When the Wooting 80HE landed on my desk, I wasn’t overly excited. Don’t get me wrong, I was keen to test out the fabled Wooting/Gateron magnetic switches and associated gaming features, but there’s no doubt about it: this keyboard looks like a traditional gaming keyboard. And traditional gaming keyboards ain’t exactly my jam.
Clad almost exclusively in either lurid white or jet black, punctuated by vomit-inducing rainbow RGB, with the usual bland squared-off keycaps and often very little customizability, even the best gaming keyboards do little for me versus custom productivity decks. That’s especially true given the gaming performance of decks from traditional productivity manufacturers now employing magnetic switches, like the NuPhy Air60 HE and Keychron K2 HE.
