What kind of keyboard has good cost-performance?

A keyboard that fits your body and can be used for a long time

Keyboards are used every weekday for work, and even for hobbies, they are used for several hours a month.

If it's a keyboard that fits your body and has no typing stress, you can use it for a long time, so even if you buy an expensive keyboard costing tens of thousands of yen, if you calculate it by time unit, the cost per hour would be about a few yen.

Conversely, if you replace your keyboard every year saying "this isn't it, that isn't it," the cost-performance is not good. If you look at it over a span of several years, some people might find that "it ended up being the same as buying a high-end keyboard."

To avoid this, it's important to actually touch the real machine and check whether it suits you or not.

Expensive ≠ Good

So, does that mean expensive keyboards are good? That's not necessarily the case.

Since keyboards are typed with arms, hands, and fingers, the way typing feels varies from person to person depending on finger length, posture, how arm muscles are built, etc.

Even high-end keyboards that are said to be good in user reviews can feel difficult to type for some people due to reasons like "the angle doesn't fit" or "the height doesn't fit," and some people may feel that even thin keyboards costing around a few thousand yen suit them.

Therefore, instead of deciding by price, please actually try touching them and look for a keyboard that fits your body.

Be careful about durability

Since keyboards are machines that strike keys tens of thousands of times, durability is extremely important. No matter how high-end a keyboard is, if it lacks durability, the cost-performance is terrible. Especially with mechanical keyboards that are popular recently, cheap products often have cheap key switches, so be careful.

To check keyboard durability, it's good to thoroughly read user reviews on online shopping sites and research the keyboard's durability in advance.

If user reviews are not reliable, some keyboards have "tested for XXX million keystrokes," so choosing such products is one option.

Also, keyboards from major manufacturers that have been sold continuously for several years without model changes generally have high durability, and even if they break down, they can often be repaired, so they have high cost-performance in terms of long-term use.

Check the connection method too

In the case of wireless keyboards, battery-type wireless keyboards have recently become mainstream, but with battery types, unless the keyboard can use both USB and wireless connections, "when the battery dies, the keyboard dies at the same time."

For products used daily, battery life is several years, so especially for high-end keyboards, "wireless-only with battery type" keyboards are surprisingly problematic.

If you're looking for a keyboard with high cost-performance that can be used for a long time, choose a keyboard that also supports USB connection.