Hexgears GK705 Wired Mechanical Keyboard, 104 Keys with Kailh Box Switch Full Size Gaming Keyboard, Durable ABS Keycaps, Hot Swappable, Blue LED Backlight, Windows Mac OS and Android Compatible

I want to like this keyboard, it has a great feature set for the price but the spacebar feels awful in comparison to the rest of the keys

Given the price, I thought this GK705 by Hexgears would have been a quality keyboard. I was honestly wrong.Several keys were popped off when I opened it.As far as I can tell, there is only one color background option.And generally, the keys pop off...easily.The cord pressed against some of the F keys across the top, and they popped loose.Given the price of this keyboard...the only thing I can say to describe it is incredibly cheap design. Like I get replacing triggers or keys is a good thing. But keys should not pop off that easily from stuff touching the keyboard.One facet of the design is yanking off the one part for some sort of free-floating key design. Which just feels even more like they would come off.I've been using a computer pretty heavily for several decades now, never found a keyboard I dislike more. I have one that was only around $40 and it has many colors for a backlight, and the keys do not come off easily.Very much not worth the $89.99 they were claiming.

I really liked the fact that the keyboard let me mute all the (to me) goofy lighting effects. Maybe if I was 12. I just wanted soft backlighting of the keys, and I was able to get that. At typing angles it all works very well. At high angles, as in my pics taken to show something else, there is a lot of brighter light escaping from between the keys. If I am standing overhead and just want to password it for a quick glance at something, the light between the keys drowns out the key lighting. I have to sit.I never had any problems gaming. At all. I saw in the other reviews some mention of continuous keys being nulled. As in a WASD-movement controlled game and holding W down to move forward. I went back and tried three games. Worked fine. I have no idea.As a typing keyboard, it is very good. I selected the red switch type because I like so tactile and auditory feedback. Very nice. This is a lot of keyboard for the money.My one con probably shouldn't matter, but here comes a rant: What is this key-face font style?Any character or symbol that would have an enclosed area is instead partially open. This is the purpose of my pics. The "&" looks like musical notation, the "8" looks like a spider, and the "9 Pg Up" key on the numerical keypad looks like Klingon. Romulan? WHY? I am an okay typist with the core keys, but I have to look for special characters.I am kind of getting used to Klingon special characters, but when I return to Earth, what then?

The keyboard works for basic typing, as plug and play as most modern keyboards in that regard. However, there were two notable issues from just initial use.The key backlighting options don't really work. The keyboard only highlighted some specific sets of keys and recently pressed keys. Using the indicated key combos to change lighting effects did nothing.Holding down keys briefly sustains the key press action and then the input is ignored. That may be useful if an animal likes to sit on your keyboard, but not appreciated during gaming when keys are actions instead of letters.I got this keyboard for a teen and they didn't like it for the stated reasons. Went back to the cheap keyboard they'd been using.

There is something about a real mechanical keyboard. This is almost a clone of the Corsair K70 or whatever that version is...not quite my K95