Keyboards form a vital part of the experience of a computer. How it reacts to your touch and the feel of typing can affect your overall productivity. However, buying a quality keyboard is more painful than it should be. To make things easier, we checked the markets out to recommend five of the best.

Mechanical Vs. Membrane Most keyboards nowadays use membranes to detect the key you have pressed. If you are using a keyboard that costs less than Rs 1,500 it is most probably a membrane-based device. Membrane keys, as their name suggests, use a thin membrane over the circuit board. Pressing down on a key completes the circuit, and the corresponding letter can appear on the screen. This type of keyboard is usually produced as cost-effectively as possible, so even if the membrane doesn’t get spoilt, the circuit board may fail in regular use. Mechanical keyboards are built to last. They use a mechanical switch under every key, which makes it durable and gives manufacturers a way to create keyboards with a specific feel. For example, my keyboard of choice has Blue Cherry MX keys. These keys are very noisy, have some resistance and I don’t have to press the keys all the way to the bottom for the key to be activated. You can refer to the chart to find what works for you.