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One of the things that do it for me with mechanical keyboards, is just random stuff you don’t
expect.
I was looking around at the Royal Kludge booth, filming all their keyboards, and then I spot
this on the wall, and legit asked, is this real?
Is this legit?
And he said yes, and took me to this thing, the RK825.
A thing that absolutely no one asked for, but man, do I love it.
The keyboard itself, like the build, plastic enclosure, keycaps, and all that is nothing
to write home about.
But what even.
It’s a keyboard with a handle?
And it results in this absolute mess of a layout.
Like there’s no way you’re replacing these keycaps properly, and that’s disregarding
the edgy rounded corners.
But yeh, we basically have a 60% below the handle hole, except that it has a packed bottom
row, and 1.5u right shift I think.
But then, we have our F keys on the left hand side at the top.
Our nav keys in the centre at the top, plus some media controls.
And then a numpad on the right.
Giving us a total of 118 keys, which is a good amount more than the typical 104 or 108
full sized board.
It’s nearly tall enough to be 2 60% keyboards, being just 1 row short.
But being serious, it is pretty cool to have all those keys on top, while still maintaining
a 60% length.
So you still gain the lateral space saving and ergonomic benefits of that.
The handle is the eye catching part though.
Not sure of its practicality, and it is pretty thick, but I still love it.
Although writing this script and thinking about it, I didn’t even ask what or why.
I’m purely just assuming it is what I think.
It also will have Bluetooth capabilities, RGB backlighting, and will be available in
a range of keyswitches.
But yeh, it’s pretty much that novelty that’s carrying it, but that’s what I love about
it, and is probably the keyboard that made me smile the most at Computex.
Their other boards were pretty nice as well.
The 600 series were some really nice and simple boards with clean design, and aluminium enclosures.
They really remind me of the Xiaomi Yuemi MK02, with the rounded corners, but the full
sized and Tkl had these curvy bases while the other one, was a bit more edgy.
The 65% or 70% I guess, was another interesting one.
It just adds another column for more nav keys which I like.
This was also available in the plastic case version, which I guess allows for Bluetooth
as well.
This absolute unit was another unique one, and was huge.
Ergo boards are pretty hot.
I mean, it’s just like a TGR Alice, but with a knob and a numpad, and being split,
and many other things, nevermind.
But yeh, not really my thing, but still pretty cool.
Overall, it was a fun booth to visit.
It had some unique stuff that I was stoked about.
And yeh, as I said before.
this is the mechanical keyboard that made me smile the most at Computex, because I do
admire innovation, and just something a bit different.
Thanks again to Tecware for sponsoring my Computex 2019 coverage.
Stay tuned, because I have a heap more content coming out.