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HWM Singapore
|June 2025
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEND A LOT TO GET A GREAT KEYBOARD NOW
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You know how it goes: you click on one innocuous-looking reel, and the next thing you know, you have multiple tabs open and are hours deep into research and shopping for keyboards at three in the morning. This was what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. But the experience was enlightening because I learned that keyboards have become really good anddare I say it-affordable.
Even just five years ago, if you wanted a keyboard with features like a hot-swappable board, gasket mounting, lubed switches and stabilisers, PBT keycaps, RGB lighting, and support for VIA, you would have to pay upwards of $500.Today, you can get a keyboard with features like these and more for under $150. Say what you want about China, but Chinese manufacturing is a modern miracle of the world. A lot of that is down to a company called Wobkey, which came out of nowhere and shot to fame when it started a crowdfunding campaign for a 75% layout keyboard called the Rainy 75.

This story is from the June 2025 edition of HWM Singapore.
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