Keychron V1 75% Wired Mechanical Keyboard, QMK/VIA Programmable, Hot-swappable K Pro Brown Switches, Compatible with Mac Windows Linux - Carbon Black

This is the best keyboard I've had to date, and I like the tacticile feedback and mechanical feel of this one. The lighting effects are cool to look at, though I don't notice it much when really typing. I will say that if you are a super heavy typer (like me), get some more durable keys that won't wear down quite as fast. The spacebar will start to get smooth for example, and you can get some higher quality keys which are incredibly easy to pop on and off. I do write a lot more than most people, so I'm hard on keys. Most of the people reading this won't need new keys, but a select few of you might know what I mean. Just get the more durable, thicker keys, and you're off and running. Great keyboard, and worth it. I did this one for my Mac, by the way, and it works great.

I'm learning touch typing at old age. I was looking for good keyboard with longer key travel, but did not expect this level of quality. Everything is pretty much perfect. Beautiful to look at, good key action (brown switch) with some light tactile feel, nice sound of the keys (creamy = muffled, deeper). The keys have no wobble, while shape of the key makes easier to detect the edge (to avoid other keys). Upper rows are sloped up and bottom has feet at the end. Keyboard is quite heavy and very stable. I appreciate ability to switch between Mac and Windows and extra key tops for it. USB-C cable is of high quality. It comes with tools to pull the key tops or keys. Even the box it came in is nice (I'm going to save it). In spite of my poor typing skills I've worked with many computer keyboards (starting with IBM), but this keyboard is the finest by far. Highly recommended.

I test-drove 10 keyboards to use at home with a Mac setup, plugged into an external monitor. Ultimately, Keychron was the best for me overall. I landed on this V1 for home and the V5 (same exact layout, but with added number pad) for the office. CRITERIA: One of the most important things to me was that the arrow keys had space around them, because I use the all the time, by feel. Many keyboards have these shoved within all the other keys, and no difference. I originally thought I wanted a 75% keyboard, which had the most options for offset arrow keys. I also wanted a delete key in the upper right, because I use that all the time. Again, without looking. WHY THIS ONE: This layout was the best of all worlds for me. It has offset arrow-keys (just enough to separate.) It has my enter and delete keys on the outer edges. It has a knob (a like to have, not MUST to have. Of all the keyboard brands I'd tried, Keychron was consistently high quality, without any bugs or issues. In my search, I'd also tried many different switches. I found BROWN were perfect for me. I wanted some tactile feel, but without extra "thock" or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I thought I might like blues, but found them to be too clicky -- meaning there was an extra, fake click, that felt like clipping a playing card in your bike spokes to sound like a motorcycle. Brown feels right. Feels old school. Feels solid and is not too noisy. I thought I might like the Keychron K8 or K8 Pro. I didn't like the bezel around these. It created an extra lip that my fingers had to go up and over. I like how the V-series has no bezel. They're very comfortable. As mentioned, I also ended up buying a V5 for work. Keychron also won-out because they have Mac keys. Lastly - I was originally hung up on wireless, but here's the thing. I work a hybrid situation. 2 days at home, 3 in the office. I never trust that my keyboard is fully charged, so I leave it plugged in all the time any way. Plus, even if I went wireless, I didn't want it failing in the middle of work, and having to dig out a cable, and find an empty USB slot. I found it easier to just admit to myself, I need wired, and will have to deal with that cable on my desk at all times.

I used the apple magic keyboard for the past 2 years. I decided to get a mechanical keyboard and tried a couple keyboards from different brands with mac layout. Ultimately, I settled with this keychron keyboard. It feels and sounds great. I got the brown switches and the keys are easy to press and have a good tactile feedback. My fingers also really enjoy the shape of the keycaps and the separated arrow keys. I type faster and more accurate on this keyboard than the apple magic keyboard that I used for 2 years. It really looks and feels like a professional keyboard for serious work. I'm a software engineer and I've found it pleasant to code in this keyboard. When I'm the heat of coding, this keyboard keeps up with me. Highly recommended.

Update to below: After following some suggestions online, I was able to make the spacebar sound considerably better and I think I will hold on to this keyboard even though I'm still a bit on the fence. (I stuffed the spacebar with some foam and sticky tack.) The overall feel is fantastic and the sound of the other keys is great, but the issues below are still a bit disappointing. If you do order this keyboard, I highly recommend trying out some others alongside it just to see which ones feels and sounds best to you. I wanted very badly to like this keyboard. I'm, even typing up my review on it right now just to give it one last chance to impress me. But sadly, I think how the space bar sounds is going to be the deal-breaker. For some reason, the space bar is considerably louder/"sharper" sounding than all the other keys. So every time I finish a word, it is loudly punctuated by the space bar. While I appreciate the space bar's enthusiasm in announcing to all present that I've finished typing a word, this is not something I want or need. I've seen some people saying elsewhere online that this is normal or that you need to fill the space bar with foam or something, but the other keyboard I've been trying out does not suffer from this issue, with the space bar sounding more or less like all the other keys. I don't think the new keyboard I was prepared to spend $100 on should need a piece of foam, but maybe some people regard this as a feature rather than a bug. I've now switched over to the other keyboard I recently ordered and I'm back to having a normal sound when I use the space bar. I was also surprised by and did not like was the fact that the characters on the stock key caps are not translucent to the RGB lighting underneath. Now, I'm not someone who usually wants the letters on my keyboard going crazy with a bunch of colors, but having characters illuminated for when I need visibility is a major selling point for me. Without character translucence the RGB actually makes everything harder to see. And I'm saying this as a touch typist who only occasionally looks at the actual keys. Now for the positive. The keyboard seems very solidly built and I absolutely love the feeling of the keys and the key presses. Even the shape of the keys is great and I love how my fingers feel on them. The sound of the keys other than the space bar is also top notch. The volume/mute knob is another nice touch that feels very solid/well made and gives the keyboard a little old-fashioned analog flair. I also like the coloring of the keyboard keys, since it provides some visual cues without being completely over the top; though honestly this isn't a huge plus for me. If it weren't for the issues listed above, I would definitely keep and use this keyboard whenever I didn't need a number pad. But as it stands, it's sadly going to go back to Amazon.

If you're looking for a quality prefab, this is the ticket. Switches feel great. I got brown switches and love them. The software to customize is ezpz but you do need browser access, but probably not a concern for 99% of consumers.

Keychron is a brand that I usually recommend it to friends when deciding for a mechanical keyboard that just has everything out of the box. My old keyboard broke and decided to buy one for my daily setup. I code and game a lot in a daily basis and it has been working out great for me. The quality of the keyboard is seamless to any other brands I have used. It is ahead of the game by a long shot which is why the price might be a little bit more expensive than other keyboards around Amazon, but it is a great investment especially if you make great use of your desktop for long hours.

I really like this keyboard. The build quality is outstanding and typing on this keyboard (brown version) feels great. I love the knob and programming the keyboard using the VIA web app is really simple. My only suggestion to make this keyboard just a little bit better would be to add a fourth key on the far right side of the keyboard for the End key. It would be great to have them ordered as Home, PgUp, PgDn, End. I find myself hitting Home all the time wanting to go to the end of a line. I have mapped Fn+Home as the End key but it would be great to have that physical End key out of the box.

Excellent.

Typing on this is good. Only downside is that it is a plastic enclosure.

I like the stock switch brown version,

Works very well. Smooth to type

Elegí este kit para iniciarme en este mundo de los teclados custom. Honestamente, tenía expectativas más bajas, creo que la relación calidad-precio del producto es maravillosa. No puedo esperar a que llegue todo lo demás que pedí para empezar a "meterle mano". Muy satisfecho con la compra, lo recomiendo ampliamente.