Mountain Everest Max Keyboard
Product Review: Mountain Everest Max Keyboard + Peripherals: Tobias Brinkmann created Mountain, a Freiburg, Germany-based business that creates and produces premium gaming accessories. Their devices, which include keypads, mice, and keyboards, have exceptional build quality and distinctive designs. Several of the gadgets include magnets to facilitate physical connections, such detachable mouse wings, and make advantage of USB-C connectivity. Rather of tucking a tab into a slot on the box, these items’ packaging uses magnets to keep flaps down.
Base Camp, their free program, assists you in configuring all of your Mountain devices. It is important that you download Base Camp before using them on your computer. Let’s examine the Makalu Max mouse, Everest Max keyboard, and DisplayPad controller.
Mountain Makalu Max
Makalu Max mouse
Additional side grips, weight rings, a USB cable, and a wireless dongle for flexible connection are included with the $59.99 USD Makalu Max mouse. It has eight programmable buttons, adjustable RGB lights, and a Pixart PAW3370 sensor with up to 19,000 DPI. The Kailh GM 8.0 switches are sturdy, and the supplied rings allow you to change the weight. A sniper button is also included for fast DPI adjustments. Changing the RGB settings and button functionalities is a simple task using Base Camp. It syncs perfectly with Razor Chroma and glides well on a Razor RGB mouse pad.
My computer detected the new USB device as soon you plugged in the Makalu Max mouse, and the Base Camp program instantly displayed it. Given my familiarity with Corsair’s ICue software, It had little trouble navigating to the RGB settings and key bindings to configure the eight buttons. In addition, They replaced the mouse’s conventional side grips with broader ones and put one of the weights to the bottom of the device.
Everest Max Keyboard
Everest Max Keyboard Price
The Everest Max keyboard, which retails for $199.99 USD, is housed in a large gunmetal gray aluminum box. It has a magnetic wrist rest, five USB-C connectors for peripherals, and hot-swappable Cherry MX switches. The media dock and keypad that come with the keyboard match and may be personalized via Base Camp. With the included tool, switching switches is simple, and additional switches and keycaps are available for customization.
The keypad’s adaptability and the way the USB-C connection was established to the keyboard. Above the number keys on the keypad are four programmable buttons. These may be programmed to do certain actions, such as launching the Chrome browser, using the Base Camp software, which detected the keyboard as soon as they inserted it into the computer.
When the Max keyboard and media dock are joined, the aluminum gunmetal keyboard and keypad complement each other in color, giving the impression of a single modular item. With the provided key switch removal tool, changing a key switch is simple. To further personalize the keyboard layout, Mountain offers both key switches and key caps for around $40 USD. Without a doubt, a computer modder would use this keyboard!
Makalu Max
Dock Media
Let’s move on to the media dock, which is meant to facilitate standard media operations. It also has a display dial that allows you to customize it to show an image or a digital or analog clock, and it gives you access to other options found in the Base Camp software that runs on your computer. It seems that in order to keep the Everest Max keyboard and Makalu Max mouse operating to their maximum potential, you must have the Base Camp program running in the background.
Using the Base Camp program, configuring the Everest Max keyboard is simple. There are several lighting settings, including synchronizing possibilities, whether it’s are RGB or not. Additionally, there are possibilities for recording macros and creating key bindings. It set one of the four keypad buttons to launch Chrome (which loaded in the Chrome icon automatically) to test the binding function.
The two buttons on the keypad have default bindings that open the file and task managers in your Windows operating system. Here is where you might take some time to record macros or figure out bindings. It really helps not to have to commit the functionality to memory two weeks later, which is made possible by the option to insert text.
Makalu Max
DisplayPad controller
Included in the $69.99 USD DisplayPad is a gunmetal frame with 12 customizable buttons and a base. It may be used alone or coupled with the Everest Max keyboard. It lacks RGB illumination, but Base Camp allows you to use macros and app bindings. It’s useful if you want more programmable buttons than the four on the keypad. With Base Camp, each device supports several profiles, allowing you to quickly access various profiles by using the keypad’s buttons.
It discovered that the DisplayPad controller functioned better with its supporting base than when it was fixed to the Everest Max keyboard in my workbench computer configuration.
The DisplayPad appeared in Base Camp when they connected it into the computer. Although it lacks RGB options, it can be bound to apps and macros, much like the four buttons on the Everest Max keypad. There is one button that opens Steam which means it can play games quickly. If you want more programmed buttons than the keypad can provide, the DisplayPad comes in useful. You may use the keypad’s buttons to switch between various profiles since every Base Camp device supports several profiles. You may choose not to use the DisplayPad if money is tight.
Performance of Gaming
They tested all of the Mountain equipment in World of Tanks-Blitz while it was connected to the gaming PC (Thinking Outside the Box-2). They found the new setup to be equivalent to the previous CoolerMaster SK-650 keyboard and EVGAX20 mouse, however the Makalu Max mouse may be somewhat more precise. The Mountain devices worked very well overall, and they haven’t yet fully explored all of the programming possibilities, particularly with the eight programmable buttons on the Makalu Max.
