I guess for me the biggest difference compared to a Charybdis is that it’s a professional product.
I love the Charybdis as a project, but due to the price, I would rather go for something that can resist the test of time.
If you didn’t buy the Advantage 360 yet, there is a refurbished store and I found a $50 off coupon. Saved about $100 on the Advantage 360 Pro. The pro wound up being cheaper. You can use it for the backlight but wired if you don’t want Bluetooth.
I really would love to even test drive the keys or the layout but the price point is just absurd for these things. Anyone have a suggestion for someone wanting to jump into the ergo keyboard game?
If you are all in on split keyboards, I would recommend the glove80
I also have the Pro version, and I like it, with caveats.
First of all, the LEDs are waaay too bright. I had to change their brightness levels in the firmware, which was not the easiest as IIRC the code for that was not the best documented.
On the flipside, making changes to the firmware, compiling and uploading it to the keyboard is quite easy.
Secondly, the Bluetooth can be a bit buggy. Not only can the keyboard randomly refuse to connect (for which the fix is a button combo to forget the connection), the two halves themselves sometimes have trouble connecting.
Thankfully, that’s a rare occurrence, even if still quite annoying.
The keyboard itself, however, is still quite comfortable for my tiny hands, is very customizable in terms of what key does what, and you can connect it directly to your PC via cable.
The last one also has a caveat, though, as there’s currently no way for the two halves to talk via cable (though I think some people are working on that, at least for the pro version).
I needed something good for work, and I mostly got it. I’m planning to stick with this keyboard until it dies.
Oh, and I like that you can adjust the tenting, though I always use the highest setting.
I have been daily driving the pro version of this board for the last year.
This is my favorite keyboard I have owned.
So far my keyboard journey has been:
- Corsair mechanical keyboard
- Microsoft sculpt
- ZSA Moonlander
- Kenesis 360 Pro
- Corne
Figuring out how to customize the keybindings was a bit of a journey, so if you are fine with wires the standard edition would be a better fit. For the standard edition it’s keybindings are configured via an app.
