Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the legitimacy of Anandtech due to an implication that their content is less about reviewing and more about paid (and therefore biased) marketing. Unless I misinterpreted your post, which may indeed be true, this seems to track.
You should look it up as you are not even close. FUD is a disinformation strategy. No where have I tried to present false information let alone present another option as a better product/source.
-FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is the term for any strategy intended to make a company's customers insecure about future product plans with the purpose of discouraging them from adopting competitors' products. For example, "You can try using X instead of our product, but you may lose all your data."
By implying that there is an undisclosed exchange of money in the asking of the question you did, you are indeed acting to spread FUD, attempting to discourage people from relying on a product, Anandtech reviews, through the spread of disinformation. While you aren't very strategic or subtle about it as the effort is akin to surgery with a blunt chainsaw, you are still making the attempt. Your confidence if yourself is presently misplaced.
"No where have I tried to present false information"
Apart from your original statement you mean. Remember, false information doesn't have to be spread explicitly, as you yourself prove when you implicitly did so.
Unless you have proof or your insinuations?
What's that, you don't... Never would have guessed.
No the question was posed in a manner intended to insinuate a particular behavior. Use of quotes around reviewed is a clear indication of the intentional slur. Had the poster intended a legitimate inquiry the question would have been worded differently.
"So, how much does it cost to get a product "reviewed" and listed on the front page now?"
I figure I can comfortably retire on 5 million USD or so. So should you decide you want the front page and are willing to wire me the funds in advance, please let me know!
Or to answer things more seriously, this is an independent review, the same as all the others. We reviewed this keyboard because we thought it would be interesting.
I have never been happier with a keyboard and its design than with the Corsair K70. My next keyboard, if this one ever dies, will be its successor, but probably not a wireless model. Wireless is pretty good now, but still less reliable and higher latency.
Na, Corsair makes junk. I would never buy Corsair anything since they like to pay off sites to push their junk. That and the reviews for them at sites like amazon have lots of fake/paid for reviews.
Based on the Fakespot link you provided, I don't see anything nefarious about Corsair. Their "adjusted" rating is unaltered from the original Amazon rating (both 3 stars). Whatever legitimate concerns you may have about their quality, I see no evidence they are paying for fake reviews.
That site is a piece of crap, automatically generated from Amazon reviews. Do you trust those reviews? It is quite similar to those sh**ty sites that auto generate the same comparison between two different gpus or cpus by comparing only the number of shaders or cuda cores or simple things. Not temperature or noise or boost clocks or throttling or anything not on the datasheet.
I can't really say anything about the quality of their stuff, because i only ever owned exactly one of their products. A memory kit in the tail end of the C2D/DDR2 era. I usually found better performance for the price, or comparable at a lower price.
I need more than a site that autogenerates reviews based on untrustworthy sources
Their K70 keyboard is certainly not junk -- it is the best designed keyboard I have used. The base of each key is mounted flush with an aluminum plate, making cleaning easier and spills less damaging. The volume knob, also solid metal, makes volume changes easy without the need to look down. The RGB lighting is a bit gimmicky, but can be useful when programming important keys to emit a specific light color, at least in the dark.
The Corsair Vengeance C70 case is among the best designed cases I have ever used, and I have used a lot of them. The cable routing, ease of access to internals, easy disassembly, and top-venting is among the best I have seen. Indeed, the front fascia of the case did have a problem where its mounting was too weak and thus it could too easily be removed, but that was the only flaw I found in an otherwise well-priced and well-designed (and sadly, now discontinued) case.
That said, my Corsair gaming mouse has lost partial functionality in its "back" button as well as its middle-click (with the wheel as a button), which I use frequently. The wheel also always turned too much when using it as a button, leading to unintended scrolling. Not a great design, and mediocre overall hardware quality (though sample size = 1, I may just have a dud).
My Corsair Void Pro wireless headset had connection issues starting about a week after I got it, compared to my 7-yr-old Logitech wireless headset which is amazingly still going strong, albeit with limited battery life.
You win some, you lose some, but with Corsair keyboards, at least the K70, I'll easily call it a win.
Let's not conclude the he has no integrity from a few lines of text. I don't like how the original post was worded (hence my initial reply), but that could be a misworded sentence, a result of a bad day, etc.
Name one keyboard that is mechanical and polls faster than 1000mhz? Good luck I personally use a Logitech mouse not because it as less Latency but because of the free spin wheel (can't live without it.) but the latency is the same.
Yay. Another super thick keyboard that causes strain on your wrists unless you use a thick wrist rest. And cherry switches really aren't the be all. Prefer two other brands besides these, as do many people after blind test.
Maybe they can try for something slimmer next time.
It's an interesting concept. What about input latency? I'm guessing that there was nothing noteworthy about it when compared to wired solutions or it would have been mentioned, but I have heard in the past that people were reluctant to pick up wireless hardware out of concern that the lack of a physical connection would somehow slow down response time in twitchy shooter style games. It's also a bit odd that battery life is so short even without the backlights turned on. Is that possibly something with the choice in keyboard controller and/or added complexity or are Cherry's switches somehow more energy hungry than cheap wireless keyboards with membrane switches?
USB C came out 4 years ago. Most new android phones today use usb C outside of budget models.
Dont make excuses for them. Type C is here, now. There is no reason to use microUSB over type C unless you are lagging 5 years behind the competition. This would be like releasig a parallel CD ROM drive in 2004, years after USB became universal.
They should have used type C in something this price.
The mess of mutually incompatible fast charging standards barfed on top of USB is a cluster on micro-b too; not something new for C. For a keyboard with a small battery and presumably a simple battery controller it's almost certainly a moot point with no fast charging modes being supported. Stacking thunderbolt, and multiple optional video output options on top of basic data is irrelevant for a keyboard.
Meanwhile reversible plugs being easier to use, and the USB-C socket being stronger than the micro-B one are very relevant; especially since the rear location of the charging port means a lot of people will be trying to plug it in blind.
OTOH if this is a 2016 model not having C isn't that surprising since it was a fairly avant-garde feature at the time.
Except back in 2004, compatibility and support for older hardware was a thing people concerned themselves with. If some barbarian needed an external CD drive, it was almost certainly for a laptop, and even odds if their machine even had USB ports. (The smart money would've been a CD-ROM with a PC Card interface, but I don't think anyone ever actually shipped those.)
I would imagine when most people complain about not having usb type C they are probably just referring to the micro-usb end only.
I have a ducky keyboard with micro usb and of course i could't care less that the cable attaches to the keyboard that way considering it's a wired keyboard and i don't plan on ever removing it.
For a wireless keyboard that cost a fair amount of money... well there is the hardware failure point for most of them one day.
I wish Type A would die as well, but I pointed out microUSB because for an accessory the device side is more important given that you can always swap out the cable. And also, microUSB feels more legacy than Type A, given how Android embraced it years ago on their phones.
Type A is going to stick around for a long time unfortunately. No company sells a real Type C hub (as opposed to a connect-your-legacy-devices-hub). Heck, even Tesla still puts it in its cars. I’m pretty pessimistic there.
I'm annoyed by new devices adopting USB-C. It is a terrible connector from both a physical and electrical standpoint, and there's nothing wrong with MicroUSB.
I like the fact that MicroUSB cables are designed to fail before the port on the device, but still, I do wish the port was a little more sturdy. I also wish there were slimmer or stubbier connectors that hugged up against phones. Even some the compact, 90-degree bend connectors protrude a few millimeters more than I'd like outward from a phone. Those gripes aside, MicroUSB has been perfectly reasonable as a connector standard.
It's tiny, and tiny doesn't go well when teenagers plug phones in to charge. Maybe a lousy implementation of the connectors themselves, but our family had 2 phones where the MicroUSB connector on the phone failed.
The K63 is not available with different switches. It is strictly a Cherry MX Red keyboard marketed toward gaming, though why they didn't install their "lag-free" SLIPSTREAM wireless solution in it, I don't know.
More importantly, why are you reviewing a keyboard that was released nearly 3 years ago -- from what I gather from review dates on Amazon? Heck, I bought this with the compatible lapboard back in June because it had at least decent reviews and was one of the few solutions for couch K&M gaming/productivity available.
That is, unless the answer to both of these comments is that Corsair is about to start offering this with Brown switches. I might buy one and flip my Red if they did. But if that was the case, it seems like they would have shipped you a Brown switch review unit. So...?
Typing this on a K63 now, had it for a month and a half. As far as typing goes its adequate enough, seems a bit less positive tactile feel than the K60 (same reds, should be the same but its not) and the keys feel a weird shape, im still getting used to that. Its quite heavy even for a mechanical, oddly I was expecting less being 10keyless.
My main issues with it is how I either have to have the LEDs super bright, or memorize the shifted key character positions as, for some stupid reason, Corsair chose to put the symbols _below_ the numbers on each number key (instead of like every other keyboard in the world having them above the numbers) and then poorly illuminate the character so you have to really blast the lighting to see them. The numbers are clearly illuminated however. Badly thought out IMO.
The software also has an annoying aspect, Why on earth would Corsair put the LED timeout setting in the damn global settings and not per profile? When I play a game I want the LEDs on all the time, when I'm on my desktop I want the keys to time out after 10 minutes. My fav game I play with Mouse and Controller with the keyboard containing the backup keys and typing into chat and its forever going off meaning I still have to guess keys in the dark, or have it on 24/7 on the desktop, or futz with the global setting every day before/after each game. Again another badly thought out aspect.
"Where did you see it on sale for $50? I think that may be referring to the wired-only version of this keyboard."
D'oh!
You are correct. I'd like to pretend that this was all planned, but that's a dumb error on our part. When we went price hunting, the K63-non wired is what came up. So thank you for pointing that out.
Yeah, unfortunately there is pretty much only the Ergodox. I have one, it’s great for typing but it’s expensive and unnecessarily big. Most of the thumb keys and the two columns in the middle are too hard to reach to be usable (and I’m a 1.8m tall male).
Wow clearly no effort was done to actually check the real prices. The MSRP of this Wireless k63 is most certainly not 80 bucks and it is never been on sale for $50. That is the wired version that goes for that price.
heh.. that keyboard seems to be around the $150 cdn mark here.... and your complaining about the MSRP being $80 US ??? thats a suggested price from corsair, a store is free to charge what ever they want for the product :-)
I had to sell all my Corsair gear because iCUE would crash all my computer's USB ports 3-4 times a day, oftentimes during the worst possible moment. I've lost homework, countless hours of lost progress in games, and occasionally the USB ports fail to initialize, forcing me to do a hard reboot. It's a pretty widespread problem and it seems Corsair is either unwilling or unable to fix it.
A lot of people give Razer crap for their Chroma software, but iCue is 10 times worse in my experience.
Why can you not buy a Cherry Black gaming keyboard? Not one is for sale.
Cherry Red cannot hold the weight of my fingers so useless for gaming. Works for Chinese people and children probably but is useless for adults in Europe.
For a gaming keyboard, I need the numerical pad. So it needs to be wireless, mechanical, backlited (not really RGB but backlited), with the numerical pad and with a good battery life.
There is one from logitech that would be perfect, but it is not backlited and since I use my keyboard in a dark living room, it is a requirement.
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Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
So, how much does it cost to get a product "reviewed" and listed on the front page now?Sivar - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
How much are you paid to "post" FUD on review websites?Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Haha I see you do not even know what FUD means. Please tell me how this related to my post?Sivar - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the legitimacy of Anandtech due to an implication that their content is less about reviewing and more about paid (and therefore biased) marketing.Unless I misinterpreted your post, which may indeed be true, this seems to track.
Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
You should look it up as you are not even close. FUD is a disinformation strategy. No where have I tried to present false information let alone present another option as a better product/source.PeachNCream - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
From: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/FUD-Fear-...-FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is the term for any strategy intended to make a company's customers insecure about future product plans with the purpose of discouraging them from adopting competitors' products. For example, "You can try using X instead of our product, but you may lose all your data."
By implying that there is an undisclosed exchange of money in the asking of the question you did, you are indeed acting to spread FUD, attempting to discourage people from relying on a product, Anandtech reviews, through the spread of disinformation. While you aren't very strategic or subtle about it as the effort is akin to surgery with a blunt chainsaw, you are still making the attempt. Your confidence if yourself is presently misplaced.
Oliseo - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
"No where have I tried to present false information"Apart from your original statement you mean. Remember, false information doesn't have to be spread explicitly, as you yourself prove when you implicitly did so.
Unless you have proof or your insinuations?
What's that, you don't... Never would have guessed.
ballsystemlord - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
His question is legitimate, although you can argue he could have stated it differently.broberts - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
No the question was posed in a manner intended to insinuate a particular behavior. Use of quotes around reviewed is a clear indication of the intentional slur. Had the poster intended a legitimate inquiry the question would have been worded differently.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Hmmm. You're correct. It's a legitimate question, but the quotes give away an intentional slur.Ryan Smith - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
"So, how much does it cost to get a product "reviewed" and listed on the front page now?"I figure I can comfortably retire on 5 million USD or so. So should you decide you want the front page and are willing to wire me the funds in advance, please let me know!
Or to answer things more seriously, this is an independent review, the same as all the others. We reviewed this keyboard because we thought it would be interesting.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Note to self - Buying off Ryan is expensive!BurntMyBacon - Thursday, September 19, 2019 - link
You get what you pay for. ; ' )Sivar - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I have never been happier with a keyboard and its design than with the Corsair K70. My next keyboard, if this one ever dies, will be its successor, but probably not a wireless model. Wireless is pretty good now, but still less reliable and higher latency.Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Na, Corsair makes junk. I would never buy Corsair anything since they like to pay off sites to push their junk. That and the reviews for them at sites like amazon have lots of fake/paid for reviews.Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
www.fakespot dot com/company/corsairSivar - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Thanks for the link. I was not aware of this website.pbollwerk - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Based on the Fakespot link you provided, I don't see anything nefarious about Corsair. Their "adjusted" rating is unaltered from the original Amazon rating (both 3 stars). Whatever legitimate concerns you may have about their quality, I see no evidence they are paying for fake reviews.Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
pbollwerk, you actually went there ?? did you scan for malware, trojans and spyware ??? i hope so. he is a troll, nothing more....LauRoman - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
That's just an auto generated page like those gpu/cpu comparison or bottleneck calculator sites that make no sense.LauRoman - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
That site is a piece of crap, automatically generated from Amazon reviews. Do you trust those reviews?It is quite similar to those sh**ty sites that auto generate the same comparison between two different gpus or cpus by comparing only the number of shaders or cuda cores or simple things. Not temperature or noise or boost clocks or throttling or anything not on the datasheet.
I can't really say anything about the quality of their stuff, because i only ever owned exactly one of their products. A memory kit in the tail end of the C2D/DDR2 era. I usually found better performance for the price, or comparable at a lower price.
I need more than a site that autogenerates reviews based on untrustworthy sources
Sivar - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Their K70 keyboard is certainly not junk -- it is the best designed keyboard I have used. The base of each key is mounted flush with an aluminum plate, making cleaning easier and spills less damaging. The volume knob, also solid metal, makes volume changes easy without the need to look down. The RGB lighting is a bit gimmicky, but can be useful when programming important keys to emit a specific light color, at least in the dark.The Corsair Vengeance C70 case is among the best designed cases I have ever used, and I have used a lot of them. The cable routing, ease of access to internals, easy disassembly, and top-venting is among the best I have seen. Indeed, the front fascia of the case did have a problem where its mounting was too weak and thus it could too easily be removed, but that was the only flaw I found in an otherwise well-priced and well-designed (and sadly, now discontinued) case.
That said, my Corsair gaming mouse has lost partial functionality in its "back" button as well as its middle-click (with the wheel as a button), which I use frequently. The wheel also always turned too much when using it as a button, leading to unintended scrolling. Not a great design, and mediocre overall hardware quality (though sample size = 1, I may just have a dud).
My Corsair Void Pro wireless headset had connection issues starting about a week after I got it, compared to my 7-yr-old Logitech wireless headset which is amazingly still going strong, albeit with limited battery life.
You win some, you lose some, but with Corsair keyboards, at least the K70, I'll easily call it a win.
olivaw - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
About gaming mouse switches, if you are interested, there is an interesting analysis about the absurdly high rates of switch failures by Alex Kenis in his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BhECVlKJA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhRTUrz0R8.Warning: heavy geekery ahead!
Sivar - Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - link
This is good stuff, thanks!piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
old news and has been fixedcpupro - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Corsair makes good products, never had problems with their stuff and they have good product support.cpupro - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I talk about RAM modules, don't know about other stuff.Oliseo - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
""No where have I tried to present false information"And here you are, doing just that. It's hard to take someone seriously when they have no integrity.
Sivar - Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - link
Let's not conclude the he has no integrity from a few lines of text. I don't like how the original post was worded (hence my initial reply), but that could be a misworded sentence, a result of a bad day, etc.lilkwarrior - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Actually, there are wireless Mouses & keyboards that are more reliable (besides battery running out) & have less latency.This is especially the case with mouses as of this year & last year with Logitech efforts on the matter
piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
Name one keyboard that is mechanical and polls faster than 1000mhz? Good luckI personally use a Logitech mouse not because it as less Latency but because of the free spin wheel (can't live without it.) but the latency is the same.
Dug - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Yay. Another super thick keyboard that causes strain on your wrists unless you use a thick wrist rest. And cherry switches really aren't the be all. Prefer two other brands besides these, as do many people after blind test.Maybe they can try for something slimmer next time.
Eliadbu - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I would love to see g915 but in small form factor like my g pro tenkeyless.Dug - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Yes!!piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
Put it in the optional tray and its flatColin1497 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I would definitely prefer to see a comparison than a stand alone review. How does it stack up against other offerings in this area?piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
What other wireless mechanical keyboard? There aren't manyPeachNCream - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
It's an interesting concept. What about input latency? I'm guessing that there was nothing noteworthy about it when compared to wired solutions or it would have been mentioned, but I have heard in the past that people were reluctant to pick up wireless hardware out of concern that the lack of a physical connection would somehow slow down response time in twitchy shooter style games. It's also a bit odd that battery life is so short even without the backlights turned on. Is that possibly something with the choice in keyboard controller and/or added complexity or are Cherry's switches somehow more energy hungry than cheap wireless keyboards with membrane switches?piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
it polls @ 1000mhz you will NEVER know the difference if no one told you. But it will make a great excuse for your crappy play. :)dan82 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Am I the only one who is annoyed by new devices not embracing USB Type C at this point? microUSB is extremely outdated.Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Still more MicroUSB devices/cables/etc... that C right now. Be dumb for Corsair to go after a smaller market and limit themselves.Type C will take over eventually, but not over night.
TheinsanegamerN - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
USB C came out 4 years ago. Most new android phones today use usb C outside of budget models.Dont make excuses for them. Type C is here, now. There is no reason to use microUSB over type C unless you are lagging 5 years behind the competition. This would be like releasig a parallel CD ROM drive in 2004, years after USB became universal.
They should have used type C in something this price.
Marlin1975 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
USB-C is still a mess and barely getting better. Don't take my word for it, there are plenty of reviews/reports that go into it.https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-87...
Its why so many new phone, laptops, etc... still use MicroUSB.
DanNeely - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
The mess of mutually incompatible fast charging standards barfed on top of USB is a cluster on micro-b too; not something new for C. For a keyboard with a small battery and presumably a simple battery controller it's almost certainly a moot point with no fast charging modes being supported. Stacking thunderbolt, and multiple optional video output options on top of basic data is irrelevant for a keyboard.Meanwhile reversible plugs being easier to use, and the USB-C socket being stronger than the micro-B one are very relevant; especially since the rear location of the charging port means a lot of people will be trying to plug it in blind.
OTOH if this is a 2016 model not having C isn't that surprising since it was a fairly avant-garde feature at the time.
catavalon21 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
It's not that old. It was announced at CES in January 2018, and reviews all over the Net started in the months after that.Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
" Don't take my word for it " based on your previous FUD comments, dont worry :-)Lord of the Bored - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Except back in 2004, compatibility and support for older hardware was a thing people concerned themselves with.If some barbarian needed an external CD drive, it was almost certainly for a laptop, and even odds if their machine even had USB ports. (The smart money would've been a CD-ROM with a PC Card interface, but I don't think anyone ever actually shipped those.)
piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
Go buy an adapter thensnowmyr - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I would imagine when most people complain about not having usb type C they are probably just referring to the micro-usb end only.I have a ducky keyboard with micro usb and of course i could't care less that the cable attaches to the keyboard that way considering it's a wired keyboard and i don't plan on ever removing it.
For a wireless keyboard that cost a fair amount of money... well there is the hardware failure point for most of them one day.
dan82 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I wish Type A would die as well, but I pointed out microUSB because for an accessory the device side is more important given that you can always swap out the cable. And also, microUSB feels more legacy than Type A, given how Android embraced it years ago on their phones.Type A is going to stick around for a long time unfortunately. No company sells a real Type C hub (as opposed to a connect-your-legacy-devices-hub). Heck, even Tesla still puts it in its cars. I’m pretty pessimistic there.
Lord of the Bored - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
I'm annoyed by new devices adopting USB-C. It is a terrible connector from both a physical and electrical standpoint, and there's nothing wrong with MicroUSB.PeachNCream - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
I like the fact that MicroUSB cables are designed to fail before the port on the device, but still, I do wish the port was a little more sturdy. I also wish there were slimmer or stubbier connectors that hugged up against phones. Even some the compact, 90-degree bend connectors protrude a few millimeters more than I'd like outward from a phone. Those gripes aside, MicroUSB has been perfectly reasonable as a connector standard.Jedi2155 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
I definitely had failed micro-USB ports on some phones (parents devices so I don't know 100% how it failed) so they definitely aren't always sturdy.MicroUSB was fine, but I much prefer the reversibility of USB-C.
catavalon21 - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
It's tiny, and tiny doesn't go well when teenagers plug phones in to charge. Maybe a lousy implementation of the connectors themselves, but our family had 2 phones where the MicroUSB connector on the phone failed.piiman - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
This is not a new productbloodgain - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
The K63 is not available with different switches. It is strictly a Cherry MX Red keyboard marketed toward gaming, though why they didn't install their "lag-free" SLIPSTREAM wireless solution in it, I don't know.More importantly, why are you reviewing a keyboard that was released nearly 3 years ago -- from what I gather from review dates on Amazon? Heck, I bought this with the compatible lapboard back in June because it had at least decent reviews and was one of the few solutions for couch K&M gaming/productivity available.
That is, unless the answer to both of these comments is that Corsair is about to start offering this with Brown switches. I might buy one and flip my Red if they did. But if that was the case, it seems like they would have shipped you a Brown switch review unit. So...?
MadAd - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Typing this on a K63 now, had it for a month and a half. As far as typing goes its adequate enough, seems a bit less positive tactile feel than the K60 (same reds, should be the same but its not) and the keys feel a weird shape, im still getting used to that. Its quite heavy even for a mechanical, oddly I was expecting less being 10keyless.My main issues with it is how I either have to have the LEDs super bright, or memorize the shifted key character positions as, for some stupid reason, Corsair chose to put the symbols _below_ the numbers on each number key (instead of like every other keyboard in the world having them above the numbers) and then poorly illuminate the character so you have to really blast the lighting to see them. The numbers are clearly illuminated however. Badly thought out IMO.
The software also has an annoying aspect, Why on earth would Corsair put the LED timeout setting in the damn global settings and not per profile? When I play a game I want the LEDs on all the time, when I'm on my desktop I want the keys to time out after 10 minutes. My fav game I play with Mouse and Controller with the keyboard containing the backup keys and typing into chat and its forever going off meaning I still have to guess keys in the dark, or have it on 24/7 on the desktop, or futz with the global setting every day before/after each game. Again another badly thought out aspect.
Overall id give it 6/10
pheno.menon - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Where did you see it on sale for $50? I think that may be referring to the wired-only version of this keyboard.Also, no mention or pictures of the Lapdock accessory for this keyboard in the article.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 19, 2019 - link
"Where did you see it on sale for $50? I think that may be referring to the wired-only version of this keyboard."D'oh!
You are correct. I'd like to pretend that this was all planned, but that's a dumb error on our part. When we went price hunting, the K63-non wired is what came up. So thank you for pointing that out.
The article has been updated accordingly.
Tchamber - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Why is it so hard to find an economic mechanical keyboard?Tchamber - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I meant ergonomic mechanical keyboard.MehUsernameAlreadyExists - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Yeah, unfortunately there is pretty much only the Ergodox. I have one, it’s great for typing but it’s expensive and unnecessarily big. Most of the thumb keys and the two columns in the middle are too hard to reach to be usable (and I’m a 1.8m tall male).toyota - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
Wow clearly no effort was done to actually check the real prices. The MSRP of this Wireless k63 is most certainly not 80 bucks and it is never been on sale for $50. That is the wired version that goes for that price.Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
heh.. that keyboard seems to be around the $150 cdn mark here.... and your complaining about the MSRP being $80 US ??? thats a suggested price from corsair, a store is free to charge what ever they want for the product :-)catavalon21 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
"None of those concerns stopped Corsair from releasing the K63, a wireless version of the venerable tenkeyless K65."It's also a wireless version of the wired K63. Unfortunate Corsair has wired and wireless versions of the same keyboard with the same model number.
YB1064 - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
$80 for a keyboard? Ridiculous. You can pick up a mechanical Reddragon Kuma on Amazon for less than half the price.Korguz - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
"Reddragon Kuma " never heard of them, cheap, no name brand ??YB1064 - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
https://www.amazon.com/Redragon-K552-Mechanical-Ke...Keys are more responsive than the Corsair I have at home. :-/
Korguz - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
must be cheaply made in other areas then. cause there must be a reason its so cheap. still wouldnt buy itMorawka - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
I had to sell all my Corsair gear because iCUE would crash all my computer's USB ports 3-4 times a day, oftentimes during the worst possible moment. I've lost homework, countless hours of lost progress in games, and occasionally the USB ports fail to initialize, forcing me to do a hard reboot. It's a pretty widespread problem and it seems Corsair is either unwilling or unable to fix it.A lot of people give Razer crap for their Chroma software, but iCue is 10 times worse in my experience.
JTBM_real - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Why can you not buy a Cherry Black gaming keyboard? Not one is for sale.Cherry Red cannot hold the weight of my fingers so useless for gaming.
Works for Chinese people and children probably but is useless for adults in Europe.
eva02langley - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
For a gaming keyboard, I need the numerical pad. So it needs to be wireless, mechanical, backlited (not really RGB but backlited), with the numerical pad and with a good battery life.There is one from logitech that would be perfect, but it is not backlited and since I use my keyboard in a dark living room, it is a requirement.
https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-ke...
Anyone is having an option?
V1tru - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
msrp of 80$ in US?retail price of 140$ in EU. Isn't that simple.
ciparis - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - link
Micro-USB? Nope.king778 - Sunday, September 22, 2019 - link
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