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Best budget mechanical keyboards for 2024
- Best Budget Mechanical Keyboards
- EVGA Z15: A feature-packed full-size mechanical keyboard available at around $75 with hot-swappable switches, customizable per-key RGB lighting, and a volume wheel.
- HyperX Alloy Origins Core: A tenkeyless mechanical keyboard that feels quite premium and costs around $70. It comes with a solid aircraft-grade aluminum body, per-key RGB lighting, onboard profile storage, macro support, and a detachable USB-C cable.
- Keychron K12: A versatile 60% mechanical keyboard with a lot of potential that is wireless, can be paired with up to three devices, and offers hot-swap key switches. It also offers solid aluminum frame with RGB backlighting and supports both Windows and MacOS.
- Keychron V5 Max: The best wireless mechanical keyboard with Gateron switches that offers quiet and comfortable typing experience and good battery life, available at an affordable price point despite being more expensive than most budget mechanical boards.
- Redragon K552: The best entry-level mechanical keyboard available for as low as $35. It features a tenkeyless design, and is available with blue, red, or brown key switches. It has a rugged build quality and decent RGB lighting.
- Keychron C3 Pro: The best super-cheap mechanical board available at barely over $35 and yet it offers comfortable and responsive switches, colorful backlighting, a compact design, and gasket mounting for quiet typing and gaming.
- Mechanical keyboards are usually more expensive when compared to rubber dome keyboards. Some users might also find typing on a mechanical keyboard to be more difficult or slower as the keys are usually raised higher. Tactile and clicky key switches tend to be noisier than membrane boards.
- There are primarily three types of mechanical switches: linear switches, tactile switches, and clicky switches. There are also optical switches, magnetic switches, and Hall-Effect switches.
- Mechanical keyboards are faster, more responsive, and have a more satisfying actuation than rubber dome membrane keyboards. They're typically built to a higher standard, with better quality materials, and provide better typing or gaming experience.
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