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So I have a WASD ISO full keyboard with Cherry Blue keys that I did custom MacOS keytops for that is starting to lose both keytop prints and the keys are starting to occasionally misfire.

How hard is it to find a full 101/104 mechanical keyboard, with cherry blue, ISO layout (ie big upside-down Enter/Return) with customizable keytops that are in en-US and have the MacOS keytops (L: control/option/command, R: command/option/fn) and the appropriate MacOS function key tops?

All of the ISO that I could find have one or another of the EU layouts, which I don't need or want.

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Keychron? I realise their prebuilt variants may have ISO layouts only for the various EU market segments, but they all run QMK so you could reflash with en-US keymap. They come with a set of replacement Mac/Win keycaps already, and have a physical switch to flip between the two variants.

Then reshuffle the physical keycaps to match your layout.

(Disclosure: I have two of their ISO keyboards: Q10 and Q11. Both require a wrist support, they are thick.)

The keychron K10 max seems closest to what I want and has the keytops I want (with a bit of rearranging). The UK keytops are the closest to what I want,

I already use Karabiner to swap a few things, so that's probably the closest.

Just need to be able to get blue switches, I WFH and there's no one around to be bothered by the clicking.

Considering I started "typing" on an ASR-33, and then an original IBM PC, I want the clicks :)

Pretty sure the switches are hot swappable.

There are also many more types than just regular cherry mx blue nowadays if you want clicky.

My advice would be to buy some clicky switch samples from somewhere like this; https://mechbox.co.uk/collections/switches-singles

I got the smaller K7 gen2 with their now-discontinued clicky blues and love it; really like the very light activation force.

That might be hard to find, but pretty easy to configure. Take any ISO keyboard you like, buy custom keycaps for the keys you want to look different.

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