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Drop's new mechanical keyboards get upwardly to $500

Drib drops new set up-to-buy keyboards at steep prices.

Enlarge / Drop's Moon Shot keyboard uses alpine, SA profile keycaps.

High-stop mechanical keyboard and PC peripherals brand Drib (formerly Massdrop) today revealed its side by side lineup of prebuilt mechanical keyboards. The brand added options to iii different series, with its virtually premium one, Paragon, priced at a whopping $500 apiece.

In add-on to making its own products, Drop has a shop where keyboard fanatics can get everything from mechanical keyboard switches to unique and artisan keycaps, stabilizers, and fifty-fifty fancy, detachable cables. The keyboards released today are supposed to make it easier for people who don't want to build their own clacker to get an enthusiast-level choice without having to deal with grouping buys, which take many months before you lot actually get a product in hand.

Drop'south $500 Paragon keyboards

Driblet appear two Paragon Series keyboards, both built on the aforementioned frame used in Drop's CNC-milled, anodized aluminum Alt High-Profile keyboard.

The Moon Shot blueprint pays homage to celestial dazzler with its baby blue and white details and doubleshot ABS keycaps marked with NASA-ready terms like "rover," "orbit," and "godspeed."

Enlarge / Drop Paragon Series Moon Shot keyboard.

The keycaps are SA contour, a more vintage form factor that tends to exist expensive (this set goes for $190 on its own), taller, and spherical.

The Shogun, meanwhile, is fit for a samurai with crimson and golden doubleshot ABS keycaps boasting Japanese inscriptions, clouds, and, likely, durability, cheers to 1.5 mm of thickness.

Enlarge / Drop Paragon Serial Shogun keyboard.

Drop's Paragon keyboards differ from the residual of the keyboards announced today in that they promise an improved sound profile through audio dampeners placed between the keyboard's cases and printed circuit board (PCB).

Both keyboards utilise Driblet + Invyr Holy Panda mechanical switches. These are hybrid switches that combine the stems of Halo Clears (as well known equally Halo Trues) with the stems of Invyr Pandas for an incredibly tactile feel. The switches require 67 g of force to actuate; for comparing, Cherry MX Browns require 55 g. Further adding to the tactility, Drop claims, are custom-made, Gateron-brand stabilizers to foreclose unwanted rattling among larger keys.

Inching closer to earning its half-a-grand toll tag, the Holy Panda switches are already lubricated by mitt before they go to you lot. You lot likewise go hot swappability, so you can ditch the Holy Pandas, if desired, without soldering. Some other handy feature: the keyboards are programmable via QMK open source software.

Drop's Paragon keyboards are currently available for preorder but aren't expected to start aircraft until around Nov 15.

Also expensive (but cheaper): Drop'southward new Signature keyboards

• Drop Signature Serial Islay Night.

• Drop Signature Series Zodiac.

• Drop Signature Series Mythic Journey.

• Drop Signature Series Cyber Moon.

• Drop Signature Series Ultrasonic.

• Driblet Signature Series Archetype Midnight.

• Drib Signature Series Majestic Midnight.

Drop already has a number of Signature keyboards, with the cheapest two going for $279. The seven added today become for $349, placing them at the upper echelon of the serial

The latest members of the Signature Series—the Islay Night, Zodiac, Mythic Journey, Cyber Moon, Ultrasonic, Majestic Midnight, and Classic Midnight—mostly use Drop's Ctrl or Ctrl High-Profile cases, which are both CNC-milled aluminum. The exception is the Islay Nighttime. Because it'southward a smaller keyboard without pointer keys, it uses Drop + Tokyo's Tokyo60.

These keyboards also come with hot-swappable Holy Panda switches, but they aren't prelubed. Keycaps vary on coolness, color, and construction, running from ABS plastic to dye-sublimated PBT plastic. Similar the Paragon keyboards, all are programmable with QMK software.

Some of Drop'south new Signature keyboards are available at present, while others are on preorder.

A bit more affordable: Drop'southward Expression Matcha Summertime

Overstate / Drop Expression Series Matcha Summertime.

Finally, the most affordable keyboard appear today is the Expression Series Matcha Summer. But at $150, information technology's still non a "cheap mechanical keyboard" (Drop doesn't really swing that way).

The keyboard invokes thoughts of warmer days with matcha tea and mango fruit-inspired dye-sublimated PBT keycaps, a white, anodized aluminum case, and linear, Gateron Yellow switches to match the summer sunday.

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