Maybe it was the past few months of RAMnarök hacking away at my optimism, but my first thoughts upon handling the fifty-buck Epomaker HE68 Lite fixated on how it might not just be cheap in the good way. Surrounded by a bezel of hollow, slightly scratchy plastic, it certainly lacks the reassuringly brick-like heft that most mech boards have over their membraned cousins, to an extent that’s only partially accounted for by its compact 65% form factor.
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