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MonsGeek's own store, pricing in US dollars and shipping most orders from China with some lines held in US stock. A change of mind has to be raised within 7 days, though a quality fault gets 30.
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The cheapest board in this batch at $29.99, and a magnetic one: Akko Astrolink switches read their position rather than closing a contact, so actuation is adjustable in software. Tray mounted with an aluminium plate, tri-mode, PBT double-shot caps. The switches are soldered, so the one thing you cannot change later is the thing the board is built around.
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The Ultra takes the FUN60 to $59.99 and makes the magnetic switches hot-swappable, with TMR sensors reading the stem. Tri-mode, aluminium plate, shine-through PBT. Magnetic hot-swap only accepts magnetic switches, so the socket does not make this a board you can put ordinary mechanical switches into later.
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An aluminium 75% at $94.99 that opens without tools, on a ball catch, gasket mounted with a PC plate and 5-pin hot-swap. This is the non-VIA model and MonsGeek says so explicitly: remapping is its own web driver, not QMK or VIA. No weight is published.
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A barebone magnetic kit at $94.99: the switches are included but the keycaps are not, so budget for a set. Aluminium case and plate, gasket structure, a 32000 Hz scan rate and rapid trigger to 0.005 mm. Magnetic switches do not interchange with mechanical ones.
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The same aluminium 75% in a contour-line theme with side-printed backlit legends, $99.99 against a $109.99 list, gasket mounted, 5-pin hot-swap, with a separate encoder PCB. QMK and VIA are not supported. The page showed a waitlist rather than stock when checked.
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MonsGeek calls this an 1800 compact and files it under compact full-size, which matches no standard layout, so it is recorded as other: check the key positions against what you use. From $99.99, gasket mounted, 5-pin hot-swap, tri-mode, and VIA only, with MonsGeek's own driver unsupported.
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