Name: Keychron Q3 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard ISO Layout Collection
Brand: Keychron
SKU: Q3M-M1-DE
Price: 209.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Keychron Q3 Max
ISO Layout Version

Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard

The Q3 Max Keyboard, featuring an 80% TKL layout, combines advanced 2.4G wireless, Bluetooth, and Type-C wired connectivity, enhances workspaces by reducing clutter and facilitating efficient remote work. Its upgraded acoustic foam not only ensures quieter typing but also elevates the tactile experience, making each keystroke smoother and more refined.

Customize Your Q3 Max ISO

Choose the keycaps, switches, and more accessories for your Q3 Max

Q3 Max ISO Layout Versions

These versions include the UK, German, Swiss, and Nordic layouts, all with extra keycaps suitable for Mac and Windows devices.

🇬🇧 UK-ISO Layout

🇩🇪 DE-ISO Layout

UK-ISO Layout of Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard

🇨🇭 Swiss-ISO Layout

🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 Nordic-ISO Layout

Nordic-ISO of Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard

2.4 GHz & Bluetooth Connection

Discover enhanced performance with the Q3 Max Keyboard, featuring a 2.4 GHz wireless connection and a rapid 1000 Hz polling rate for responsive use. It also offers Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity, allowing easy and efficient multitasking by connecting with up to three devices, such as your computer, phone, and tablet, with quick switching capability.

A Refined Piece Of Metal Art

The entire metal body is crafted with 6063 aluminum that is processed through CNC machined, polished, sandblasted, and undergoes 24 more manufacturing stages to make this solid metal piece of art that is the Q3 Max.

Significantly Enhanced Acoustic Foams

Elevate the typing experience with a combination of premium acoustic foams such as IXPE, PET, and Latex. Each keystroke becomes enjoyable, making every tap a delight for the senses.

Easy Assemble

We designed every component to be able to assemble easily so you can customize and adjust each component with ease to create your ultimate typing experience.

Structure of Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard

An Epic Core Inside The Keyboard

A powerful ARM Cortex-M4 chip (MCU) equipped with 256K Flash will provide more flexibility for developers. The polling rate is 1000 Hz right out of the box on 2.4 GHz and wired modes (90 Hz on Bluetooth mode), which makes the latency hardly noticeable even in competitive games.

Double-Gasket Design

The Double Gasket Design is a new innovative structure in the industry. In addition to the gaskets on the plates, we added silicone pads between the top and bottom cases to significantly reduce the acoustic resonance between the metals and reduce the noise of the impacted metals. This design allows the keyboard to maintain the flexibility of the gasket structure and improves the overall typing sound.

Experience the next level of key sounds and comfort with our gasket mount design together with a flexible PC (Polycarbonate) plate. This design combination allows the keyboard to maintain the flexibility of the gasket structure and improves the overall typing sound.

OSA Double-Shot PBT Keycaps

To further fine-tune your typing experience, the Q3 Max ISO comes with our unique OSA profile (OEM profile with spherical-angle) and double-shot PBT keycaps that aim to provide a more comfortable fingertip feel with excellent oil resistance for long-term use on the TKL layout.

Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard for all device

Switch layouts between macOS & Windows

Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility with Windows devices, the Keychron Q3 Max comes with a system toggle and an additional set of customized keycaps for both Windows and macOS systems. You can now save two different layouts on the keyboard, one for each system.

Programmable Knob

Designed to enhance your creative workflow, the aluminum rotary encoder allows you to easily customize your favorite keys and macros on the knob through the VIA software.

You can easily customize the Q3 Max's knob to your desired key or macro commands such as: zooming in/out, adjusting screen brightness, brush size, volume, selecting video clips or photos, or backlight hue.
Setting the macros for "zoom in/out"

Using the knob as "zoom in/out"

Hot-Swappable

The hot-swappable sockets are mounted on the PCB, so you can install or change the switches without soldering. The PCB supports both 3 pin and 5 pin MX mechanical switches.

South-Facing RGB

The south-facing RGB LED is designed to better illuminate the keyboard backlight from the typist’s angle with the premium non-shine-through PBT keycaps installed. The south-facing RGB is also free from interference when the users install OEM or Cherry-profile alternative keycaps on the keyboard.

Gateron Jupiter Switch

Our exclusive Gateron Jupiter mechanical switch (for the Fully Assembled version only) comes with a 3-pin design, its pre-lubed with a reliable Gateron quality standard with up to 80 million keystrokes lifespan. While their unique LED diffuser design offers high RGB backlight transmittance and softer backlight effect.

PCB Stabilizers

The screw-in design increases stability and makes it easier for changes and upgrades. Precise craftsmanship makes the stabilizers more stable and less shaky. The big keys’ (space bar, shift, enter, backspace) typing experience is now more stable and smooth. The Keychron Q3 Max also supports third-party screw-in PCB stabilizers.

What's in the box?

Package list of Keychron Q3 Max ISO 80% Layout Wireless Custom Keyboard

Specs

Width	137 mm
Length	365 mm
Front Heigh	19.7 mm (without keycaps)
Back Height	32.6 mm (without keycaps)
Feet Height	2.7 mm
Angle	5.2°
Weight	2045g ± 10g (Fully Assembled Version)
Body Material	Aluminum
Plate Material	PC
Polling Rate	1000 Hz (2.4 GHz & wired) / 90 Hz (Bluetooth)
Backlight	22 types of RGB backlight options plus endless possibilities

Switch	Gateron Jupiter (Fully Assembled version)
Stabilizer	Screw-in PCB stabilizer
Backlight	South-facing RGB LED
Hot-swappable	Yes. Compatible with most of the 3 pin & 5 pin MX mechanical switches such as Gateron, Cherry MX and Kailh, etc.
MCU	ARM Cortex-M4 32-bit STM32F402 (256KB Flash)
Polling Rate	1000 Hz (wired) / 90 Hz (wireless)
N-Key Rollover (NKRO)	Yes for both wireless and wired modes
Operating Environment	-10 to 50℃
Keycaps (Fully Assembled Version)	OSA double-shot PBT keycaps, not shine-through (Fully Assembled version)
Switch Support	Hot-swappable (5 pin & 3 pin)

Battery	4000 mAh Rechargeable li-polymer battery
BT Working Time (Backlit off)	Up to 180 hours (Lab test result may vary by actual use)
BT Working Time (RGB)	Up to 100 hours (Lowest brightness)
Bluetooth Version	5.1
Compatible System	macOS/Windows/Linux
Connectivity	2.4 GHz/Bluetooth/ Type-C wired
Bluetooth Device Name	Keychron Q3 Max
Cable	Type-C cable + Type-A to Type-C adapter
Charging Time	Around 5 hours
Cable Length	1.8 m
Charging Port	USB type-C

Keychron Q3 Max User Guide

Learn more about the Keychron Q3 Max such as the Q3 Max shortcuts, assembling the Q3 Max, factory reset, and more in the FAQ section.

Love it

Great looking, prelubed switches, feels and sounds great while typing.

Nothing

Keychron Q3 Max got stolen via transit.

had to redefine "keyboard" for myself

The workmanship and design are simply great. The typing feel (Gateron banana) is fabulous. Even my girlfriend loves the typing sound. The knob is practical and easy to use, at least for my fingers. The only thing I don't like is the off (cable) position in the middle of the switch. However, it won't be long before my second workstation also has a Keychron.

Keychron Q3 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard ISO Layout Collection

The almost perfect "stock is good enough" mechanical keyboard

I own the original Keychron Q3 and recently bought the Keychron Q3 Max.

The original Q3 needs to be modded, I think. At least some dampening of the lower case and a force break mod are practically mandatory. I also replaced the pretty bad stabilizers and put in Gateron Cap V2 Milky Yellow switches. With those mods the "old" Q3 is an excellent custom keyboard through and through.

I bought the Q3 Max because I need wireless connectivity. I did not expect any other significant upgrades but boy was I wrong.

The Q3 now has a PC plate many more layers of foam and the force break pads were greatly improved. There is significantly less case ping.

The stabilizers look the same but are much, much better. No scratchy feeling or sound. Their factory lubing is good and I think you can just keep on using them.

So what should you mod? Nothing, really. For me, this keyboard is already good enough in every way. If you want to mod for moddings sake, just put in some cooler switches and awesome looking keycaps. There is no real need to take the keyboard apart.

There are a few things that I don't like, though.

The switch that you use to switch between 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth or Cable connection does not feel like it's meant to be used many times a day. It probably is not. Also I have problems switching to either wireless connection while my cable connected PC is still on. I gave up on that.
Now, I use Bluetooth to switch between PC and laptop frequently, which works great by pressing FN + 1 or FN + 2.

The last thing only affects users of the ISO-DE (German) keycaps. The German Umlaut keys are incorrectly printed. They should all be capital letters, means Ä, Ö and Ü. The Ü is clearly a lower case character, means ü, The Ö also looks like ö while that is not so obvious as the ü.
I wonder how this could have happened. It was correct on the Q3 keycaps and it's also correct on the product images on the website. It's bothering me enough that I will have to replace the keycaps. Keychron support has notified the factory, whatever that means...

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