Lemokey L5 HE 8K keyboard review

pcgamer.com:

Far be it for me to bore you with physics, but the Hall effect—the production of a potential difference across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current, as you well know—is brilliant. At least, it is when it’s applied to keyboards and game controllers, as it allows them to use something quite like a motion sensor that works over a tiny distance instead of a microswitch or bits of metal and plastic sliding over one another. This means keyboard switches with quicker response times and less grinding of plastic parts against other bits, so your switches wear out less easily.

All of which sounds great, and PC Gamer has long been a sucker for anything that seems like it might speed up keypresses. It’s also not new, and we’ve seen boards from the likes of SteelSeries, NuPhy and more—many of the best gaming keyboards, in fact—apply the Hall effect, and do it really well.

The Lemokey L5 HE 8K keyboard is the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, and Lemokey is a fork of Keychron whose keyboards have traditionally reviewed well. Indeed, the L5 HE isn’t too dissimilar to the Keychron Q3 Max—at least outwardly.

What Lemokey has provided is a 75%-size rapid trigger gaming keyboard with an 8,000 Hz polling and scan rate, Hall effect switches, and 0.01 mm sensitivity. It’s also, as you notice the instant you get it out of the packaging, extremely heavy. Sharpen this keyboard (and it already has quite an edge at the back), stick it on a pole, and you’ll be wielding an effective weapon once society collapses.

Switch type: Hall effect
Keycaps: PBT
Lighting: RGB
Onboard storage: none
Ports: 1x USB-C
Connection type: Wired
Cable: USB Type-C/USB Type-A, detachable
Weight: 1.8 kg
Price: $199

But until then you’ll have around 1.8 kg of machined aluminium and plastic on your desk that’s quite resistant to being pushed around no matter how much you hammer away on it.

And it sounds amazing.