The earliest recognition of the Lofree Lofi brand began with the polka dot mechanical keyboard of various colors and themes on the company's sister's desk, which made people think that "the original mechanical keyboard can still be so beautiful". But also always let me think that Lofi's keyboard design is very strong, the configuration is slightly weaker, but Lofi's later small warp series in the configuration is to keep up with the big troops, and recently there are several obviously biased masculine color matching, as a small keyboard enthusiast, I recently started with the 68 key dark night blue color, which is also the protagonist of this review: Lofree Lofi small warp 68 dark night blue:
XiaoQiao series belongs to the Luofei 2 square meter product line, the main is to improve the quality of the desktop through a variety of products full of design, 2 square meters I guess refers to the area of the desk, the graffiti of the product outer packaging and the white reflective printing of the inner layer make the whole package quite designed.
Accessories are relatively simple, with only data cables and doll holders
Rowing and design
The Little Warp 68 is my favorite 68 match, which retains the arrow keys and the common delete and page turn keys under the extreme compact size. This small keyboard without f-zone is particularly suitable for use with MAC computers.
The keyboard uses a set of dark blue side engraving sublimation, the front look is wordless, more able to express the color and pattern of the keycaps, ESC keys and spacebars with contrast and camouflage to add more flexibility to the entire keyboard.
XiaoQiao 68 is a 3-mode wireless keyboard, but does not use a built-in battery, but with 3 AAA batteries powered, the battery compartment at the same time as the keyboard's foot support, so that the keyboard stroke of a 9 ° arc to make it more ergonomic design.
Although The Little Warp 68 does not support the adjustable angle of the foot brace, I think the original angle is more moderate, and it is not easy to get tired when typing comfortably.
What makes the small more ergonomic is not only the 9-degree foot brace, but also the curved bottom shell, coupled with the ergonomic design of the keycap, forming an upward curve. This is also the origin of the name XiaoQiao.
The keyboard switch is hidden at the edge of the battery compartment, and the 3-stage rotation can be switched between shutdown, wired and wireless modes.
If there is a demand for the game, use 2.4G mode, the delay is no different from the wired, connect the notebook, the mobile phone and tablet use the Bluetooth mode, which is convenient for power saving. Xiaoqiao 68 supports 3 groups of Bluetooth switching, the switching speed is extremely fast, and there is no problem such as disconnection in use.
Shaft bodies and keycaps
XiaoQiao 68 with the hot-swappable Jiadalong G Yellow Pro axis, this shaft in the custom circle has a good reputation, G Yellow Pro is a linear axis with a pressure gram of 50g, smoothness stability is quite good, the sound is particularly comfortable, very advanced. The disadvantage is that the pressure gram number is not light, and the bottoming and rebound are somewhat meaty. Overall feel on the hand I think hanging cherry original red shaft. It is a kind of golden oil shaft body that does everything well.
The hot-swap function uses The five-hole shaft seat of Jiadalong, which has a large amount of shaft seat stability and good compatibility, which is convenient for users to replace their favorite shaft body.
The small warp 68 big key is a satellite axis design, and there is a solid shock absorption and sound insulation silicone between the positioning plate and the PCB, which can effectively eliminate cavity sound and additional vibration. This makes the sound of the small warp 68 really good, but the tuning of the big key feels general, there is a more obvious wire sound, and the small partner who feels unhappy can manually add some grease, which can greatly improve this problem.
The Xiaoqiao 68 is equipped with a set of PBT sublimation ball caps, and the quality is still good. The tactile feel is not a particularly delicate type, the texture of the surface is slightly rusty. I personally prefer a bit of a slippery keycap, but the matte texture is friendlier to oil hands.
The side engraving makes the keyboard look cleaner while keeping the printed wording.
The overall feel of G Yellow Pro with this set of caps is good, especially the smoothness is very good, the high-speed input is smooth, and it is brisk. The large keys are manually greased and the sound and feel are improved.
Desktop presentation and summary
One of the accessories of the Koji 68 is interesting, and the official usage is to put a small tray of dolls, such as this
However, I feel that this style is really very brilliant on the girl's desktop, but it is a bit embarrassing for the straight male color of dark night blue. But I found that this tray is particularly suitable for putting pens
It's great to take notes on your iPad or with an oil-based pen.
In short, XiaoQiao 68 is a keyboard full of designers' careful thinking, while keeping up with the mainstream level in hardware configuration and feel, small and compact size with careful design and exquisite workmanship, so that it and other Lofi products, not only have the use of functions, but also become an embellishment of life or work, bringing some pleasure, I think this is why we sometimes ignore the performance indicators and prefer to buy some good-looking products.