![]() ![]() The long pole reduces travel distances and creates a rather harsh bottom out that, in my opinion, enhances the tactility of the switch as the entirety of actuation is basically the bump. ![]() The significant difference between the HPX and regular Holy Pandas is the removal of the long pole. The rounded nature of the bump provides a rather comfortable typing feel that is significantly less fatiguing than what you might expect from a Moyu, with the roundness of the bump creating a more drawn-out tactile event. The bump is quite rounded in nature, very dissimilar from a lot of bigger tactiles that adopt a rather sharp bump. With a rather strong and prominent tactile bump occuring towards the very top of actuation with basically little to no pre-travel occuring before the bump. They are a good representative of the tactile bump that people have come to know and appreciate about the Holy Pandas (and their variants). Perhaps the most pertinent thing to address is the tactile feel of the HPXs. They were purchased directly from Drop for a price of around $1.14 AUD per switch before shipping. The HPXs come with factory lubrication and are available in packs of 35 in both 3 pin and 5 pin configurations. Manufactured by Gateron, the HPXs adopt an opaque nylon bottom housing, a translucent, smoky top housing and a standard-length pole POM stem and a 60g spring. With that being said, let’s see if this is a decent switch at the end of the day. The changing of the housing materials, the removal of a long-pole stem and the switch of manufacturer to Gateron lead one to believe that the HPXs are just a tactile that happen to hold two of the most infamous names in the hobby, Drop and Panda. ![]() The HPXs represent an odd entry into the storied history of the Holy Panda line, supposedly disposing of some of the elements that people have come to know and love about the Holy Pandas. The results have had varying levels of success but the Holy Panda has remained as one of the most prominent switches in the history of the mechanical keyboard hobby.ĭrop Holy Pandas were set on fire to see if they were made out of POM, Glorious Holy Pandas were renamed to Glorious Pandas after a bit of a kerfuffle and Tecsee Purple Pandas have seeming replicated the Holy Panda feel after (supposedly) being one of the manufacturers of one of the iterations of the Holy Pandas. Since then, they have been replicated, rehashed, reimagined and redone to death. The original Holy Pandas was an odd frankenswitch, cobbled together by placing a tactile, long-pole stem into a linear housing that achieved a rather unique tactile experience. Terrible sounding stock, improves with lube and ![]()
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