With switches and keycaps, it’s more than $100 more expensive, more in line with the boutique boards these designs are based on. But that board lacks wireless, and its barebones version is almost the same price as the non-tricked out Q1 Pro. For example, the GMMK Pro has pretty much all of these features, plus RGB side-lighting.

Most of this stuff is standard in the premium keyboard space at this point, minus the wireless option. QMK and VIA programming-easy custom programming for all keys and lighting, no proprietary software necessary.

Hot-swappable switches-swap out the key switches for anything in the Cherry MX format.

Doubleshot PBT KSA-profile keycaps-tall, old-fashioned keycaps that will never wear the legends down.

Double gasket mount-this gives the keys a little flex and “bounce”.

There are just too many features in the Q1 Pro to describe in prose. Keychron took the wireless upgrade seriously. The Q1 Pro maintained its Bluetooth connection to my desktop two rooms away, and even when I stepped out on my front porch, a solid 40 feet and three walls from the computer. Unlike similar all-metal wireless keyboards that just sort of deal with the lowered range, Keychron’s dedicated antenna makes this a keyboard designed from the ground up for wireless.

Let’s take a look at the work Keychron did to facilitate Bluetooth in that massive metal case. The new switches feel a little less smooth than the Gaterons, but since Keychron offers the keyboard in a barebones kit without any switches at all, I’m loath to complain about it. And Keychron removed the option for Gateron Pro switches, instead offering K Pro switches in linear Red (as in our review unit), tactile Brown, or stiffer tactile Banana (which also removes the stabilizing hall effect). There’s a massive 4,000mAh battery hidden underneath everything, which you won’t notice unless you disassemble everything. Other changes from the standard Q1 are harder to spot.

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