Build an Awesome PC, 2014 Edition

Keyboard

Computer keyboards (and mice, for that matter) are extremely subjective and very personal devices. It is with this collection of plastic and metal that we users connect with our PCs. A keyboard is the original computer touch interface and, quite frankly, not much has changed with its design since its inception.

Historically descended from the QWERTY typewriter, the original keyboard that shipped with the famed IBM PC from the 1980s was a solid and well-built peripheral. For those old enough to recall using one, the distinctive aspect of the keyboard was its finely tuned click-clack response of pressing the keys. As the PC became more commoditized, the materials used to construct the keyboard became cheaper. Cost often overrode quality ...