*CHALLENGE!* Spec me a keyboard... does anything exist with this mixture of asks?!

matt100

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Help me keyboard experts!

I have a few criteria but they seem on the face of it to be competing with each other...

Right now I use an Apple wired keyboard, I'm totally used to chiclet keyboards and I've tried mechanical and don't like it. I work from home and type a lot.. I type like I'm drunk on mechanical and the sound does my head in.

However I would LOVE an RGB keyboard.. In addition I switch between my work laptop and desktop a lot. My work laptop is fairly well locked down to the extent where USB is the only practical option... I use the USB pass through my mac Apple keyboard for my MX Master mouse dongle.

I'd like to continue that but when trying a Corsair K70 I discovered it had 2 USB cables out the back, that seemed super weird to me.

So, my ideal criteria...

Chiclet
RGB
USB pass through by single cable

Does it exist?

The closest I've found so far is the Tesoro Gram XS but it's US layout which defeats the object of moving away from the Apple KB... it also doesn't have pass through.

Then there's the K70 low profile which is close but the pass through seems derpy and it's still not chiclet.

As a fall back I'd take non RGB, backlit ideally but if there was a decent black keyboard with pas through that might be worth a look.

Thanks!
 
I don't need a numpad either and that does look good but if I'm going to move from the apple keyboard having one thats got all the right keys is a red line sadly.

The Logitech one looks great but omg the price, I don't think I can bring myself to do that.
 
Yeah it's as much a principal thing as anything, I can afford it.. my lockdown trainer addiction proves that but it just seems way OTT.. It doesn't feel like a keyboard should cost that much :)
 
Pretty sure neither of those are easily available, the Tesoro was my first choice but for starters it's US layout and then it's also barely available?
 
My use is 90% work with a LOT of typing and 10% gaming, there's no way I could get used to a full height mechanical, I'd deafen myself with it :) I'm a pretty robust typer as my colleagues used to occasionally point out when we were allowed to be in the same room.
 
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