Q1 Pro
A gasket mounted aluminium board with wireless and a Mac layout, no group buy required.
This is the board that made custom keyboards boring, and that is the compliment. Everything the hobby treated as an achievement is now a stock configuration you can order on a Tuesday. It is heavy, it types softly, and the firmware is the real one rather than a vendor app. Budget for keycaps. The stock set is the weakest part and the sockets exist so you can fix exactly that.
Someone who wants one good keyboard for the next decade and has no interest in the hobby around it.
You move between a desk and a sofa. At 1.6 kg this stays where you put it, and a K series board is the better answer.
Seventy five per cent layout in a CNC aluminium case, gasket mounted, hot swappable, and running QMK over Bluetooth. The specification used to mean a nine month wait and a soldering iron.
- Genuinely quiet for an aluminium board, thanks to the gasket mount
- QMK and VIA, so remapping does not depend on a vendor app surviving
- Hot swap sockets mean switches and stabilisers are a fifteen minute job
- Heavy enough that it is not a board you carry
- Stock keycaps are thin ABS and will shine within a year
