Raijintek Intros MGA-68 All-Aluminium Magnetic-Switch Keyboard

[btarunr]

Raijintek introduced the MGA-68 line of 65% wired mechanical keyboards. It features a 65% layout (69 keys), and uses magnetic key switches sourced from Hejin, with switch characteristics resembling MX Yellow, and a claimed endurance of 50 million keystrokes. These are capped by PBT+SUB keycaps. The keys are illuminated by an addressable-RGB LED setup. The star attraction with these keyboards is their CNC milled all-aluminium bodies, with some diamond cut edges. The keyboard comes in two color variants, black and silver. These are purely wired keyboards, with their USB interface providing a polling rate of 8000 Hz. The keyboard has a type-C receptacle, and a 2 m USB-C to USB-C cable, with a type-C to type-A adapter included. It measures 313 mm x 104 mm. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[EatingDirt]

Weird layout, but could have at least one benefit. The enter key is Strange and could potentially cause issues while chatting. Would take a lot of getting used to, along with the tilde key in a totally different place where part of the enter key normally is. The move of the \| key to shorten the left shift could be a decent one for gaming as it gives another key to rebind to.

8000hz polling rate is silly, but CS & Valorant players may rejoice, I suppose.

I personally don't like the no-spacer between the enter key area and the additional home/page keys on the right side of the keyboard. Lots of potential for mistyping and being annoyed by hitting those keys.

Based on the other keyboards on the market(keychron/lemokey HE, Wooting HE, etc.) my guess on price is $150-220.

 

[ErikG]

 

[euricog]

Weird layout, but could have at least one benefit. The enter key is Strange and could potentially cause issues while chatting. Would take a lot of getting used to, along with the tilde key in a totally different place where part of the enter key normally is. The move of the \| key to shorten the left shift could be a decent one for gaming as it gives another key to rebind to.

8000hz polling rate is silly, but CS & Valorant players may rejoice, I suppose.

I personally don't like the no-spacer between the enter key area and the additional home/page keys on the right side of the keyboard. Lots of potential for mistyping and being annoyed by hitting those keys.

Based on the other keyboards on the market(keychron/lemokey HE, Wooting HE, etc.) my guess on price is $150-220.

There's nothing weird about it, it's just a standard ISO layout, which is commonly used worldwide. In the US, the default layout is ANSI, with the short Enter key and wider left shift due to the absence of the extra key next to it. As the US is usually the biggest consumer market, most brands either do their builds only using the ANSI layout or advertise their keyboards with the ANSI layout by default, hence why plenty of Americans find other layouts unusual.

Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[EatingDirt]

There's nothing weird about it, it's just a standard ISO layout, which is commonly used worldwide. In the US, the default layout is ANSI, with the short Enter key and wider left shift due to the absence of the extra key next to it. As the US is usually the biggest consumer market, most brands either do their builds only using the ANSI layout or advertise their keyboards with the ANSI layout by default, hence why plenty of Americans find other layouts unusual.

Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I suppose I've just never seen a 65% keyboard with an ISO layout because they're so uncommon. I know of the ISO layout but never looked at it closely as there's very few keyboards out there in the US market that use it. The escape key and the key that has symbols that the ANSI keyboard doesn't have threw me off.

 

[Fungi]

I suppose I've just never seen a 65% keyboard with an ISO layout because they're so uncommon. I know of the ISO layout but never looked at it closely as there's very few keyboards out there in the US market that use it. The escape key and the key that has symbols that the ANSI keyboard doesn't have threw me off.

There are a few brands that can handle carrying ISO and even JIS models like Keychron, Wooting, and Pulsar.