tranquil tangle
Okay so I'm not using the Wooting 80 HE over the Nuphy Air60 HE
Why?
Well the Wooting is better in many ways:
- Better software
- Quieter key pressing sounds
- Better RGB
- Seemingly much better press depth detection (nuphy seems to have more jitter)
- Has more keys (80 vs 60)
- Allows you to map joypad to keys.
But I don't care about any of that. What I do care about is just how the keyboard functionally works for typing.
The Nuphy Air60 HE is still a better keyboard, it's easier to type on and span with your hands requiring less wrist movement, the lower height and wider keycap faces also make for an easier typing experience.
I have no doubt there are people out there who really benefit from all the niche nuances of hall effect key presses, but that's not me. I just like them because they are quieter and I don't have to replace broken switches.
I also thought that mapping joysticks to keys would be awesome but turns out it's just another gimmick at best.
So in summary I think the Wooting 80 HE has superb gimmicks but ultimately it falls short as an actual functional keyboard - and sure the margin is slim, but it's not a typing masterpiece, it's a aesthetics masterpiece, and it's a functional masterpiece in some sense.
I liken the Wooting 80 HE to the difference between going from a 60hz monitor to a 144hz monitor, the Wooting 80 HE just feels kinda clunky and sluggish to use, mostly due to it's larger footprint and reliance on traditional switch and keycaps sizes while the Nuphy Air60 HE feels like a perfected sleek, lean and mean typing machine - no bs - or well it does have bs like rgb and does it really badly but who cares because I never turn it on.
Food for thought. But that's the reality IMO.
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