$25 Backlit Keyboard Round Up

[Progressor]

Linus, a "narrow" enter is only a negative in North America, the rest of the world uses ISO and we like our "big, two rolls" enter. That Zhishan keyboard has the perfect layout - two rolls enter without extra keys. 

[Yesat]

Complaining about the "narrow enter key" is a bad complain, as it is the standard in most of the countries.

 

But the Zhishan doesn't have the proper ISO layout, but is a mix between 87 key (ANSI) and ISO enter key. It is the Asian layout, with long shift on both side.

[xnamkcor]

36 minutes ago, Progressor said:

Linus, a "narrow" enter is only a negative in North America, the rest of the world uses ISO and we like our "big, two rolls" enter. That Zhishan keyboard has the perfect layout - two rolls enter without extra keys. 

 

4 minutes ago, Yesat said:

Complaining about the "narrow enter key" is a bad complain, as it is the standard in most of the countries.

 

But the Zhishan doesn't have the proper ISO layout, but is a weird mix between 87 key (ANSI) and ISO enter key.

Only if he were blind to his audience. "Most" of the world may use it, but most of his audience is not "most" of the world.

[Spuriae]

But why buy any of these when you can get backlit mechanical keyboards in the same budget range?

 

$30 TKL Blues

$29 Full Size Blues

$31 TKL Blacks or Blues

$32 TKL Browns

Heck, most of these backlit ones use doubleshot ABS keycaps too.

 

$24 TKL Non-Backlit Blues

 

Backlit mech keyboards fall under $30 quite often. I don't see why buying a membrane at this price point is a good choice.

[tf2manu994]

W.R.T/ mechanical keyboards, for a budget, I'm partial to the Anne Pro, which is a 60% wireless one with customisable backlighting and Gatreon switches (pretty good). ~$60

[Junel]

Yo @nicklmg, is it me, or has this not been on Floatplane Club?

[Cody_53027]

@LinusSebastianI feel like you really really need to see this one. Although $29.99, the Velocifire TKL01 has "BROWN" MECHANICAL SWITCHES and a few different LED effects and sturdy construction. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS8YTYX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[manikyath]

3 hours ago, Cody_53027 said:

@LinusSebastianI feel like you really really need to see this one. Although $29.99, the Velocifire TKL01 has "BROWN" MECHANICAL SWITCHES and a few different LED effects and sturdy construction. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS8YTYX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

seems intersting enough, if there's enough of these they could consider a follow-up with "community recommended alternatives", although i have to say, my first thought with "BROWN MECHANICAL SWITCHES" was something along the lines of "oh, so they type like poop."

[Guest]

tmw your keyboard is in the list

[Repost]

Although this is a little over the $25 requirement, the original was regularly under $20 and should have made the list- https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Devastator-II-SGB-3030-KKMF1-US/dp/B01CDYAF28/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486881818&sr=8-1&keywords=cm+devastator

[EPENEX]

If someone only has $25 for a keyboard, I'd tell them to not buy one and just save up. If they need one they can get one from a thrift shop for $5 as they wait to have enough to invest in an actual keyboard.

[Progressor]

11 hours ago, Yesat said:

Complaining about the "narrow enter key" is a bad complain, as it is the standard in most of the countries.

 

But the Zhishan doesn't have the proper ISO layout, but is a mix between 87 key (ANSI) and ISO enter key. It is the Asian layout, with long shift on both side.

 

The ISO standard has a lot of variants depending on the country. Where I'm from(Bulgaria), the Zhishan and this type are the proper ones. And they're the best in my opinion - big enter, big shift, big backspace, all symbol keys on the right, no extra keys.

[ESPImperium]

15 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

The argument here reminds me of when I replaced my laptop's Canadian Bilingual keyboard with a US English keyboard.

 

 

That looks like Tarans mobile editing rig for those macros.

 

 

[AshleyAshes]

3 hours ago, ESPImperium said:

 

That looks like Tarans mobile editing rig for those macros.

 

 

It's the soon to be installed US English keyboard just sitting ontop of the laptop for comparison with the currently installed Canadian Bilingual keyboard.   I do not have a 190 key laptop.

[Sin Stalker]

For another $5, you could have added this keyboard to the mix.

7-Colors Illuminated Halo Breathing light USB Wired PC Gaming Keyboard Backlight

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182382857714?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

I don't sell these or know a person who does, so this isn't an advertisement. Just a recommendation. I got one for $30 off ebay and I really like it. I think it would have won compared to all the others on the list.

 

 

[FakeNSA]

On 2/11/2017 at 0:10 PM, Undertow_ said:

Does the typing in this video bother anyone else?

Totally. Carpal tunnel for all! fast and weird finger position hunt-peck. As someone touchtyping this message, this hurt.

[nicklmg]

On 2/11/2017 at 4:28 PM, Junel said:

Yo @nicklmg, is it me, or has this not been on Floatplane Club?

It was there

Posted on January 21, had some schedule changes that delayed it a bit.

[xnamkcor]

1 hour ago, nicklmg said:

 

 

 No permissionSorry, we can't show this content because you do not have permission to see it.

 

[nicklmg]

6 minutes ago, xnamkcor said:

 

Floatplane dawg!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Yea my AZIO L70 isn't the prettiest thing in the world after a year and a half of use. The paint on the keys are flaking off and all of the LEDs are significantly dimmer then the Caps Lock and Win Lock indicators.

 

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[xnamkcor]

36 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Floatplane dawg!

The notification email showed the text. So, the email service that parses the text doesn't know to hide the floatplane link, I guess.

[nicklmg]

2 minutes ago, xnamkcor said:

The notification email showed the text. So, the email service that parses the text doesn't know to hide the floatplane link, I guess.

Ohhh gotcha. Yeah I guess not!

[Junel]

1 hour ago, nicklmg said:

It was there

Posted on January 21, had some schedule changes that delayed it a bit.

Thanks dude, my bad, must have missed one! 

[minibois]

Just watched this video, the first mentioned keyboard (which its Amazon page is down, which was even mentioned in the video) looks exactly like the Rii RK100, except with a different logo slapped on it.

I've used that one and it's quite terrible.