Seems a decent entry price into colorful clackity-clacks.
Product description:
Engineered with 26 anti-ghosting keys, this mechanical gaming keyboard will provide you high accuracy and speed while playing games.
26 anti-ghosting keys
Blue switch keys with removable keycaps
12 LED modes
Cable length: 1.5m polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cable
USB port
Key type: 104 dual colour injected keys US layout
Charging voltage: 5V d.c. 350mA
Blue is is generally understood to be cherry-blue-style clicky switches.
Cherry Blue switches. They are heavier to actuate and make clickety clackety sounds when typing. Blues are good for typing, red is good for gaming, brown is in between.
https://youtu.be/PXCKHoiNu1o?t=15
There are more switches, but blue, brown and red are your main 3
I woulnd't consider cherry's king anymore though, just mainstream, Panda's, Glorious and newer Kaihl's are so damn good
Are they really? 🤔
@donkeydoc: I have a few exxy keyboards (Corsair etc) and recently bought a couple of cheapies from amazon for $60 odd dollars.
They were amazing, the corsair is a bit nicer, but not $150 nicer.
The cheap mechs have come a long way.
@Franc-T: Which ones if you don't mind sharing?
I'm looking at redragon, e-element at the lower end or to go a bit higher for a ikbc/durgod
@Blackfyre: If you can stretch it, I would say splash out on a durgod. I'd also recommend Leopolds at Mwave starting from $150, depending on how small you want to go, although the full-size ones are only $10 more if you need the numpad. Silent Red is acceptable for office use if you're looking at switches.
@Slurped: I don't know sorry. I use a Leopold FC900R in the office and a Ducky One 2 TKL at home. I would say it depends more on what switches you get than the actual board, although overall the Leopold is heavier and feels a bit stiffer.
It does suck a lot when looking for a new keyboard that there aren't places (that I know of at least) where you can go and try any brands that aren't the Corsair or Logitechs in JB.
Kaihl switches are only decent with a fair amount of lubing but they are NOT on par with genuine cherry mx by any measure.
Blue equals loud clickity clacks. May piss of others working or living near you
Can't be more clicky than my Kaihl Bronze. They click both on the way down and up.
I replaced my keys with 104 mini-staplers. I win.
I tried the blue switches and they're pretty bad
im getting this for work just to annoy people :)
I've been constantly told to stop typing on my brown switches when having a discord meeting. Can't imagine the destruction a blue one can do
It's super annoying listening to somebody type with blue keys.
RTX Voice will take care of that for you!
Just checked out. Nice stuff to have indeed!
@xyzzyxyzzy: You can also run RTX Voice on incoming audio to cancel out noise from other people. It's fantastic for online meetings!
rtx voice - been using it to mute clickity clack during meetings, or the newer version nvidia broadcast if you have a rtx card.
else google meet has a decent noise cancellation built into the settings too.
Wait 'til you EXPERIENCE ALL CAPS ON A MODEL M
my colleagues waited until the Christmas party before making their opinion of my brown switches very clear - with the noisy typer "ensuring everyone knows you're very busy doing all the important things" award.
I have o-rings on my Browns. I asked colleagues and they didn't seem to mind when I asked.
Wait till you hear what they're saying around the office water cooler…
@eug: If someone tells you they don't mind when you ask, then they don't get to be annoyed behind your back.
Lol someone at work got me this for KK gift….everyone hates me now but my productivity is way up
Why would it increase productivity? You're just enjoying typing more?
I've seriously been considering that for a while, finally one at the right price for it hahah
wow. Pretty noisy. I might get this for work too.
Noise monsters unite!
If that key click sound dont want you to beat your coworker with that very keyboard then you are deaf.
Bro that's Casula. lolol
Yeah. Surprised he didn't get shanked on the way in.
Wow @ that Fixed rainbow shit backlighting. Seems like a real price of junk tbh
900k views on shopping for a kb. Who is this guy?
bourne
This or Kogan?
According to the comprehensive review video posted above. Kogan.
Both will be regret
I had two Kogan one fail in the space of a few months. Gave up getting replacements on the second.
I've been using a $39 brown RGB kogan one for about a year now - no problems.
If I'd known I was going to be working from home for a year then I'd have gotten my better keyboard from the office, but the kogan is doing fine at home
I wore a Kogan (with browns switches) out in just under three months. I'm used to a Model M so I guess I'm heavy handed.
I have an early Kogan with actual Cherry MX Brown switches. It has been 4.5 years and still going strong. I'm a heavy typist too.
I don't think you should get this.. Save your money and buy a decent mech keyboard for $60
A cheap decent one like
https://www.amazon.com.au/Redragon-KUMARA-Backlit-Mechanical…
My cheapies haven't lasted a year without having issues
This is much better value than $25 for the Kmart keyboard!
My 6 year old high end mech keyboard just died after 6 years (actually only one key, but upgrade anyway). Good bang for buck IMHO.
Also saw cheap mech keyboard in reject shop if anyone still wants to go cheap.
Also saw cheap mech keyboard in reject shop if anyone still wants to go cheap.
… now that’s a sentence I never expected to see.
That's a 60% TKL plank though, it's only about half the keyboard of the full sized Kmart one.
This is a closer comparison:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Keyboard-Mechanical-Redragon-Illum…
Is there a version with a num pad? My wife needs…
Wouldn't recommend. This missus has this and within weeks it developed phantom/duplicate keypresses pretty frequently. It's pretty junky. Just spend the dosh and get something branded.
It's Anko branded.
Above Anko lol
Whats above Anko? AAnko? Can't think of any brands that would sort higher.
My 2yo loved it. He's 3 now and says he wants a second one….
Off-brand mechanical thing? Pass
Tempted but I love shit stiring everyone with my labelless keyboard.
I just use it for gaming on my gaming PC so its not hard to get the right keys.
I used to mix up all the keys on my work keyboard. It was amusing watching people trying to type on it. :)
Then casually say "oh I see you can't touch type… shame"
You can buy this keyboard as a weapon for self-defense and call yourself a keyboard warrior.
Probably not cause this keyboard will break very easily.
This is the shitty one. The $39 one is the one you want.
The major difference in function appears to be that the $39 one has a context menu key; well worth the extra cost for my usage.
I'd wait till the Kogan RGB mechanical keyboard drops back down to $30 again
I am unsure if I am the only one who hates the clickity clack noise. I prefer the silent ones…
I got one of these……
They started to call me Upper Moon 1.5 after awhile……..(demon slayer fans will understand)
Who's "they"
The same people who started clapping I'm guessing
Bit off topic but has anyone tried this Kmart GAMING microphone?
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/adjustable-gaming-microphon…
What's a good cordless keyboard?
How does this mechanical keyboard compared to the $100+ ones? I thinking of getting a mechanical keyboard for work
Spend a little bit extra and get a proper one. You might want to order a key sampler from ebay to test which type of key switch you like.
its for work so I don't want to spend too much money at all
What does "blue" mean in this description? Can't be cherries.