There is no mechanism rebounding the stabs. The underside of the key caps have posts that drop into them for stability. Flanking the switch casing are two post holes. There’s a u-shaped metal bar, and two plastic pieces under the key cap clip onto it, essentially just like Costar stabs. The LEDs are located in the center of the switch shaft, so they shine directly up through it. However, there is no spring the rebound action comes from the membrane that pushes the switch up from below.
In that regard, it’s not completely dissimilar to a standard mechanical switch. The switch housing has a tiny, springy metal blade when you depress the switch, the nub pushes past the blade, creating the click. The switches are squarish, with flexible wings on two sides and a tiny nub on another. In any case, it seems that Razer’s goal was to give users a taste of clickiness within a non-mechanical keyboard, and it has done so. That could, however, be an illusion created in part by the low-profile key caps. (This may change after more hours of typing.) Razer did not share many specifications, so we don’t know exactly what the key travel is, but it felt a little shallower than the 4mm you get with most mechanical switches. The click, though, feels lighter and somehow less substantial than real Blues or Greens, yet they feel a little sticky. Razer’s goal here was not merely to create a gussied-up membrane keyboard: These actually are switches that you can remove from their sockets, and they have a click, just like Blue switches or Razer’s Green switches (but no tactile bump). (One could argue that Topre and Romer-G switches already serve that very market, but, hey, options.) Blue Switch Lite? To hear Razer tell it, the company developed its Mecha-Membrane keyboard platform-and that’s really what it is, more than a “switch”-to serve consumers who prefer a softer, cushioney feel over what typical mechanical keyboards offer. What is up is that Razer, using its very own factory equipment, developed a not-quite-mechanical but allegedly-just-about-as-good-as-mechanical switch. But if you’re intimately familiar with mechanical switches, you’ll probably frown and furrow your brow and promptly pluck off a key cap to see what’s up. With Razer’s new "Mecha-Membrane" switches, built into the Ornata Chroma keyboard, though, you just might. When I put my fingers on Cooler Master's "memchanical" MasterKeys Lite L, I noted that you would never mistake them for real mechanical switches.
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