Meletrix Wuque Studio BABA060/Zoom 64 HE keyboard review

This is a tri-mode 60% board with arrow keys, using Hall effect switches. It has south-facing LED key backlighting and was shipped by Meletrix with what they call their metal keycaps. Metal? Well, they are and they aren’t. There is an outer aluminum shell over a plastic core, making them heavier than most plastic caps, but not as heavy as the Awekeys metal caps. The legends are CNC milled into the aluminum layer and filled with paint, which gives quite a nice look. This particular board has a heart motif: white caps for the most part, with red ones forming a heart pattern on the right, and little hearts on the Enter and Escape keys. The case is CNC aluminum with a very nice satin finish. The web configurator is well thought out and intuitive. What’s not to like? Only a couple of things. The switches are linear and too soft for me. The spacebar sometimes gives double spaces. I’m working on fixing that last with actuation settings, but I don’t have it completely dialed in yet. I’m…

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