Tuesday, April 21st 2020
Everest Customizable Keyboard Funded by More than 1000 Backers on Kickstarter
Everest is a fully customizable, mechanical gaming keyboard that is a revolution in choice. Despite a challenging time and hardships around the globe, Everest found tremendous success on Kickstarter, being funded by more than 1000 backers, and received high praise in a preview by Youtuber randomfrankp.
"The success Everest had on Kickstarter has been amazing and we appreciate the support from every backer," says Tobias Brinkmann, Founder & CEO of Mountain. "It shows that our user-centric design and mission to bring unique features to consumers resonated well with the market. As soon as the campaign was over, we received countless inquiries asking when Everest would be available for pre-order. The demand didn't show any signs of slowing down, and we look forward to serving all our customers when Everest is available for shipping." Effective immediately, Mountain launches its own brand store on mountain.gg, enabling everyone that missed the Kickstarter campaign to pre-order their Everest keyboard ahead of the launch in August.
The brand store on mountain.gg accepts pre-orders for all Everest keyboard variants and offers additional accessories for keyboard enthusiasts, such as a handmade mountain keycap.
Since funding was secured for Everest, design and production steps are progressing. The product packaging has been finalized and a new firmware update for the media dock enables additional features such as clock, stopwatch and timer. The display dial also features easy access to profile switching, RGB lighting, PC info, and more.
Everest is being released in three versions: Everest Max, Everest Core and Everest Core Barebone, available on mountain.gg.
Everest Max
Everest Max includes the base keyboard, the Media Dock with Display Dial, Numpad with 4 display keys, Palm Rest, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 8 spacers for Everest & add-on feet, a 2m USB Type-C cable and a 15cm USB Type-C to Type-C cable.
Everest Core
Everest Core contains the base keyboard along with a 2m USB Type-C cable, 5 additional Cherry MX switches, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 4 spacers for Everest's feet, and a pack of Mountain logo stickers.
Everest Core Barebone
Everest Core Barebone contains the base keyboard without keycaps and switches along with a 2m USB Type-C cable, 5 additional Cherry MX switches, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 4 spacers for Everest's feet, and a pack of Mountain logo stickers.
Everest Features:
"The success Everest had on Kickstarter has been amazing and we appreciate the support from every backer," says Tobias Brinkmann, Founder & CEO of Mountain. "It shows that our user-centric design and mission to bring unique features to consumers resonated well with the market. As soon as the campaign was over, we received countless inquiries asking when Everest would be available for pre-order. The demand didn't show any signs of slowing down, and we look forward to serving all our customers when Everest is available for shipping." Effective immediately, Mountain launches its own brand store on mountain.gg, enabling everyone that missed the Kickstarter campaign to pre-order their Everest keyboard ahead of the launch in August.
Since funding was secured for Everest, design and production steps are progressing. The product packaging has been finalized and a new firmware update for the media dock enables additional features such as clock, stopwatch and timer. The display dial also features easy access to profile switching, RGB lighting, PC info, and more.
Everest is being released in three versions: Everest Max, Everest Core and Everest Core Barebone, available on mountain.gg.
Everest Max
Everest Max includes the base keyboard, the Media Dock with Display Dial, Numpad with 4 display keys, Palm Rest, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 8 spacers for Everest & add-on feet, a 2m USB Type-C cable and a 15cm USB Type-C to Type-C cable.
Everest Core
Everest Core contains the base keyboard along with a 2m USB Type-C cable, 5 additional Cherry MX switches, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 4 spacers for Everest's feet, and a pack of Mountain logo stickers.
Everest Core Barebone
Everest Core Barebone contains the base keyboard without keycaps and switches along with a 2m USB Type-C cable, 5 additional Cherry MX switches, a Mountain keycap, a combo keycap & switch removal tool, 4 spacers for Everest's feet, and a pack of Mountain logo stickers.
Everest Features:
- Modularity:
o Removable Numpad with integrated display keys (Max version)
o Removable Media Dock with Display Dial (Max version)
o Hot-Swappable Mechanical Switches - Cherry MX Switches
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A hub
- USB Type-C removable Cable
- Magnetic Palm Rest (Max version)
- RGB illumination per key and 360-degree lightbar
- Full USB N-Key Rollover
- Base Camp Software Support
23 Comments on Everest Customizable Keyboard Funded by More than 1000 Backers on Kickstarter
€250 for the full version? Jesus, no thanks.
It's nice and everything, but only a few will be willing to spend this much.
Like if I played a LOT of golf I would invest in good (and probably pricey) golf clubs.
(like 50% more or something - ridiculous)
Why does it matter how that price stacks up the motherboard, its a completely different type of device.
Might as well say its quarter of a RTX2080Ti, which is something you only really use for gaming, so far more limited in use but 4x as expensive.
I say if you are going to actually use it a lot, then its more then fine to invest some money.
I also always say to not jump into the deep right away and first seriously try whatever you want to get into before investing.
So for example you want to get into streaming, first just use what you have or buy one of those generic desktop mics or headsets, a cheap cam if you care about that and just get into it.
Find out you still really enjoy doing it after a month or 2? well then go ahead and get your premium 100 dollar or more camera, a 200 dollar usb audio interface, a 100 - 200 - 300 dollar mic etc, I mean why not if you are going to use it right?
But yeah what I said earlier, a GPU is suddenly ok to spend 300? 400? 700? dollars on? all it does really is play games.
So why is a keyboard, literally a product you use for everything you are going to do with your PC so crazy to be costing 250? why is that so outrages? "cuz its a keyboard" well again, what made us attach certain price tags to certain products and going outside that is just crazy.
My hunt for a proper long-term keyboard that can be fully customized continues, while I make do with a modest HyperX.
How much does the parts that it is made of cost? Why would I pay 3 times the cost?
Does this keyboard do what any other keyboard does, better? How much better? Does it make it worth that much?
In life you make choices every day, by the same token you propose I should buy the priciest types of things that I use every day, disregarding their worth (cost of material and producing it).
So should I pay $1000 for the chair that I sit on every day?
Should I buy $100.000 car to raid to work every day?
And staying with computers - should I buy the most expensive CPU - I am using it every day after all. What about a mouse? a mainboard? cooling kit? NVMe drive (it may start my programs 1.2 seconds faster after all...)?
Granted, this keyboard has a lot of bells and whistles - but will I need to swap switches? USB Type-C Gen1 sounds great but in fact it is only a typical USB 3.0 5Gbit with different cable connector - it does not cost literally anything more above other keyboards with USB 3.0. Now if it was Gen2 (10Gbit) it would be something... better then the rest. Yes there are other parts in the full version but they are targeted for a specific user and while helpful, they do not improve response time or longevity of the product above other keyboards.
Personally, I am yet to find a keyboard better than my G710+.
My own keyboard does everything the G710+ does, comes with full RGB, full n-key rollover (a gimmick for most) and onboard memory so that I can program it once and use it everywhere (i.e. on Linux which doesn't get software support). And I think it's $150 MSRP, I got it for less than $100. And still feels overpriced for what it does.
Edit: I also got headphones and mic passthrough.
I''m trying to come up with premium perks that could justify the obscene price.
Lets price out all the features
Solid double plated keyboard TKL with dedicated multimedia keys - $150
Elgato Stream deck to mimick LED keys - $100
10 Key mechanical keyboard - $50
New switches for... wait can't do that. - New keyboard $150
Also n-key rollover is a GIMMICK? The idea that something is overpriced because there is a cheaper (LESS EFFICIENT OPTION) means its overpriced is so asinine. Buy or buy twice - this is a concept you will understand one you can afford nice things.
As someone who likes to play games and likes the extra space of a TKL form factor as well as codes and NEEDS a 10 key pad this thing solves both issues. The bonus of supporting hotswapping like the massdrop ctrl keyboard would also let me try new switches without a whole new keyboard, something I actually had to go through for mx silvers. The only iffy thing about it is the company doesn't have any other products to gauge build quality on.
And i could say other things to be it's not made to be a "gaming" keyboard.