[ubojan]

I have Cooler Master Storm Rapid I mechanical backlit keyboard. It's pretty compact as it doesn't have numerical keyboard. It has nice light effects as it pretty configurable. I am not really impressed with this keyboard - I make a lot typing mistakes, it's very sensitive. For comparison, I can type faster and with fewer typing mistakes on Lenovo e325 laptop keyboard. It costs about 100euro in my country.

I don't have experience with other mechanical keyboards, so i would appreciate if someone can compare it to other mechanical keyboards.

[unwind]

Sad to hear you don't like the feel of that one, I've been considering getting one for a while.

Of course, the fact that its on-board ARM processor can be hacked to run Snake on the backlight LEDs has no impact on my choice (see http://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake). It's fun to contemplate the complexity of something as "simple" as a keyboard when things like these become possible.

[danmanstx]

I also have this keyboard. I find it to be really solidly built and the lighting effects are a nice touch, but would agree that it doesn't seem to make my typing any better then using the keyboard on my macbook pro. FWIW, I originally got the keyboard with brown switches but then sent it back for blue switches and that seemed to make a big different in how it felt. What type of switches did you get?

[ninjakeyboard]

It's only better than using your macbook pro if you use emacs so you can mash control with your palm - can't do that on a macbook keyboard.

[danmanstx]

ha, that works pretty well! I currently have cntrl mapped to my caps lock button and mainly use that though.

[ubojan]

Yes, build quality is really good. I've got model SGK-4040-GKCM1 with brown switches.