Keychron V6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard (US ANSI Layout)
Keychron V6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard (US ANSI Layout) - Fully Assembled Knob / Carbon Black / Gateron Jupiter Brown is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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- ABS plastic housing
- The keyboard PCB, screw-in stabs, and the PC plate
- Double-shot OSA PBT keycaps (including Mac & Windows keycaps)
- Gateron Jupiter switches
The barebone version does not include the keycaps and switches.
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Keychron V6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard (US ANS...
Keychron V6 Max
The V6 Max is a QMK custom mechanical keyboard with 2.4 GHz wireless and Bluetooth 5.1 connection. It has a full-size 100% layout and offers a gasket mount design, sound-absorbing foam, double-shot PBT keycaps, and more. The V6 Max is designed for a personalized experience and enhanced typing comfort.
Choose the keycaps, switches and more accessories for your V6 Max.
2.4 GHz & Bluetooth Connection
Experience peak gaming performance on the fly with the 2.4 GHz wireless connection boasting a rapid 1000 Hz polling rate. For seamless multitasking across your computer, phone, and tablet, you can effortlessly connect the V6 Max via Bluetooth 5.1 to three devices.
All-Around Customizable Keyboard
To build a fully customizable keyboard, we designed every component to be easily assembled so you can customize and adjust any or every parts the way you want.
Dual Receivers
For a better 2.4 GHz wireless experience, the V6 Max comes with Type-C and Type-A receivers. Enjoy the quick plug-and-play time. Or, put them away in the keyboard magnetic storage slot at the top right corner.
An Epic Core Inside The Keyboard
A powerful ARM architecture MCU equipped with 256K Flash will provide more flexibility for developers. The polling rate is 1000 Hz right out of the box, which makes the latency hardly noticeable even in competitive games.
OSA Profile Double-shot PBT Keycaps
These double-shot PBT keycaps have a similar height to the OEM profile and has an SA-like shape. We named it the OSA (OEM spherical angled) keycap. The PBT keycaps will provide excellent oil resistance, enhance the type feel, and prevent the legends from fading out.
Switch Layouts Between macOS & Windows
Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility for Windows devices, the Keychron V6 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.
Gasket Mount Design
By adopting a gasket mount design along with a PC (Polycarbonate) plate, the V6 Max reduces acoustic resonance, delivering a softer and quieter typing experience with enhanced flexibility.
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 LED Lights
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.The banana switch provides an early tactile bump at the top with a uniquely smooth experience like those Panda switches on the market.
Screw-In PCB Stabilizers
Even small part matters for your fingertip feel. We’ve integrated the PCB-mounted screw-in stabilizers for a smoother typing experience with less wobbliness on the big keys such as space bar, shift, enter, and delete. The Keychron V6 Max also supports third-party screw-in PCB stabilizers.
What's in the box?
Specs
| Width | 149.0 mm |
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| Length | 447.9 mm |
| Front Height | 22.6 mm (without keycaps) |
| Back Height | 30.3 mm (without keycaps) |
| Feet Height | 2 mm |
| Angle | 3.5° / 7.0° / 9.5° |
| Weight | 1110 ± 10 g(Fully Assembled Version) |
| Body Material | ABS Plastic |
| Plate | PC |
| Polling Rate | 1000 Hz (2.4 GHz and wired) / 90 Hz (Bluetooth mode) |
| Mount Style | Gasket Mount Design |
| Bluetooth Device Name | Keychron V6 Max |
| Battery | 4000 mAh Rechargeable li-polymer battery |
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| Wireless Working Time (Backlit off) | Up to 225 hours (Lab test result may vary by actual use) |
| Wireless Working Time (RGB) | Up to 100 hours (Lowest brightness) |
| Charging Time | Around 5 hours |
| Bluetooth Version | 5.1 |
| Compatible System | Windows/macOS/Linux |
| N-Key Rollover (NKRO) | Yes for both wireless and wired modes |
| Hot-swappable | Yes. Compatible with most of the 3 pin & 5 pin MX mechanical switches such as Gateron, Cherry MX, Kailh, etc. |
| Keycaps (Fully Assembled Version) | Double-shot PBT keycaps, not shine-through, OSA Profile (OEM height, SA shape) |
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| MCU | ARM Cortex-M4 32-bit STM32F402 (256KB Flash) |
| Switches | Gateron Jupiter (Fully Assembled Version) |
| Backlight | South-facing RGB LED |
| Stabilizer | Screw-in PCB stabs |
| Charging Port | USB Type-C |
| Cable | Type-C cable + Type-A to Type-C adapter |
| Operating Environment | -10℃ to 50℃ |
Learn more about the Keychron V6 Max such as the V6 Max shortcuts, assembling the V6 Max, factory reset, and more in the FAQ section.
Customer Reviews
Everything that I needed from a full sized keyboard with 2.4g connection, good battery and highly customizable
It's nice but the keys are sligthly muchy
CONS
- gateron red switches are a bit too squishy, sure, they are linear, but it is hard to guess the actuation depth by their reaction to pressure.
- i like that the backlight is used to indicate the state of caps lock and the num lock (better than three ugly green leds at the top right corner as most KBs have) but it could spill below other keys a bit, esp. with caps lock its hard to know if it is on or off without looking straight from the top of the keyboard, as from the front it is completely hidden by the shift key. best if the strength & radius of the indicator backlight could be reprogrammable from VIA too?
- keep in mind that the included keycaps do not allow the light from the backlight to pass through neither the key nor the legends, so in the dark it is kinda useless.
PROS
- the knob and macro keys above the numbar are both very useful (also there is somethic cathartic about changing the volume with a knob instead of a button).
- love the option to switch between cable and wireless modes easily.
- the build is plasticky as you would expect at this price range, but the top side of the keyboard does not feel cheap at all (the plastic on the bottom is a bit softer and meh, but if thats the part of the KB you see most of the time then you might be using it wrong).
- the sound of the switches is quite satisfying (although I find sound of the spacebar too... cracky? its just a bit too high pitched compared to the rest of the keys. in a way its likable and sounds a bit like a typing machine but its also a bit too disturbing compared to the rest).
- VIA support is extremely welcome and works for the knob too
- the KB comes with one extra lock glyph keycap to use instead of the cortana/siri one, so you can reprogram the key to lock/sleep the computer (or do anything else) rather than to summit the useless voice assistants.
- based on the pics/videos i thought that the gray-blue keycaps would look a bit too boring and retro and planned to switch them for something else, but in person i kinda dig both the color (they are more blue than gray) as well as the slightly uneven font used for the legends.
- there is something about the symmetry of the keyboard that i really like (it just looks perfectly rectangularly, for instance because the top right corner just has more keys instead of indicators).
TL;DR
overall its a solid option for ~80€, but even if you plan to use it for gaming, its better to get the brown switches instead of the red ones. the backlight is more of an RGB gimmick, since with the default keycaps it does not provide neither of the possible practical purposes (being able to see the legends in the dark, and in case of caps lock, being able to see if its on or off - for num lock its fine as you see it from the left side but when would you ever turn that one off).
4.5/5
I am not the mechanical keyboard connoisseur, I had Nuphy Air 75 before this and I just wanted to switch back to 100% layout. Right out of the box everything feels very premium, the reason behind I chose a keyboard with a non-metallic case is I got tired of annoying static electric discharges! And also wallet friendliness. It's hard to go wrong with this one.
