🖱️ Mice & Keyboards

Hot-Swappable Keyboard

Hot-swap sockets let you pull switches out and push new ones in by hand, with no soldering, so you can change the typing feel later.

On a traditional mechanical keyboard, each switch is soldered to the circuit board. Changing the feel means desoldering dozens of joints — in practice, buying a new board.

Hot-swap boards replace those solder joints with sockets. Switches lift out with a puller and press back in, a few minutes' work for the whole board.

This matters because switch preference is the most personal decision in a keyboard, and it is very hard to judge from a description. Linear, tactile and clicky feel completely different under the finger.

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