Keyboard Part 2: In 2022, which keyboards should I buy? (General Collection 1)

Preface

2022 is the year I will go deep into the key ring, and it will also be the year when the mass production of key rings will flourish. Last year, the keyboards that were hailed as "cost-effective" by everyone, with the appearance of Kezhi, Yufu, VGN, and Maicong, etc. this year, have gradually dimmed, and "volume" has gradually become a popular word in this year's key circle.

1. Cherry MX3.0S

At the beginning of the year, Xi'an was still closed. I ordered a cherry MX3.0S with the car, and I could only watch the express delivery go around in the logistics warehouse every day. The car at that time, MX3.0S only cost 249, so I bought this widely despised "cherry" with doubts. Both the tea and red switches were sold out, so I chose the black switches. Knowing that one night half a month later, at 11 o'clock on the night when Xi'an was unsealed, a brother from Jingdong called...

Now that you take out this MX3.0s, everyone will only cast aside it even more. Today, when the gasket and TTC switches "fly into the homes of ordinary people", such a keyboard full of the atmosphere of the previous era is indeed a bit out of place. But at the beginning of getting started, the lack of steel, aluminum shell, and hg shaft still gave me a lot of surprises. Cherry's own hg black is indeed much better than the rgb switch or the retail switch of Cherry, although the spring sound is still deafening and the smoothness is a bit sad.

When I bought it, I said that I would write a review, but the manuscript of more than 2,000 words was still not sent out. As for Cherry, it seems that there is a lot to say, but it seems that there is nothing to say, so I let it go. To this day, this MX2.0s is still on my desktop, and I take it out from time to time, plug it in and tap it.

2. Gaussian HS87T

If Cherry is a fundamentalist classical school, then Gauss was probably a conservative reformist at that time. On the one hand, it abandoned the cherry shaft and used the well-received domestic shaft, which provided hot swap. On the other hand, it was still slower than the market, and kept the ancestral dry battery without adding noise reduction measures. Fortunately, today's Gauss has solved these problems and has gone further.

This HS87T was also a follower at the time, and the price in the early 300s got a good three-mode kit and G yellow Pro, which was quite attractive at the time. It's a pity that I didn't catch up with the good color, and I was robbed of black and white, so I had to choose green, which is difficult to match the keycap. Fortunately, it still looks good.

In today's mass-produced keyboards, if you want to find a dry battery kit, the only ones I can think of are CIY68 and a lot of Goss products. Dry batteries and lithium batteries have their own advantages and disadvantages, but I have to admit that dry batteries still have a lot of advantages and disadvantages. Audience, this is also Gauss's consistent advantage.

In other aspects, HS87T seems to be too mediocre, the workmanship and performance of the kit are not good, and the G yellow Pro is only an entry-level switch. Especially from today's perspective, it is even more cost-effective. Unsurprisingly, with a clearance of 299 shortly afterwards, this keyboard also withdrew from the stage of history.

3. Cherry MX2.0S

For a long time after that, the impression that cherries left on me was very good. "It doesn't seem to be as bad as everyone said?"

With this mentality, I got on the MX2.0S car soon. Different from 3.0S, although this keyboard also has steel-free cherry switches, it does not have an aluminum shell, and the switch body has also been changed from hg switches to RGB switches, but my price has increased by 50.

Cherry gave me more disappointment this time, although the shell is well made, the driver is easy to use, and the RGB effect is also good. However, compared with the hg axis, the smoothness of the RGB axis is indeed somewhat inferior. Without the aluminum shell, it also loses a major bright spot. This is an ordinary and difficult to use keyboard.

4. Box Boy FK680Pro

Different from the above three keyboards, Cube Boy is a relatively new customized shop, and the FK680 series is also their debut. Known for its cost performance, it is a product in line with the current market. Acrylic CNC, extremely soft Gasket, extremely bright RGB, the price in the early 200s, it's that simple.

Judging by mass-produced products, FK680Pro is undoubtedly unqualified. The too soft gas and PC setting add a lot of difficulty to the upper axis. The too simple structure makes the positioning plate not fixed, and the positioning plate may even fall off when the shaft is not on the shaft. Constrained by design and tolerances, minor problems such as abnormal noise and shaft exposure continue to occur.

But it is undeniable that when Gasket took the lead, everyone wanted a cheap toy. FK680Pro not only gave you the softest Gas, but also the brightest RGB. With acrylic CNC, the price/performance ratio is not bad. Therefore, whether it is FK680, or the later 680Pro and 750Pro, it has become a hurricane that stirs up the market.

5. Miwu Art Z870

Miwu Art Z870, from the perspective of market performance, is undoubtedly a failed product. When everyone is looking for cost-effective, when they go to TTC, there is no noise reduction measures, it is not cheap and it uses the G yellow Pro keyboard, which is ignored by everyone. up.

But this may be my favorite keyboard of the year, if nothing else, I think it looks good.

6. Bald welding Wudi 68V2

The bald-headed Welding Emperor 68v2, I got two of them in the early 100s when I cleared the warehouse, and I bought one for less than 60 yuan.

The first time I put on the ash wood V2 that was emerging at that time, I thickened 68 pieces by myself, and welded this 68v2. It comes with sandwich cotton, satellite shaft, and I used Liumao ash wood v2, plus more than 30 yuan. The minimalist white keycaps, this set is less than 150 finished products, and I still use his codewords.

The ash wood v2 that has been thickened, and the v3 that is not familiar with the effect, whether it is sound or smoothness. The satellite shaft that comes with Emperor Wuwu can be called the first echelon after it has been moistened. After the assembly, the sound of the whole keyboard is very solid, the feel is excellent, and the large keys are stable. This is a good keyboard, and I still want to play it to this day. The facts really tell me that the difference between a keyboard of 150 and a keyboard of 400 or 500 is not that big.