Mechanical Keyboards with Kalih Prestige Silent switches?

April 18, 2024 8:39 AM

Are there any other mechanical keyboards available for purchase that use Kalih Prestige Silent switches? I know that Varmilo sells them (see this example) but I am not a big fan of the the color schemes. Bonus if they are less expensive than the Varmilo keyboards. I am looking for a tenkeyless (no number pad) model.
posted by dhens to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

Broadly, that's the appeal of mechanical keyboards with hot swappable switches - you buy enough of the switches to fill out the keyboard, then you put whatever color and profile keycaps you want on them.

I've switched out the switches on my Keychron boards 2-3 times, as I discovered I could go back to my one true heavy clicky love (kailh box jades) without my new headset picking it up and annoying my coworkers when I'm on calls.
posted by Kyol at 9:26 AM on April 18

Best answer: And from poking around, it looks like that's a bespoke switch just for Varmilo? But I might be wrong.
posted by Kyol at 9:59 AM on April 18

Response by poster: Ah, thanks. That might be why I was having trouble finding anything else.
posted by dhens at 10:10 AM on April 18

Yeah, Kailh has a couple of other silents, but with error bars on the weighting that makes it hard to compare.
posted by Kyol at 10:25 AM on April 18

You can just buy the switches and swap them into whatever you want?
posted by corvine at 10:57 AM on April 18

The ZSA Moonlander has 12 switch options including a bunch of others from Kailh so it's likely that it's bespoke.
posted by A Blue Moon at 12:48 PM on April 18

Keychron is all of my co-workers’ go-to (and now mine) and I see they have some Kalih switches listed.
posted by matildaben at 1:59 PM on April 18

Response by poster: Thanks everyone!
posted by dhens at 2:04 PM on April 18

You can always buy a new set of keycaps and swap them yourself... if you don't like the keycaps colorway. There are bajillion choices out there, no need to shell out big bucks for GMK or such.
posted by kschang at 11:08 PM on April 19