Keychron's carbon fiber concept is the skinniest keyboard I've ever typed on

1 week ago 10
Keychron low-profile keyboards (Image credit: Future)

Keychron's not really officially at Computex this year, but I did manage to catch up with its CEO, Nick Xu, in a corner of the show and got a sneak peek at some of its upcoming and potentially upcoming keyboard goodies.

The most striking is the carbon fiber concept keeb—I mean, just look at the thing: it's barely there. But, given that it's a carbon fiber shell it still feels pretty darned solid. But yes, it is just a concept piece brought along to show just how low Keychron can go. I'm told there is a chance that we might see it actually become a product sometime next year, however.

What isn't a concept piece, however, is the new Keychron ultra-low profile magnetic keyboard, something they claim is "the world's thinnest optical or magnetic keyboard, you don't even notice it's magnetic."

Though you will if you take a look at the switches, or start to type on it. There's a level of travel on the switches that you just don't get with a scissor switch or membrane keyboard.

Keychron low-profile keyboards
(Image credit: Future)

Though it isn't a concept, the unit I'm holding in my hands is an unnamed prototype, which you can tell because there are a few rough edges that you don't normally see with Keychron's reliably solid boards.

But we should see the some time around the end of the year, and hopefully by then it will actually have a name.

Secretlab Titan Evo gaming chair in Royal colouring, on a white background

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.

Read Entire Article