XVX Trooper63 keyboard review

This is a Hall effect, 60% board with one highly unusual feature: both north and south LEDS, independently controlled. Other salient characteristics: Powder-coated CNC aluminum skeletonized frame. Light, but substantial. Despite the material, the coating makes it feel surprisingly like plastic. Wired only. Web and PC configurators. Mac configurator is in beta. My copy came with crappy-looking, cheap-feeling keycaps. Just an opinion, but a strong one. I replaced them with a mixture of conventional and zirconia ceramic keycaps. Key travel well over 3mm. Mac and PC modes. Four extra unlensed LEDs under the spacebar. The LEDs are fairly heavily lensed, which is not my favorite, but works well if you’re into transparent skirts on your keycaps. Cheap, as Hall effect keyboards go. You’ll probably spend more on keycaps for this board than you paid for the board itself. I used the web configurator. I’d give it a C+ or B-. The key lighting screen is fiddley, glitchy, and no fun at all, even if…