Read more.Cherry MX RGB switch keyboard, first shown at CES 2018, now available for £159.99.
Read more.Cherry MX RGB switch keyboard, first shown at CES 2018, now available for £159.99.
Seems alright to me.
Hunnerdnfifty-odd quid is a touch pricey, but I usually look for other features like macro keys.
Long as the RGB has lots of customisation options, rather than Rainbow Mode.
I have a Cherry blue based backlit keyboard. The design is almost identical to what I had back in the '90s aside from a row of macro keys and the backlighting and USB port. The angle, layout, spacing, etc is just a blast from the past. Aside from the VERY poor firmware which causes unreliability (and me having to mess about swapping USB ports to get the HID controller to do its thing) it's probably second only to an SSD in my list of more recent upgrades. The only downside is that it's bloody noisy and so I suppose brown switches would have been better but for a touch typist who learnt as a kid on blue keys (or their equivalent) and so can't change his typing style with any ease, it's great not to be smacking the keys so hard that they bottom out to get the tactile / noisy feedback. I just wish it had media keys - far more useful for me than macro keys and you can remap them if you want anyway.
volume control top left is sensible. I have NEVER understood why all my volume and multimedia controsl have ALWAYS been top right on my boards
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Yup looks quite good actually. If it was half the price I might begin to consider it!
If you're using multimedia, you're playing songs and films, which means you're probably not typing, gaming or generally mousing... You have a free hand and most people are right-handed.
Plus, when these things first came out, the largest area of a standard keyboard (in which to chuck extra PCB bits, potentiometers or whatever it uses) is top right, above the ten-key pad. Move the three Num-Caps-Scroll lock indicators and job's a good'un.
That's why, I reckon...
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