I wasn’t impressed with Keychron’s earlier Mac-focused mechanical keyboards, however the firm blew me away once I tried the Q Collection a few years in the past. Since then, it’s been a frequent characteristic in our greatest keyboard roundups.

And right this moment, Woot is promoting most of the preliminary Keychron Q designs — which might retail for over $200 — beginning at simply $69.99.

So, what’s the catch? These are the first-gen Q keyboards, which suggests they lack the Bluetooth and a couple of.4GHz wi-fi connections of the brand new normal Q Max designs. These are actually solely offers when you’re okay with a high-end board that wants a devoted USB connection.

That being stated, these Q boards are a incredible choice when you’ve been seeking to get into high-end, extremely moddable mechanical keyboards. We’re speaking chunky full aluminum our bodies, high-profile keycaps made out of premium PBT plastic, full RGB lighting, programming with QMK or VIA, and a number of layers of inside sound dampening.

And all the Q Collection on sale have my most vital characteristic for any high-end keyboard: hot-swap swap sockets that allow you to experiment with totally different typing types, no soldering crucial.

As of this writing, these Q Collection boards are nonetheless in inventory:

Some Ok Collection keyboards (cheaper with plastic our bodies) are additionally on sale. Not like many gross sales on Woot, this one goes for some time — till October 1 — however among the designs might run out of inventory earlier than then.

Get a Keychron Q Collection keyboard at an enormous low cost