AL80

I have four Yunzii aluminum mechanical keyboards, AL65, AL68, AL80, and AL98. They are my favorite pre-made keyboards…over Keykron, Womier, Nuphy, Iqunix, Melgeek, Epomaker, etc…

This is a perfectly fine entry-level keyboard. You can get it on sale regularly and, when purchased for around $60, is a decent deal. Banana switches are great, and the sound is very nice, stock. Obviously it is mostly reliant on the switches for the core sound. At an MSRP of $85, it is a bad purcha

Akko/Monsgeek doesn't have a new model for it yet. They seem to be pushing their proprietary boards instead. :( Right now the Redragon K739 is very close to the M1W v3 VIA and IMHO the v3 was a bit better than the v5. The wooden Womier WD75 and Glencreag WK84 are very nice. The plastic equivalent of

75% wireless VIA boards I've tried, under $100: Monsgeek M1 v5 * ($80 barebones) Akko 5075B VIA * ($60 barebones) Womier WD75 * (wood! $90) Redragon K715 * ($30) Keychron J2 * ($70) Kiiboom Phantom 81 Lite * ($91) Not tried but look good on paper: Womier RD75 ($95 w/ coupon) Womier Q75 ($59) Womier Era75

Given all the great QMK-based keyboards it's a shame to go for proprietary firmware with restrictive drivers. Monsgeek M1 v5 * ($80 barebones) Akko 5075B VIA * ($60 barebones) YMDK YMD75 * ($64-$110 diy) Womier RD75 ($95 w/ coupon) Womier WD75 * (wood! $90) Glencreag WK84 * (wood! $95 w/ coupon) Redrago

Just installed a set of Silent Lemon in a Yunzii AL80, loved the switches, hated the keyboard. They were whisper quiet and had a very satisfying bump which I found to be just about perfect for what I wanted. For the price you can't go wrong with them. I am installing Silent Peach in a new Q1 max tod

the G75 uses a plastic case and doesn't have QMK/VIA, id honestly not recommend it for a cheaper keyboard who features both of those things id recommend the Yunzii AL80 (75% even though its called AL80 lol), although there are many alternatives and you should just look up keyboards with all those fu

I think it’s YUNZII AL80, pretty good keyboard at that price.

You can also consider other boards like the Yunzii AL80, Tecware Spectre 75, Fantech Maxfit 81

Even now it’s hard to recommend people to build a custom Just get a crush80, Evo80, Yunzii AL80, RD75, or Rainy75 out of the box don’t have to mod anything, but yeah everyone is trolling getting anything gaming branded nowadays for keyboards