I Found a Keyboard
Oct. 18th, 2022 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe Kijiji seller with the keyboard didn't get back to me for several days, so I started combing eBay.
I found a keyboard to buy! It's by a company called AUKey. I was not familiar with them, but reviews speak favorably of them as a budget-friendly mechanical switch keyboard maker. AUKey sources their own versions of Cherry MX's keyswitches, which are still rated to 50 million keypresses and are well-reviewed. Mine will have the blue switches, which offer both tactile and audible feedback. Folks say they're quite loud, but I have no issue with that. I bet my Model Ms are louder. It also has adjustable backlighting. I've never had a a keyboard with that before.
I'd rather have had the keyboard with the extra macro keys to be entirely honest, but I think this one will make me happy, at least until I've replaced or repaired a better one.
It was only $30 bucks with shipping. Even as an open-box item, I suspect the reason it was that cheap is that's it's pink. It's very, very pink. And while I really, truly didn't buy it because of the color, there's a part of me that loves how extra it will look on my desk.
Then, today, the Kijiji person finally noticed my message and asked if I wanted his keyboard. I'd still choose it over the pink one because of the macro keys if I hadn't already bought the other, but he missed the boat.
Manufacturer's product page, with picture, at the link: https://www.aukey.com/products/mechanical-gaming-keyboard-pink
I found a keyboard to buy! It's by a company called AUKey. I was not familiar with them, but reviews speak favorably of them as a budget-friendly mechanical switch keyboard maker. AUKey sources their own versions of Cherry MX's keyswitches, which are still rated to 50 million keypresses and are well-reviewed. Mine will have the blue switches, which offer both tactile and audible feedback. Folks say they're quite loud, but I have no issue with that. I bet my Model Ms are louder. It also has adjustable backlighting. I've never had a a keyboard with that before.
I'd rather have had the keyboard with the extra macro keys to be entirely honest, but I think this one will make me happy, at least until I've replaced or repaired a better one.
It was only $30 bucks with shipping. Even as an open-box item, I suspect the reason it was that cheap is that's it's pink. It's very, very pink. And while I really, truly didn't buy it because of the color, there's a part of me that loves how extra it will look on my desk.
Then, today, the Kijiji person finally noticed my message and asked if I wanted his keyboard. I'd still choose it over the pink one because of the macro keys if I hadn't already bought the other, but he missed the boat.
Manufacturer's product page, with picture, at the link: https://www.aukey.com/products/mechanical-gaming-keyboard-pink
