We've talked a lot about fancy mechanical keyboards on ExtremeTech, including Star Trek homages, travel boards, and gamepads. That's just barely scratching the surface, though. You might think it's ...

If rubber dome keyboards are at the bottom of the keyboard hierarchy and mechanicals near the top, where does that leave Topre’s electrostatic capacitive switches, which combine a rubber dome and a ...

Ever since we got deep into samples of testing all the varieties of switches on the Cherry MX base offerings, and also seeing some white ALPs switches, it has always been in our mind to see what the ...

What makes Topre Realforce keyboards special are the electrostatic capacitive switches. The ‘mechanical’ term is not quite applicable to a Topre switch, since it uses a mat of rubber domes and no ...

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The Realforce RGB functions as advertised in that it’s a Topre keyboard with full RGB backlighting, but some of the Topre magic’s been lost in the transition. Oh, and it’s silly expensive. Topre ...

The RGBing all the things had led to the invention of the RGB shoe, an invention that many of us did not know we needed. I think we can now say, that’s enough RGB. But, I’m sure some of you are now ...