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Cross-section of a Gateron Magnetic Jade switch drawn in a single warm-grey stroke — polycarbonate top housing over a closed nylon bottom, a POM stem with a small rare-earth magnet seated in its base, descending toward a Hall sensor pad on the PCB below. A coral callout line picks out the magnet and the sensor, with faint coral field lines tightening between them, and a small warm-bronze theme dot sits in the upper-right margin.

Gateron Magnetic Jade: the Hall-effect linear built to be argued about like a mechanical one

Pull a Magnetic Jade apart and the parts list reads like a mid-tier mechanical linear: polycarbonate top, nylon bottom, POM stem, factory lube. Where the leaf would be, there is a magnet. That one substitution explains the feel, the sound, and why it will not fit half the Hall-effect boards on the market.

thockAug 21, 202611 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across six data points before leveling into a flat plateau across the final two, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hall-effect stopped climbing. That's not the same as cooling off.

The Hall Effect/Rapid Trigger category has held flat at 97 on thock's trends tracker for two straight weeks, after climbing from 82 in late June. A flat line at the top of the chart looks like fading interest if you're reading it as a stock ticker. Read as a market snapshot, it says something closer to the opposite.

thockAug 12, 20266 min read

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