Alienware has revealed the world's first gaming laptop with Cherry MX mechanical keyboards. The company's m15 R4 and m17 R4 laptops will be the first to feature this mechanical keyboard. Alienware says this collaboration with Cherry MX, a German keyboard switch maker, began over three years ago with a shared goal of creating a "binary mechanical switch experience" and shrinking it down into something that works with a laptop's smaller design. Cherry MX's standard mechanical switches were too tall at 18.55 millimeters, as were its low profile switches that come in at 11.9 millimeters, so the company worked with Alienware to design new ultra-low profile switches that are only 3.5 millimeters tall. After over 160 switch prototypes, the two companies landed on its ultra-low profile design that's inspired by the upward-opening gull-wing door of the DeLorean sports car seen in Back to the Future. These new Cherry MX mechanical keyboards can be found in Alienware's m15 R4 and m17 R4 gaming laptops, which offer 10th Generation Intel Core processors and GPUs like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. It will cost $150 extra to add the Cherry MX mechanical keyboard to these laptops.
Alienware said that it has been working with Cherry for over
three years now on creating a “binary mechanical switch experience.” Both
companies experimented with over 160 prototypes, and finally developed a 3.5mm
ultra-low-profile design with stainless steel components. It’s pretty low
compared to the MX original and ML low profile which are 18.5mm and 11.9mm
high, respectively. The design has been inspired by the doors of the DeLorean
sports car. Alienware said the mechanical keyboard can deliver a full 1.8mm of
key travel along with “absolute precision and wobble-free keystrokes.”
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