Macros are great, allowing you trigger a series of actions on your PC using a single shortcut. Whether for video editing, 3D modeling, or gaming, you can see just how that thing can come in handy. Problem is, you love macros so much, you’ve run out of accessory keys and keyboard shortcuts. What to do? Well, you can pick up the Keychron C100 8K Giant Custom Macro Pad.
That’s right, they made an entire custom keyboard for people who love their macros just a little too much, allowing you to create an unjustifiable amount of shortcuts for all the actions you want to automate. No need to get stingy with your macros – this thing gives you 100 new keys to string together any actions you want.
The Keychron C100 8K Giant Custom Macro Pad is a wired keyboard with a 10 x 10 grid layout, giving you a whopping 100 new keys you can use to assign your macros. All the keys are unlabeled with no pre-assigned functions, so you can put whatever macros and labels you want on them. And yes, you’ll want to label each one since it will probably be downright impossible to remember which individual key you assign to a particular function after you’ve defined several dozens of them. Can you easily find space for this in your desk? Absolutely not, since it’s quite big and unwieldy, but you’ll have to figure out an arrangement if you want the benefit of 100 new macros available at your fingertips.
Like most of the outfit’s new keyboards, it has an 8kHz polling rate, so every input registers in a mere fraction of a millisecond similar to gaming keyboards, which, let’s be honest, is totally overkill for a macro key pad. Speaking of overkill, they also threw in full RGB backlighting, with 22 built-in settings. It also supports per-key RGB, so each key can glow in an individual color, as well as mix RGB, so you can program it to behave in any way you prefer.
The Keychron C100 8K Giant Custom Macro Pad uses the outfit’s own Apex Red mechanical switches, so it gives you that loudly satisfying click every time you launch a macro. The switches are hot-swappable, too, so you can use a different switch if you want to customize the sound, force, and feel to your particular preferences. Those switches are paired with translucent black ASA keycaps that allow the RGB below to shine through, all while offering a premium typing feel and staying clean despite heavy use.
Similar to their standard keyboards, the macro pad is reinforced with enhanced acoustic foam, so the sound the switches generate is a bit more balanced. It has feet in the rear, too, allowing you to raise the rear either to either two or five degrees for comfortable positioning on your work desk. The keyboard measures 7.7 x 7.7 inches, so this is a square slab that will probably be a headache to find room for in any work space. Plus, it isn’t a wireless keyboard, so you’ll have one more cable to add to your desk’s wire mess. For mapping the keys, along with any other customizations, you can use either the open-source QMK firmware or Keychron’s own Launcher web app.
The Keychron C100 8K Giant Custom Macro Pad is available now, priced at $64.99.
