A fantastic introduction to burning money on keyboards
by TomThere isn't a 14 for the rating so i guess 10/10 will have to do. Been using one of these for a grand total of about 6 hours and it's already become my forever keyboard.Materials and build wise thing is an absolute chonker, weighing in at nearly 1.7kg, the reassuring weight and beautifully finished aluminium case feel strong enough to withstand everything from heavy typing and the odd rage slam to occasional use as a hammer. The heavy chassis also means it doesn't wobble or flex when you're on a power typing spree, which is fantastic.Getting all the switches and keycaps installed was a painless (and tool-less) experience easily done on a lunch hour, then it's plug and play from there. The keyboard's immediately picked up "Glorious Core" and you can start customising the lighting and key maps straight away with no fuss. The customisations appear to be stored on the keyboard itself so moving it between machines doesn't mean losing your extensive customisations.It's expensive but as soon as you open the box you can see why, if you're even remotely interested i'd definitely recommend taking the plunge. This thing's endlessly customisable in just about every aspect with it's hot swap switches and support for GMK and even VIA if you want absolute control over it. Serves as a perfect introduction to the enthusiast mechanical keyboard universe. One tiny gotcha for the keycaps - the 3 modifier keys to the right of the space bar are 1u (same size as the alphanum chars) rather than the 1.25u (left alt, win, ctrl) you're probably used to from other keyboards, you might have to improvise and chuck some numpad keys on those while you find some suitable stand-ins. This won't be a problem when the official v2 keycaps are launched/available but at the time of writing they're not out yet so i'm slumming it with some numpad keys from the regular GMMK keycap set to plug the gaps.Pairs wonderfully with Gateron Blues for top clack.