——Preface——

Lei Feng.com netizens are full of twists and turns. At the end of the last century, probably in the 1990s, the gradually open media finally brought an unprecedented new trend of thought and vision. Influenced by the IT craze in the United States, the senior citizens themselves were crazy about computers and DIY, but at the same time they found that it was not easy to buy a computer, because in that era, for ordinary working families in China, Computers are extremely expensive goods. For the first time, the senior citizens who were still in middle school felt the taste of "poverty". Before that, they had always felt that they were living a life of "food and clothing". Later, the old guests gradually realized that computers were the first "international commodity" they came into contact with. The prices of China and the United States were basically the same, and the gap in economic levels between countries was vividly reflected here.

Chinese children, who eat, dress, buy books, go to school, and buy Coca Cola from childhood, all enjoy the "Chinese price", so they will not feel poverty and gap. But once they need to buy computers, they find that what Americans need to spend 1000 dollars to buy, we also need to spend 1000 dollars, or even more. In this way, the price paid by Chinese people to buy computers, It is really dozens of times better than the American people of the same class. Because of this, the personal experience of the VIP has made him deeply feel the difficulty of Chinese users buying computers. Because they can't afford computers, the senior citizens use reading instead of actual operation. Various computer magazines, books, newspapers and periodicals are piled up at home, gradually making the senior citizens grow up. After entering the university, senior citizens can publish articles in newspapers and magazines. However, the great difficulty of buying a computer at the beginning was finally solved by this good part-time job.

From college students all the way to today, when the thoughtful articles came out, the old guests were very excited. Although they did not directly help you install the machine, the old guests were happy to see that many of their views were helpful to many friends; Although the contribution fees obtained by the writers are not very rich, the old guests are happy to see that new users can learn from their own suggestions and spend less money in the process of buying computers. On the road of codeword, the old customers have insisted on it for nearly 20 years, and will continue to work hard in the future. What is the most important electronic product for the old customers? There is no doubt that it is the keyboard, and even the mobile phone has to stand aside. The mechanical keyboard has a long history, even longer than the membrane keyboard, but it has only evolved into a high-end flagship product in recent years, with many changes in feel, function, appearance, etc. This time, thanks to Lei Feng.com- Love to play computer games With the trial opportunity provided by Hejian Donkey Company, the old man chose a Jian Donkey 619 to roll the mechanical keyboard, so he had the next story.

——Unpacking——

The keyboard is really important for the old guests who are associated with the keyboard every day. Because of the nature of work, the old guests have used a lot of keyboards. So can this cheap donkey rolling 619 bring a breeze? The old guests themselves are looking forward to it!

The packaging of this keyboard is relatively thick, and it inherits the consistent style of cheap donkey series products. Last year, the veteran tried a cheap donkey 007 deformation mouse, which also has the same cool black appearance. On this box, the logo of "computer trial" is very eye-catching.

Here again, thanks to the "machine trial" platform, so that real fans can have the opportunity to experience the latest electronic products.

Unlike most other mechanical keyboards, the Jian Lv 619 is installed in a box with the back facing up. This should be done to better protect the key side. Of course, the color matching and modeling of this keyboard is also a major feature, and the "reverse loading" scheme can highlight the above elements.

The overall color of the keyboard is black+metallic gray, which is very masculine. It should be appropriate to use "metal man" to describe this keyboard.

The double end gold plated USB connection, the cheap donkey 619, uses the "key wire separation" structure. In the eyes of the old customers, this design is not only for easy removal and portability, but also has a deeper impact. Senior guests will also talk about their ideas in detail in this evaluation.

Look, with the key wire separation structure, the keyboard and cable feel much cleaner. In fact, big timers have always been very concerned about the development of wireless keyboards and wireless mice. Although wireless has been popular for ten years, there has been a clear distance between wireless and wired. Mechanical keyboards and game mice are almost all designed with wired technology, which shows that wireless technology is still lacking in high-end and professional fields. How can we make up for this lesson?

The hot topic of "separation of keys and wires" was first put forward by Jian Lv at the beginning, and I myself thought about it for a long time.

I have been thinking, which devices are separated by the bonding wire? Mobile phones, tablets, laptops... these things have a common feature that they can work normally even without lines. therefore I suddenly became enlightened!

It turns out that key wire separation is not simply a function of plugging. Each of us has ignored the real value and prospect of the bond wire separation!

What is the real goal of bond wire separation? The answer of VIP is to build more dual-mode devices, so as to make more full preparations for the wireless era!

Last month, a big event happened. The iPhone 7 no longer provides the traditional 3.5mm headphone interface. Everyone guessed this correctly. But what earphones should I use next? At the press conference in the early morning of September 8, Apple's answer was the Bluetooth headset AirPods. This new headset inherits the noble characteristics of Apple's products and is also the first time that Apple officially recognizes the quality of wireless headphones. As for the accompanying Lightning interface EarPods and headphone jack adapter, they just skimmed over.

In the past few months, many people have complained about Apple's cancellation of the traditional headphone interface because it affects the compatibility of old devices and increases costs in disguised form. However, since new headphones and adapters have been sent, these problems are basically not a problem. One of the hard injuries of the interface reduction is the function conflict. The problem of listening to music while charging has increased. Last year, the new Macbook only had one USB interface, which also triggered a similar controversy. Rather than explain and maneuver, it is better to make radical changes. This time, Apple's attitude has been clear: look ahead and vigorously promote the popularity of wireless headsets.

It is not Apple's attitude to cancel the 3.5mm headphone interface. In addition to LeEco, which has launched the USB Type-C headphone solution, Intel is also sparing no effort to create a new audio standard. At the IDF conference in August, Intel predicted that the USB Audio Device Class 2.0 audio standard would be launched in the fourth quarter of this year as soon as possible, and made normative requirements for device certification and power management. Earlier, Google had added driver support for USB interface output audio in the system in Android 5.0, so in theory, as long as the hardware is not castrated, all phones above Android 5.0 can support USB interface output digital audio signals.

However, it is difficult to promote the transformation of the audio signal transmission mode just by improving the sound quality. After all, changing the interface is a labor inspiring project. All enterprises in the entire audio industry chain have to make adjustments. Is it really so attractive to change one kind of cable to another? To put it another way, is this a detour before the ultimate goal?

The sound quality of wireless earphones is not as good as that of wired earphones, but the gap between the two is narrowing, and the critical point will be broken one day. In terms of convenience, the benefits of wireless earphones are too many, and the feelings of mobile phone users are not so obvious, because mobile phones are usually inseparable, and PC players are often "soldered" to their seats by wired earphones. Once you think of answering a phone or drinking water, you have to take off the headset first. It is very troublesome. If you forget, bad luck will cause hardware damage. Such a strong sense of bondage has lasted for so long. The only bottleneck is the sound quality. Of course, the endurance problem also exists, but it is not so prominent.

From Bluetooth headsets to 2.4GHz headsets, and even Wi Fi headsets, great progress has been made in recent years. The technology is getting stronger and stronger, but the share has not improved significantly. It is not so much that users' ears are too sensitive, but rather that the concept of wireless headsets has not yet been deeply rooted in people's minds. Objectively speaking, ordinary people are far less sensitive to hearing than to vision. "agaric" is very common. If you don't believe it, you can try several blind tests.

Apple is very concerned about user experience. Since Apple has begun to recommend users to use wireless headsets, it shows that the technology of wireless headsets is mature enough. Lighting earphones, USB earphones, these are transitional products, and they are all wireless in the end. Is the USB audio developed by Intel and LeEco useless? Not necessarily!

The traditional audio interface transmits analog signals, which makes wired earphones and wireless earphones must be "one of two" products, and hinders the power and opportunity for more people to experience wireless earphones. If it is a USB interface, both ends of the cable can be plugged in, and the sound card is integrated in the headset, so that the USB headset has the opportunity to develop into a wired and wireless dual-mode structure. The seemingly wasteful dual-mode structure is actually a shortcut to promote wireless. Take a look at the history of notebook development. Ten years ago, external power supply and wired network were still necessary, but battery technology and wireless network were developed step by step. Today, many notebooks can meet the use needs of the whole workday under completely wireless conditions, and Macbook dares to leave only one interface based on such changes. If the cost of keyboard, mouse and earphone can be properly increased, and dual-mode products can be popularized, the shortage of wireless technology in performance and experience can be better solved.

Therefore, the 3.5mm interface of mobile phones and PCs has been cancelled successively. What I see is not the opportunity of Lighting and USB, but the hope of complete wireless. What I care about is not just the function of separating keys from lines. This is a very limited idea.

In my opinion, the key wire separation is only the first step. In the second step, high-end keyboard and mouse are all dualized. Continue to develop wireless technology, so that the application of wireless technology can be extended to high-end devices such as mechanical keyboards and game mice. Users can choose wired connection and wireless connection under different use conditions, The real purpose of this is to vigorously promote the popularization of wireless technology in high-end keyboard and mouse!

Of course, in addition to the separation of keys and lines, the touch and workmanship of the keyboard itself are also very important links. In this regard, the performance of the cheap donkey 619 can also be regarded as a master of the 200 yuan product.

The hornet shaped flank makes the homogenized Red Sea less violent.

For many years, Jian Lv has been creating peripherals with high cost performance and its own characteristics. According to several evaluations by the big and old customers, she has left a deep impression.

Even the bracket is so exquisite and cute.

The appearance of the key cap is good, the workmanship is standard, and it is stronger than most non original mechanical keyboards.

——Experience——

The old guest can't wait to put the keyboard on the computer table and connect to the PC.

Although Lian Lv 619 also has lights, but the elders think that light is not the top priority of the mechanical keyboard, and the hand feeling is. Therefore, Lian Lv 619 has not made much effort in this regard, giving up the flashy RGB, leaving only the yellow backlight compatible with the appearance color matching, and providing a variety of backlight modes to choose from. In this respect, the old guests feel that as long as they don't dominate, they are truly rational.

After years of unremitting efforts of keyboard manufacturers and tireless efforts of media partners to popularize science, mechanical keyboards have finally ushered in a long lost harvest season in the last two years. Not only have there been an unprecedented variety of brands and models, but also the popularity rate has made a qualitative leap. Many of the players around the VIP decided to start with the mechanical keyboard only last year or this year. In fact, they had waited and waited for a long time before that. However, in the bustling promotional materials of the mechanical keyboard, it seems that many pictures and texts have fallen into a strange circle - RGB color backlight has become the primary highlight of the product. In many cases, it is enough to play with lights for several days.

In the long history of mechanical keyboard development, old customers will not dig deeply here. But in recent years, the main reason why players are willing to pay higher prices for mechanical keyboard must be the unique feel of various color axes. Secondly, at most one key has no conflict. Other reasons are relatively weak. As for backlighting, this is not a new technology, and film keyboards can do the same. It is not a waste to add backlight. Even veteran players who are skilled in blind play will still find backlight useful in dark environments. However, is the rich and complex color changeable backlight a bit overwhelming? RGB， Programmable light source, 16 million colors, and even color replaceable keycaps... Sometimes it's hard to understand whether these keywords are promoting the keyboard or the display? You should know that even 256 color monitors were enough to drive PC players crazy, and the keyboard backlight played so many tricks, was it necessary to pull users' attention from the monitor to the keyboard? What's the point of doing this? The old man was puzzled. In fact, regardless of whether the protagonist is a mechanical keyboard or a traditional membrane keyboard, it will give a feeling of deviation to publicize the color characteristics. Although this time we got a valuable opportunity to evaluate the green axis of the humble donkey 619, the old guests still adhere to their own views. They don't play with lights or follow blindly. The key is still their sense of hand.

To be honest, the fact that "lust" is rampant in the keyboard industry more or less reflects that keyboard manufacturers are more or less not confident in the feel of their own products, or that they are not confident in the ability of users to distinguish. After all, keyboard feel is recognized as a metaphysics. Once it is classified as metaphysics, it is difficult to get a fair judgment. Similar products also include earphones. However, after a large number of blind tests, as long as users have strong demand for typing and games, they must be able to quickly judge the advantages of mechanical keyboards, so the publicity should return to the standard. Of course, the keyboard manufacturers must have their own difficulties. The feel cannot be reflected through the promotional copy, but the beautiful photos are in line with the reading and aesthetic habits of contemporary consumers. First, use color to attract users, and then use the touch to retain users. After careful thinking, this kind of curve thinking is also quite scientific.

As for the most important "feel", the old guests are all typing and writing articles with the cheap donkey 619 these days, and they have no rest on the National Day. This experience article is also completed with this keyboard. The old guests feel that although it is not the most authentic Cherry Green Axis, the feel, sound and comfort of the Kaihua Green Axis can fully meet the basic needs of the coder!

Finally, the old man wants to talk about his views on how to select the right "axis" for the mechanical keyboard.

Today, more and more light users are diverted by mobile phones and tablets. PCs should keep the hearts of players. Their core values are no longer limited to performance, but also include visual effects and operation methods that cannot be realized by mobile devices at this stage. Therefore, on the basis of the continuous popularity of the unique display and SSD, the new form displays and mechanical keyboards have also attracted much attention in the past two years, with a very rapid development momentum. As 2016 is coming to an end, we can see that the market share of mechanical keyboards is still rising steadily, and its pattern is very similar to the scene of SSD replacing mechanical hard disks in a large area. However, it seems that the mechanical keyboard is still missing some winning elements compared with SSD. If you want to enter a broader fast lane, the industrial structure will have to make some adjustments. On second thought, if players pay too much attention to the original shaft, it will do more harm than good to popularize the mechanical keyboard in the long run.

The original shaft, namely Cherry MX mechanical shaft, is now recognized as the most classic mechanical keyboard switch. Cherry MX shaft is the main selling point of high-end products on the market. All players who have some research on mechanical keyboards are familiar with the subtle differences between black axis, red axis, tea axis and green axis, and can easily pass the blind test, which is much easier than distinguishing Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola. Therefore, the feel of the mechanical keyboard is not a metaphysics, and various axes have their own characteristics, which should not be confused. However, it is not too much to say that it is a metaphysics. Why? Because if you ask what kind of axis is suitable for writing and what kind of axis is suitable for playing, the responses given by different players must be varied, and there is no so-called standard answer. From this point of view, it is an indisputable fact that the mechanical keyboard has a better feel than the membrane keyboard, but for most ordinary users, it is unnecessary to carefully study the differences between each axis. Cherry MX axis is good, but on the basis of conforming to the preferences of professional players, it far exceeds the real needs of a large number of ordinary users.

This leads to the second problem: Cherry MX axis is too expensive! Of course, for heavy players, hundreds of thousands of prices are nothing, and people who earn a living by keyboard every day will not feel distressed. But if more users who don't care about keyboard are involved in the mechanical keyboard camp, the high cost of Cherry MX axis cannot be avoided. Keyboard manufacturers are also trapped in a strange circle. If Cherry MX axis is used to ensure excellent overall quality, the price must be high and the number of buyers must be low; If Cherry MX axis is used and the sign of approachability is displayed, people will worry about poor workmanship and many defects, which is generally the case. In this way, Cherry MX axis brings halo, but also inevitably produces the shadow of homogenization. Do keyboard manufacturers have to work silently for upstream enterprises like motherboard manufacturers? Under the shadow of Cherry MX axis, the value of keyboard brand has been seriously diluted, and there is no way to talk about added value, which is obviously not conducive to the healthy development of the industry. There are only two giants left on the motherboard, and both of them do not live well. This is a vivid example.

The third question is also realistic: how to ensure the production capacity? Cherry is only a manufacturer, not a standard provider like ARM, so the total output of Cherry MX axis is subject to the size of Cherry factory. The mechanical keyboard market continues to expand, and the Cherry MX axis is increasingly likely to be in short supply. As an aside, there are many reasons why the sales of Xiaomi 5 mobile phones are not as good as expected, but the limited number of Qualcomm 820s makes Xiaomi 5 face serious production capacity problems. In contrast, Huawei's high-end models all use independent processors, so as long as the demand exists, there is no need to worry about gear break. In the near future, if Cherry MX axis is the primary selling point of mechanical keyboards of all brands, it is inevitable that the production capacity will not be satisfied. To be fair, the research and development difficulty and technical threshold of the shaft body are far inferior to the processor after all.

The phenomenon of the original factory shaft reminds the old customers of the SLC phenomenon in the early development of SSD. Yes, SLC flash memory chips and PCIe interfaces are important indicators of SSD's high speed and longevity, but SSDs do not ultimately defeat mechanical hard disks on these two indicators. Today, TLC is popular, and SATA 3.0 interface is still the mainstream. Appropriate technology improvement and affordable civilian talents are the necessary conditions for the popularization of products. Considering the mechanical keyboard, the current position of Cherry MX axis may be very similar to SLC. It is good, but it deviates from the real needs of ordinary users. The market potential of mechanical keyboard is still great, and the emerging user group that needs to be developed next does not require the improvement of shaft technology, as long as it clearly outperforms the membrane keyboard. Therefore, Kaihua axis, Guantai axis, Omron axis, as well as some mechanical axes independently developed by well-known keyboard manufacturers, are about to bloom.

In a word, Cherry MX axis played an important role in the initial stage of establishing the image of mechanical keyboard, but it can not take on the responsibility of mechanical keyboard to fundamentally subvert the entire industry like SSD. Players rely too much on the original axis, and manufacturers rely too much on the original axis. These are specific phenomena in a specific period. The original shaft is still the guarantee of high quality, but not the synonym of mechanical keyboard. When the original shaft gradually becomes a niche and high price, the era of mechanical keyboard really comes. The real experience of the cheap donkey 619 green axle version proves one thing, Mechanical keyboards don't need to be overly superstitious about Cherry axis. Most users can also choose a satisfactory style among 200 yuan products. In the long run, the development of non original axis is the key step for mechanical keyboards from high-end to popular!