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by aosaigh 2173 days ago
I've been looking for an "out of the box" MacOS-friendly mechanical keyboard for a while now. So far, the recent Keychron keyboards seems to be the only real contender, and unfortunately from all reports they are just to tall and cause wrist pain.

This seems like it would be a great alternative where you could have a Mac configuration - with media keys - mapped pretty easily with a custom keycap set (unless I'm misunderstanding?).

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After my progress stalled on writing custom firmware for my custom keyboard [1], I went with a Matias quiet pro for Mac. I love this keyboard.

All of the Mac functionality works as expected. The only exception was when I tried to get an 18 year old eMac to boot from CD-ROM (by holding down the C key at boot time), this didn’t work. I had to use an official Apple keyboard for that. Works fine once the machine is booted, so I’m guessing it is some sort of Mac openfirmware issue.

[1] https://github.com/pepaslabs/hexon38

I have a keychron. It's alright, for some reason I find something about the key layout trips me up (although I've never used a 65%, mechanical, or Mac keyboard before, so one of those may be why). It is pretty high but the solution is to get a 10$ wrist rest.
I've been using a CODE [0] with MX Clears on MacOS for a year now.

well worth it imo.

[0] https://codekeyboards.com/

M60 is compatible with MacOS, even media keys.