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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Jones Phung on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:00:15

Title: What is the famous and suitable keyboard for beginer?
Post by: Jones Phung on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:00:15

i need some name (brand) of mech keyboard that suitable for newbie :)) give me name i will research

Title: Re: What is the famous and suitable keyboard for beginer?
Post by: MIGHTY CHICKEN on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:06:59

Kbdfans makes some good products, ikki was pretty good, novelkeys too
Although various GBs and more non-traditional boards might be better like those from keyhive, keeb io, other small ergo board sites
GBs wise, LCK75 recently(or may be still) running and was an amazing budget board

Title: Re: What is the famous and suitable keyboard for beginer?
Post by: Leslieann on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:12:33

Pretty much anything at mechanicalkeyboards.com is a great place to start, pretty much everything there is going to be good.
The other good starting point is Glorious, the GMMK keyboard is a step up and allows you to venture into various boutique switches and modding, but it does require a bit more work.

Being that you're in Vietnam though, your best bet may be to look at those and see what you can get direct out of China at a discount. There is also a few pretty good generic/white label  Chinese brands you can get for cheap but those are on a case by case basis. Stating what layout and price you;re after will help others point out the good ones.

Last, again, being where you are, you have faster access to Aliexpress/China, check out KBDfans, Krepublic and YMDK for higher end stuff. Some are on aliexpress, others have dedicated stores. These are going to be much more high end, and while good, I'd recommend you figure out what you actually want before you dive in with a full aluminum high end custom as this hobby can be a money pit of endless options to try.

Title: Re: What is the famous and suitable keyboard for beginer?
Post by: MIGHTY CHICKEN on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:16:28

Agree with leslieann here, completely forgot to consider location.

There are soooo many great budget boards on sites like taobao and aliexpress that are not yet fully discovered by the western market.

https://discord.gg/mechkeys

Mechkeys discord is a sorta good place to interact with members of the community and it has a pretty good taobao channel that can assist with finding stuff from the chinese market

Title: Re: What is the famous and suitable keyboard for beginer?
Post by: Jones Phung on Wed, 26 May 2021, 22:19:33

thank you for your recommend guys. i will take a deep look into the name, and what i want to use :))