How to improve the appearance of the keyboard and give the user a sense of freshness? The answer for the Pirate Ship is to change colors, which was done by the previous K70 SE, and the effect is quite good. Now the pirate ship has launched a blue sea and a slightly sweet air navigation theme mechanical keyboard based on the K60 RGB PRO for the "old trick", replaced by a silver and blue aluminum panel, using the same Cherry Viola (MV) axis as the K60 RGB PRO, but the keycaps are all replaced with five-sided sublimated PBT keycaps, the routine is exactly the same, at least it looks like a "new version of the ship" that you have not played.
If the packaging of K60 before still maintains the usual style of the pirate ship, then the packaging of the blue sea and the slightly sweet air is really completely unrelated to the pirate ship. Compared with the flagship keyboard K70 and K100, the new two keyboards can really only be described in a low-key and simple way, no longer a black and yellow outer packaging, directly a black box, accessories on a manual and dust cover, which is not a pirate ship.
Exterior details
Both keyboards are naked shaft design, standard 104 key matching, only the accent color and panel process are different, the slightly sweet empty version of the upper cover is an aluminum brushed panel, and the other blue sea is anodized sandblasted aluminum panel. In terms of visual effects, this brushed panel can hardly feel the touch of the brush, very smooth, and in terms of visual effects, the silver is too popular, but the blue upper cover is more rare, personalized, or at least a little differentiated.
Needless to say, it is exactly the same as the K60 regular model, the bottom foot stickers and foot braces, the sleek corners will not cut hands, the reserved bowl card buckle slot, etc., and even the nameplate information is naked to tell the user that this is a K60 RGB PRO mechanical keyboard.
Usb interface that also has the pirate ship's prompt logo, this logo is commonly found on the K100 keyboard with two lines, to help distinguish which line is the keyboard data line, which line is the HUB extension cable.
Keycap shaft body
The reason why these two keyboards are not directly called K60 is because the blue sea and the slightly sweet air use a new set of OEM height five-sided sublimation PBT keycaps, the surface has a certain grainy feeling, and the character color is uniform. With such a serious key ring in the inner coil, this set of keycaps has been very good, there are no burrs on the edges, and the look and feel is good. However, if the slightly sweet empty color scheme can improve the contrast a little, it will not give people a slightly lower saturation feeling.
About the choice of the pattern of this set of keycaps, it is completely to run to the nautical theme, with Esc, space bar led by a few keycaps, integrated into the pirate ship / hat, iron hooker, rudder, anchor, wine bottle, bounty bag and other elements, the blue sea and deep sea treasures, ship cannon pattern. I have to say that the pirate ship keyboard finally lives up to its name as a "pirate ship keyboard", and it can really play.
Compared with a number of domestic axes that have sprung up in full bloom, the Cherry Vioal (MV) shaft released less than two years ago is already an old shaft body, and there are not many keyboards on the market that use MV shafts. The appearance of the shaft core cross column, compatible with most of the keycaps on the market, as well as transparent waterproof and dustproof shaft walls, milky white single-foot base. The two skeletonized areas on the bottom surface are reserved for the V-Shape structural contacts on one side, relying on the contact pieces to contact the two contacts on the PCB to guide the communication number, and the other side to the LED lights. In terms of parameters, the total key stroke of the MV axis is 4mm, the trigger key range is 2mm, and the trigger force is 45gf, which is close to the Cherry MX red axis in the hand. One of the advantages of the MV axis, as well as excellent core stability, is much better than the Cherry MX axis, so the shaft body of this keyboard is very low, close to some domestic custom keyboards.
Regarding the input performance of this keyboard, it can be roughly divided into two parts, the feel and the sense of hearing. First of all, the feel part, after a more comprehensive use, found that the R2 area and R1 area of this keyboard have a fleshy feeling, that is, the bottom is not crisp, but also 1U length, which should not be a problem with the key, the big key is fine.
Now let's talk specifically about why the 1U length key position will appear to feel too meaty, as we all know, OEM height keycaps, R2 and R1 height keycaps are shorter than R3 and R4, the same chrysanthemum column is also shorter, just because of this short section, so that the transparent upper cover can not hit the shaft base, remove a shaft body out, respectively, install R4 keycaps and R2/R1 keycaps, look at the bottom to find the problem. Mounting the keycaps too tightly on the MV axis will make the shaft body of the R1R2 zone fleshy (whether it is a 1U length or the "+" and "Enter" of the independent digital area will appear similarly). Is there a workaround? The answer is yes. Pull the keycap out and reinstall it without inserting it too deeply.
If the above problems can be manually improved, the next thing to say is that DIY masters can solve it. This keyboard has a very obvious metal cavity echo problem, which somewhat affects the use experience, and to solve this problem, you can only add a sound reduction pad. Especially in the quiet environment of the night, tapping the button (especially the space bar), the cavity sound is not enough to be amplified. Theoretically, these two K60 keyboards can add silicone pads and silenced cotton under the premise of controlling the terminal price to suppress the cavity sound and improve the experience.
Drive the app
It's time for the iCUE to appear again, because it's just a K60 RGB PRO color changer, and all the settings in the driver are the same as the K60 RGB PRO, which takes a little time for first-time pirate ship users to get started.
For the two new keyboards, the "Change Shell Color" option has been added to the device settings, in which you can modify the style of the keyboard ICON on the driver to correspond to the user's keyboard model.
Lighting effect display
I thought that after replacing the non-word transmechanical sublimation PBT keycap, the magnificent lighting effect of the pirate ship will be gone, and I never expected that the lighting effect of this keyboard is much more gorgeous than those that also use non-transparent keycaps. After all, it is a pirate ship, and the bottom of playing with lights is still there.
After setting the maximum brightness in the drive, the thickness of the keycaps is just enough to allow the user to clearly see the keycap characters, at this time, the advantages of the bare shaft + silver-white aluminum panel are fully reflected, and the RGB atmosphere MAX is really impermeable.
Write at the end
The problem of keycap compatibility, pirate ships should not carry the pot, individual brand keycaps will also appear in this situation, of course, if the two areas of the keycap chrysanthemum column is 0.5mm longer, everyone is happy. Another important point is that this keyboard has an empty cavity sound to solve, since it is planned to look at some excellent domestic mechanical keyboards on the keycaps, it should not be difficult to make some adjustments to the internal structure.
The surprise is that the keycaps and lighting effects of this keyboard are combined in pairs, and the brightness of the lighting effects displayed can exceed most of the keyboards that use the two-color/sublimation PBT scheme, and the pirate ship should have studied the thickness of the keycaps. At present, the slightly sweet sky and the blue sea are pre-sold on Jingdong, the price is 799 yuan, and the preferential price of 699 yuan from double twelve to December 14 can be obtained.