Gaming manufacturers also play cross-border Thor ZERO three-mode mechanical keyboard

Raytheon is also a gaming notebook manufacturer that everyone is more familiar with, and it has actually crossed over into a mechanical keyboard. It is said that the current mechanical keyboard is seriously rolled up, which can also be seen-three-mode connection, full-key hot-swappable, RGB back , PBT keycaps, and independent scroll wheels, these elements that are only available in keyboards with a price of 1000 yuan, are the same in this keyboard with a launch price of 399.

one appearance

3C products

Two accessories in the box

The main body of the keyboard, a fairly thick dust cover, a keyboard manual, a 2.4G wireless receiver inserted above the keyboard, a key puller, and a not-so-delicate C-port data cable, mainly reflected in There are some bulges on the surface, which should be the reason for the production of molds, and have no effect on signal transmission.

Three keyboard analysis

The keyboard adopts the traditional sky and earth cover structure design. The aluminum positioning board and the PCB circuit board are fixed on the bottom of the keyboard through screw posts. Compared with the current popular gasket structure on the market, the biggest advantage is that it is stronger and more stable. The sacrifice is the sound and tactile perception. When the upper cover is removed, you can see a whole piece of aluminum positioning plate, and the bottom case is locked by screws.

In terms of color matching, the bottom shell is black, and the upper cover is retro white. The color is not obtrusive, but I personally prefer pure white, but the color matching varies from person to person, and you can just like it. The keyboard adopts a 98-key layout design

The Type-C port is located on the upper left of the keyboard, and its right side is the storage slot for the wireless switch and the 2.4G receiver. This design is quite convenient. Compared with other manufacturers who design it at the bottom, the advantage is that you don’t need to lift the keyboard. It is very convenient to switch the three-mode connection. The 2.4G storage slot is magnetically absorbed, so you don’t have to worry about it being lost when you lift the keyboard sideways.

The foot support of the keyboard is a typical two-stage design, the damping feeling is not bad, and the anti-slip effect on the desktop is not bad.

The nameplate and scroll wheel in the upper right corner of the keyboard, the nameplate is a metal carving process, engraved with the word ZERO echoes the theme of the keyboard, in fact, this nameplate will be better absorbed by magnetic attraction, because the four screws fix it, when we touch it, On the contrary, the protrusion of the screw is stronger than that of the nameplate, which is a bit overwhelming.

By sliding the scroll wheel, you can control the light brightness and volume, and the stand-alone scroll wheel can turn on/off the backlight and turn on/mute the volume. You can switch between volume and light control by pressing and holding for 5 seconds. This design can be said to be the most critical part of this keyboard. Yes, after all, other friends do not have this design, which is the main reason why I bought this keyboard.

In terms of the shaft body, I chose the linear shaft wind shaft, the color is purple-gray, and the color is not bad. Shaft pom material, upper cover PC, lower shell nylon, standard mechanical shaft material combination. According to the official data, the trigger pressure: 45±5gf, the bottoming pressure: 53gf, the total stroke: 4.0±0.3mm, and the service life reaches more than 70 million times.

The large keys of the keyboard feel surprisingly good. It can be seen that the satellite shaft has been moistened when it leaves the factory. In the domestic competitive environment, excellent large keys can attract more users, but the fly in the ointment is that the left satellite axis of the space has a little space key travel, it would be better if this can be debugged and resolved.

There is also a 3.5mm thick sound-absorbing pad between the PCB and the metal positioning plate, which is used to reduce resonance, and the interior is filled to reduce the cavity. Here you can see that the keyboard has no bottom cotton, so there will be a slight cavity sound. The 3000mAh lithium battery with decent battery capacity is installed in the middle of the bottom case.

Disassemble the shaft body, we can see all the components of the shaft, the 17mm long double-segment spring provides reliable rebound, and we can see that the shaft center is slightly lubricated by the factory dry film, in addition to the guide rail, the spring There is no sign of lubrication. The shaft body is relatively smooth when pressed, and the rustling sound is very small. The precision of the new mold should be considered good, and it can reach a level above the passing level.

But what makes me very strange is that the height of the axis cross column is much higher than the dust-proof wall next to it. This is the first time I have seen this design. I guess its main function should be to prevent the keycap from being stuck. , but this design is actually not very useful. The current sublimation keycaps basically take this into account, and it is rare for the keycap to be stuck by the shaft cover.

In terms of keycaps, the overall layout is black, white and orange. The keycaps are made of PBT material and dye-sublimation process. There is no phenomenon of missing or crooked printing, which is not bad. The shortcut keys for switching in wireless mode are also printed on the number keys 1, 2, 3, and 4, which are done very carefully. The letter area and number area above the characters are quite beautiful, but the characters in the function area are a bit long and short, and the consistency of the arrangement is not high enough.

Because the keycaps are opaque, the overall brightness of the RGB lights is very weak, which should be considered lower than the average level of mass-produced keyboards on the market. Under normal indoor lighting, it can be said that the lights are basically invisible. This is for those who like to play with lights. It's not worth it for users.

But after removing the keycap, you can see that the brightness of the light is still normal

The lighting effect setting is also at a fairly satisfactory level, with everything you need, and the keyboard driver also provides the functions of changing keys, changing lighting effects and macro editing.

There are also two L-shaped right-angle light strips hidden at the bottom of the keyboard, where you can see the RGB lights reflected on the desktop.

Four. Summary

Generally speaking, this is a very cost-effective keyboard. It has a three-mode mechanical keyboard with silicone sandwich cotton, a scroll wheel shortcut module, a 2.4G receiver storage compartment, sublimation PBT keycaps and a relatively good independent axis body. It is its bonus item. Although there are some minor problems, it is a cross-border brand after all, and its sincerity is already full. Combined with a reasonable price, it is still worth recommending.