Keychron’s new keyboard pairs a low-profile design with premium construction
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6651N)
Keychron's S1 keyboard. | Image: Keychron People like to make fun of the sheer number of keyboards that Keychron releases, and the company is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. It's just put on open sale the first entry in a whole new lineup, the $109 Keychron S1, which combines the low-profile laptop-style form factor of K-series boards like the $84 Keychron K3 with the more premium build quality of a Q-series keyboard like the $170.10 Keychron Q1.
That means the Keychron S1 is more focused on being high-quality than feature-rich. It's not wireless, and it's not hot-swappable as standard, meaning you can't change the switches on its entry-level model without a soldering iron. But what you do get is an aluminum construction, double-shot PBT keycaps, a 1,000Hz...