A Geek Goes Flying

NuPhy Air75 v2 Basalt Black NuPhy has upgraded the Air75, a keyboard I’ve been futzing around with for about two years , recently releasing the Air75 v2 . In so doing, they appear to have addressed my critiques, including: Compatibility with the newer MacBooks with “Airfeet v3” ... These are foldable, too, not the easily lost magnetic risers from the earlier Air 75. (To their credit, NuPhy sold me several for a reasonable sum, like $8?, when I asked. But I’d much rather not have to even worry about losing feet.) VIA programmable, important as I’ve gotten very used to the HHKB layout, but the boards aren’t that portable. I can at least approximate it with VIA mapping, without having to deal with the kludge that is Karabiner on every machine I might use with it. New switches. I already swapped my Air75 to Wisteria switches , which were better, but now there’s a Moss option (60gf operating force), which might be even better still: “Taking a page from Gateron’s Baby Kangaroo, Moss is the ...

Continuing my practice of distilling my stream of consciousness rambling down to the nuts and bolts of where I ended up... I was one of the early buyers of the NuPhy Air 75 (also available through Amazon , with prime shipping), and I opted for the brown switches. Didn’t love ’em. When they upgraded the logic board I asked and they sent me the revised board, gratis. When they released the shine-through keycaps , I bought them for $19. When they came out with new low profile Gateron switches, I picked up a set of the 55g Wisterias , and so far, I like them a lot more than the v1 browns (50g). They’re a bit stiffer, and I find I don’t have miskeys nearly as often, while the switches are still relatively quiet and not fatiguing. I dig this setup, both with MacBooks and with an iPad using the NuFolio V2 ( Amazon ) case. (I also picked up a set of Gateron blues , before the Wisterias were in stock; I wasn’t wild about putting clicky switches in this board (which, being so portable, I wa...