Peripheral Sharing Article 148: One more step in evolution——HELLO GANSS HS98T PRO three-mode mechanical keyboard

For the 98 key position, 21 and 22 years are a state where a hundred flowers are in full bloom. Various manufacturers have launched their own various designs for this key position. Of course, HELLO GANSS will not let go of this everyone’s favorite key position arrangement. After the HS 98T launched before, the manufacturer did not give up on subsequent iterative upgrades. This year also launched an upgraded version of HS98T PRO. What upgrades does this version have? Come with me.

The packaging is still the family design style of HELLO GANSS, which has a trendy brand feeling. This style element also marks the style tonality of the entire brand.

In terms of accessories, in addition to the free-to-use box cover, 4 AA batteries, an integrated shaft and key puller, data cables, and usb-a to type-c adapters, etc. And in addition to the common 108 full keyboard keycap supplements, it can be seen that there are a lot of supplementary keycaps this time. In addition to the shift and alt for various other accessories, there are also bonus The multi-color supplementary part of the main keypad, as well as special keycaps such as 7-character carriage return, there is no pressure to use this set of keycaps on other keycaps, but it is a pity that the keyboard does not come with supplementary keycaps for mac.

HS 98T PRO adopts a 98-arrangement key design, but it is different from the conventional 98 key position, and has made some special designs of its own.

The keyboard adopts a narrow frame design style, and the upper right corner is a four-button design when it is 98t. After passing through the volume knob of HS75T, the volume knob was directly added here when it was upgraded to HS98T PRO, but unlike the previous 75 knob, there is no hot-swappable replaceable structure here, but Made it fixed, and added two micro-movement buttons on the right side that can be triggered. At the same time, the buttons at these positions can be customized through the driver, which is very convenient to use.

The direction key part of HS 98T PRO has also been slightly adjusted in layout. The current design adopts a design structure similar to small incisors, and a simple division structure is made in these positions.

The switch position of the keyboard is still placed on the back of the upper right corner. The easy-to-use three-stage switch makes blind operations easy. The three-mode connection of 2.4G, wired, and Bluetooth can also make the keyboard suitable for various usage scenarios.

The back has been upgraded to two battery installation compartments, and supports the installation of 4 AA batteries at the same time, which can make the battery life of the keyboard even better. The height adjustment of the two-stage foot support allows each user to better find a suitable input angle. The design of the 2.4G receiver storage slot also allows the keyboard to be carried out without having no place to place it. this receiver.

The keycap part of the keyboard uses PBT two-color keycaps, but the keycaps feel very special to me this time. Compared with all the matte textured PBT keycaps, the keycaps this time have a very delicate touch. smooth. The color of the newly added Ning Ye Cai is a combination of yellow, blue and red character keycaps. The overall two-color keycap adopts a closed character design, and the overall keycap workmanship is still excellent. Unfortunately, , this time the red color matching characters are slightly dim in contrast, resulting in the characters not being as recognizable as the other two color matchings. I don’t know if this red color matching problem can be optimized in the future.

In terms of keyboard switches, HS98T PRO is equipped with a variety of different switches. In addition to its own Moon Soul Silver Switches and Pinyue Switches, there are also KU equipped with TTC Kuaiyin Gold Powder, Kaihua Ice Cream PRO, Zhixia Switches, and its own prison-defying KU. There are a variety of shafts such as the central shaft and the KU section shaft. There are a variety of choices for the selection of shafts, which is quite good. I bought Kaihua’s Ice Cream PRO version this time. Just like the name, this shaft is a linear shaft, and it is very smooth to use. The trigger pressure is 45gf, and the trigger stroke is 1.7mm. It is still a very good linear shaft in use. shaft.

HS 98T PRO still maintains the hot-swappable design, and at the same time supplements the under-shaft pads that everyone prefers nowadays, the positioning board sound-absorbing sandwich cotton, and the bottom sound-absorbing cotton, which not only makes typing feel good, but also reduces the cavity sound of the keyboard. , to bring a better HIFI audio-visual experience. At the same time, another point of this improvement is the satellite switch. The factory-optimized satellite switch feels very good, and it is amazing to use. The consistency of the large keys of the full keyboard is quite good. It feels smooth, without any fleshy feel, and the use experience is quite good.

The upper right corner or F area of ​​the keyboard can remove the shaft body, and then install the upper cover, and design other arrangements of unique and personalized keys by yourself.

Integrating the tradition of the HS series, in the case of the default dry battery power supply, the keyboard cannot turn on the RGB lighting for battery life considerations, but after flashing the special firmware, you can also use the dry battery mode to play RGB lighting. The brightness and playability of the light are quite good, and it is also very convenient to switch the light through FN+1-7 without driving.

Small size 98 keys, wireless three-mode loading, with a playable multimedia knob, full-key hot-swappable and full-keyboard driver customization, blessings of various sound package accessories, the overall cost performance of HS 98T PRO It is very good. At the same time, the design of dry batteries is also a guarantee of battery life. It is worth a try.