You need to define "mechanical" keyboard. All keyboards I've ever used had keys that mechanically moved when pressed by a finger. I have seen (even designed a few) keypads that were capacitive-sense only with no moving parts. I have not seen a full 100+ key keyboard like that though.

So the question remains, mechanical as apposed to what? You should add a sentence or two explaining what you mean. A link to a product or relevant article could then do the rest.

I see someone else added a link, but no explanation in the question. The link goes to a Wikipedia article that makes it clear there is no standard for what "mechanical keyboard" means. You really need to explain what exactly you mean by the term.

matthewsnyder‭ I edited in a link but hesitated to do a larger edit. "Mechanical" keyboard is something of a misnomer (as pointed out in the article I linked) but it's what everyone calls them. Maybe add a couple sentences of explanation here?

I kind of like the question as-is. I kept hearing about "Mechanical Keyboards" from people, and I didn't know what they were talking about, either. I mentally interpreted that as "noisy keyboards" for probably a decade.

Monica Cellio‭ Thank you - feel free to edit more if you like, I'm not opposed to it.

I have nothing against adding links or more information, but this seems akin to pointing out that "plastic is organic too". "Mechanical keyboard" is what everyone calls it. Even Wikipedia, despite the handwringing on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_keyboard, still links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mechanical_keyboards. I don't really know what term is better here.

Not to mention, all the people who actually make, sell and review these keyboards just call them mechanical.