Dareu's "key" famous work - A98 Gasket three-mode mechanical keyboard

In recent years, key rings can be described as a fight between gods and gods. Except for foreign manufacturers who seem to have no big movements, domestic manufacturers are not only fighting like a raging fire, but also new brands are springing up like mushrooms after rain. What we want to know is Dareu, which has not only rolled up but also rolled out new tricks in recent years. Today we are going to talk about one of their products that can be said to be famous with one "key" - Dareu A98 Gasket structure mechanical keyboard.

Starting from the A87 theme version of Dareu, the packaging of Dareu products began to follow the product design. The overall look and feel will be much more comfortable than the previous black and white outer packaging. You can know what color you are buying by looking at the outer packaging. up.

The accessories of Dareu A98 are quite satisfactory, and there are more practical supplementary keycaps, two-in-one shaft puller and operation instruction card. The supplementary keycaps are the yellow ones on the keyboard, and the factory-made keycaps are pure blue and white, which is also a pretty match.

Dareu A98 is a mechanical keyboard with a gasket structure launched at the end of 21. It has three colors, namely industrial gray, mecha blue and riding the wind and waves. Mecha blue should be the most popular. After all, the subsequent products have continued the appearance and color scheme of mecha blue, so that everyone can assemble a desktop peripheral set of the same style.

The A98 configuration design is relatively popular in recent years, basically retaining the full-size key functions (number keys, function key area), and the size is close to 80% of the size of the configuration mechanical keyboard, which can be said to complement each other in terms of use.

Dareu's customized shaft can be said to be very powerful. From the newly launched V1 version of the sky shaft and Zijin shaft, it has been upgraded to the current V3 version within half a year. The shaft core structure and spring of the V3 version have been improved. It can be said that each generation is stronger than the previous generation. In addition, a candy shaft with soft bullets has been launched.

Dareu’s sky axis only has a pressure of 40gf in terms of hand feel. The stability and life of the upgraded axis core have been improved a lot. The lighter linear axis feels more popular, and the price is cheaper than gold powder. In the linear axis body It is also a good choice.

In 21 years, major domestic manufacturers have already started hot-swapping, and almost all the hot-sold mechanical keyboards this year are mechanical keyboards with shaft seat hot-swapping design. Dareu, from A87 to A100 to A84, to the A98 in hand and many subsequent A-series mechanical keyboards are basically equipped with three-pin and five-pin axle seat hot-swappable as standard.

The hot-swapping of the shaft seat is indeed more convenient for beginners. You don’t need too many tools to experience different shafts, and you don’t need to say that you have to change the keyboard every time you want to try a different shaft. Costly.

The next step is the key gasket structure design. Dareu A98 has a high internal filling density. In addition to the thick silicone sandwich between the PC board and the PCB, in order to better achieve decavity, there is a layer on the base. The thick silicone layer that fits the bottom cover is very suitable for the mechanical keyboard of the gasket structure.

The PC fixed design was relatively rare in the mass-produced gasket structure mechanical keyboards at that time. The positioning plate made of steel plate was changed to soft and tough plastic with certain toughness, and in order to reduce the sinking imbalance of different parts of the keyboard, it was directly filled Inside the keyboard, it achieves soft bounce and stability.

Whether at that time or today, many gasket mechanical keyboards with metal positioning plate structures still use edge sponges to cushion the hollow structure to achieve elastic effects (also because they are too obsessed with this soft elastic, the sinking and elasticity of keys in different areas of the keyboard are quite different. ).

The left side of the three-mode version is the mode switching push button, and the right side is the storage compartment of the receiver.

The quality of Dareu's PBT keycaps is still very good, both in appearance and touch.

I have seen a lot of big guys say that the big key position pulls the hips or something, but it seems that there is not much difference in actual use. Maybe I am not so sensitive to the button feel. The overall feel is still very stable, and the gasket structure is matched with the sky axis V3, and the sound is relatively small.

In terms of lighting, RGB is still applied directly without hesitation, but the keycaps are not transparent, and the lighting effect is not very obvious.

In general, this A98gasket structural mechanical keyboard did cause a lot of echoes in the key ring at that time (both good and bad). But from the perspective of an ordinary user, the structure of a gasket is different from most of the gaskets on the market (more materials are used, and the cavity is really removed), and its performance and configuration are basically full. Many subsequent products will continue to use the A98. Some of the advantages (PC fixed + silica gel layer of the new Yuanqi Fangtang, A87pro upgraded one-piece fence structure silica gel layer).

This A98 gasket structure mechanical keyboard can indeed be said to be Dareu's "key" famous work.