This is a 75% sized Hall Effect keyboard, which means it’s missing the number pad on the right, but has some keys missing on the standard Mac keyboard: pgup, pgdn, home, end, left delete, and screen grab. It works with both Macs and PCs. There is a unlabeled switch on the left side to c0nvert from one mode to the other. It comes with Mac keycaps installed, and there are PC keycaps in the box should you prefer those for your application. I used the keyboard on a Mac Studio Ultra M2. There is another unlabeled switch on the left side of the keyboard that switched between Bluetooth and wired connection to the computer. I used the wired connection first. Everything worked but the keyboard mapping for the pretzel, control and option keys was wrong. Turns out the default switch setting that the keyboard ships with is PC mode, even though the default keytops are Mac. I put the switch in the right position for the Mac and the keyboard map-ping was correct. Well, almost correct: I had to go into the Mac settings to defeat the cap lock key.
It seems to go though the battery quite rapidly in Bluetooth mode with no power supplied viad the USB-C connector.
The feel is quite nice if you like the Hall Effect feel. Travel is long, but there is no over-center feel too it. The action is customizable with an app that Keychrom supplies, but I haven’t used it yet. The keyboard has a built-in rear lift mechanism with is just about perfect for me.
I did have one issue where it seemed to take the keyboard a long time to wake up after sleep. I’ll report back later on whether or not that is an issue worth worrying about.
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