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Spec sheet
- Layout
- 60
- Case material
- plastic
- Mount style
- tray-mount
- Hotswap
- yes
- Wireless
- no
- Released
- Apr 1, 2022
The board thock's Hall-effect coverage keeps citing as the analog-input reference point: hotswappable Lekker Hall-effect switches, true analog input, and per-key adjustable rapid trigger in a tray-mount ABS case. Wired USB-C only, no wireless option. Entered mass production in April 2022 and remains the fixed point reviewers measure newer HE and TMR boards against for rapid-trigger tuning depth and configurator maturity.
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Deep Dives
How optical switches actually sense a keypress
An optical switch replaces the metal contact with a beam of light. That one change eliminates contact bounce entirely, reshapes the latency math, and is why some optical boards can offer per-key actuation at 0.1mm granularity. The mechanism is simpler than the marketing makes it sound.
thock12 min read
Trends
How Hall-effect quietly became the new mid-premium default
The polling-rate hype is loud and easy to wave off — 8K, 32K, numbers chasing each other up the spec sheet. The quieter story is that the magnetic-switch tier has stopped being a Wooting-shaped niche and has settled into the $100–$230 prebuilt slot the scene actually buys from. The volume has moved, not just the marketing.
thock7 min read
Wooting 60HE+ appears in editor-curated build sheets.