Just a few months in the past, we reported on the Keyboard 81 Professional, a keyboard by OnePlus that’s made for the Mac. What’s exceptional about it’s that it’s designed for the Mac by an Android cellphone maker–and it’s now on sale for $239.
OnePlus did have some assist making the keyboard: they partnered with Keychron, an organization with a status for making high-quality keyboards for Mac and Home windows. The Keyboard 81 Professional appears to have the keys Mac customers are used to, comparable to a (gasp!) Command key. That’s a key you usually don’t discover on Home windows keyboards. Nevertheless, there’s just one Choice key and it’s on the left aspect, and the Fn secret’s on the fitting aspect the place Mac customers normally discover the opposite Choice key (the Fn secret’s on the decrease left nook on MacBooks). The keys might be remapped utilizing VIA software program.
What might in the end make this keyboard engaging to Mac customers is that its keys use three-segment switches and a double-gasket design, which supplies the Keyboard 81 Professional a really feel that’s fairly totally different from the Apple Magic Keyboard. A number of customers desire the texture of mechanical swap keys as a result of they really feel softer and supply extra rebound than the flat Magic Keyboard keys.
A key (pun meant) element lacking for Mac customers is that the Keyboard 81 Professional doesn’t have a Contact ID button–no third-party keyboard does. The clear protrusion on the Keyboard 81 Professional that’s situated the place a Contact ID button could be known as the rotary knob, a function usually discovered on Keychron keyboards. The knob by default can be utilized to regulate sound quantity, however it will also be mapped for use for zoom, display screen brightness, and different system settings, in addition to app-specific changes, comparable to brush dimension in a picture editor.
Like different Keychron keyboards, the Keyboard 81 Professional has a hefty design and helps Bluetooth or USB-C connectivity. It’s obtainable in two colour schemes, Winter Bonfire and Summer season Breeze. And if you really want to, it may be switched to work with Home windows or Linux.
