You're going to have to work pretty damned hard to convince me there's a better Cyber Monday gaming

Update, December 1, 2024: The Everest 60, my absolute favorite gaming keyboard of all, is still available at just $40, and now you don't even need to be an Amazon Prime member to get this great hot-swappable, beautifully sounding keeb for a great price.

It's also worth pointing out that Mountain is also putting its older TKL keyboard up for sale for an incredible price, too. The Everest Core is a TKL board (basically, that's the short form of Tenkeyless and means like a normal keyboard but with the numpad lopped off), and that is on offer for .

It's also hot-swappable, but isn't quite as lovely sounding as the Everest 60 in my opinion. I have both, and much prefer the smaller keeb. Here's me looking tired from the Black Friday shenanigans with my little boi.

The big thing with the older Everest boards, however, is that they take more modular gubbins. The Everest 60 can have a numpad, but the original Everest can have a hot-swappable numpad with extra LED screens on top, and a further dial-based modular control unit.

And you can get the TKL board with those extra if you buy the , which is down from an originally ludicrous $290. And [[link]] you get a wrist rest, too.

Original deal, November 25, 2024: I feel it is my duty to remind you that great mechanical gaming keyboards do not have to be expensive. That is absolutely the case with this right now. That is just for Amazon Prime members, but it's still only $50 without access to Jeff Bezos' inner sanctum (that's what you get with Prime, right?). Anyways, the Everest 60 is a lovely wee thing, all hot-swappable switches and beautifully dampened typing feel... and now a complete bargain.

Honestly, I don't think you'll find a better this side of the new year.

I'm a big fan, as you will see from my , and it's still the keyboard I use at home despite the wealth of different keyboards that cross my desktop on a weekly basis. I could almost have my pick of any keyboard, and yet the Everest 60 has pride of place in my home.

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Now, you might be looking at that keyboard and thinking 'yeah, it looks fine, but I need a full-size option because I cannot do without a numpad.' Which is fine, I know there are some alt-code obsessed people out there, and I also know there are some games where the numpad becomes the de facto input device.

But you also don't have to miss out.

Frustratingly, they don't seem to be available at Amazon right now, but on the Mountain store you can pick up a thoroughly worthwhile accessory for this ickle keyboard: a modular numpad. It's just today.

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One of the best things about the Everest 60 is that it has an optional attachment on either side of the keyboard to allow you to attach the numpad. This lets you have it in the usual (IMO, sub-optimal) position on the right-hand side of the board, or in the far superior left-hand configuration.

It's hot-swappable, too, so you can just plug it in when you need it and it will instantly wake up allowing you to numpad away. I keep my numpad on a shelf on my desk's pegboad and [[link]] plug it in only when I'm tackling some really hefty benchmarking spreadsheets.

And like all good enthusiast keebs, it's a completely hot-swappable base and the typing feel is [[link]] excellent. Mountain might not be a familiar name to you, but it's made my absolute favorite gaming keyboard and, even better, it's now super cheap.

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