2023 Christmas Gadget Buying Guide

DROP CTSM80 Mechanical Keyboard

Fancy treating your significant other, your kids, or let’s be honest, yourself, to a truly next-gen keyboard experience? The DROP CTSM80 Mechanical Keyboard may not be as expensive as some of the big name brands, but its quality is second to none! Featuring a truly customisable design, you can really make this something unique to you. With selectable bases, frames, keys, switches and more, you can add plenty of colour and other customisation as you see fit.

The one I got is pretty stealthy, with an all-black aluminium case, and stealthy key caps that have the font on the front face rather than on the top. However, as you can see, it still has per-key RGB customisation too. But just check out the features list, and you’ll see this keyboard has a lot to offer!

Features

• Drop
• Layout: Tenkeyless (TKL)
• 88 keys
• Case material: Polycarbonate
• Magnetic decorative top case 
• Decorative top case material: Polycarbonate
• Plate material: Polycarbonate
• Case and switch foam: PORON case foam, PORON plate foam IXPE switch foam, silicone bottom case patch and gasket layer
• Gasket-mounted with removable gaskets
• Keycap profile: Cherry
• Keycap material: ABS (with laser etched front-facing, shine-through legends)
• Switches: Gateron Brown Pro 3.0 Switches or Gateron Yellow KS3 Switches
• Hot-swappable switch sockets
• 5-pin switch support
• Stabilizers: Gateron PCBA-mounted stabilizers (screw-in)
• Per-key RGB LED lighting 
• South-facing RGB LEDs
• 14.7 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (37.4 x 14.8 x 3.4 cm) 
• QMK, VIA, and Vial compatible.

Equipped with the latest Gateron switches, and a choice of their linear yellow or tactile brown, all fully lubricated and mounted with internal gaskets, foam dampening and hot-swappable sockets, it types like a dream and is also one of the smoothest typing experiences and quietest mechanical keyboards I’ve ever used.

The magnetic aluminium top frame can be removed to customise, or you can order it with a different colour top. Furthermore, the bottom of the chassis has a metal plate to reinforce it and also adds a lot of weight to keep the keyboard feeling stable and free from vibration while you type.

For gamers, working in the office, or anything else PC-related, it’s a hard one to beat. Plus, with a truly bonkers level of hidden features built in, you can deploy macros, shortcuts, launchers, media control, RGB customisation, trigger layers and so much more on-the-fly.

Available at Drop.