Hall effect keyboards are the new hotness, and the marketing reflects it. 0.1mm actuation. 8000Hz polling. Rapid trigger. Analog input. Half of those specs are genuinely useful. The other half are dressed-up numbers designed to make you spend $250 on features you’ll never feel. I’ve been reviewing input devices for fourteen years and running HE…
I’ve had a Wooting 60HE sitting on my desk as my daily driver for the better part of two years. I’ve also got a drawer full of mechanical boards going back to the original Cherry MX days — some still working, some very much not. So when readers ask me about hall effect switch durability…
Short answer: yes, you can mod a Hall Effect keyboard — just not every mod, and not the way you’d treat a regular mechanical board. I’ve torn down a handful of HE boards over the past two years, and the cleanest way to think about it is this: the sound mods all still work, most…
Here’s something I didn’t expect to be writing in 2026: the magnetic keyboard people are already trying to obsolete the magnetic keyboard. Hall Effect was supposed to be the future. Now there’s a new acronym — TMR, short for Tunneling Magnetoresistance — turning up on spec sheets from CHERRY XTRFY, MonsGeek, Keychron, and a half…
Three years ago, asking “are hall effect keyboards worth it” was basically a Wooting question. One Dutch startup, a couple of niche forums, and a lot of skeptical raised eyebrows at $200 for a 60% board. That world is gone. You can grab a working magnetic board for $40 now, and every major brand —…
I keep hearing the same line at meetups: “Hall effect switches are basically magnets, right?” Close. That’s also like calling a car engine “basically explosions.” Technically not wrong. Misses everything that matters. If you’ve been trying to figure out how Hall effect switches work — really work, not just the marketing-deck version — this is…
