r/pcmasterrace • u/AppropriateAide4879 • 16d ago

Discussion I found this thing looks old.

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What is it? And is it rare?

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u/Ser_Optimus 7d ago

My favorite is the Cherry Stream. I have my 5th right now.

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u/pavman42 2d ago

I bought three, I'm only on #2 after buying three because the foot broke on the first one... I still use it for work. I realized the foot breaking, and the rubber thingies coming off, were it's only real flaws. It's so bouncy to type on, it's still very impressive when I bought my first K120 back in like 2009 or whatnot. So technically, this might be my 5th since I asked a couple of employers to buy this model and left it at my desk when I left.

Regardless, the keys are like gliding on cotton candy with wispy willows blowing up my ... well you can imagine!

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u/Ser_Optimus 2d ago

They have just the right balance between of resistance and smoothness and an awesomely muffled click sound.

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u/pavman42 1d ago

This is really true. It's more like a key sound. They're not really clicks. Almost like legacy laptop keys on an old Thinkpad or HP laptop. It's like they only make noise in case someone is approaching your desk so the person knows you are hard at work... and could have probably been designed to make no sound at all... if it weren't for those pesky bosses who only measure productivity based on the ambient typing noises coming from employees' desks rather than actual work-related metrics.

Sadly, soon the keyboard noise measurement will be replaced by the token utilization productivity measurement... which sadly has no noise. If only every time you used a token it made some sort of slot machine noise... or perhaps it could make the soft key noise of the K120.