tag · topic

#prebuilt

3 articles tagged #prebuilt.

Latest first

Every #prebuilt piece

Keychron's Q Ultra ZMK series brings 660h battery to the prebuilt-premium tier

Keychron used CES 2026 to announce the Q Ultra line — Q1 through Q6 prebuilts running ZMK rather than QMK/VIA. The 660h battery claim is the headline; the firmware swap is the actual story.

thockMay 10, 20264 min read

Stylized firmware-stack silhouette rendered as three layered horizontal slabs in 2px warm-grey stroke on a 1200x750 transparent canvas, with a coral wireless-signal arc radiating from the top slab and a warm-bronze board-edge highlight running along the lower edge of the bottom slab — accent dot at the apex of the coral arc.

Trends

ZMK is becoming the wireless default for premium prebuilts

A five-board flagship lineup running ZMK isn't a niche move; it's a market signal that an open-source firmware that lived in DIY-wireless territory for half a decade has crossed into mainstream-prebuilt anchor status. The vendor side has finally caught up with where the cohort already was.

thockApr 15, 20269 min read

Side-view cross-section silhouette of a Hall-effect switch in 2px warm-grey stroke on a transparent canvas — top housing, stem, and lower housing with the sensor seat — overlaid by vivid coral magnetic field lines arcing outward from the stem magnet, with warm-bronze accent hits along the housing edges.

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.

thockApr 22, 20267 min read

loading · tag