Keychron K2 Keyboard Review
The mechanical keyboard for your Mac that anyone can afford
Santa Claus brought me a Keychron K2 mechanical keyboard for Christmas and I have to admit, I’ve been pretty excited about trying this out for the last few months. Unfortunately, Mrs. Claus has prevented me from accessing this present early, so now, here I sit on Christmas day, writing up this review.
If you’re of a certain vintage — let’s say you’re over 40 years old, and you’ve always had an interest in computers, then there is a better than average chance that you learned to touch type on a mechanical keyboard.
Mechanic keyboards use and individual mechanism for each key that actuates when you press down on a key to fire off a signal.
The more common, modern keyboards are generally membrane keyboards which use a silicone sheet with small domes representing each key so that when you press down on a key it the stem pressed into the dome creating a contact between the membrane and the conductive trace layer.
For the average person, the difference is less about the technical aspects of how the keyboards work and more about the “feel” to the keyboards when you type on them.
There is a lot of jargon associated with this differing sensation and for the most part, I’m going to…
