Problems with mechanical keyboards - unavailable in Europe, extremely expensive in Europe or always some twisted and perverted layout (qwertz, UK or other travesties).
Cherry G80-3000 is one of the cheaper mechanical keyboards. Sure it has cheap plastic terrible case, no special features. The key caps are just key caps. It's not marketed to gamers, but it's a good office keyboard with mechanical switches and it's available with a lot of different layouts.
Exactly. I don't even need a 1980s style mechanical keyboards.
The 1990s style Microsoft and Logitech keyboards and mices were very durable and really good.
But you cannot buy them anymore, the form factor changed as well as the build quality is a lot lower nowadays.
The same happened with notebooks. The IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad were of a really good quality and had the best keyboard. Sadly, one has to use the 2011 model T420/X220 as Lenovo stopped producing them. Lenovo introduced a new chiclet-style keyboard and removed the trackpoint buttons.
Amazon.de has US keyboard layouts (I bought three different products from them with US keyboards) and all the "brick-and-mortar" stores in Sweden which stock mech keyboards have the native nordic layout.
they are very much available in the EU, your point about having the native layouts is true though- but that will be true for all keyboards in all counties- people always stock the native and almost never another countries.
Have you checked prices compared to overseas though. Even if you add VAT they are still more expensive. With the euro crashing it the price disparity is reduced though. But it was annoying 2-3 years ago.
