Why are keyboards and mice all wireless nowadays in stores?

[pcslookout]

That all I find in Best Buy basically.

I wanted to at least try a keyboard or mouse out before buying it

 

[i7Baby]

Most stores carry mainstream keyboards and mice which these days are wireless.

You have to look for gaming keyboards to get wired ones.

eg http://www.newegg.com/Keyboards/SubCategory/ID-63

 

[DigDog]

as a gamer, my suggestion is to get :

1. a really HUGE mousepad, such as this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-077-OP
2. a good gaming mouse, such as a deathadder, G400s or FK1
3. any normal non-gaming dell $5 keyboard.

gaming keyboards simply do not offer as much improvement on your game as the other two components.

also, if you start spending money on mechanical keyboards, you go poor.

 

[vipink]

Best buy keyboard just look around this and find suitable
wired or wireless
http://gomicrocity.com/category/keyboard

 

[BarkingGhostar]

The United States is a buy & return nation. It is your duty to do this with every KBM being offered in retail.

 

[Mushkins]

gaming keyboards simply do not offer as much improvement on your game as the other two components.

Not quite. Your regular old $5 throwaway keyboard has a *MAJOR* disadvantage in gaming: Ghosting. Basically groups of keys are lumped together, and you can only send the signal from so many at a time. It's done as a cost savings thing in the engineering.

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplained.mspx

Mechanicals don't do this because each key is it's own region, and a lot of the higher end "gaming" keyboards break the groups into smaller sets of keys to prevent common overlaps reducing ghosting considerably.

 

[Eelectricity]

Your regular old $5 throwaway keyboard has a *MAJOR* disadvantage in gaming: Ghosting.

That could really ruin the fun. I like controllers just because I am used to them now. The support has gotten a lot better too. But I still use the KB because some games require it.

 

[DigDog]

i have experienced ghosting only on one keyboard out of the many i have had; but yes, it does happen. in my game i couldn't hold W (forward) , shift (sprint), AND THEN n.2 (pistol), and i simply let go of sprint for a few milliseconds.

doesn't happen now that i have a NKRO.

but, aside from ghosting (for example, in quake, ghosting never happens, as there is no sprint key, so it's a maximum of W or S, plus A or D, plus ctrl for crouch, and 1/2/3/4/5/r/e/q/f/x/c for weapons - none of these combinations create ghosting)..

..aside from ghosting, mechanical keyboard don't really give you any advantage. actuation time is almost irrelevant, key feedback might be important for some but i know when i have pressed a key; and PS/2 all send interrupts, so none of that 125hz polling bullcrap.

compare this to having a good mousepad, or a mouse without acceleration / negaccel / snapping /prediction. these are things that you almost exclusively NEED in order to play properly; try playing a shooter without a mousemat ... good luck.

 

[Eelectricity]

The United States is a buy & return nation. It is your duty to do this with every KBM being offered in retail.

And that goes well with all the junk shipped here from china. I bought a kb/mouse combo. The mouse was a 5-button mouse. One of the five buttons was missing. It wasn't like it was installed and then fell off. They never put it on. It was one of the two where the thumb goes. Literally there was a plastic tab from the original mold but no button. (I got the CM devastator after that and it's good)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

also, if you start spending money on mechanical keyboards, you go poor.

Not if you just buy one good one every few years and take care of it.

They're a lot nicer to type on, besides.

It's far cheaper than chasing the FPS dragon.