I have had an interesting time with the frog mini. I do like it, but it has to go. I'm not using it enough to justify keeping it in the collection, and it was a really irresponsible purchase.
Since I didn't make a "real" review video, I will just write some thoughts down here.
This keyboard is really pretty. Its a nice dark purple color, similar to what I thought the cycle7 void elf should look like. The anodization is smooth, and, as far as I can tell, flawless.
There are internal and external brass weights. The font used to spell out "frog" on the external weight is funky, but I have no doubt that was intentional. I don't stare at the bottom of my keyboards so I don't really care, but it doesn't look all that good.
The typing feel is pretty inoffensive. I settled with putting 80a tadpoles on the corners, and 50a tadpoles on the inside. It has a decent balance of the 80a feel with 50a sound. I didn't enjoy how much vibration I could feel using all 50a tadpoles, so this balance is very enjoyable.
The sound is where this board drove me crazy, especially at first. I like how it sounds in this config, but man did it take a TON of trial and error to get there. I tried both alu and laminated plates, 50a and 80a tadpoles, pbt and abs caps, and tons of different switches. But they all didn't sound that good to me. This board always had this underlying hollowness that I could not get rid of. The friend I bought this board from included plate foam, so I tried that, but it sounded way too foamy to me unfortunately. That, and it didn't even fix the hollowness to my ears. Again, this config sounds great to me, but its very clacky so I haven't been using the board a ton.
As far as negatives go, the most obvious one is the stock feet. The stock feet are among the worst I have ever used. The amount of desk noise with these feet is absolutely unacceptable. There is more thudding of my desk than there is keyboard sound. Its absolutely insane. I opted to take off the stock feet and put rubber bumpons on the bottom of the case. That eliminated most, if not all of the desk noise.
Overall though, I got this board at a steep discount and still don't feel like it was entirely worth it. I am really glad I got to try and own this board for a while, but it's just not worth keeping around to me. Plus, it will be going to a good home.
Keyboard specs:
Geonworks Frog Mini (purple)
Laminated Plate
Mix of 50a and 80a tadpoles (80a corners, 50a inner)
Mode Tomorrow Tactile Switches (stock)
Removed stock feet, replaced with bumpons
GMK White on Black Keycaps (super heavily used)
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