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Low Profile Keychron Optical Switch Set - 87 Pcs
The Low Profile Keychron Optical switches are engineered to build an ultimate ultra-slim mechanical keyboard with its smooth and tactile typing experience. It's fully compatible with our K3 only.
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Low Profile Keychron Optical Switch Set - 87 Pcs – Keychron Canada
The Low Profile Keychron Optical switches are engineered to build an ultimate ultra-slim mechanical keyboard with its smooth and tactile typing experience. It's fully compatible with our K3 only.
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Optical Switches – Keychron
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Keychron Optical Switch Set
The Keychron Optical switches are engineered to build an ultimate mechanical keyboard with its smooth and tactile typing experience. It's fully compatible with our K8, K6 and K4 K6 wireless keyboard Optical switch version.
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Keychron K5 Ultra-Slim Wireless Mechanical Keyboard (US ANSI Layout) – Keychron Canada
Keychron K5 Wireless mechanical keyboard has included keycaps for both Windows and Mac operating systems. Sorry, It has been discontinued. ... Comes with low profile mechanical switches and hot-swappable optical switches for a superior typing ...
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Keychron K1 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard – Keychron Canada
A bright and bling RGB keyboard with 4 adjustable levels plus more than 18 different color effects. You can alter the color and the brightness correspond to your mood or setting. Please select the matching variant for your product.
The Newsprint
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My First Impressions of the Keychron K3 Keyboard with Orange Optical Switches - The Newsprint
March 25, 2021 - I had tried tactile Brown switches, linear Red switches (though apparently the low-profile Reds are significantly different than full-sized Red switches), and it was time to try something new. So I took a gamble and ordered the 75% Keychron K3, the ...
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Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Mechanical Keyboard (Version 2)
Comes with various RGB backlight settings, you can adjust the keyboard brightness to sync with your mood. Various backlight patterns are also available on the K3 White Backlight version. ... Please select the matching variant for your product. ... SPECIFICATION Number of Keys: 84 keys Layout: ANSI Version: Gateron / Optical / Hot-swappable Switches: Low profile Gateron mechanical / Low profile Keychron Optical Number of Multimedia Keys: 12 Frame Material: ABS+Aluminum frame Keycap Material: ABS Polling Rate (Wired Mode): 1000Hz Polling Rate (Wireless Mode): 90Hz
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Keychron K8 Tenkeyless Wireless Mechanical Keyboard – Keychron Canada
Keychron K8 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard. Tenkeyless Layout. Wireless or Wired. and users can hot swap every switch in seconds with the hot-swappable version. Compatible with Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux. Keychron Optical or Gateron Switches. Connect up to 3 devices. 15+ RGB Backlight
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r/Keychron on Reddit: Gateron mechanical vs Keychron optical?
November 18, 2021 -
I’m thinking of getting the new K5, the only thing is that I don’t know for sure if I should get the mechanical ones or the optical ones. With the optical I like that I could actually swap out the switch type, its my first mechanical keyboard and so I’m scared of choosing the wrong switch type, but I’ve also read that the optical switches give a worse typing experience overal. For the gateron mechanical ones I’m thinking of getting the browns. What are some of your experiences?
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I have a large number of Cherry MX compatible mechanical keyboards (almost all of them hot swappable - as I stopped buying otherwise very early in my mechanical keyboard exploration) and I have MANY MX switch sets which I like to rotate on the various keyboard bases. In short, I'm pretty experienced when it comes to using different types of mechanical switches. For reference, I use them solely for typing - I am a computer professional and spend a lot of time in front of the computer (Kailh box jade, Kailh pro purple, box white, box pink and Gateron Red (most favorite) are my favorites). I wanted to try low profile keyboards and I like keychron keyboards very much - so I bought the K5 with Keychron optical banana switches as that and the mint were the only options available after waiting for a long time with nothing in stock. I was THOROUGHLY disappointed by the Keychron optical banana switches (the keyboard is very good otherwise). The typing experience is terrible. The switches are scratchy and nowhere near as smooth as Gaterons and the early tactile bump makes the switch feel much harder than the 57 mg actuation force that the specification mentions. It was so bad that I had to stop using the keyboard and put it back in its box after only a few (frustrating) minutes. It was a huge waste ordering the Keychron optical switch version of the K5 rather than waiting for the Gateron version to be available as returning the keyboard is not an option. For my preference, there is just no comparison between the Gateron mechanical switches (good) and the Keychron optical switches (really bad) when it comes to typing feel. If you are looking for switches primarily for typing, avoid the Keychron low profile optical switches - they are just terrible in my experience.
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I have used 3 type of switches in K1 and K3 V1, V2 Gateron Brown Keychron Brown Keychron Banana Keychron Brown is similar to regular brown (e.g. Cherry brown), but only has around 50% of the traveling distance. When translates to low profile, it is not as tactile as I like. I heard people say Keychron Brown is being too sensitive. I believe they were referring to the old version of the switch since I don't have that problem at all with the new version. Gateron Brown and Keychron Banana have a nearly identical feel. Their tactile bump is at the very beginning of the keystroke. As a result, it feels way more tactile and heavier despite all of the 3 switches having nearly the same actuation force. I like Keychron Banana/Gateron Brown the best. But since Keychron Banana is not an option for K5 and Gateron brown is not hot-swappable, I would say Keychron Brown is the best choice Mainly because it is hot-swappable. In case you are not happy with the brown, you can always buy a pack of new switches and swap them. Also, in case one of your switches just refuse to work, which happened to me before, you can simply replace the switch instead of buying a new keyboard.
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Amazon.com: Keychron K3 75% Layout 84-Key Ultra-Slim Hot-Swappable Wireless Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard with Low-Profile Keychron Optical Brown Switch/White LED Backlight/USB Wired for Mac Windows-Version 2 : Electronics
Keychron K3 Ultra-Slim 75% Layout RGB Backlit Wireless Bluetooth/Wired USB Mechanical Keyboard, Hot-Swappable Low-Profile Keychron Optical Brown Switch 84-Key Gaming Keyboard for Mac Windows-Version 2
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Keychron K3 – Keychron Canada
Keychron K3 is the world's first hot-swappable low-profile optical wireless mechanical keyboard.
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Low Profile Keychron Optical Switch Set - 87 Pcs – Keychron Australia
The Low Profile Keychron Optical switches are engineered to build an ultimate ultra-slim mechanical keyboard with its smooth and tactile typing experience. It's fully compatible with our K3 only.
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What is Optical Switch and Why Choose It? – Keychron
April 19, 2021 - An optical switch, as long as it’s the same model, can be easily replaced. Mechanical switches on keyboards, if they’re not hot-swappable, need to be soldered in order to replace the switch.
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The Difference Between Optical Switches And Mechanical Switches – Keychron
July 31, 2020 - However, since optical switches are not widely used in mechanical keyboards, there are limited switches to choose from unlike mechanical switches. At Keychron, we have designed and produced our own Keychron optical switches to use on the K8 keyboard.
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Keychron Low-Profile Keychron Optical Red Switch Set - 87 Pcs : Amazon.ca: Electronics
With the MX-styled stem housing and ultra-low latency, the low profile Keychron Optical switches are crafted for typists or gamers who want to type at lightning speed with a lifespan much greater than industry standards.
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r/Keychron on Reddit: Have they discontinued Keychron's optical low profile switches?
November 3, 2024 -
These mint and banana low profile optical switches are the perfect switches. They're almost clicky, early tactile bump, and they sound and feel so good. There are no other switches like them (that I've found). But they never seem to be available in the stores anymore.
Maybe the Gateron ones are as good?
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Gateron low-profile 2.0 bananas are similar to Keychron’s low-profile optical bananas. Close enough, but not quite the same thing. Nuphy Wisteria switches are also similar. I suspect Keychron’s optical switch line is doomed because QMK/VIA doesn’t support them, and keyboards have moved heavily in the direction of QMK. Which I’m grateful for. Customizing key layouts without messing with non-portable software has been very helpful to me. Still, a bit disappointing. I liked the Keychron optical line quite a bit, and agree that the bananas in particular are excellent.
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I have a Keychron K3 that was my daily driver for several years, using Browns. I recently got a Keychain K13 Pro with reds, searching for something slightly different but similar. Got the reds because it was 60% off on a flash sale for some reason, which pays for another set of switches and caps. I know they are different types of switches, but I prefer the K13 by quite a bit. Helps that Nuphy has a bunch of options that swaps in. The Aloe is a near direct swap for their regular profile Mint, if that helps. Wisteria is supposedly a solid Banana replacement, but I'm less sure on that one. Doesn't directly answer the question but I hope it helps.
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Keychron K5 SE Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
AN ULTRA-SLIM FULL SIZE WIRELESS MECHANICAL KEYBOARD · Comes with hot-swappable low profile Gateron mechanical switches and Keychron optical switches for a superior typing experience on the full-sized, minimalistic K5 SE mechanical keyboard.