The author can be regarded as a typical case of the latter in "poor car, rich watch, loser playing computer". Over the years, various digital products have been played, including mechanical keyboards. Historically, mechanical keyboards were once the mainstream of computer keyboards, while the rise of membrane keyboards followed the trend of scientific and technological development. Once upon a time, mechanical keyboards had almost no market because of their softer hand feel, extremely low cost and acceptable life. However, with the rise of e-sports in recent years, a strong wind of mechanical keyboard has been blowing again. Now there are a variety of domestic and original shafts, RGB、 The marquee lantern competes with each other, and the mechanical keyboards on the market have a wide range of products to choose from, ranging from more than 100 yuan to more than 1000 yuan.

When it comes to SKY and titanium, perhaps old players will recall the bloody storms caused by the Emperors, Beasts and Luna.

In that era, there was no live broadcast, no video, and only a few teenagers who loved games watched WCG's live text broadcast with a mobile phone;

In that era, there was no professionalization, no e-sports clubs, and only countless Internet cafes, training day and night, but the final result was mostly disbanded;

In those days, there were no mice, keyboards or gifts for live broadcast. Players had to bear their own travel expenses, board and lodging, even pick up cigarette butts and play games with quilts on their backs;

In that era, there was no explanation and no teaching. Instead, we had to watch the game video again and again, take notes bit by bit according to the timeline, figure out the idea of God, and send troops and open the base bit by bit.

Surprisingly, SKY started its own business after retirement. Now it is so popular as an anchor that few can do business. Its products are naturally oriented to e-sports. The mouse currently used is the intelligent version of e-sports, and this metal division e-sports mechanical keyboard is a new product launched in recent months, Please follow me to experience what new ideas and concepts can bring to users from appearance design to feel.

Appearance appreciation

When I first got this product, it really weighed a lot. It had a clear sense of pressure. It was more than a tiny bit heavier than the current 87 key mechanical keyboard



The design of the packing box is very low-key, and the black color matching appears calm and domineering. Surprisingly, in a small label on the front, it is noted that the mechanical keyboard in hand uses the German original red shaft with a relatively high price, but at present, the prices of the four types of metal division mechanical keyboards, black, green, black and tea, remain the same

I like the keyboard at the first sight. The silver titanium logo is shiny. The use of metal materials brings a strong electric competition style. If you are not careful, it will be domineering and leak

The keyboard cable adopts braided cable, which has good tensile resistance and can extend the service life. At the same time, the gold-plated USB connector is also a medium high configuration, and the attached cable tie has a titanium LOGO, which is also very convenient to arrange the wire. However, at the beginning, no demagnetizing ring was found on the wire. Later, from the introduction, the demagnetizing ring was designed into the gold-plated USB connector, and the wire of the e-competitor mouse on hand also had no demagnetizing ring. I wonder if it is the same design

The metallist adopts the 104 key design. The standardized key position design brings convenience in use. The low-key shape is competent even in the office environment

The top of the keyboard is designed with a shortcut key area, which can be combined with the FN key at the bottom to realize the combination of shortcut function keys. At the same time, the switch of keyboard light effect is also performed by the combination of FN and number keys.

Compared with the 87 key mechanical keyboard without indicator lights, the three indicator lights of the metallist are more convenient to use, and the third indicator light is designed as GameMode instead of ScrLock of the ordinary keyboard. After the FN+F12 shortcut key is turned on, the keyboard will enter the full key non impact state, so that there will be no worries in the game, and more dedication to the game

The key cap is a two-color injection molding process of ABS. Long term use may lead to the risk of oiling. However, generally, PBT key caps are mostly white, and there are not many black key caps, and the cost is too high. A slightly better set of key caps is almost the same as a metal technician. However, it is also a good choice to replace some or small PBT keycaps according to the actual situation

The panel and bottom plate of the metallist adopt the overall aluminum alloy bending process, and the shape is very unique. The application of sand blasting technology makes the metal material more textured. On the other hand, it can effectively avoid leaving fingerprints. The overall metal material treatment has reached a high level, and the feel is smooth and flat, without burrs and scratches

There are four rubber anti slip pads on the back, and the keyboard bracket is hidden, which can be put into the bottom plate when not in use. The support feet of the support also have rubber anti-skid pads, and the use of two materials makes the keyboard more anti-skid

According to the official introduction, the machinist took full account of the sense of body weight that is easy to be generated by players' long-term game training, and designed the metallist to have a large elevation angle of 7-11 °, so there is a certain angle when it is placed horizontally.

In addition to the all metal base and the original cherry mechanical shaft, the light part is another major feature of this keyboard. Personally, I like the light effect. My chassis is RGB breathing light, my mouse is RGB breathing light, and my headset is RGB breathing light. Now I can add a keyboard...

The backlight mode of the metallist is actually divided into two areas, one is the backlight part, and the other is the 16.8 million color RGB atmosphere light. For the backlight part, the metallist provides 8 backlight modes, and the rich lighting effect is very cool; The RGB atmosphere lights are on both sides of the keyboard, and can also be controlled through shortcut keys just like the mouse of E-sports. However, there is still some doubt. Why not set the keyboard backlight to RGB? This is not difficult to achieve in keyboards of the same price. It would be better if it could shine together with the atmosphere light

Simple disassembly

The metallist didn't provide a free key shifter, but the removal and installation of the key cap is very simple. The only thing to note is that the installation should not be wrong. When removing the key, first take a picture of the keyboard

Like most mechanical keyboards, the shaft body of the metallist is installed in a floating island design, which makes it easy to clean the keyboard after removing the key cap

The process and feel of ABS sprayed key caps are good. The key caps are clearly etched, warm and comfortable to touch, and each key cap surface has a concave arc design, which conforms to ergonomics

This metalist mechanical keyboard uses the original red shaft of Cherry, and also provides other types of black, green and tea main shaft bodies. Those who have studied mechanical keyboards should not be unfamiliar with the four axis bodies, so they will no longer carry out science popularization. In my personal experience, the three types of black, red and tea are basically balanced, and the game typing is good. Black and red are more suitable for the game, and the trigger response is relatively fast. If the green axis is used for typing, it is very interesting. If you play a game, you will die, Or it will kill you.

Light Demo

The combination of FN+number keys 1-8 can be used to control the light effect. Several more distinctive light effects can be demonstrated using dynamic pictures

The RGB atmosphere light is controlled by the combination of FN+number keys 0 and 9. FN+0 will start the breathing light cycle, and FN+9 will switch among the seven colors

Finally, let's take a group photo of RGB devices. I love RGB... Blink me...



software test

Metal division mechanical keyboard and e-competitor mouse use the same supporting software, which is divided into PC version and APP version, both of which can control the mouse and keyboard at the same time

The first function is intelligent key changing. After the modification, the functions of hotkeys are extremely rich. Multiple settings such as single key, hotkey, and multimedia system functions can be set in the drive. The author gave a simple try. If they are modified according to personal habits later, daily use will be very convenient

The second function is light adjustment, but generally speaking, it is more convenient to use shortcut keys, and the adjustment content in the drive is more detailed

The content in the rest of the function settings is basically gray, and no adjustment has been made yet. The version in the firmware update has been updated to the latest version. After clicking, you will be prompted that there is no need to update

Review summary

At this point, the evaluation has basically come to an end. I believe that through the appearance, disassembly, lighting, software and other aspects of the display, I have a certain understanding of the mechanical keyboard of the titanium TKM300 metallist in this evaluation. So far, let's make a simple summary. First of all, from a good point of view, the appearance of this metalist's mechanical keyboard can be regarded as a high face value. The all metal base plate and sanding process have a very smooth touch, and I like this metal texture very much; The touch of ABS sprayed key cap and the touch of the original red shaft of Cherry keep the overall feel of the keyboard at the upper middle level; A variety of light effects and RGB atmosphere lights add a bit of dynamism to this mechanical keyboard.

However, I think there are still some things that can be improved about this keyboard. First, the ABS key cap still has the risk of oiling. Second, because the keyboard used before is a pluggable cable, it is a little inconvenient to replace it with a metallist. Of course, the content of the supporting software is still too small, so it still needs to continue to develop.

On the whole, the use experience of this titanium metallist's mechanical keyboard is relatively pleasant, and we can see from the keyboard design that professional e-sports people like SKY have adjusted the product, which makes the positioning of this mechanical keyboard's e-sports attributes more accurate. The metallist TKM300 can be regarded as an intentional work of mechanical keyboard products.

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