AULA Mechanical Keyboard, 87 Keys Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, RGB Backlit Keyboard with Brown Switches for Windows Laptop PC Mac
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Joe
> 3 dayA good product. I use it for games. It can handle the emotions of playing and is also good for writing.
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Shuhada
> 3 dayThis truly qualifies as a gaming keyboard with mechanical action on the keys. You know youre hitting a keyboard when you type on this one! The various color options and the ability to swap out keys for custom colors to work with my favorite software is a plus, too.
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John
> 3 dayIve had the pleasure of building many keyboards as well as trying a plethora of budget keyboards and Ive got to say AULA has some very solid and consistent build quality. The board feels sturdy and has little flex, the switches feel great, just like normal, high quality browns. The keycaps (while being a little basic) are a nice thickness, giving it a pretty nice sound out of the box for a budget board. Honestly if youre looking for a starter board and dont want to spend a bunch of money, this is a phenomenal option. Skip the gimmicky budget keyboards offering a ton of features and get a solid base for gaming/comfortable typing needs for the same price with this keyboard. Definitely will be the KB I recommend to people new to gaming looking for a budget friendly starter mechanical keyboard.
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Insouciant
> 3 dayThis is not a review after heavy usage, more first impressions. I am sure Ill get used to it more soon. (initial rating 4/5 mostly on mechanical brown and good price). I had 2 goals - a quiet keyboard with tactile or feeling it engaged and able to have all keys be lit in a medium bright solid blue. Turns out this keyboard doesnt meet either of those goals - it is noisy for a brown (but I maybe able to dampen that) and key lights cant change colors. So the details: The keys feel ok to touch (not pressing/typing), smooth plastic keycaps (and small ridges on the F and J to confirm your hands are in the right place.) The keycap is molded with the name/letter in it so they are unlikely to wear off the lettering with usage. The lights on the side of the keyboard might be nice for some people - they are customize-able in solid color or rainbow and movements and brightness. I dont think many keyboards have decorative lights on the sides (not on front nor back). I choose to just keep the side light off by having the brightness of them turned down. More important to me, and annoying, EACH key has a light which color is FIXED/SET, unchangable. All the photos show this and I didnt notice that the INS/DEL/HOME/END etc. were always green. You can have effects sweeping across the keyboard of brightness and on/off/waves etc. but these effects are ONLY each keys light changing off/dim/med/bright. The number keys WILL only shine red. The arrow and ASWD keys WILL only be purple. The rest of the alphabet WILL be white. Theres a surprising number of variability in this but not what I wanted and was expecting (to be able to have ALL keys lit dim blue). My mistake and not clear from the sales page so I am calling this out. Having said that, its not a bad rainbow (I have it set to NOT change brightness but be on all the time at 2nd brightest level - but different areas of the keyboard will have different colors since that cant be changed). There are a lot of modifiers (just not a keys color itself!) such as speed, movements, patterns, which keys are lit, which are always dark (and 2 customer profiles on FN+9 and FN+0 to have some keys lit and some not as you want) and several preset on/off patters for common games to light up only the used keys for the preset games. The effects are interesting but only are patterns that change a keys lit brightness level or off since each keys light color is permanently set. Pressing the keys, that is typing, the keys bottom out (and noisily) but otherwise seem lighter or easier to press than blue keys Im used to. I will put some o-rings on this soon to try them. I like the tactile feedback of blue and brown mechanical switches but not the clacky noise and using o-rings greatly reduced the sound on my blue keyboard. This brown one (without rings yet) is far noisier than I expected for browns but I see it may be that I am typing heavily and bottom them out. O-rings will prevent this and absorb sound from the clicky of my blue keyboards switches. They dont silence the blues but greatly reduced the noise so I expect will help me quiet this keyboard also. Right now my o-ringd blue switches keyboard is quieter than this new stock brown one - the most noise coming from when the keys bottom out as Im pressing them all the way down as of yet. The stroke feels good otherwise, a nice tactile bump and not mushy like membrane keyboards. That they did this for low cost in all brown mechanical keys is the strongest point to me of this purchase. I will keep using it another week or two and probably stop bottoming out (and Ill add the o-rings) and so I doubt I will be returning it but Ill keep it long term despite it being rainbow colored and unable to be lit all blue.
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Jonathan Hernandez
Greater than one weekThe AULA mechanical gaming keyboard it works perfectly. It has 2 different colors available, the black and white keyboards. It also comes with brown switches, bracket stand, and led lights. The key caps feel smooth and durable. I was disappointed at the fact that the key lights don’t change colors.
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Franklin Brothers
Greater than one weekThis is a nice quality keyboard, for the price point. There are many light programs for the lights beneath the keys, but the led lights themselves are only a single color. What you see in the product description images, and those that others have posted, show you the fixed color scheme that comes with the keyboard. You can brighten, dim, or change the effects, fairly easily, and can even make the lights go out completely if that is your wish. I found the color combination to be pleasant, but for the small amount of money it would have cost them to include true configurable RGB color, I take off a star, only because they use the term RGB, which is misleading in this case, because real RGB can turn any color. Truth in advertising, or it cost you a star. Four Star High Quality Budget Priced Keyboard
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Fred C.
> 3 dayWorks great
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Honest John H.
> 3 dayI have preferred a mechanical keyboard, for sure, ever since using one for the first time. Well, it is shorter by 15% if space is a factor for you. Personally, I really do not like the number key lay-out, rather than having a traditional number keypad section. I dont really need side lights, which are kind of gimmicky, but the idea with the orange shortcut buttons is good. The ergonomic feel is fine and sound is okay. Its good as a low end or first mech keyboard.
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Kitsune
> 3 dayI like the sturdy case and heavy weight of this keyboard. The tabs are nice and snap easily into place. The RGB works nicely without any difficulties. I played with the various modes on it and everything works. The orange keycaps are cool and convenient for WASD in particular with finger-placement while gaming. The only thing I had issue with was that one of the control keys was being sticky. This made a false sticky keys issue when I was gaming and was really frustrating. I swapped this keyboard back out with my old keyboard and the games worked flawlessly, so I think theres something off with one of the switches. But for the value, this is a pretty decent keyboard for the asking price without going into the higher-end gaming keyboards.
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Chan
> 3 dayBought this for my daughter and she love it. The price was perfect. She love the clicky sound and the rgb isnt as annoying as her other keyboard that came with her pc. The quality build seems to be really good, has some weight to it but not heavy. All in all, if you need an inexpensive keyboard for your kids, then this is a must buy.