I want to buy a new mech board but not looking to drop a lot of money on it. What’s the best pre-built budget mech keyboard you’ve ever tried? ~$100 or less.
I want to buy a new mech board but not looking to drop a lot of money on it. What’s the best pre-built budget mech keyboard you’ve ever tried? ~$100 or less.
Can’t go wrong with Keychron: https://www.keychron.com/collections/normal-profile-keyboards
But it does depend on what you’re after
I love Keychron. I have a K2. Was thinking about a C1 Pro Custom. Only $80.
So many options from them, really. You could also look at epomaker, and even Drop has a few options, but you’ll get most bang from Keychron
The first board that made me fall into this rabbit hole was a K2, it’s a great budget board! My friend has a C2 and is quite happy with it.
Can’t really go wrong with that, if you like it, go for it!
@2tone
@jcrabapple
This is a personal choice. I’ve had Keychron and theyr’e very good entry level … but I DESPISE the fact that they have Bluetooth only. The fact that you have to press a key to wake the keeb up and then wait 2-3 seconds for Bluetooth to pair before you start typing bothers me to no end.
I ended up selling mine to buy a RoyalKludge one which is an amazon clone … it’s pretty much the same thing but it has a 2.5GHZ dongle that doesn’t have that same delay.
It also has RGB LEDs programmable software, hot swappable switches and it costs under a hundo …
Been using it for 2 years now, very happy with it.
I really think those Amazon brands would see noticeable sales improvement if they paid a native English speaker $10 to come up with a better name than “Royal Kludge”.
What are you talking about? All of my keychron boards have a hard wired connection and Bluetooth
I’m not worried about that because I hard wire my keyboards anyway.
Hmm I don’t think you’re using the right Keychron boards. Mine has USB.
My Keychron has a dongle, although it was one of their more costly models.