Razer announces new gamer friendly mechanical switch

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Well, actually, Razer just announced a new gaming oriented mechanical keyboard with a new switch: a yellow one.  As with its previous products, it caters to the white hot and still growing PC gamer's market.  Since my focus tends to be on the switch, I will just keep attention there.  It should not be a surprise that this new switch now possess shorten actuation distance, linear force and now silent operating features.  So basically this is like combing various different types of MX linear switches traits into one.

I suspect that we will begin to see a volume decline of the more classical switches such as the MX brown and blue.  These switches will continue to be popular with typists, programmers and other non-gamer's market.  However, MX red and black now are standard with any gaming oriented keyboard.  I think even those two MX switches will eventually be surpassed in shipping volume by the newer short throw types.  Noise consideration is likely to be secondary, but the actuation distance war has begun.  Maybe we will come full cycle and back to the scissor/rubber dome switches because they have very small actuation distance already. Oh wait....  Razer has already announced something like that for the tablet/mobile device market.  I am just waiting for someone to produce a 0.5mm MX version within a year or two.  Let's see if I am right.  :)