Why is it so hard to find quiet mechanical keyboards?

@Rosemary Brown switches? Or I think you can get little rubber o-rings to help dampen sound.

@jasper We would want something about as quiet as our current keyboard, which is a chiclet keyboard on a laptop. We've heard recordings, and none of them really seem quiet enough except for this one Topre keyboard marketed as "silent"--except that keyboard costs $270.

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