The Corsair K70 Pro Mini Wireless is the company’s first mechanical keyboard that includes hot-swappable switches, which means you can easily remove and replace them with a tool included, without the need for welding. The $ 179.99 (£ 169.99 / € 189.99) keyboard is also wireless, lasting up to 200 hours of battery life with its RGB lighting off.
Hot-swappable switches have become increasingly popular with enthusiastic mechanical keyboards, offering owners an easy way to get a completely different typing feel without having to buy a completely new keyboard. The feature also offers the option to try less common amateur switches, which can be hard to find pre-installed on available keyboards. Support for hot-swappable switches is still relatively uncommon on the keyboards of major gaming brands, with Logitech being one of the few major brands to offer support.
The K70 Pro Mini Wireless has a 60 percent compact design. Image: Corsair It is obviously RGB backlit. Image: Corsair
Out of the box, the Corsair K70 Pro Mini Wireless is available with Cherry MX Red or Cherry MX Speed Silver switches. Both are linear (i.e., there are no noticeable bumps as you type), but the Silver switches are aimed at players and are designed to be operated more quickly. As a warning, note that the K70 Pro Mini Wireless only supports three-pin switches (also known as board-mounted switches), which means that you may need to cut off the additional plastic pins from the five-pin switches. (also known as PCB assembly). switches) if you want to install them on the keyboard.
Otherwise, the K70 Pro Mini Wireless feature set is likely to be familiar to anyone who has used one of Corsair’s keyboards in the past. It has a 60 percent compact design that doesn’t even include a set of dedicated arrow keys (which, in my opinion, makes the design a bit tastefully acquired), durable double-shot PBT key keys, and il. RGB lighting. If you leave the RGB lighting on, Corsair says the keyboard offers up to 32 hours of battery life, but turn it off and says you could have up to 200 hours.
If you use the wired keyboard, it has a polling rate of up to 8,000 Hz, which means it can report keystrokes to a connected computer about eight times faster than many other keyboards. Corsair claims that this causes an average latency of less than a quarter of a millisecond. If you connect wirelessly, you can choose to connect using an included USB dongle or Bluetooth (where the keyboard can remember up to three paired devices).
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