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Review on πŸ”‘ Keychron C1 Hot-swappable Mechanical Keyboard - Gateron Blue Switch, Double-Shot ABS Keycaps, White Backlight, USB Type-C Cable - Tenkeyless 87 Keys - Mac Windows PC Laptop Compatible by Jose Miller

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Meh, could be a lot better

Well it works, Gateron switches and decent keycaps make the price hard to argue. But I don't like it and I regret choosing it, so I'm giving it a 3. Why? It sounds like hitting a cheap thin plastic box because... you are in a cheap thin plastic box. Take it apart and fill it with silicone or some other mod and you can fix it I think (the packaging foam it comes with does very little) but you still have a cheap sound, feel and look like some kind of keyboard. Much worse than other cheap keyboards I've seen. The sound of long stabilized keys /uncomfortable/, especially the space bar. It doesn't have any function keys by default, even when Fn is pressed, and you can't change and save that, at least not on Linux. You need to write a udev rule. FFS, put it in the firmware. And don't put the backlight on the selected key - a waste of time. Fn + something would be nice.

Pros
  • GOLS certified
Cons
  • Sad hardware