That's the one with the "brown" tactile switches? I would've recommended something a little more boutique but let us know how you like it!
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Corsair Debuts K65 Plus Wireless Keyboard and M75 Mouse for Mac
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That's the one with the "brown" tactile switches? I would've recommended something a little more boutique but let us know how you like it!
I somehow managed to buy a multi-button, ergonomic mouse that doesn't have the charge port on the bottom many years ago. I must be some kind of magician.
I am generally happy with Logitech stuff and have some customizations in their Logi Options +. It’s not perfect, but what is? 😄
It’s quicker to type them on the number row because you don’t have to lift your hand. Also easier to travel with say from home to office as it isn’t as wide. The 10 key numpad is more for finance excel people.
I'm with you on that. I use my numpad and function roll a lot. Consider 1800 keyboards, which give you between 96%-98% of the keys of a full-size keyboard (while saving a little desk space). The only reason I have a smaller keyboard on hand is for portability... but I'm mostly on a desktop, so it's the larger keyboard that I use most.
Its one of those desk puzzles/paperweights that everybody had on their work desk in the 2000s
Ahh! I ordered these adorable Peanuts keycaps with snoopy and the gang on them, and was looking for a new keyboard to put them on, and was then somehow reminded these exist.
I can't believe they were sold out practically everywhere already. Luckily for me, one of the Apple stores nearby still had one left in stock.
When I got the box out of the bag I was surprised to see regular packaging tape holding the box closed. Hmm that's odd? Corsair usually uses rounded seals. I apprehensively opened the box to find that everything looked fine, but there was an anker usb adapter haphazardly tossed in there.
So I panicked and looked online to discover I bought the last one. I thought I picked up a used one! Then I saw a review where they had that same stupid anker adapter and found out Apple or Corsair must've tossed those in the box after the fact.
Grr. They should've added a sticker or something to give me a heads up lol.
The keyboard is BEAUTIFUL. The switches are fantastic, the keycaps are nice, and I just love the translucent blue chassis - the ENTIRE CHASSIS is translucent blue. Even the buttons and switches on the back are translucent blue. It's gorgeous. I can't overstate that.
It's hefty, too.
So this picture won't win an award, but here it is with my keycaps:
I'm guessing the keycaps are not at all something a hardcore Mac Aesthetic person would dare grace their keyboard with, but I just liked them lol.
I think I'll probably put the ice blue keycaps from the corsair on my dygma raise.
Edit: I suppose I forgot to add some other thoughts. The key sound is a lot more thunky than the key sound on my metal keyboards (no surprise).
The price is whatever. Apple's still selling what they have left at $180 still. Somehow? The regular version of these with a black case and grey keycaps is on sale at amazon for $119. While amazon doesn't say "hot swappable switches" on that $119 model, it does have them.
That's a few bucks more than a Keychron V1 Max, which is probably on par with this (but favored more in the mechanical keyboard community). I haven't used one, but they don't make those in translucent blue, so I don't care.
I'm going to guess the corsair keycaps are just like the ones that came with my other corsair keyboards. They never do the stems right. Eventually they loosen up and start falling off too easily. But I didn't buy this for the OEM keycaps anyway, and I think some translucent or pudding keycaps would work better with the translucent keyboard theme anyway.
Still, I can't believe they sold out of the glacier blue ones that quickly and don't appear to be making them anymore. That's disappointing!
I can't believe they were sold out practically everywhere already. Luckily for me, one of the Apple stores nearby still had one left in stock.
When I got the box out of the bag I was surprised to see regular packaging tape holding the box closed. Hmm that's odd? Corsair usually uses rounded seals. I apprehensively opened the box to find that everything looked fine, but there was an anker usb adapter haphazardly tossed in there.
So I panicked and looked online to discover I bought the last one. I thought I picked up a used one! Then I saw a review where they had that same stupid anker adapter and found out Apple or Corsair must've tossed those in the box after the fact.
Grr. They should've added a sticker or something to give me a heads up lol.
The keyboard is BEAUTIFUL. The switches are fantastic, the keycaps are nice, and I just love the translucent blue chassis - the ENTIRE CHASSIS is translucent blue. Even the buttons and switches on the back are translucent blue. It's gorgeous. I can't overstate that.
It's hefty, too.
So this picture won't win an award, but here it is with my keycaps:
I'm guessing the keycaps are not at all something a hardcore Mac Aesthetic person would dare grace their keyboard with, but I just liked them lol.
I think I'll probably put the ice blue keycaps from the corsair on my dygma raise.
Edit: I suppose I forgot to add some other thoughts. The key sound is a lot more thunky than the key sound on my metal keyboards (no surprise).
The price is whatever. Apple's still selling what they have left at $180 still. Somehow? The regular version of these with a black case and grey keycaps is on sale at amazon for $119. While amazon doesn't say "hot swappable switches" on that $119 model, it does have them.
That's a few bucks more than a Keychron V1 Max, which is probably on par with this (but favored more in the mechanical keyboard community). I haven't used one, but they don't make those in translucent blue, so I don't care.
I'm going to guess the corsair keycaps are just like the ones that came with my other corsair keyboards. They never do the stems right. Eventually they loosen up and start falling off too easily. But I didn't buy this for the OEM keycaps anyway, and I think some translucent or pudding keycaps would work better with the translucent keyboard theme anyway.
Still, I can't believe they sold out of the glacier blue ones that quickly and don't appear to be making them anymore. That's disappointing!
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How's the reliability of the Tactile Pro switches? The ALPS style switches might be my favorite switches of all time, but admittedly it's for nostalgic reasons as much as performance ones. I have a Matias Ergo Pro with the quiet switches. I love that keyboard, but the switches are so glitchy and need to be reset all the time. I've found that MX Halo Clear switches are pretty close to the ALPS switch feel so that's one of my main switches today.
Did you have to buy a keyboard to get that too or did they sell just the caps? Where'd you find this? (Note to self: just enjoy the pretty pictures. You don't need more stuff.)
Hey! I have a Dygma Raise too! Love that keyboard. I use mine with makeshift tenting supports. I wasn't going to spend $100 to buy the actual tent stands so I bought an inexpensive foam wedge that's used to angle full sized keyboards that lack kickstands.
I cut it in half to make my own tenting kit. The best part is that it's universal. I can use it to tent any split keyboard.
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I bought the keycaps (and the wrist rest and deskmat which I admired but put back in the box for the moment) from thekapco.com ... and they do have a few other neat peanuts themed sets. They sell their own keyboard but I figured I could do better for the money lol.
Nice trick on using foam wedges like that! Currently I'm using my raise on my windows machine and it's ALL KINDS of glitchy. I have to unplug and plug back in the neuron like 3-4 times a day because when it goes to sleep and I wake it, sometimes it'll spam whatever key I hit... or it'll just randomly freeze while I'm typing.
It only seems to be a windows problem though. Might be the USB hub I have them on. When I am using my work mac on that setup I see no issues. Funny that.
~ A month follow up. I love the extra real estate I now have on my desk! Never realized how much space the 10 key took up. I love the noise and feel. It's what I've been looking for for a while now. I don't yet have the muscle memory I need to have to be as efficient as I was on the full-sized keyboard, but it's been getting better. Overall I'm happy with my purchase and plan on making this my go to keyboard for years to come.
I also love the nostalgia of the ALPS, and never had issues with them. I'll keep the MX's in mind in case I ever want to try something different on one of my other keyboards. I believe you have to do some soldering to replace them on the Logi. While I can do the work, I don't want to do the work. 😉
Clears FTW! I have 3 mechanical keyboards, but I love my Durgod K320 with MX Clears the best.
Oh whoops! I meant to say that I really like Halo Trues... but my mistype is probably more accurate as Clears have less bottom out resistance. Have you tried both the Clears and the Trues? I only know the Trues, but I hear they're very similar and both have the very prominent and early tactile bump (which is what makes them ALPS-like to me).
I bought a bunch of Halo Trues intending to make some Holy Pandas, but I discovered that I really liked the switch as it was.
Oh! Didn't know that. Nice to have options... some of those look perfect for an Ergodox I'd like to tent.