Keychron Q1 Max Knob with Zeal Clickiez review

For the past several months, I’ve been reviewing Hall effect keyboards exclusively. Now I’m branching out into the world of mechanical boards, which I’ve stayed away from up to now because I find their action unpleasant and, and, for me, contusive to mistakes. In Hall effect boards, I like long actuation distances. In mechanical boards, the actuation distance is set by the switch, and cannot be configured after the fact. However, there are a wide variety of switches available for mechanical boards, and I thought I’d start out with one with high actuation force and a pronounced over-center action: the Zeal Clickiez switch. I’ve been working on building some mechanical boards. More on that in a future post. But for this test, I picked the Keychron Q1 Max Knob, a 75% layout board with a programmable knob which is set up for volume and mute functions by default. The board has south-facing LEDs, an aluminum frame, tri-mode connectivity, and Mac keycaps. Partial keycap replacements made —…