If you are so close to your coworkers that typing on your keyboard will disrupt their phone calls, you're too close.
If you have a real office, anything short of blasting Slayer won't disturb anyone else.
If you have a real office, anything short of blasting Slayer won't disturb anyone else.
With a decent amount of enthusiasm, a Model M can disrupt phonecalls being made in another room entirely.
Best keyboard ever, but I also don't take mine to work any more, out of consideration for my coworkers. Also it's really big and heavy...
Those would be Topre switches. Which makes the keyboard worth more than $200. ;)
They are good switches, and do rely on a spring, but they are quieter. And more expensive.
Seriously though, these keyboards are LOUD. Most of the folks at my office use very loud keyboards, but we don't mind. We all know that we type faster with them, and we all have noise canceling headphones.