V6 QMK Custom Mechanical Keyboard

There are plenty of great keyboards from Keychron that aren't $200+, like the V6, K6, and K5 Max (which uses low profile switches). There are also low profile keyboards from Lofree and NuPhy that are under $100 if you're okay with non-full size keyboards. Though the NuPhy Node 100 is around $110 and comes in a full size and compact 100% layout depending on if you go with full height vs low profile switches. For mice, it's really hard to beat something like the ATK VXE Dragonfly R1 S. Performance and quality on par with high end $150+ mice from Razer and Logitech... for $20. There are also options from Mchose in the $35\~$65 range in several different shapes that are of similar high quality. Razer still wins on latency, but we're talking less than 2ms for Razer vs less than 3ms for ATK and Mchose mice. Even professionals aren't going to notice a 1ms difference.

not keychron for sure. i owned 2 $200 keyboards and both suffer from a warped pcb due to faulty design. and they never did a recall so if you buy this model (Q6/V6) you may still end up getting the faulty one

https://www.techpowerup.com/339280/keychron-explains-recent-q-max-and-v-max-issues-apparent-manufacturing-defects-caused-loose-switches?amp https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/s/Nm2sREJkkP https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/s/VVNnGbmOg8 there's definitely more on the subreddit. it was a faulty design leading to pcb warping in the middle of the board. keys in the middle will not work. the official "fix" was to literally palm your keyboard and "push" it back, risking breaking the pcb entirely, instead of a recall.

keychron v6/q6 or monsgeek m5 and put cherry mx speed/silver switches in not a ton of fullsized boards in general getting a hotswap board and putting in your preferred switches will get you where you want to go

keychron iso v6/q6 and get silent tactile switches to swap in. silent pre-builts are few and far between https://wiki.keyboard.gay/SWITCHES.html#switches-the-switch-meta you can turn off rgb not a ton of iso/fullsized/silent boards in general

keychron q6/v6 and get a separate wrist rest they have options with tactile switches. if there isnt a variant of it in stock you can grab whatever is instock and put in tactile switches in it

Not a ton of fullsize boards Keychron v6/q6  Sound is pretty subjective and a ton of factors (a YouTube video is not a accurate representation of what it sounds irl in your environment) It does not need any software to be downloaded. 

https://www.keychron.com/pages/where-to-buy Keychron  v6/q6 and if the blue switch version is oos. You can add clicky switches to the board as its hot swap  It's like Lego to add/change switches  Not a ton of fullsize boards and ton a with clicky switches 

Keyboard: Keychron V6 - Open source with QMK/VIA support for configuration (web based or download an app) Mouse - Old Cougar Minos Gaming mouse

I just switched from razer to keychron for a few reasons that cascaded out after my blackwidow v3 died over night. For starters, it's incredibly frustrating that the contact support option on their website opens a chat window that's just a bot filling out a warranty request form that I could have filled out faster on my own. After that it took 2 days to get an email response to the form and from the questions asked by the actual support rep, they didn't read the ticket at all making the whole exercise a grand waste of my time when I'm already frustrated with an unusable PC because their hardware just up and quit. After a few days of chasing emails with the rep, it finally came out that I was two months past the 2 year warranty window so they are not offering a replacement product but also that they no longer provide repair services for PC peripherals. There's no reason that it should have taken 4 days for a service rep in another hemisphere to tell me I was outside of warranty when the date of purchase and proof of receipt were the second and third questions asked by the chatbot less than a minute after starting the chat. I bought a Keychron V6 on sale from Amazon for $70 with a set of switches to try a setup with a heavier throw and a louder click, which I'm actually really enjoying, for another $30. With tax it was about $115 all told, a firm $15 under the MSRP for a baseline blackwidow v4 pre tax. Their RGB control, driver updates, and button programming is all handled through a webpage app rather than another proprietary bloat ware app that slows my computer and harvests my data for resale and it works on mac and linux for whichever route I choose to go when windows 10 ends support in October. tl;dr Razer has shitty customer service, requires a bloatware app, and is more expensive when compared to an entry level offering from a mid market brand like Keychron which also offers hot swap customization and user serviceability and repair It's not for everyone, but for me it's the far better option on every front