On sale! (normally $399) The Mountain Everest Max Modular Hot-swap Keyboard is a full-sized, modular keyboard. It features a hot-swappable PCB with MX Cherry switches, 1000Hz polling rate, detachable numpad that can be attached to either side of the keyboard, USB-C media dock with a digital dial, 4 customisable display keys, adjustable riser feet, magnetic wrist rest, RGB lighting, and can be personalized via the Base Camp software.
If you're willing to spend this much money on a keyboard, you should probably start looking at customs.
if i went down that rabbit hole, i know i'd end up poorer by more than $350 or $400..
Is it a china company? Cannot find any information?!
Most of the keyboard components are made in China anyway. You probably pay the premium for assembling them somewhere else
… but why?
Swappable keypad is nice. Price is WAAAAY off. Needs to be an ergo board at that price.
Ergodox? What's the current best?
I wish i could try an ergodox, dactyl and keyboardio to see what I like best
I'd buy Wooting for this kind of money (well, you'd have money left over) but there's a lot of choice.
I guess this would be a good review on the keyboard itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9_F5Dc0xU
hot-swappable
For all those times you need to swap switches without unplugging the keyboard first.
The detachable number pad is nice provided it doesn't experience connection problems like the Gigabyte Thunder K7 did. The connection looks like it's better.
Knowing nothing about the keyboard it does look much nicer on the sales page than the thumbnail.
Hot-swappable just refers to how keyboard switches can be replaced without soldering. It's a fairly good feature for maintanence and modding purposes, because opening up the keyboard, desoldering the switches from the PCB can go awry.
way out of my budget otherwise i would get it. i'm mostly a tkl person but often would like a numpad for heavy duty number crunching. that display dial though…. O.O
I have this. Figured if I buy a decent TKL and a num pad it would be similar priced. It’s my first proper mechanical keyboard and I like it.
Unfortunately I’m going to have to relube the stabs as there is a few that has a slight rattle and a little mushy on another. There was also a tick in 2 of the switches.
The guys at mountain sent me a full bag of 90 switches and a tub of Krytox 205-0 for free as warranty for the above issues. So you definitely can’t fault the after sale service.
Was going to pull out and lube the switches but now I can lube the spares and replace as I go.
I have also replace the keys with a set of PBT ones as the stock one gets glossy after 1 week of use. PBT ones also sounds a deeper.
That is something, since I assume that Mountain keyboards don't lube the switches (Cherry switches do not come prelubed). I am surprised that a manufacturer would provide services for basically Cherry's fault.
Stabs probably is their problem though. I would assume that you probably can get away with using a brush and dielectric grease without pulling the keyboard apart.
If you just want the option to add and remove the numpad, you can get a separate bluetooth mechanical numpad. Might be a better solution for many people.
Wouldn't pay $100 for this RGB monstrosity