two years ago logitech released the g613 the first mass-market truly wireless
gaming mechanical keyboard and since then china's been doing what china does
best copying it
a lot so we picked up most of the what seem
like pretty good value mechanical wireless keyboards off of amazon and
we're going to be taking them all for a test drive
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packaging of the wireless mechanical keyboard
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uh hard disk space okay packaging is not
exceptional but sufficient i'd expect it to arrive in one piece or
two pieces as it were remember this is wireless and it comes with its own 2.4
gigahertz dongle it can also operate in wired mode but i was a little
disappointed to find that it uses a micro b connector it does have a braided
cable though and it turns out it's got built-in RGB lighting effects everywhere
else on the box it just says mechanical keyboard but if we look at package
contents it says wireless mecha membrane gaming keyboard usually it's advertised
as mechanical feel i would describe the build quality as satisfactory for 60
bucks not a ton of deck flex though especially considering it's a full 104
key size the on off switch is on the bottom that's a bit of a drag whoever
the oem for this keyboard is because maybe it's not g cord provides the
option with this chassis to have a wrist rest that clips on here but clearly that
was not included in the box initial impressions of the switches
not great i would describe the keycap stability as
average at best i'm happy to see double shot keycaps at this price point though
that means that a the light shines through which is good and b
that legend whatever you might think of the style of
it is never gonna wear off wait these
aren't RGB they're just colored leds that are
arranged from red to green to blue all
right you guys got me but if you were to tell me hey look this
is like a 40 mechanical keyboard and it's another
20 bucks 25 bucks for wireless
even without RGB lighting it still doesn't look like a terrible value at
least so far let's bring on our next contestant my favorite thing about the
gk89 right out of the box is that they just wear their inspiration from car
brands right on their sleeve moto speed
people like cars right well this is a keyboard that's like a car this looks
like it comes from the same damn factory this is exactly the same keyboard but
with blue switches isn't it this is exactly the same keyboard i totally
called it boyce this oem has the option to include a wrist rest you know one
thing i didn't mention last time but should have
yeah they've both got a bit of an undesirable
twanginess to them i do prefer these switches though they're temu as well
okay obviously the keycap stability is identical the wrist rest meets
expectations actually no it's not great is it i wish
it was a little taller at the price we paid i actually quite like this it's not
trying to pretend that it's got a multi-colored led lighting scheme at 70
dollars it's a bit of a tougher sell but
it's still not terrible next you shall use the game saw the game sir
please tell me it's called game sir oh my god i love that brand name so this is
using ttc mechanical switch this is the game sir gk 300 one millisecond wireless
mechanical gaming keyboard this one's got a big old battery in it if the specs
or anything to be believed that's about that's more than double the capacity of
the first ones we looked at this is a nice feature it's got both 2.4 gigahertz
and bluetooth connectivity so the backlight turns off in a minute and
it'll go to sleep in 120 seconds this is
a tremendous gaming slogan game sir gaming is winning they've clearly never
seen me game and that is a pretty nice looking fully
custom wrist rest even if it's not especially well constructed kind of
plonk the rubber feet on the bottom of the keyboard into these little grooves
on it yeah that's here kind of ingenious i
like it it doesn't hold on especially well but
in actual use i don't see that being a problem
initial feel impressions are not bad reasonable deck flex i'm a little bummed
that the height's not adjustable but i think i know what happened here that has
got to be where the battery is stored also this is an underrated feature
somewhere to put the freaking dongle when you're not using it that is
absolutely fantastic that is a supple
chord a little short but supple so we're going to go into 2.4 gigahertz mode it
is backlit i love that they've moved the on switch for the keyboard to the front
this is a big improvement and it's got some other creature comforts so it's a
different color depending on the mode blue for bluetooth
green for 2.4 green hertz
and it blinks red if your battery is low i'm not a huge fan of not having
dedicated indicators for numlock and caps lock this is a fairly feature-rich
keyboard considering the price point it's at 55-65 bucks the construction of
this board doesn't have nearly the same resonance
as those other two i have never tried ttc switches before so uh i think i like
these better than the otemu blues for sure even the id of this thing is pretty
darn good for like some generic keyboard off of amazon like it's got these nice
rounded corners super slim bezels on the chassis so it doesn't take up an
unnecessary amount of space on your desk so right and left give us access to
different effects i think these gaming ones are apparently for pubg apex
legends and fortnite that'll age well when those games definitely stay super
popular forever this takes a lot of boxes for me at this price point
at the same price the velocifire velocifier yep the
velocifier vmo2ws is gonna have to
impress me a lot after my experience with the game sir a non-braided cable
but that does include hook and loop fastening we're back to a more classic
look with wider bezels and kind of a chunkier feel to it but i don't
necessarily think that that's a bad thing we've got all the indicator leds
that i could ask for that usb type c connector that i'm really pleased to see
pretty basic bottom i wish that these rubber bits were integrated a little bit
better you can see those would be really easy to lose but at least they're there
i guess and oh no we're back to the bottom
mounted on off switch overall it's got kind of a basic corporate look and even
feels kind of like a like an office keyboard this seems oh yeah we well over
a kilogram typists and programmers these seem to be a brown clone of some sort as
expected it is brown in color so that seems to be what they're going for many
of you will probably know this but cherry's patent on the original mx
switch design expired a few years back so you can find pretty much everyone in
their dog making clones of their switches now with everyone adding their
own little bit of flavor i'm not a huge fan of what they've done here but as
overall a lover of the cherry mx brown switch
this is pretty comfortable for me and even though this doesn't have a metal
front plate or anything like that the construction overall is quite solid
and the plastics that they are using
feel like good solid plastics
no twang whatsoever either
just like the other ones it's got backlighting unlike the other ones
there's not a lot of control there's brightness up or brightness all the way down
something to note is that while some amazon reviews do mention alternate
lighting effects we could not find any way to activate that or any mention of
it in the manual so maybe it's possible some people are
actually receiving an entirely different keyboard but at least the one that we
got i actually quite like it for 60 bucks like this is the most
solid feeling keyboard out of the bunch and if i didn't need any gamery features
or gamery aesthetic i actually quite like this and usbc
makes that is a big deal to me so far these have been shockingly good
are you saving the crap for last this thing looks terrible
really not a lot of information on the outside of the box
here included keycap puller and one of my dials fell off let's just go ahead
and put that back on there both of these dials spin completely freely i have no
idea at this time what they do why does this have a cord permanently attached to
it and an on off switch wait is this even a wireless keyboard
wait what the hell page says it's wireless the reviews say it's wireless
but this is what we got you gotta be kidding me it's just not even wireless
what just there is a wireless version that
some people have oh so some people get a wireless one yeah because otherwise why would it have
an on off switch at the bottom oh wait it's just for the it's just for the
lighting it is true RGB though blue clones from
jigsaw design
switches are a little cheap feeling not a very nice actuation bump these keycaps
are terrible the ridge especially on the space bar given that it doesn't have a
way to prop it up out of the box oh
okay i mean the lighting effects are definitely better than any of the ones
we've seen so far but there is power draw associated with the processor
that's required to change around lighting effects and stuff like that i can understand why they would leave it
out of a wireless one okay what's this one do so spinning it is next song
previous song okay clicking it is pause
pressing it and spinning it is volume up and down that's actually not very
comfortable to use shouldn't that just be spinning yeah because you end up like
getting your thumb jammed in between the pause key and
the volume wheel nope i'm not impressed i'm out i'm done forget it
you're done okay
and an ill assortment of various parts is that right royal cluj these three are
all from the same brand but they are slightly different models so we've got
the rk 61 rk 71 and the sync 87g
i'm going to start with the 61 which presumably is a 60
keyboard that's weird i don't see the wireless dongle in here it's possible we
misplaced it
oh lame
all right well that automatically disqualifies it for gaming use overall
the build feels not great
not bad part of why it's as stiff as it is is just because it's such a small
layout we've got a usb micro b again
it's got a variety of lighting animations as well as controls for both
brightness and speed of the animations i'm not a huge fan of these shrunken
down layouts at the best of times but there are certain sins that they can
commit that bother me more than others this one retains the Windows key which i
personally really like to have there's so many window shortcuts that require it
this i find confusing so i'm at arrows by default and function this shift gives
me a question mark let's try the 71.
one of the keycaps fell off in the box that's always a good sign you didn't
check out the switches oh yeah i didn't check out the switches here
it looks like they're using their own branded switches this is an rk blue i
would describe their rk switch as feeling fine actually there's nothing
that really bothered me or stood out as being really different from an mx blue
these are from the same brand but these are very different looking designs so
first of all this is kind of cool these appear to be little magnetic feet
i don't know how well these are going to stay on here but hey they're there
also there's a place to hold your wireless dongle but i don't actually see
it so is this a bluetooth only model is there no dongle nope well then yes
thanks james oh it's got some cool lighting effects on the bottom all right
pairing mode here we go that was painless going from 61 to 71
keys we get dedicated arrow keys also i found the legend to be a little bit more
intuitive here that is clearly brightness up and down that is clearly
speed up and down backlight's not very bright on this one oh
is this a more mac optimized one interesting oh yeah look at that it's
got option command and all that stuff on here as well as Windows and then this is
really cool so there's five different profiles here and you can
quickly with a function press switch between different devices so you
could have this keyboard paired with your pc your mac your phone your ipad
and then just trippy schwappy switch between them so this is like the
multitasker keyboard and it's usb type-c
which i really like to see i could get into this this is just
bigger enough that you've got proper dedicated arrow keys
and i would find this a lot less confusing to use
finally the sync 87g another usb type-c model pretty
hefty feeling you know this is kind of a classic feeling one kind of like the
velocifier these have got to be brown clones
they're atemu browns the twangy sound is not nearly as bad as
the first ones but definitely not as good as the
velocifire stupid switch on the back
like that again and another oh wow
okay well at least the rubber thing's a little harder to get off on this one
interesting this one's not bluetooth at all so we've got an included dongle
again so i can go ahead and plug that in and maybe it'll come to life now yep no
pairing process required and you know i like the otemu browns a
little bit better on this one than i did on the other one
and it's got true RGB backlighting look at that that's not bad i could forgive
some of the build quality compared to the velocifier
it's got a caps lock indicator and it's a 10 keyless layout so there's obviously
no number lock lots of lighting effects on this one though so that's pretty cool
how much is this guy 52 to 55
really that is not bad i'd say it's pretty well
balanced the atemu browns are fine even if they're not my favorite
RGB lighting it's like reasonably well built and it's got
usb type-c as well which i didn't even mention just now and that's a pretty big
one for me i like it now i got to pick favorites oh
any one of these three i think you could buy for between 55 and 65
and be pretty darn happy with it they've got some trade-offs so the velocifier
here i think is really my my office keyboard weapon of choice usb
type-c not a ton of lighting stuff not a ton of frills but
the build quality of this one really stood out from the rest of the pack the
kluge 87 ends up being actually kind of
like a 10 keyless version of that it's got great RGB lighting it's still usb
type type-c and felt pretty darn good to use it and then if i had to give
anything the number one award i actually
ended up really liking the gamesa it's got a massive battery it's got good
lighting on it i actually really liked the key switches compared to some of the
other off-brand key switches that we checked out today right and i can't
forget the dongle holder how did nobody else include a dongle holder how much
more does it cost to have a little place to stick a usb i have a special award for
the kluge 71. if i happen to sit at a
command station where i had a lot of different devices to use
this is absolutely the one i'd get and i think they did a pretty good job of
balancing making it small and compact enough to carry with you without
compromising just basic functionality like arrow keys like they did in the 61.
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