Dareu A87pro - the first gasket structure mechanical keyboard for beginners

Hello everyone, I believe you are no strangers to mechanical keyboards with a gasket structure. From the high threshold of customization before, to the mass production of major domestic manufacturers, the prices of many mass-produced gasket structure keyboards have been lowered. Quite a lot (of course, the price of the aluminum shell is still quite high), today we will take a look at the A87 Pro mechanical keyboard that has been upgraded from the Dareu A87 series to the gasket structure.

There are no surprises in the packaging. Generally, the packaging of the A series will be designed with product color matching, and the overall look and feel is stronger.

In terms of accessories, in addition to the Type-C cable and supplementary keycaps, the most considerate part of the A series is that each keyboard is equipped with a transparent dust cover. These small details are well done.

The color matching of the Dareu A87 pro single-mode is a little different from that of the three-mode, one is white peach pink, and the other is the Muyun gray in the hand. Just looking at the appearance, it is not much different from the previous A87 series mechanical keyboards.

Turn over and look at the bottom to see that it is different from the previous A87 magnetic cover. The A87 pro with a gasket structure needs an upper and lower cover to lock the inner tank, so there are precise buckles between the upper cover and the lower cover to seal the entire keyboard.

The appearance of the Pro version of the A87 is basically the same, and the storage compartment of the single template is directly blocked.

The connection mode switching button of the single template is also correspondingly replaced with a push button with the light always on/breathing/off.

Dareu's regular opaque PBT keycaps, the fine grained and frosted keycaps on the surface are very stable, but the fly in the ointment is that the A series only produced one light-transmitting PBT keycap (the early A87 three-mode white version uses The most popular is the PBT two-color injection-molded light-transmitting keycap), which has not been released in the follow-up. It is a bit wasteful for Dareu to basically use the RGB light configuration.

In recent years, Dareu's mechanical keyboards are basically only equipped with their own custom switches, either sky switches or purple gold switches. The overall quality of the sky axis is good, and many players like it. A87 pro is also equipped with the latest sky axis V3, the wall axis is more stable. As for the large key position, it is replaced with a blue-core sky switch whose pressure in grams is 5gf heavier than the sky switch. The comparison of the pressing feel is quite obvious.

It took half a year from the first generation of Dareu sky axis to the current V3 version. In addition to changing the axis core to a wall structure and the upper cover of the axis body to transparent, the internal spring has also been improved. The light and linear feel of 40gf is also favored by many people.

Since the previous year when the gasket structure was not rolled, major domestic manufacturers have been doing hot-swappable shaft seats, so that now basically the mechanical keyboards that sell well are directly hot-swappable. Of course, this design is very important for Xiaobai It is a good choice.

Dareu’s gasket structure is quite different from many mass-produced mechanical keyboards on the market, that is, Dareu’s internal tanks are all stacked with soft and tough materials, and the internal structure has truly achieved a better de-cavity design. A87 pro adopts PC material positioning plate + silicone layer with increased hardness, and there is a thick silicone bottom pad under the PCB board (the purple silicone pad can be seen through the shaft hole on the PCB), thick internal structure and soft The tough material is surprisingly effective in terms of noise reduction and hand stability. Compared with mechanical keyboards with and without steel structures, the A87 pro gives people a brand new hand experience.

Dareu's daily RGB lights, although the keycaps are opaque, but the domestic lamp factory is well-deserved, and the lighting effect is still good, but it is recommended to use some light-transmitting keycaps.

Among the mass-produced mechanical keyboards, Dareu is the king of the roll kings, and the structure and material selection of the A87 pro have improved, which is great for beginners with an entry-level gasket structure or entry-level customization. good choice.