Super good feel and appearance + strong strength, it is the Z980 of Miwu ART series

The New Year's Eve is just around the corner, how can you reward yourself after a year of hard work if you don't buy something new? For me who sits in front of the computer and type all the year round, it is really a good choice to buy a mechanical keyboard. While I was busy looking for treasures, I received this: the ART series Z980 mechanical keyboard (hereinafter referred to as "Z980") from MIIIW. The product will start a week-long pre-sale on JD.com on 12.21, that is, tomorrow. The initial price of the new product is 419. As for whether this keyboard can be used as a new year's gift, let's take a look!

The Z980 I got is a mechanical keyboard with 98% arrangement design and three-mode connection, with a small number keypad arranged. Although it is a little bit wider than other column types with fewer keys, whoever uses it knows how efficient the numeric keypad is for inputting numbers. Oh, by the way, even though it is 98% configured and has a small numeric keypad, the keyboard is still very compact, and the desk does not occupy a lot of space.

Looking at this keyboard again, the first thing that caught my eye is the high-transparency upper case, which can easily explore the internals without disassembling the machine. As you can see from the purchase page, the Z980 has two colors, [Dawn White] with a green upper case and [Sunset Red] with a red upper case. No matter what kind of color, it is very transparent, and the color saturation is acceptable. If it's held by a hunk, it's still... pretty flamboyant, hahaha...

High transparent shell

The suitcase shell design of the lower shell is also the unique design of the Miwu keyboard, which is used on the Z980 this time.

Suitcase appearance design lower shell

As for mechanical keyboards, keycaps, shafts and the overall structure cannot be avoided.

According to the official statement, the keycap of Z980 is not OEM-specific in terms of height, so the number of people who can get started with it has expanded a lot in theory. The keycap adopts PBT+ sublimation technology, and the intuitive appearance has a slightly frosted texture, showing a creamy texture; the characters are neatly centered and large enough, and functional explanations are printed on some large keys [facing I have something to do when the keyboard is in a daze]. This part gives me a personal feeling that it is quite advanced.

Highly appropriate keycaps

Let’s talk about the shaft and the structure together.

Gasket structure + double-layer sound-absorbing cotton, and the gasket part is also replaced with a silicone pad. The first impression of this configuration is that there should be less cavity sound when typing on the keyboard; in actual use , the experience is indeed the same. The volume of the sound is moderate [Series of Not Being Beaten in the Office], there is no noise and dry cavity sound, it is clean and tidy, and it is a kind of enjoyment for the ears.

The official structural indication

The switch body is equipped with Jiadalong's G yellow Pro moisturizing switch, the trigger pressure is around 50gf, ±15gf, and the key stroke is about 2mm. Although the trigger pressure is not low, but fortunately the key stroke is short, it is also friendly to long-term typing and office work, and will not be very tiring. It is worth mentioning that the high resilience of the keyboard keys is really clear. Every time I press the keycap down, what I feel with my fingertips is that it can't wait to bounce back.

G yellow Pro self-lubricating shaft

The large keys are also adjusted for consistency, so you will not feel the obvious difference between the large and small keys during the tapping process, and it is really integrated.

In summary, I personally comment that the Z980 is excellent in feel, worthy of the official "Nth power of feel", and it is worth a try.

The Z980 supports full-key hot-swapping, and adopts the shaft seat design, which can be regarded as providing some room for "tossing" for customized players.

Shaft seat design, full-key hot-swappable

Other configurations can almost be regarded as the conventional configuration of Miwu keyboard: three-mode connection [2.4G, Bluetooth and wired], and wired/wireless physical switch; key line separation, type-c connection port; compatible with win and mac, And equipped with a mechanical toggle switch. All mechanical switches are concentrated on the right side of the top of the keyboard, and a 2.4G receiver storage slot is arranged at the same time.

Mechanical switches integrated on the top of the keyboard

RGB backlight, and set 18 kinds of backlight effects. The backlight part can be fine-tuned through the driver of the keyboard. For example, you can adjust the hue displayed by each effect and the speed of change according to your preferences. In short, you can be the most colorful in the crowd by yourself! Of course, you don't have to be afraid of power consumption, after all, the keyboard has a built-in 4000mAh high-capacity lithium battery.

Official RGB indication

Overall, I still like the Z980 very much. Not only the three-mode dual-system compatibility, thermal sublimation keycaps, comfortable springback shaft body, excellent gasket structure and other functional structures perform well individually, but also perform well as a whole. The shell, and the carefully designed appearance such as RGB lighting effects should be enough to make Z980 enter the consumer's alternative list, but I don't know if this mechanical keyboard is your dish?