Tune into Alienware’s Twitch channel for news on a new collaboration with Cherry MX
Cherry MX and Alienware tease a collaboration in a video featuring the iconic DeLorean.
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Alienware teased an upcoming collaboration with Cherry MX in a new video. The teaser video features a DeLorean, the iconic car from Back to the Future with gull-wing doors. The video concludes with an icon for “Project X” but doesn’t include any other details.
To find out more about the teased “Project X,” you’ll have to tune intoAlienware’s Twitch channel, which had an announcement between 3-5PM today.
Many of thebest mechanical keyboards for gamingfeature Cherry MX switches. These switches come in several flavors, which require different levels of force to register a keystroke. Our staff reviewer Rich Edmonds summarizes these different types of Cherry MX switches:
We also have a full piece that breaks downwhat mechanical keyboard switches are.
A collaboration between Cherry MX and Alienware makes sense. Cherry MX makes some of thebest keyboardswitches in the industry and Alienware makes some of thebest gaming desktops.
I’m curious to see how the DeLorean branding ties in. The DeLorean is famous for how its doors open upward, which resembles how a keyboard switch moves. The teaser video concludes with the gull-wing doors opening and fading into the Project X logo, which makes me think the way the doors open is related to the collaboration with Cherry MX.
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