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Keychron Q6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard

SKU: KEYC-Q6M-M1
$439.90

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Keychron Q6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard - Carbon Black / Fully Assembled Knob Gateron Jupiter Red is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.


The Fully Assembled version includes:
  •  The keyboard PCB, the case, and the PC plate.
  • Keycaps (included Mac & Windows keycaps).
  • Switches.

The Barebone version does not include the keycaps and switches.

No discount codes can be used for the Q6 Max.


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Keychron Q6 Max

Introducing the Keychron Q6 Max, a full-metal QMK/VIA wireless customized mechanical keyboard with a 100% full-size layout and support for 2.4 GHz wireless, Bluetooth 5.1, and Type-C wired connectivity. The combination of reinforced multi-layer acoustic foam and double-gasket design provides an incredibly satisfying typing experience while ensuring a superior sound quality.

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Customize Your Q6 Max

Choose the keycaps, switches, and more accessories for your Q6 max.

2.4 GHz & Bluetooth Connection

Experience peak gaming performance on the fly with the 2.4 GHz wireless connection boasting a rapid 1000 Hz polling rate. For seamless multitasking across your computer, phone, and tablet, you can effortlessly connect the Q6 Max via Bluetooth 5.1 to three devices.

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A Refined Piece Of Metal Art

The entire metal body is crafted with 6063 aluminum that is processed through CNC machined, polished, sandblasted, and undergoes 24 more manufacturing stages to make this solid metal piece of art that is the Q6 Max. 

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Significantly Enhanced Acoustic Foams

Elevate the typing experience with a combination of premium acoustic foams such as IXPE, PET, and Latex. Each keystroke becomes enjoyable, making every tap a delight for the senses.

Easy Assemble

We designed every component to be able to assemble easily so you can customize and adjust each component with ease to create your ultimate typing experience.

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An Epic Core Inside The Keyboard

A powerful ARM Cortex-M4 chip (MCU) equipped with 256K Flash will provide more flexibility for developers. The polling rate is 1000 Hz right out of the box on 2.4 GHz and wired modes (90 Hz on Bluetooth mode), which makes the latency hardly noticeable even in competitive games.

Double-Gasket Design

The Double Gasket Design is a new innovative structure in the industry. In addition to the gaskets on the plates, we added silicone pads between the top and bottom cases to significantly reduce the acoustic resonance between the metals and reduce the noise of the impacted metals. 

Gasket structure of Keychron Q1 Max 75% Layout QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
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Experience the next level of key sounds and comfort with our gasket mount design together with a flexible PC (Polycarbonate) plate. This design combination allows the keyboard to maintain the flexibility of the gasket structure and improves the overall typing sound.

KSA Double-Shot PBT Keycaps

To further fine-tune your typing experience, we designed our unique Keychron spherical-angle (KSA profile) double-shot keycap set with premium non-backlight shine through PBT material, that is oil-resistant and durable for long-term use.

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Suitable for All Devices

Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility for Windows devices, the Q6 Max comes with a system toggle and an additional set of customized keycaps for both Windows and macOS systems. You can now save two different layouts on the keyboard, one for each system.

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Program The Q6 Max with QMK & VIA.

Endless possibilities for a fluid workflow thanks to its ability to remap any key, and create macro commands, shortcuts, or key combinations through the QMK/VIA.

Check out the video above demonstrating how to remap the F16 key to an Eject key with the VIA software to create a shortcut to put your Mac to sleep (Command-Option-Eject).

Get the Q6 Max keymap working on VIA

Since the VIA code for the Q6 Max is still awaiting approval from Github, it is not yet automatically recognized. Please download the appropriate keymap JSON file below, open VIA, turn on "Show Design tab" on "Settings" tab, and drag the JSON file into the “Design” tab on VIA to get the Q6 Max keymap working on VIA.

Download Q6 Max Knob ANSI (US) Keymap JSON File
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Hot-Swappable

Every detail matters for a personalized typing experience, that’s why we give you the power. You can hot-swap every switch on the Q6 Max with almost all of the 3pin and 5pin MX style mechanical switches on the market (including Cherry, Gateron, Kailh, Panda, etc.) without soldering required. You can customize your own typing experience in seconds.

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South-Facing RGB

Comes with 22 types of RGB backlight settings. You can further fine-tune the RGB hue, saturation, brightness, effect speed, and different modes, or even remap these keys with QMK/VIA.

Gateron Jupiter Switch

Our exclusive Gateron Jupiter mechanical switch (for the Fully Assembled version only) comes with a 3-pin design, its pre-lubed with a reliable Gateron quality standard with up to 80 million keystrokes lifespan. While their unique LED diffuser design offers high RGB backlight transmittance and softer backlight effect.

The banana switch provides an early tactile bump at the top with a uniquely smooth experience like those Panda switches on the market.

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PCB Stabilizers

No detail is too insignificant when it comes to your fingertip feel. We’ve integrated the PCB-mounted screw-in stabilizers for a smoother typing experience with less wobbliness on the big keys such as the space bar, shift, enter, and delete keys. You can even customize your favorite stabilizers on your own.

PCB screw-in stabilizers of Keychron Q1 Max 75% Layout QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard

Looking for ISO Layout?

The Q1 Pro ISO collection comes with fully assembled keyboards with 🇬🇧UK, 🇩🇪German, 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪Nordic, 🇨🇭Swiss, 🇫🇷French, and 🇪🇸 Spanish layout, and the “Barebone ISO Knob" option is suitable for all ISO countries (e.g.: 🇮🇹Italy, 🇵🇹Portuguese, 🇭🇺Hungary, etc.) to build their keyboard with keycaps in their preferred languages and switches. 

What's in the box?

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Specs

Width137 mm
Length446 mm
Front Height20.1 mm (without keycaps)
Back Height32.6 mm (without keycaps)
Feet Height2.7 mm
Angle5.2°
Weight2184 g ± 10 g (Fully Assembled version)
Body MaterialAluminum
Plate MaterialPC
KeycapKSA double-shot PBT keycaps, not shine-through (Fully Assembled version)
SwitchGateron Jupiter (Fully Assembled version)
StabilizerScrew-in PCB stabilizer
BacklightSouth-facing RGB LED
Hot-swappableYes. Compatible with most of the 3 pin & 5 pin MX mechanical switches such as Gateron, Cherry MX and Kailh, etc.
MCUARM Cortex-M4 32-bit STM32F402 (256KB Flash)
Polling Rate1000 Hz (2.4 GHz & wired) / 90 Hz (Bluetooth)
N-Key Rollover (NKRO)Yes for both wireless and wired modes
Battery4000 mAh Rechargeable li-polymer battery
Wireless Working Time (Backlit off)Up to 180 hours (Lab test result may vary by actual use)
Wireless Working Time (RGB)Up to 100 hours (Lowest brightness)
Bluetooth Version5.1
Compatible SystemmacOS/Windows/Linux
Connectivity2.4 GHz / Bluetooth / Type-C wired
Bluetooth Device NameKeychron Q6 Max
Operating Environment-10 to 50℃
Keychron Q6 Max User Guide

Learn more about the Keychron Q6 Max such as the Q6 Max shortcuts, assembling the Q6 Max, factory reset, and more in the FAQ section.

Customer Reviews

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Jake McNamara
Almost perfect

Everything has been working brilliantly so far, only thing is that the stock lighting effects are pretty lackluster & many of the modes do not have color options. Would love to set a color range / gradient for many of the effects (eg: jellybean raindrop, but using only shades of blue). Haven't found a way to reverse engineer the lighting effect code to mess with it yet. Have tried loading some custom firmware to get it to play nice with SignalRGB but no joy yet. Everything apart from the lighting software is 5/5

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Cameron Boyce
Great Keyboard

Love this keyboard. Very sturdy feeling and very premium. Keys feel and sound amazing. I have nothing negative to say about it

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A.
Keychron Convert

Strap in kiddo, this will take a while, but if you only want the TLDR - this board is an 11/10 and if you buy it you’ll finally be happy and get the respect you deserve in life. For a more detailed purchasing experience, read on.

The Customer Service
Before I even get started on how good the keyboard is (spoiler alert, it’s spectacular) can I just tell you how good it is to have a local supplier for a technology product that actually gives a crap?

They kept me updated, made it super easy to update my order, and even responded to every one of my emails in less than a day. I’d started to believe that mandatory 48hr waiting periods were unavoidable…this was a breath of fresh air.

The Product
Now maybe you’re way cooler than me and had already heard of Keychron, but I have to be honest, I discovered them out of desperation. I’d gone round in circles with the better known “gamer” brands but all of them had a whole bunch of extra crap I didn’t want, dubious quality control, and required downloading hideous RGB bloatware that is the stuff of nightmares.

I took a punt on keychron after seeing the name pop up in a few reddit threads…..and as this is a product review you can see what I settled on.

The build quality is unlike anything I’ve even seen. Pretty sure this will outlive me.
The banana switches were new to me, but I don’t think I can ever go back now. I’m even enjoying typing this review as a result. Nerd heaven. The RGB is how I prefer it - minimalistic, tasteful and easy to turn off!

Absolute banger. 11/10. Free yourself from the slavish bonds of gamer peripherals and treat yourself.

The best thing you never knew you wanted
A few extra sentences about my favourite unexpected discovery, and I hinted about it in the product section, but I can’t tell you how good it is to not need any additional proprietary software. The board is updated with VIA which you don’t even need to download, you can just use the web interface to update keybindings, set macros, change the lighting, etc.

Let’s be honest, Razer Synapse, ROG Armory Crate….all that stuff is horrific, unreliable and unnecessarily bloated. It’s like seeing the light after leaving a bad relationship, I’m so glad to leave all that stuff behind!

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JT
Incredible Keyboard

I've been using it for about a month and it just FEELS great and looks great. I started with Cherry MX Blacks, which were nice, but as soon as I dropped the Blues into the board, this thing unleashed its true potential. I've been missing performance like this for 25 years. As someone who writes for a living, it's insane I went this long without investing in a tool of my trade. It's so worth it.

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Lyle Keeton
Amazing keyboard

Calling this a keyboard is a bit of a misnomer. It's a next generation input device designed for your finger tips. Beautiful feel, great banana switches, and lovely key caps. I doesn't have adjustable feet on the bottom, but I'll get some thick rubber pads to raise it up a little bit. I think it's a function of the all metal frame. The thing weighs a ton, so don't expect to be moving it around a bunch. But that gives it a great feel and sound when typing and if somebody breaks into the house they are getting a keyboard to the face.

I've been looking into the Github issue to see if I can help get the JSON mapping merged into the master branch. There's both QMK and VIA that it has to be checked into, and it seems like Keychron has a single person that tries to handle all that. Some community assistance may be in order.

Keychron

Keychron Q6 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard

From $419.90
The Fully Assembled version includes:
  •  The keyboard PCB, the case, and the PC plate.
  • Keycaps (included Mac & Windows keycaps).
  • Switches.

The Barebone version does not include the keycaps and switches.

No discount codes can be used for the Q6 Max.


Color

  • Carbon Black
  • Shell White

Switches

  • Fully Assembled Knob Gateron Jupiter Red
  • Fully Assembled Knob Gateron Jupiter Brown
  • Fully Assembled Knob Gateron Jupiter Banana
  • Barebone Knob
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