I bought a MacBook Air for these reasons—great screen quality, SSD, scissor-switch keyboard (instead of the soft-dome approach. It’s not as good as proper mechanical switches, but the response curve is still far better than soft-dome.). Added nebulous benefit: form factor. With these qualities, the baseline 11″ model was actually quite cheap (less than $1000 - the amount of time I’ve spent using it, this cost is approximately 50c an hour, which I would gladly pay over the 25c an hour of a cheaper laptop).
Mechanical keyboards:
Low-cost sampling method: find a friend who has a mechanical keyboard, type out a status update on Facebook or make a Google search.
I bought a MacBook Air for these reasons—great screen quality, SSD, scissor-switch keyboard (instead of the soft-dome approach. It’s not as good as proper mechanical switches, but the response curve is still far better than soft-dome.). Added nebulous benefit: form factor. With these qualities, the baseline 11″ model was actually quite cheap (less than $1000 - the amount of time I’ve spent using it, this cost is approximately 50c an hour, which I would gladly pay over the 25c an hour of a cheaper laptop).
Mechanical keyboards: Low-cost sampling method: find a friend who has a mechanical keyboard, type out a status update on Facebook or make a Google search.