{"id":20157,"date":"2018-01-12T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:16:10","slug":"matias-rgb-backlit-wired-aluminum-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/matias-rgb-backlit-wired-aluminum-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matias<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With a generous 2mm of key travel, typing feels as tactile and responsive as any of the best laptop keyboards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Jeff Benjamin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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To adjust the color of the RGB Backlit keyboard, Matias has included a handy spectrum color dial for quickly adjusting hues. Turning the dial all the way to the left or right turns the backlight white, while moving in between cycles through the full RGB color spectrum.<\/p>\n

Matias has also wisely designed the keyboard to reduce blue hues as you move away from 100% white. As you dial the keyboard back from hard left or hard right, the keyboard’s RGB system will preferentially reduce the blue component first, resulting in softer whites that research has suggested may be more conducive to sleep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I don’t personally care for keyboard backlighting, but I have renewed interest in wired keyboards since macOS 10.13 continues to have Bluetooth disconnection problems<\/a> and does not always recognize wireless keyboards at boot. Apple no longer makes a wired keyboard. Its wireless one is $129 and bendy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Matias confirmed to me that its $99 keyboard does not require any third-party software to toggle whether fn is necessary to use the media\/function keys. However, unlike with Apple’s keyboards, the fn key cannot be used by itself (e.g. for activating Diction or LaunchBar).<\/p>\n\n

How does it feel? I have no idea. I liked Matias’s previous (widely praised) Tactile Pro<\/a>, though I found the keys a bit stiff and was bothered by their high-pitched ringing sound. Matias already sells a wired aluminum keyboard<\/a> for $59. The lone Amazon review<\/a> for it isn’t favorable, though Jeff Benjamin likes his wireless one<\/a> (which has lots of Amazon reviews<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

On the subject of keyboards, I also found this article by Jacob Kastrenakes<\/a> interesting (via Wojtek Pietrusiewicz<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Dell is introducing a 15-inch version of its XPS 2-in-1, after debuting a 13-inch model last year, but this isn’t just a scaled-up version of the original; it’s a much more powerful computer with some unique tweaks.<\/p>\n

Among the most interesting quirks is the laptop’s keyboard: though it looks and feels just like typical Dell keyboard, it’s built using a brand-new mechanism that relies on magnets. The keys are still physically held in place at their corners, but there are now magnets beneath them to provide feedback. By controlling the strength of their repulsion, Dell can create a deeper, clickier feeling for the keys than their 0.7mm travel would normally allow.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matias: With a generous 2mm of key travel, typing feels as tactile and responsive as any of the best laptop keyboards. Via Jeff Benjamin: To adjust the color of the RGB Backlit keyboard, Matias has included a handy spectrum color dial for quickly adjusting hues. Turning the dial all the way to the left or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[422,1497,423,30,1529,175],"class_list":["post-20157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bluetooth","tag-dell","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20158,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions\/20158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}