Oh man! It has a REAL keyboard! TAKE MY MONEY!

geerlingguy 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For those who don't read through the specs, it uses Gateron KS-33 low-profile 'blue' switches (though the plastic on the Pi 500+ switches is grey, not blue).

In my testing, the keyboard was between 55-60 dBa from about a foot away. Not quiet, but so much better to type on than the Pi 400/500's chicklet keyboard that came before.

It's a mid-tier mechanical keyboard with low-end desktop performance. So it's not going to move the needle if you're satisfied with an N150 mini PC and a cheap keyboard. But if you were already thinking of buying a Pi, or you like the keyboard-computer aesthetic, this is now the top-end for that (especially considering the 16 GB of RAM).

	▲	TacticalCoder 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
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M95D 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not a real keyboard until it has at least 103 keys.

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Kim_Bruning 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it ... is it worth buying for the keyboard alone?

	▲	boneitis 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If it's just the keyboard appearance itself piquing your interest, you might check out the Keychron K3 (the brand has apparently grown a lot since I was last shopping around for keyboards, so it looks like they have a "K", "K Pro", and "K QMK" as well as several other "[Insert Letter Here]" lines of models now... back then all they had were K keyboards). To clarify, this is to say I'm looking on their website right now and seeing at least five variants of "K3" alone. It's hard to tell when all the promotional photos are showing either a partial shot or an aggressive angle, but it looks so much like my K3 that I actually thought they were going to say they collaborated with Keychron on the design.
	▲	geerlingguy 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Definitely not. Though it would be a decent standalone keyboard if they updated the 'Pi Keyboard' design (one of their oldest products) with this top case, and with a USB 3 hub integrated into it. Price would have to be in the sub-$100 range to be interesting, though.