Review, Teardown: Epomaker Carbon60 60% DSA Low-Profile Wireless Mechanical Keyboard

Let’s just say, I’ve been quite productive as of late … as I’ve been reviewing yet another keyboard. Since my last review of the Epomaker TH99 Pro , Epomaker have been generous enough to offer me another review opportunity, this time addressing one of my qualms about the TH99 Pro – its weight. For productive people that travel about, we often compromise on keyboard comfort when we’re not at home. Mushy membranes seem to be the only thing on offer normally, as a mechanical keyboard is physically big and heavy, making it inconvenient to carry around in a backpack and nearly impossible to squeeze into a 7kg carry-on allowance when all other battery-operated digital items are considered. To address this, I chose Epomaker’s Carbon60 – a 60% keyboard (i.e. fewer keys) built in a carbon-fibre chassis using hot-swappable, low-profile Gateron switches with a DSA keycap profile. The whole keyboard is specified to weigh around 457g (less than half-a-kilogram) and still retains a 3000mAh battery, USB/2.4GHz Wireless/Bluetooth tri-mode connectivity and per-key south-facing RGB LEDs. Best of all, it advertises QMK/VIA programmability, which seems to tick all of the boxes. To be fair, I decided to spend just over a month with the Carbon60 as my primary keyboard to see how I liked it. In that time, I’ve managed to type the equivalent of about 70,000 words with it – blog posts, job applications, research papers, terminal commands, shortcut keys for photo/video editing and even a tiny bit of casual gaming. In short, enough time to really get acquainted with the keyboard and for most of the Fn+ key combinations to become muscle memory. Will I fall in love with the Carbon60? Thanks to Epomaker for supplying this unit for review under the review challenge terms . Unboxing The unit arrived inside a satchel with ample bubble-wrap inside. Inside, the product box was shrink-wrap sealed. The front of the box shows a line-art image of the keyboard alongside some of its key features –…