Hello. I’m searching for a TKL board with dedicated media keys, volume wheel, and brown switches.
I just can’t do linears. Just don’t feel right.
I’ve browsed around, both on amazon and in microcenter and everything seems to be linear switches nowadays and even when I find one with browns, they rarely have the media keys I need.
I’m also not trying to pay $100+ for a keyboard. Spent way too much money on boards of that price for them to keel over and die as quick as the china fodder on amazon. (For example the K70 mk.2 that I have that refuses to not go bonkers whenever it feels like it.)
Thanks to anyone that can offer some help finding me something.
Yeah, I have the RGB version of the K596 so I’d probably just end up keeping these keycaps. They aren’t bad looking and the RGB settings on this have a neat “skittles” mode.
I was looking into 3d printing my own keycaps, but that looked to be a no-go if I wanted any kind of quality feel to them.
Guess I either have some saving to do or considering if I want to upgrade this thing or not. It’s not a terrible keyboard in the grand scheme, especially since it already has the media keys I want. Would feel like putting a Ferrari motor in a Yugo though.
LOL.
Then might I suggest just putting a Toyota motor in it? There’s “The HobbyTM”, and then there’s just having a decent keyboard you like.
Those lavenders are the closest to Cherry Browns?
They’re a well reviewed budget tactile, and Cherry Browns are sort of the original baseline tactile for the Cherry MX form factor. I mostly put it there to show what’s available without making a redragon board into an absurdity (if possibly a delightful one) that’s mismatching the budget for board and component. Just looking at Force curves, the Akko look to be the tiniest bit lighter than Cherry MX brown. Gateron, TTC, or even Outemu brown should also be fine and in a similar price range. There are other options if you wanted heavier.
Woo, microcenter had cherry mx browns on sale for $15 for 36. Jumped on that and a 65% Red Dragon and I’m all set now. Thanks again for the advice. Really helped me learn a few things.
No worries. Hope it works out for you. The truly expensive gamer boards are rarely any higher quality than a reputable china budget board at half the price. Next thing you know, you’ll be all grown up and getting scammed by shady idiots running group buys for $400 barebones boards and $150 more for keycaps!
Or you could be like me and decide that you know better than IBM, Apple, and every other computer company and design your own layouts, soldering, lasering, and 3D printing everything because it would be “weird” to spend several hundred bucks on a keyboard, but spending dozens of hours over god knows how many evenings with physical tools, AliExpress, CAD, OctoPrint, and half a dozen keyboard websites… THAT’s much more reasonable. 😂