[snarfy]

There are a lot of mechanical keyboards out there with a similar heft as the Model M. The trick is the switches. I like the Cherry red switches, which are quiet. Cherry blue switches are clicky like the old model M.

Comparison between the switches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp46JeDDTCw

[qwertyuiop924]

Yeah, as a Model M user, I hate the Red. It has no feedback: worse than a dome keyboard.

[tracker1]

I can see the appeal for gaming, but not so much for typing... imho nothing works as smoothly as a model m as long as you aren't bottoming out, you can actually type pretty lightly, relatively speaking...

[qwertyuiop924]

I don't even see the appeal for gaming: Maybe at insane skill levels, but even on a Model M, the keypress time is a fraction of your response time, maybe ~10ms at worst. Although I haven't counted.