#prebuilt keeb

[leondanteart]

My new keeb from Drop x LOTR collab!

It's beautiful however I have some complaints despite being a keeb noob.

One: It's not hotswap. Which I was excited to get one that's already soldered. However, the metal plate and pcb have no foam in between them. Creating an atrocious metallic ping when you press some of the keys. I don't solder so I can't fix it unfortunately.

Two: I was switching the shift keycap out and one of the stabilizers broke off with the keycap💀 I would fix it but I would have to desolder it to get to the stabs.

My only complaints are around the fact that its soldered and I can't desolder it to fix the problems. (˘_˘٥) Also I think it's expensive for its price, when comparing it to my Yunzii x Coolkiller keyboard (which was cheaper by like 10$ lol).

What I do like about it; It's beautiful, the keycaps feel great, the green case is very nice! This is my first keyboard with tactile switches, and I like the sound. I have to play music or wear headphones when typing on this keyboard to drown out the pinging, though. As a fan I think it looks great, kinda wish I had just bought the keycaps and built a keyboard instead.

I did get to do my first mod, and it was the tempest mod!

[detnuah]

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[carharttlesbian]

I'm thinking about getting my first custom keeb kit over the summer, but I'm kind of stuck deciding between a TKL and an Arisu layout. I still like my full-sized clicky monstrosity, but if I'm going to spend $300+, I want to get something I can tolerate having on my desk.

So my advice here would be that your first arisu should be budget, like the orange boy ergo (i am admittedly a little biased) *or* something that could definitely be resold in case you are unable to adjust to the layout. It was hard for me to swallow paying a lot of money for a nice arisu without knowing if i would like the layout, so the OBE was a good compromise - but you have to know how to solder to build that board.

by contrast i think a tkl is always a good choice, and there are a handful of nice tkls that are in stock right now - the keychron q3 comes to mind as something that is pretty easily modded and comes in both barebones and prebuilt varieties, plus a rotary encoder if you like that.

i would also say that a 75% like the keychron q1 is a decent option. more compact than a tkl by a few inches, and only losing a few keys.. maybe something to look at?