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A New Keyboard

24 Nov 2023

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I'm totally not a keyboard expert, nor care much about keyboard :) but after years of using Apple Magic Keyboard I thought I need to try something new. So I decided to buy this NuPhy Air75. This is my first mechanical keyboard since I-don't-know-how-long ago when I typed for the very first time on Windows PC.

It was a fingers shock when I first using it. Totally different kind of typing experience. I pick this for its low-profile keycaps, because I know my fingers are too tired for tall keycaps on standard mechanical keyboard. For the switch, I went with the brown switch since I think it's the most quiet compare to other switches colors.

Adapting to new keyboard definitely took some time, one of thing that I noticed right away is the right Shift button is narrower than what I was used to on the Apple keyboard. This makes me accidentally press arrow up key frequently.

On the Apple keyboard, the Enter button is on the right edge so no other buttons next to it, but NuPhy has extra 4 keys on the right edge and I kept accidentally pressed these four keys. Unfortunately, mine is version 1 that doesn't support mapping configuration with VIA/QMK, So I decided to install Karabiner Element to disables all of these four keys.

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