Q2 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard

I have Q6 (wired only) and it is a very sturdy, stiff board with steel plate (replacement pc, fr4, brass and aluminum available). Not sure about the Q Max / Ultra, they have PC plate and more sound insulation layers. They are QMK / VIA (open source firmware). ND104 is better though hardware-wise - it supports all sorts of fun layouts (split shifts, backspace, space, can remove screen / knob for more keys). Native config app is wonky though (I can't upload macros) but VIA app works fine. It is not QMK, has closed firmware. Oh and battery life with the rgb lights off / screen on minimum brightness was 1 week, I'm sure it's a bug. Today I removed the screen since it does not add anything to a keyboard (that took about 30 seconds). I wonder how battery life improves with that. Considering splitting the right shift now.

Keychrons with the Gateron Jupiter Banana are awesome. You can theoretically get the Bananas separately from Gateron, whenever it's on stock.

It's Logitech, so no. Banana is a slightly heavier and smoother tactile switch. For the K4 you need to get the RGB backlight version with the hot-swappable switches. The default is soldered which is practically a war crime.

The Huntsman that he's comparing it with has a bunch of gaming features that the Keychron electromechanical boards do not support, which is why I listed one of the magnetic boards. Also... The Q7 has a very flexi gasket mount and they have a history of working the sockets loose and causing problems after a few months and their support ranges from very poor to abusive. I would not get any Keychron Q or V series keyboards except for the except for the very basic tray mount ones. has

Some of the basic Q boards are tray mount. You might have one of those.

Love my Keychron. I even splurged for the max version at work since I use it hours each day.

There's no best keyboard. It's all preference. Well the answer is to walk into a shop and try them all honestly. I started with a kbt race brown switches, to filco majestouch 2 red switch, swapped the red to durock t1 tactiles, used ducky, ikbc, daskeyboard which were mix of blue and some switches I forgot. Also Anne pro 1 for a bit, and finally recently ended up with a keychron with mmd holy panda tactile switches but then swapped to gateron milky yellow linear switches. I've tried most of the keyboard layouts and switch types. Clicky, tactile, linear. I've never used the numpad ever, I don't use most of the home/pgup/pgdwn keys so 75% was the best for me. I just need the delete key and an F row and arrow keys. Find out what keys you use. Then walk into a shop and try the different sizes, try the switches, get one which have hot swappable switch feature(quite common now). Every keyboard sounds different. Different switches and keycaps will sound different on one keyboard and another. So if you want certain sound characteristics then you need to research on what materials are most often known for said sounds. Then try them out and hope you get the sound you want. It's trial and error. Go out and try as many as possible. There's no easy way if you really care. I personally avoid clicky switches because I don't like having to release the click before pressing the key down again while gaming. If you just want a "gaming" keyboard. Just search for famous brands and throw a dart on a dartboard. Modern mkbs are pretty good in quality these days. Double typing is more of a luck thing imo after trying so many. Durable, most modern mkbs are really durable like from keychron.

Checkout Q /Q HE series from Keychron instead of K series, if you want superior build quality and typing experience. Just skip the mx mechanical if you use it for gaming as it’s pulling rate is way too low for gaming