New world best Mountain Everest gaming keyboard review

Welcome to another post I've been waiting for months to receive a final retail production sample for this keyboard and if you preorder one. 

It's definitely worth the wait, let's talk about the new mountain Everest keyboard.

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Best Future Mountain Everest gaming keyboard 

What the mountain is doing here is bringing some fresh innovation into the keyboard industry that I hope other companies might take advantage of in terms of add-ons and DLCs as I would call them here because what I have here is the mountain Everest max keyboard so the TTL keyboard with the additional knobs. 

And with that, display a dial which. It's funny to think of Type-C being everywhere on this keyboard that probably has more type-C connections than logics entire gaming lineup, of course mountain is selling the frontiers of the keyboard, either the reverse core by itself, or you can go just with a Numpad or the dial, or the whole thing together, as it's called the Everest Max.

Everest Core / Max Price

I would say getting the Everest core by itself as a TKO keyboard for 150 bucks, is not worth it in my opinion, many other TTL options are available for much cheaper, but if you plan on getting the Numpad later or the Dialpad later. 

Yes, then potentially consider the reverse core with the expectation to buy the add-ons later. It's a refreshing take on modularity that is kind of useful and cool.

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Mountain Everest Physical Overview

Keyboard will be available in two colors, silver or black with a variety of switches to choose from, and all your usual layouts to if it's a T kill body as you can see, and despite on the black model it look like plastic. 

It is a full anodized aluminum top plate with some plastic underneath, and that is because we have multiple channels for cable routing, which is great. The Type C connection is included over here that is pretty deep, we have this pretty unique through texture design on the aluminum faceplates First we have the brushed aluminum and this CNC milled aluminum around the switches. 

I would highly recommend you get the silver model because the black model doesn't look as a premium, and also it will reveal all types of dust and particles that get settled in that pattern and it's not easy to clean, we have perimeter lighting all around the keyboard but unfortunately, it's not visible to the user, nor does it spill much light to the surface. 

So it's only visible at an angle, and I feel like that's a little bit pointless. The keycaps here are Doubleshot, abs, not as strong or rigid as your double shot PBT keycaps, but the font is clean and the smooth texture is quite nice. 

For the first like 24 hours and then things get greasy and like just all your oils are visible the switches are also removable so you can swap them out for your favorite switch if that's what you desire, and my only complaint here is that the RGB illumination is not as bright as on my other RGB clear housing switches.

Typing Sound Test

I'm told there's some looping going on and the stabilizers are manually clipped, especially for the spacebar, which is stable. Here's a sound test. Take a listen.

The Everest Awesome Features

You'll notice there's a USB port in the back of the body, and it's not the USB pass through. It's an actual USB, three hubs so I can plug in my USB card reader and transfer all the photos and all the media from the SD card using that USB hub and the Zaboo keyboard is brilliant. Thank you. One cool way to angle the keyboard is to use these magnetic spacers. 

So the feet both on the keyboard and the Numpad are magnetic and are removable, and you stack a few of them into this magnetic slot, and it will angle the Numpad and the keyboard as well. 

Brilliant. It's nice and sturdy, they won't go anywhere, giving you a lot of stability on the table.

All about the NUMPAD

On both sides, you can see the USB C female connection, into which you plug in the Numpad with this unique type C mechanism at the bottom that allows the Type C to exit from the right or the left side.

Because you can mount this Numpad on either side of the TKO keyboard and having the ability to mount it on the left side, away from the mouse area with the keyboard angled as it would normally be in the form factor is just really nice for space-saving. 

Especially around the mouse area, if you do have to retrain your left hand to utilize the Numpad on the left side if you're coming from a traditional full-size keyboard but of course you can move them back to the right side, if that's what you're used to, aside from a Type C connection some magnets hold the two pieces in place and if you're not like lifting the keyboard. If it's just stationary.

It is stable, the Numpad is also really neat because we have four TFT buttons that also screen, and you can customize them to do whatever you want, opening up a program, great macros do some system commands, MIDI controls, or whatever, and of course, because they're screens, you can change the actual graphic. 

So it gives you that visual indication of what that button does, both the brightness and color vibrancy, are excellent here and the only thing is that the transparent housing of the button. This may obstruct some of the graphing that is underneath. 

When viewing the button at an angle. One of the really interesting things you can do with the Numpad as well because we have that USB C extension included that by the way, you can use with the keyboard itself. 

If you want to route that through the channels underneath and use your custom USBC cable, be my guest. But here you can use it to connect the Numpad to either side of the keyboard so it's not attached to the frame, but it is slightly offset to give you a little bit of flexibility with the positioning of this whole thing, the cables also quite thick and rigid so the Numpad won't go anywhere. 

What I like to do with the Numpad in this configuration is to add additional spacers at the bottom. So the Numpad is slightly more angled, and that gives you better visibility for those TFT buttons.

All about the Media Dock/Display Dial

But probably the most interesting module to most would be that display dial, so first of all it connects with a Type C connection to the body, either on the left or the right side, again giving users that flexibility, just as you have with the Numpad by the fifth try you will understand exactly where to plug it in, without even trying to find the connection on the body, and I love the hot-swappable nature, you can simply unplug it, plug it back in. 

On the opposite side, for example, and the same thing with a Numpad and everything is instantly recognized in the software, so you don't have to restart the computer, you don't have to plug anything, everything just works all the physical buttons on it. 

Are your MIDI controls and the function button for the scroll wheel, notice they're not illuminated, so they won't be visible in the darkness. And besides, we have the notification LED for caps lock, scroll lock, and unlock. As for the screen, it only displays information and has rotation in either direction, it's not a button, whether you can select the clock, either the time timer or the stopwatch. 

You can cycle between the five profiles that can be saved with the keyboard. Then we have the lighting effects, instantaneous volume adjustment, and brightness of all the illumination on the keyboard. I like the PC Info tab that shows the usage of your CPU, GPU hard drives, your networks, etc. 

Lastly, we have the actions permitted toggle if you're into that and a custom mode into which you can assign what the rotation of the dial does in the macro settings, I feel like this display dial has a lot of potential for future implementations. 

So, for example, my feedback to the mountain has been enabling or disabling certain functionalities between each menu so in the clock, if I don't care about the timer or the stopwatch. Let me just dislike them, uncheck them in the software, so I don't have to cycle between them. When I enter the clock functionality. The same can be applied to your PC and for a configuration where you only care about the GPU temperature and not just usage. 

You can enable that. Furthermore, when the timer runs out we have this flashing animation, which I think does the inverse of the screen, and that gives you better visibility in certain conditions, so being able to change the color of the background for example would be fantastic granted you can change the accent color in the software from the default yellow, which by the way it looks awesome to something else to match your RGB lighting.

For example, at this current state, I think they've perfected the module as good as it can be, right now in terms of the actual connection, the hot-swappable nature, the software has been super stable, have had zero issues with it, but it is a $70 add on.

If you're going from the Everest core to the one where the display dial is included, so I feel like they must add a few additional functionalities into the driver software for this display dial to be better value-added, perhaps something with game integrations would be cool or productivity things when an email shows up. 

You get an email pop-up notification on the screen or something cool was like the screen is a pretty good resolution, so you can read things like fun facts about mountains, or the brand you know there'll be cool. My only complaint with the dials that I feel like it's a bit slippery.

 

I feel like there's not enough texture around it. So rotating it with just one finger impossible to have any control, you have to use two fingers or three to give you that one-step increments. 

Lastly in the box we have the stress stressed, it's not anything too exciting is the width of the body, it is magnetic, so it's supposed to just snap in place, but I find the keyboard to be more comfortable. 

Software

In terms of the driver software, everything is intuitive, in terms of lighting customization, your macros, your key bindings, the display dial settings. 

It also seems like mountains and the really good comps with media and customers in terms of trying to add features and improve the overall user experience, like what I mentioned earlier about adding little check marks for different subcategories for those dial menus, for example hopefully that will be added later, I love that everything in the software is updated in real-time. 

When you reposition the number for example or when you plug in the display dial from the left side to the right side and aside from a few crashes and weird bugs in earlier builds, everything in the final build that I'm using now is completely stable. 

Is the Mountain Everest Worth It?

So there you have it, the mountain Everest keyboard, what we looked at today was the max version with all the attachments included. 

And it's an ambitious keyboard that I am excited to see what comes next from Mountain as a brand because these USB C connections, on all these attachments, open up opportunities for other peripherals that can simply plug and play for the future of this Everest keyboard. 

I am super impressed with what they've done with the software, it's super stable, it feels complete with all the functionality, and everything is easy to navigate and for their first driver release. 

It's awesome this whole concept of modularity is very well executed giving you the ability to mount the Numpad, either to the body or with the USB cable.

Giving you the ability to mount the display on either the left or the right side, the angle or adjustment of the keyboard is a pretty genius with the magnets, and I don't feel like there's a limitation with the Everest aside from having ABS keycaps instead of Pvt. 

But, of course, everything is hot-swappable anyway. The keycaps and the switches, I'm excited to see what the future of that display outbreaks in the market because it has a lot of potential for really cool information to display to the user. 

It's accessible, it's visible, it's modular. What more could you ask?

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I think they're heading definitely in the right direction. Thanks for reading. I'll talk to your next post.