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Next Time X75 Gasket Mechanical Keyboard Kit

Name: Next Time X75 Gasket Mechanical Keyboard Kit
Brand: NextTime
SKU: next-time-x75-gasket-mechanical-keyboard-kit
Price: 50 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

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Next Time’s X75 Gasket-Mounted Keyboard Kit makes for an incredibly exceptional starting point for a mechanical keyboard. A choice of polycarbonate or ABS for the case material means you can balance heft and durability to your liking, and the stainless steel plate ensures an ultra-consistent typing surface no matter which case you go with Read More

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ewlrhljdkshfsdf

Jan 8, 2023

Verified Buyer

Good keybaord

waited for this keyboard to come and it was good at first glance. the keyboard provided some sturdy support but also some flex to it. the comparison was made as the GMMk pro on a budget but I liked the feel. overall I think the keyboard is nice. Out of the box, this is a solid keyboard: the gaskets are just the right size for switches (not too tight, not too loose), the stabilizers are nicely installed and good quality, and the rotary knob is solid with a reasonably decent click when pressed and a good feel while turning. There's really just two problems with it, but they're significant. The first is the rounded corners of the frame where it's been cut out for the blocks of keys. Unfortunately those nicely rounded corners are incompatible with larger switches: in at least one corner of every key-block, the rounding isn't wide enough for the keycap to travel down and up again. The result is that you'll push down on a key and it'll stay down because the corner of the keycap gets stuck on the frame and you'll have to drag it back up again with your fingers. I tried my MT3 Dasher and SA Laser caps and both of them would get stuck on keys like Esc, tilde, F4, F5, and the function key right below the knob — basically, any key at the edge of its key-block would have issues. Smaller-profile keysets like my Akko ASA profile set worked OK if I wibbled the keycap around to lean very slightly away from the problem corner, but it was still a bit awkward. If I'd been meaning to keep using the board, I'd have been very tempted to pull the top of the case off, as a few minutes with a Dremel likely would have sorted that issue out neatly. The other problem, though, was what kept me from continuing to use the keyboard. The board doesn't support QMK or Via programming, which I knew going into it and didn't *think* would be a big deal. It is, though, because the only software available from any manufacturer to program the board is laden with malware, so even if I could manage to download it from somewhere (all the links to it in Google Drive won't let you download it because it's infected), I'd never feel very comfortable running it. Even if it doesn't infect your machine or you use a throwaway VM to do the programming, you won't know what it's enabling inside the keyboard. No thanks. And you -will- likely need to do some programming, because although the default layout says the button below the knob is set to Del, as far as I can tell it's set to something else entirely because it won't do anything on any machine I plugged it into.

Recommends this product? No

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Jos

Jul 19, 2022

Verified Buyer

Good keyboard with a couple nasty issues

Out of the box, this is a solid keyboard: the gaskets are just the right size for switches (not too tight, not too loose), the stabilizers are nicely installed and good quality, and the rotary knob is solid with a reasonably decent click when pressed and a good feel while turning. There's really just two problems with it, but they're significant. The first is the rounded corners of the frame where it's been cut out for the blocks of keys. Unfortunately those nicely rounded corners are incompatible with larger switches: in at least one corner of every key-block, the rounding isn't wide enough for the keycap to travel down and up again. The result is that you'll push down on a key and it'll stay down because the corner of the keycap gets stuck on the frame and you'll have to drag it back up again with your fingers. I tried my MT3 Dasher and SA Laser caps and both of them would get stuck on keys like Esc, tilde, F4, F5, and the function key right below the knob — basically, any key at the edge of its key-block would have issues. Smaller-profile keysets like my Akko ASA profile set worked OK if I wibbled the keycap around to lean very slightly away from the problem corner, but it was still a bit awkward. If I'd been meaning to keep using the board, I'd have been very tempted to pull the top of the case off, as a few minutes with a Dremel likely would have sorted that issue out neatly. The other problem, though, was what kept me from continuing to use the keyboard. The board doesn't support QMK or Via programming, which I knew going into it and didn't *think* would be a big deal. It is, though, because the only software available from any manufacturer to program the board is laden with malware, so even if I could manage to download it from somewhere (all the links to it in Google Drive won't let you download it because it's infected), I'd never feel very comfortable running it. Even if it doesn't infect your machine or you use a throwaway VM to do the programming, you won't know what it's enabling inside the keyboard. No thanks. And you -will- likely need to do some programming, because although the default layout says the button below the knob is set to Del, as far as I can tell it's set to something else entirely because it won't do anything on any machine I plugged it into. It's unfortunate this keyboard has these issues, because it's otherwise a very nice piece of work that I'd be happy to recommend. Hopefully at some point someone manages to reverse-engineer the board programming so I can make use of it.

Recommends this product? No

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TheBossOfAir

Dec 11, 2022

Josbought this as well, using a different email so cant leave a specific review but for me they keyboard seems to wobble as if it is on an uneven surface even though my K6 pro does not have any of these wobbling issues.

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