Trash, you are an odd one, you are a self-proclaimed keyboard snob yet you are quite cheap and unwilling to drop cash on some nice mech keyboards. 
I gotta say that I really like my DasKeyboard Pro S with Cherry MX Blue switches. If I keep it for 12 years that is $10 per year, seem expensive? I am ok with that!(so long as I am owning it in the end and not renting or something silly.) Just take care of it and it should be ok.
Anyway, and now you are hopping on the rubber dome membrane-train? For shame trash!
As far as membrane keyboards goes I used to use a Focus Electronics FK-6200. It is a membrane switch w/ tactile module. It felt pretty good as far as domes go and was a fairly long lasting keyboard. It is still good, I just do not use it for fulltime primary desktop use anymore since I got my DasKeyboard with real proper mechanical clicky switches. and an IBM PC/AT keyboard for my 286. Though I think I am going to start using it with my socket 462 system once I get a spot for it sorted out.
My HP DV4's scissorboard is ok for the most part, but I would gladly have a notebook that is 1/2 to 1" thicker if it had proper mechanical keys!
I gotta say that I really like my DasKeyboard Pro S with Cherry MX Blue switches. If I keep it for 12 years that is $10 per year, seem expensive? I am ok with that!(so long as I am owning it in the end and not renting or something silly.) Just take care of it and it should be ok.
Anyway, and now you are hopping on the rubber dome membrane-train? For shame trash!
As far as membrane keyboards goes I used to use a Focus Electronics FK-6200. It is a membrane switch w/ tactile module. It felt pretty good as far as domes go and was a fairly long lasting keyboard. It is still good, I just do not use it for fulltime primary desktop use anymore since I got my DasKeyboard with real proper mechanical clicky switches. and an IBM PC/AT keyboard for my 286. Though I think I am going to start using it with my socket 462 system once I get a spot for it sorted out.
My HP DV4's scissorboard is ok for the most part, but I would gladly have a notebook that is 1/2 to 1" thicker if it had proper mechanical keys!