Corsair’s latest keyboard is its first with magnetic Hall effect switches
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DQGP)
The K70 Max is styled much like Corsair's other gaming keyboards. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge I've been testing Corsair's new $229.99 K70 Max mechanical keyboard for the last few days - its first to use magnetic Hall effect sensors to register keypresses, allowing for new features like the ability to customize how far you have to press a key before it registers a keypress. The company is branding the switches as Corsair MGX" to distinguish them from its existing optical mechanical OPX switches and keyboards with standard mechanical Cherry MX switches. Alongside it, the company is also announcing a new headset: the HS80 Max Premium Wireless RGB.
Manufacturers like SteelSeries and Wooting have been making keyboards equipped with Hall effect sensors for a few years now. The basic idea is that each switch has a magnet inside its...