Although pretty much anything with a USB cable will work, there aren’t a lot of mechanical keyboards designed for the Mac, whether in terms of aesthetics or functionality. I was excited to test an unusual new Mac-focused keyboard called the Lofree, then, because it ticks quite a few boxes in a way that makes it like nothing else on the market.

Here are some of those boxes:

• Wireless
• Backlit
• Tenkeyless
• Mac layout
• Gateron Blue switches
• Typewriter-style circular keycaps
• Comes in red; matches my furniture

The Lofree is entirely built from plastic, but feels very solid and sturdy. Its most distinctive element is, of course, the array of circular keys arranged like a honeycomb. This combination of typewriter retro and chunky modernity is, at…

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