Digital Home Appliances Chapter 32: Keychron 2.0 is the best low-axis axis, keychron K3PRO customized dual-mode mechanical keyboard

Friends who are familiar with mechanical keyboards must be familiar with the keychron brand. Its product style is simple and solid, light and portable, and it is very popular overseas. In China, it cooperates with a certain company. The K-series mechanical keyboard made by a certain company is its home. The sales of OEM products have reached 100,000+ level, which shows their popularity! I bought it on the eve of May 1st in 2023

The best-selling low-axis dual-mode mechanical keyboard-K3PRO, compared with the traditional heavy mechanical keyboard, K3PRO has truly achieved a lightweight design, and at the same time creatively designed the unique feel of the low-axis mechanical keyboard, which is really impressive amazing! Today, I will share with you the starting experience of this net red mechanical keyboard~

First of all, the outer packaging design is simple and elegant, showing a sense of calm business style. In terms of the appearance of the fuselage, the K3PRO does not have a colorful and aggressive color scheme. I personally don’t like this style, but choose a slightly low-key three-color combination of black, gray, and rose red. This is also a classic of its series of products. style.

The weight is only about 530g, and it comes with 1 USB-C charging cable, 1 key puller, 1 shaft puller, 5 replacement keycaps and 1 product manual. The 84-key design with 75% arrangement layout seems a bit compact at first glance, but it is not the case, because the keycaps are made of flat and slightly round chocolate shape, and the contact area with the fingers is relatively large, so it does not feel cramped after actual use.

There are 5 non-slip rubber pads on the edge of the back of the keyboard, and there are 2 two-stage foot supports. This design is more ingenious, and the inclination of the body can be adjusted by 6 or 9 degrees according to needs.

There is a Bluetooth/wired mode switching button in the upper left corner, and a Win/Android, Mac/IOS adaptation switching button. The device can be connected to 3 devices within 10 meters at the same time, and supports switching between tablets, mobile phones, and computers. The default is 6-key no punch, press Fn+N to switch to full-key no punch.

In the middle is the interface for wired mode and charging. The battery capacity is 1550mAh. It takes about 4 hours to fully charge, and the single battery life can reach 33 hours. The battery life is a bit weak, but if there is no input for a long time, the K3PRO will automatically enter the sleep state to save power. In actual use, it is still no problem to meet 5 working days a week.

Using LSA high-level PBT two-color injection molding process, the keycaps feel very delicate. The PBT content exceeds 40%. It is durable, wear-resistant and oil-resistant, dirt-resistant and easy to clean. It can be said that the keycaps cost a lot of money! As the first line of defense for intimate contact with users, the quality of keycaps can be clearly felt by players as soon as they get started. Making keycaps is also an important part of improving user experience!

The one I bought belongs to the Jiadalong 2.0 short-red switch, the keystroke is less than 2mm, and there is almost no sense of paragraph. , suitable for office and games, and you won’t feel tired after coding for a long time.

This shaft supports hot-swapping, and it can be easily taken out with a slight lift of the shaft puller, which is convenient for DIY replacement of personalized shafts. It supports the mainstream three-legged or five-legged short shafts on the market.

Both the keycap and the body of the K3PRO tend to be flat. Compared with the Dareu A81, the K3PRO is relatively thin, and the weight is half the difference. It does not need a hand rest to assist use. Due to the upgraded chip AT solution, the wake-up speed is much more sensitive than the previous generation K3, and there is no delay at all.

K3PRO has two versions of white light and RGB to choose from. The white light version has only 14 lighting effect modes, while the RGB version has 22 kinds! The one I bought is the RGB version. You can use the light button in the upper right corner or the Fn+Q shortcut key to switch the lighting effect mode, Fn+W/Fn+S to increase/decrease the light brightness, Fn+T/Fn+ G to increase/decrease the light effect speed, very cool, and the playability has also been improved.

As a customized keyboard, K3PRO also supports QMK/VIA open source key change custom keyboard, no need to download the installation package, directly modify it online through https://usevia.app website. After connecting to the computer, the keyboard can be automatically recognized, and operations such as custom modification, shortcut creation or macro recording can be performed.

I am a person who pays more attention to details. Maybe it is a character developed by professional habits. After all, bugs in code are often caused by details. In my opinion, K3PRO is a masterpiece of conscience full of details! Humanized detail processing and ergonomic product design give me a hearty pleasure when writing code, and the characters input by fingertips are as light as beating notes! The only thing that makes me unsatisfied is that the battery capacity still has room for improvement. If it can be increased to about 4000mAh, then the battery life will be no problem for a month!