Question for the mechanical keyboards crowd out there:

any suggestion for a good, Mac -oriented, 75% exploded, good sounding, under €100/150 keyboard?

I’m currently rocking an Epomaker/Ajazz AK820 Pro w/ Ajazz Gift linear switches, and I like it, but Mac support is abysmal, and more importantly keeps getting disconnected by the USB C dock every time the MBP goes to sleep, which means I have to unplug and plug it again every time I wake the Mac.

Thanks!

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It just occurred to me that the problem could lie in the Sonnet Echo 11 TB dock to which the keyboard is connected, though. Hmm 🤔

I would definitely prefer not to have to bypass it though; having only one cable to connect/disconnect from the MBP is a huge plus.

@fmarini Could verify it’s the problem with a direct connection though. Replacement “hub” type dock would probably break cheaper.

I wonder if you need a powered dock.

@tewha yep, gonna try bypassing the dock and see how that goes.

Meanwhile I found out that Epomaker sells a $8 usb passthrough dongle that adds QMK/VIAL support to wired keyboards that lack it, interesting.