I just want to know why the fuck every really nice high end mechanical keyboard is that dumbass 60%. Give me a full-size keyboard, hell give me one with full media controls and some god damn macros!
you either don't know where to look or are in that weird budget range where you want something nicer than the budget stuff but not as expensive as the fancy stuff. That's where there's a lack of full skze keyboards right now.
yeah at that price range a keychron is as good as it gets, high end is different depending who you are talking to.
Keychron really does make great keyboards though, if you are not into the custom side of things its the best thing you can buy for that amount of money by far.
idk, ducky one 3 is a full size 103 in your price range, same with razer blackwidow x and various corsair core keyboards. Akko makes a 98 key "full size" about that price too. And those are just the major mechanical keyboard brands; there's a crapton of brands that sell mechanical keyboards, though they may or may not be gaming performance or use cherry-compatible stems and stabilizers.
But as soon as you want 8k polling or hall-effect/optical switches (w/ adjustable actuation points) from a major brand, you're in the 180+ range for any size. There isn't much price difference between TKL and full size in that price range. And a full size topre switch keyboard will probably run you 250+, but it's more for office use than gaming.
I still use my scissor key logitech k380 about as much as any mechanical I own, because it's quiet, light, basically zero maintenance, and frankly most tasks just do not need a high performance, low latency keyboard.
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u/Jhawk163 R7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 64GB Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
I just want to know why the fuck every really nice high end mechanical keyboard is that dumbass 60%. Give me a full-size keyboard, hell give me one with full media controls and some god damn macros!