Wednesday, July 29th 2020
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Cougar Intros the Ultra-Slim Vantar AX Gaming Keyboard with Scissor Switches
Cougar today introduced the Vantar AX, a unique gaming keyboard that should please those who also use their PC for extended typing/coding sessions. The keyboard uses scissor-type switches that can be found in premium notebooks. Another selling point is its height of just 15 mm (including keycaps), compared to most keyboards that can be over 35 mm tall. The Vantar AX offers a full 106-keyset with flat, translucent keycaps that have zonal RGB backlighting. The electronics support 19-key rollover and anti-ghosting. It all comes together in a matte-silver, CNC-milled, aluminium unibody resembling MacBooks. The Cougar Vantar AX measures 445 mm x 127 mm x 15 mm (WxDxH), weighing about 626 g. The company didn't reveal pricing.
27 Comments on Cougar Intros the Ultra-Slim Vantar AX Gaming Keyboard with Scissor Switches
And if Cougar now thinks they can out-engineer and succeed where Apple failed is wish them luck. The result however may be less than desirable.
Plus low profile switches (that are mechanical btw) already exist. Logitech has them in their Romer G line (made by Omron Japan).
Sure, they're low-profile but nowhere near as low and short as a scissor-switch macbook keyboard. Which, btw, unreliability and stuck keys aside, I really liked. It just felt great, short travel and defined click, so good. Shame it didn't work out.
Are they good for a gaming keyboard? Maybe not...
If there is a tkl version of this I think I'll bite.
The keychron k1 would be the perfect keyboard for me, they use gateron low profile switches, keycaps are very thin, it's tkl, it's really low profile and costs around 60-70$, but they don't have a spanish keyset option while my other option has spanish keyset but costs almost 4 times more because lolologitech. It sucks.
I like the transparency on the actual caps, but the flat chicklet caps themselves I loath the type feel of myself. As far as being good for gaming probably aren't too bad it's got n-key rollover and the low travel and quick actuation point make for a smooth quick response. Very accurate right down to the ThinkPad mention there old school scissor switch keyboards were much like Cherry's and damn near perfect feeling refer to above photo. If I were to change something about the cap I swap them from concave to convex like quality Sanwa/Seitimsu arcade buttons those concave HAPP aren't in the same tournament league of quality you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who prefers them in usage. Some of the Cherry/Lenovo scissor switch keyboards are chicklet style unfortunately though. In Lenovo's case though they have a kind of inbetween chickelet cap with a rounded edge on one side that seems like it would improve the feel of the design at least, but haven't tried them they might still rather inferior, but at least a tolerable improvement. Razer has a interesting optical scissor switch design, but a gaudy chiclet key cap on them.
My kinda keyboard.
I'm going to be all over this one... if its priced half decent. Holy crap sometimes I wonder why I don't see these things. Insta buy
Apple could not make their improvement to scissor switches work, which they called BUTTERFLY switches.
Apple does not OWN the design of regular scissor witches.
:)
thenextweb.com/plugged/2019/07/07/what-hell-apple-butterfly-keyboard-keys-design/