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I also have the Keychron K1 (full size), but an older revision. My priorities were: Mac layout, reliable, relatively quiet, full size, and not obnoxiously ugly.
by eyelidlessness 6y ago
I also have the Keychron K1 (full size), but an older revision. My priorities were: Mac layout, reliable, relatively quiet, full size, and not obnoxiously ugly. The K1 checked all of those boxes (once I confirmed I could turn off the multicolor backlight).
They’ve improved one of my main complaints by making the keys not entirely flat. Which potentially could help mitigate my other major complaint: there isn’t enough space between the columns, I often mistakenly hit insert when I mean to hit backspace, and even more often miss when trying to use the arrow keys.
A minor complaint is, like many keyboards offering both Mac/PC layouts, the number pad is still not quite familiar.
All of that said, it’s probably the best keyboard I’ve owned since I gave up on trying to keep an Apple Extended working. I’ve been through too many Matias keyboards and they’re nice but too unreliable. And I won’t even bother trying to remember the half dozen other brands I’ve tried, they’ve all been disappointing particularly on a Mac.
- exebook 6y agoI have entirely flat one and still occasionally hit wrong keys, ie CAPS when I aim at A, never occurred to me the flatness could be the reason. Though it's not happening as often after almost a year of use.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoOh yeah I trigger caps all the time too! I do think the slightly concave keys help, assuming the meta/modifier keys are flat or convex. It’s one more tactile hint when you overshoot your target key. It also looks like the newer version has increased spacing between keys overall, which probably helps too.