Any good alternative suggestions for pre-built ones with wireless function similar to Keychron K2?
If you can accept functionkey-less layout, I'm currently using RK71 (pro for Aluminium base).
It's a fun layout to use and solid board with the alu base.
And yeah, as mentioned in the above post, RK is kind of over-aggressive with their power saving and the keyboard will entering sleep mode (no BL and no key-response) in just minute of idling, with no way to disable it.
This post has been edited by msacras: May 14 2021, 02:20 AM
i too have customized my mkb but not to that extent. at most i just customize my keycaps for better ones like signatureplastics doubleshot group buy, a mooglekit (this is a kit i helped give the initial idea. it's purpose is to have the custom keycaps for the missing ones that have a matching color as another set of keycaps from a donor OLD mkb that did not have keycaps that would fit a modern mkb for some of the keycaps. hence why you needed this kit made as a supplement), and some dye sublimated keycaps (these use dyse that are very impervious to wearing out, and gives a different look compared to doubleshots). i also got some led windowed keycaps, because some of the switches had lighting components so the normal keycap wouldn't be nice for those, hence i needed ones that had windows on them which i had to source from classic donor keyboards.
also it's nice if your mkb supports NKRO, although most people would be ok even if it's just 6KRO. But if you have a NKRO option available, why not.
Then some people have preferences for the led lighting bling, which is fine. But then you usually have to choose between that and doubleshot keycaps. Personally i prefer just quality doubleshot and/or dye sublimated keycaps with good contrast that is durable to usage over long periods of time :}
I've used my mkb for many years already now, and i haven't feel the need to replace any of the switches just yet :} this is also why you get a mkb. Not only is it comfortable to use, but it can last for quite a long time. So the costs justify it in the end. But thats not to say you can't haggle for a good deal. Heck this girl spent RM500 and got a custom mkb, which seems pretty good. although i personally can't live without the numpad. If you do plenty of data entry kind of jobs involving numbers, that numpad is pretty important for speed typing.
one development for the keyboard i'm most interested is the optical light sensors for helping register key actuations. things got even more responsive and accurate with that sort of addition. but that said i don't feel the need to make any new purchase. so hopefully by the time i do need a change, prices will come downÂ
Fuh, the godfather of LYN's mech kb club is here.
And ya, as a fellow mkb oldie, I'm kind of cynical with some developments of mkb industry these few years.
One thing i particularly not fond of is the trend of "they made a gasket mount KB, so we must make one too", it's the new "RGB" of mkb industry.
Another thing I'm particularly shocked after previous hiatus of 4-6 years is now there's almost thousands of switches out there, which is kind of uncalled for (do we really need yet another switch which is POTENTIALLY better than existing one?), but well the more the competition, the better it is.
Lastly, I'm saddened to find that Costar stabilisers (which is much unwelcomed as ever) are pretty much getting extinct in last few years thanks to the blooming growth of mkb industry from China. Last time their OEMs are 50/50 between Costar and Cherry stabs; but nowadays almost all of them shifted towards full Cherry stabs already.
#donerant
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