VGN 980Pro three-mode hot-swappable customized keyboard experience~

After the patent protection period of the cherry switch has passed, more and more domestic manufacturers are producing customized keyboards on the market, and the prices are getting cheaper and cheaper. The so-called customized keyboard is a DIY keyboard. According to your own preferences, you can customize a unique keyboard. A keyboard consists of a kit (shell + pcb + positioning board + soundproof cotton), shaft body, keycap, and keyboard cable. . The keyboard is divided into single mode, which is connected through the keyboard cable, dual mode adds Bluetooth connection, and three mode adds 2.4g wireless.

VGN 980Pro also caused a lot of heated discussions last year, the 98-key volume king product. When purchasing a keyboard at that time, what I needed was three-mode, gasket structure, hot-swappable, PBT keycaps, good-looking appearance, and a shaft. The gasket structure has a good feel, and the sound-absorbing cotton eliminates most of the cavity sound. The gasket structure is also called the gasket structure. The overall structure is designed without screws, or the screws are only used to fix the upper and lower shells, and the fixing of the positioning plate is completed by the pressure of the upper and lower shells. You can see the overall structure, and there are no screws inside, so it can provide a more consistent feel. The characteristics of the gasket structure are soft, moist, and comfortable to the touch. However, this varies from person to person, depending on the actual use of the individual. .

As the core of a keyboard, it directly determines the feel and sound. The switch body can be divided into linear switches (such as traditional black and red switches) and paragraph switches (green and brown switches). The feel of the linear switch is the kind that goes straight up and down. The feel of the paragraph axis will have a "click" paragraph feel.

The "Kaihua/TTC" hot-swappable shaft seat is adopted, and the full key supports the replacement of the shaft body. It supports 99% of the three-legged and five-legged shafts in the market, and can meet your own preferences for DIY shafts. In terms of switches, VGN 980Pro provides the following switches: Steam Wave Switch Pro, BoX Ice Cream Switch Pro, Polar Fox Switch, and Zhiqiu Switch. I chose the Kaihua Ice Cream Pro shaft body, with a full POM shell. The price of the previous shaft body is three or four yuan. In this way, the value of 100 shaft bodies is already more than 300. The rest of the kit +Keycaps+gifts are blood money. Now because of the inward roll of the VGN98 PRO, the price of 100 shafts is already around 200 yuan.

There is nothing to say about the feel. There is no obvious difference in the feel between the front and rear sections, and the hand feels smooth straight up and down.

The VGN 980Pro uses PBT keycaps, which have the advantage of being very wear-resistant, which greatly prolongs the time when oiling occurs. It solves the shortcomings of ordinary PBT material keycaps that are not delicate enough, and the advantages of ordinary PBT keycaps are high temperature resistance and no oil, but the disadvantages are that it is not easy to shape, the feel is not delicate enough, and the cost is much higher than ABS.

In terms of battery life, it uses an 8000mAh battery, which can be charged once every two weeks, and supports Mac/Windows dual system use. The overall user experience is still very good. If you want to talk about the shortcomings, it is the customer service, and everyone takes care of you.