C2 Pro

The best low cost, high quality silent keyboards are the hot pink version of the Kisnt KN85, the wired-only Keychron C2 Pro with either Silent Banana or Silent Red switches, and the Epomaker TH108 with Sea Salt Silent switches. You can also get a Keychron V keyboard with silent Reds on Amazon. There

Epomaker is banned because they were doing predatory marketing in most of the keyboard subreddits. Lots of shady nonsense from them. That being said, the Galaxy100 is the best aluminum numpad keyboard under $100. You should avoid all keyboard brands you've heard of, especially if they're advertised

For the longest time I have been saying "you can't get a good silent prebuilt without spending a lot of money", well here is one in the rarely available 100% format, with quite nice silent tactile switches, for only $44$65. The switches alone are $27. There's also a silent red option for the linear

At least don't buy the Q or V series, the design seems to have problems that lead to socket failures after a few months and their tech support is notoriously abusive. They have also ghosted people whose keyboard was lost in shipping. I would buy the K or J series if I were to buy Keychron, or get a

One option is to buy a keyboard you like that says “hotswappable switches”. You can buy the switches separately and install them yourself. It’s a lot easier than it sounds. The ‘thocky’ ones I use is the Akko Bittersweet switches, and I installed them on my Keychron C2 Pro. A keyboard that doesn’t r

The keychron C2 Pro is surprisingly good and relatively quiet out of the box. But if you need even quieter switches, you can buy a pack of Keychron silent reds or silent browns for 20-30. Both the keyboard and the switches are on amazon. Prime day is right around the corner.

Most "wireless" mechanical boards are actually multi-mode (dual-mode or tri-mode) so you can just unplug or even remove the battery and go 100% wired with no spicy pillows in your future. Akko has a bunch of 100% boards in a variety of styles. For Akko I would recommend the Lavender Purple or Creamy

Keychron offers the fullsize wired-only c2 pro wirh silent switch options for around $50. That's the lowest cost fullsize I've seen aside from something like the membrane amazon basics keyboard. Mechanical keyboards are only noisy if you are using a noisy switch.

Keychron C2 Pro with Banana or Silent Banana switches is an affordable wired-only fullsize option. It you already have a mechanical keyboard, buy dome Gateron Quinns or Akko Cilantros and swap those in. Those are all tactile options. If you don't like tactile switches, get a heavier linear switch li

Any active PS/2-USB adapter should work the same, but in practice the translation between PS/2 key events (11 bit serial, one key event at a time) and USB HID reports (basically low speed network packets with a summary of the keyboard state in each packet) may not be well handled in particular adapt