#VORTEX RACE 3 FOR MAC#
#VORTEX RACE 3 PRO#
#VORTEX RACE 3 MAC#

But for now I’m really enjoying the Vortex Race 3. Who knows what next year will bring? Probably more keyboards.

#VORTEX RACE 3 PRO#

I still miss that upper row of function keys, but it’s an enjoyably clicky keyboard that is powered just fine by the new iPad Pro (via a USB-C to USB-A adapter, of course). Meanwhile, I’ve repurposed my Leopold keyboard and have been using it when I work on my iPad at the bar top in my kitchen. I’m hoping to solve this problem by installing some switch blockers, which will replace keys I don’t need with blank spaces that my fingers can use to orient my hands properly. My only real complaint about the Race 3 is that it fits so many small keys around the arrow keys that I find it hard to orient properly. It’s a nice effect and sure makes it easy to extract crumbs and other detritus from the keyboard from time to time. (My previous desktop mechanical keyboard, the Leopold FC660M, lacked the function row.) It’s got an anodized aluminum base that doesn’t wrap around the bottom of the keys, so they “float” above the board. The Race 3 is a “75% keyboard”, which means it doesn’t have a number pad, but it does have dedicated arrow keys and a function-key row. I’ve swapped in a red Esc key, yellow arrow keys, and a blue Enter key.

#VORTEX RACE 3 MAC#

(It’s also got a Mac keyboard mode, so all the keys work properly without any remapping required.) The keycaps feature very pleasant capital letters dead center, and come in shades of gray.

#VORTEX RACE 3 FOR MAC#

This is the rare mechanical keyboard that’s civilized to come with a set of alternate keycaps for Mac users (Command and Option rather than Win and Alt), as well as a few variant color keycaps for modifier keys and the arrow keys. (The switches are my preferred Cherry Brown style, but other keyswitches are also available.) It wasn’t always this way, but about three years ago I (re)discovered the delights of typing on a keyboard with mechanical switches and a pleasing clicky noise and now I’m kind of ruined.Īnyway, I’ve tried a lot of keyboards over the last few years, but I realized that I haven’t yet described my current choice for writing when I’m at my desk.

You may wish to investigate the keyboard from Windows using the USBView tool.If you read this site regularly you know I have an, er, enthusiasm for mechanical keyboards. It could be sending more bytes back to Windows and Windows may accept them. Your keyboard has more interface information than usual but I am not sure how it is interpreted. Looking at the lsusb -v output the device shows up as a boot keyboard (slightly more restricted) and a normal keyboard, but both report the expected number of bytes. There are other ways of constructing a switch matrix that are marginally cheaper but lead to the inability to distinguish keys after a certain point for a typical 84-120 key keyboard the optimal constructions tend to cap out at 6 simultaneous key presses, explaining the choices made in the USB standard. N-key rollover is more a statement of how the switch matrix has been constructed than how many keys you can use in your OS. The first byte contains the modifier key state, the second is padding, and the remaining 6 bytes contain key codes. The standard report format for a USB keyboard is 8 bytes. I understand your confusion but this is expected.

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