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Indeed. My current board uses u4 silent boba switches and it’s as quiet as the pre-2015 MacBook keyboards and more quiet than the post-2015 MacBook keyboards.

There’s also Topre boards like the HHKB which are similar in silence to rubberdomes while offering a much more consistent keyfeel.

Noise in mechanical keyboards is a choice, not an immutable fact.



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