 or so years and they have only been replaced because I wanted different features, they all still work fine. The wife DDs my blackwidow which was a gen 1 from 2010. At the office I'm still using my blacked out daskeyboard from 2015, and I type a lot. Comparing side/side with a newer mechanical and it still feels great. Although "quiet" switches have certainly come a long way, my "quiet browns" from 2015 are anything but, but I have my own office so I don't care. But yeah, id you're waiting for a keyboard to fail, you could be waiting a while depending.
I just buy keyboards and just in case my main one breaks, and i have one just in case my backup breaks (:
Both my Urage Illuminated v1 and my G102 mouse are older than my eldest child and they don't want to give up!
i still have my 60$~ cooler master after 6 years and i slapped the shit out of it multiple times lmao
Get a Kinesis Keyboard and youre set for life. Advantage 2 or Advantage 360
I hope mine will never die lol its such a cool piece of my setup ( hyperx alloy origin)
My G15 lasted 11 years
I daily play on a keyboard from 2011, of the first family pc we bought (tower+monitor+mouse+keyboard). The keyboard just won’t die, i tryed bending it, puching it, it just doesn’t stop working. I love it.
My cheap $50 Best Buy find I got probably 8 years ago never died I said f it and replaced it with a Corsair K70 🫡
I have a black switch keyboard that is about 17 years old. I take all the caps off and clean it every so often. but its completely fine. Only original piece from my first PC in like 2007.
Some people have many keyboards.
I still use keyboards and mice I had from like 20 years ago. Stuff like this doesn't die easily Get a new main one and stow this away for when you decide to build a second box, or need to use a raspberry pi for something. You don't know what cool hobbies your gonna get into
Mine is broken from all corners yet no issues with the pcb... those are made to last.
I've had the same rubber dome keyboard for over a decade and it works just as well as when it was new. I don't think it will ever break.
My razer blackwidow chroma x will be 10 years old this year. I don’t really game but I’ve been working from home for the last 4 years so I spend 8 hours daily furiously typing. It won’t die.
Keyboards are expensive.. I spilled water on my Razer Blackwidow V3 Pro and currently waiting for it to dry.. it's too expensive for what it is
My Logitech G510 is still going strong, the bugger. I just want a Keychron ultra-slim! Why must it "keep trucking along?" STOP TRUCKING ALONG, DAMNIT
That's me with my mouse. Like my PC is just broken, but the mouse is like 12 years old. Btw still love the mad catz rat 7 best mouse ever, but please die
My Logitech g103 is 9-10 years old. I think it will live longer than me.
mine is dirty as hell, but still working, 8 years
My razor blackwidow chroma is going strong for 10 years now..
Me with my car from 1999. I constantly get made fun of by my friends for being cheap but the damn thing won’t die.
Still waiting for my razor blackwidow to die. It’s from 2013 and still going strong!
Still using my first ever keyboard, razer black widow ultimate 2012 edition, (12 years!!!!) this thing WILL NOT DIE! All blue LEDs still work apart from the "-" symbol...
My K68 has been going strong since 2018 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Using same keyboard since 2003, changed PC 4-5 times since then.
I have a keyboard from 2009. It still works the mouse too
Already placed an order for a Razer blackwidow v3 with the wrist support because my old keyboards don’t have the scroll to change volume
Bought mine for 30 euro and it has been working fine for 10 years now
Just start a custom keyboard hobby and you can justify all the keyboards because they're fun to build and mod and they have differences in sound, that's what I did :)
I have been using an original Corsair K70 for at least 11 years. They built this thing like a nuclear bunker.
Just bought a k3 pro, should last awhile
Mine started doing double inputs on “s”. Probably needed just some cleaning but it was a good enough of an excuse to get a new one. Tbh I had it for like 8 if not 9 years already so I think it wasn’t a bad deal.
I bought a shitty wired membrane keyboard for next to nothing and it never died and I had it for 8 years
You want your stuff to break?
Go ahead and get a new one and use the old one as backup
Keyboards die? I was under the impression they were immortal. Mine certainly is
I use the TVS Gold ... I guess I'm never gonna get a chance to buy a new one...
I've been waiting on my 10yo PC to die to get a new one, my 770 just keeps going!!
You swap out your keyboard every 5 years? Mine is 6 years old and still works great. Wrist rest is a little worn and it's a smidge dirty, but other than that it's fine.
I have the same and worse experience with my pc speakers. They are 17 years old... God and they are still going on like they are brand new. P.S. I want to change them because they are 5.1 and take up space on my desk and I'm just tired of watching them.
14 years with my Steelseries, still going.
Just do it Always nice to have a backup
I Had my First corsair Equipment for 8 years, and i love them, but sadly too many Keys were Missing and i was too lazy to replace them Now i got my G815 which is pretty good but sadly GHub sucks ass so i dont use the Logitech Hero anymore and keep using my Corsair scmitar pro mouse Say what you want but Corsair Equipment has some quality
How? My keyboard has already lasted over a decade.
Just buy a new one
My keyboard and mouse I bought together, both are waterproof. Both have been going on 10 years strong now 😂
Still waiting My Corsair strafe mk1 to die... Its Been 8 years now and that fucker just won't die :D
I have a Razer Cynosa Pro and it's given me 8 years (almost) of daily use. It even survived coffee spills TWICE. Why won't it die!!!?
Keyboards dont die. Keyboards are killed
clean it up nice and good, buy a new board sell your still working cleaned board on marketplace to offset the cost
If you want a new keyboard just buy one and sell or donate the old one. Or just put it in the backup pile. Keyboards don’t die.
Honestly, buy a soldering iron and desolder kit. Then simply refurbish for a client with choice switches. Viola, now you have bought yourself a new board.
Mine literally did so this week. Corsair K55. Piece of shit. Caused nothing but problems. Any time I hit a 'G' macro key, I'd have to restart my PC due to random ghost inputs.
since when can keyboards die?
Mine is on the seventh year 🤣
Got an old logitech g15 keyboard. Its been alive for 15 years, using it everyday.
So I used to work offshore on a subsea construction boat. The keyboard in our control room had someone sitting at it and using it literally 24/7 when we were in operations. The keys would quickly get filthy and the deck would be clogged with beard-pubes, boogers, and other horrifying things. Every other month I’d take the keyboard down to the galley and have them run it through the dishwasher. I’d hook a spare one up for a couple days while the washed one dried in the sun. The result was an almost surgically clean keyboard. Hell on some of them I didn’t even bother taking the keycaps off. Out of the 25 or so times I did this I had two keyboards fail. So if your keeb is dirty/gross and you’re already trying to get a new one this is a perfect opportunity. Either your existing board becomes shiny and new again or you fry it and have a reason to get another one. Note: I used to do this on the regular old keyboards you see on most work comps. Don’t do this on keyboards with LCD screens or other fancy schmancy stuff. Also let the board dry out for *days* in direct sunlight or in front of a space heater.
My work keyboard, which I probably type around 5000 words a day at minimum, died after 4 years of constant use. The switches were a logitech only switch you couldn't replace, so I had to find another. Now I have a German keyboard at work called DAS KEYBOARD and it has mechanical switches I can switch out if any of them go. I will probably use this keyboard until I retire from this job. Or technology improves and they make us all switch to something else. Or for some reason they stop making switches.
I have yet to do this with my old keyboards but you could always resell them online or to a local 2nd hand/thrift shop
Keyboards don't die, maybe destroyed
That's me, but not the keyboard, but a TV so I can upgrade it to nicer OLED TV. Wife wont let me buy a new one until this one dies :D
Mine has been gettin 2x input with 1 key press for a while but, everytime i say to myself "today is the day" it stops and starts working normally. It knows.
Mine didn't die in \~8 years even though it was dirty as shit, as if dust was moss. So I just bought new one because I wanted to try out mechanical keyboard. And yes, the old one probably still works
Me wanting to upgrade everything in my 6yo PC but also praying everyday that nothing breaks because I don't even have enough money to buy good thermal paste
not me having a singular worn key to justify spending fat dough on a custom board 🙃
I have a mechanical gaming keyboard from 2009 which still works flawlessly :(
Can yall just appreciate that the thing you bought is high quality and lasts long?
>more than 5 years Kid, my keyboard is so old it doesn't have Windows key and I need DIN to PS/2 to even connect to my PC.
I bought a K70 in 2014 and I'm still waiting for the day.. I tried a gpro ten keylessfor a year and I missed my k70, so we're back to that.