FIRSTBLOOD ONLY GAME. AK510 Retro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - PBT SP Spherical Keycaps - Classic Grey-White Matching - RGB Backlight - Black Switches

Keeping it short and simple but the keyboard is good the only thing Im confused about it how do I keep the lights on the keyboard to stay on?

I got it after stumble upon a review during Prime Day from a blog. Even though it was not part of the Prime day special, I went ahead with the purchase because of the reasonable price. I have a 3rd party brown switches keyboard (not Cherry MX). I thought I would try to Red switches from AJAZZ. After a week of usage I can tell you I like it a lot as an office keyboard. The keys are not as responsive as the brown keyboard due to the lack of tactile feedback, but it also generates a lot less noise. So Im pretty happy not to annoy anyone in my office with a clicky keyboard. The travel takes a little bit to get used to compare to a membrane keyboard. But once i get used to it it is a pleasure to use. The volume knob at the top right corner double as the backlight brightness control. Talking about the asthetics. I like the option of removable bezel cover (blue). In the end, I keep the light blue cover to give the light blue look. It give a very clean look on a white table surface, which is what I have at work. The overall asthetics is easy looking with the light color, while it doesnt shout out for additional attention. The plastic they use feels good to the touch as well. I wold defintely recommend this keyboard, along with other colors from the same seires, if you are looking to spend just a little bit of money to update your office without drawing too much attention.

Absolutely worth the money I paid for it. I am a mania rhythm game player and I switched from razer greens to the black switch variant of this keyboard because I wanted to try linears and I loved the way this keyboard looks. It definitely feels very good quality and works great. Since this is my first keyboard that has fully customizable rgb effects, something I learned is that having complex rgb effect on can strongly effect input latency. It is better to remember to turn rgb effects off while gaming or at least only using something like steady or reaction. If you are unsure of the build quality and functionality of the keyboard, I can assure you it is good for this price and you wont find a better price for a keyboard with this aesthetic as far as my searching went. EDIT 5/24/21 It has been about half a year since I started using it and there are around 1.7 million presses on each of the keys I use for my rhythm game. Yesterday one of the switches broke during gameplay, which was sort of strange to me since it is far below the general amount of presses a mech switch should last. Could be a defect or something, so not really a deal breaker for me still since it has served me very well since I got it. The other keys are still doing fine and have higher key press numbers even, so it was probably some one off thing on a defective switch. To fix my problem, I simply moved my keybinds down one row so all is good! The key that broke is the semicolon, which I dont use much anyways, but I guess I was lucky it was a key I dont use much that was the defective one.

Keyboard is heavy with no flex. The brown switches had a soft click noise, but is not annoying. Tactile feel on all the keys. There are multiple colors and patters to choose from. Very happy with the purchase.

I have a few mechanical keyboards (including drop alt high profile) but this one is special for the spherical keycaps and the rattling sound of vintage keyboard at this price. Love it. Hope the item last long.

Update 03/20/22: Been using this for over a year now daily for at least 8 hours a day and typing for the majority of those hours. No issues have developed and no complaints. I switched to mechanical keyboards years ago after realizing how much I type and how much more comfortable I could be. Lately, though, keyboards are bent over backwards into the gamer scene and taking one of those to the office is a little much. This oozes nostalgic style for an era that I did not really participate in but is still a solid memory for me and the others in the office. I constantly get asked if I found the keyboard in some old forgotten storage shed and the red/orange keys they include make it look like I am typing on an old mainframe/greenscreen keyboard. The sound is super satisfying without being obnoxious (Im looking at you greens) and the lights can be turned off completely with keyboard commands and stay off once you do it once. There is a tilt to the keys which takes about a day to get used to but your brain will take care of it with muscle memory (mine did anyway) and you will be typing with style and speed in no time.

This keyboard is perfect for work and gaming. My hand was hurting from my old keyboard being so stiff but these keys are a big night and day to my previous board. Definitely recommend it!

First off, Im a clicky person. I love keyboards that make a nice loud click. The blue switches on this keyboard sound great and typing on it is really comfortable. I also really love the aesthetics of this thing. I wasnt expecting to enjoy the RGB as much as I do but I wound up really loving the way this thing lights up and seeing all the different color options available. My only gripes are there is no instructions and the cord could be a bit longer for my purposes. I knocked a point off for the lack of instructions.

Due to someone basing their purchase on this review and regretting it, please keep in mind that this was my first experience with a mechanical keyboard. As such, my review as follows still stands in that regard :) I specifically wanted to get the loudest, most satisfyingly-unnecessary mechanical keyboard I could get. Boy did I get what I paid for. Its the loudest set of keys Ive ever had the pleasure of typing with. Ive got quite large hands, so most keyboards are a pain to use. With most I end up mistyping ~50% of the words I type - being nearly impossible to avoid hitting two or more keys at once most of the time. This keyboard, though, its very precise - moreso by the fact that its mechanical so you dont need to fully press down the keys to activate the switch. The keys are large, widely spaced, and offer appreciable and comfortable indentation - noticeably much more so on the tracking keys (Numpad 5, F, J). Build quality is superb. Its very heavy, so theres no chance of it moving around. All individual parts are very well built including the feet at the rear used for tilting (rubber-capped and sturdy). I was worried about getting a plastic keyboard again but, man, this thing is solid. Very thick molding so I couldnt get it to flex or warp if I tried. Design is fantastic. I cant overstate it. Its within the absolutely most perfect point between retro and modern. Its an art piece almost. Superb aesthetics. This keyboard features true RGB, where each key is individually programmable to a respectable amount of colors - as well offering many general effects that range from breathing, rain, rainbow, touch indication, banding, flashing, solid color (it should be noted, however, that there is no white solid color setting. Although, white is an option for individual keys. This means that one would have to assign each key manually to white, individually. It takes a bit of time and is a bit annoying to do, but it helps that youre able to save configurations [up to three, I believe]). Set-up isnt too obtuse. Lettering is stamped through and transparent so theres no chance of wear or fading. Product includes a key removal tool and a couple manuals. For flaws, these keys use some off-brand MX Blues. Ive not used official MX Blues before [Update, May 26th, 2021: I have now. Im sure some mechanical purists may furrow their brows at me, but Im not impressed. I prefer these substantially], so I wonder if these are all that far off. Theyre fairly loose and wiggle a substantial amount. The keys are spaced quite far apart, so it negates this problem. As well, these keys are pretty heavy. Not an unnoticable amount of force goes into pressing down each key, moreso than with any other keyboard Ive ever used. Not what I would call a gaming keyboard, due to these issues, but it can be done through a learning curve. Again, its *heavy*, so if you prefer being able to shift and adjust a keyboard around easily for preferred angles, itd be annoying with this keyboard. As well, some may call it a design flaw, but the keys reverberate that tinny boing, too. Its quite a dramatic noise, though lessens to some small degree with break-in. UPDATE, as of Jan. 19th, 2021: As per the regretful purchaser, he had made worthy points: the board is suspended a bit too high. Its a fairly bulky thing, in terms of height. It doesnt much bother me. I prefer more of an incline and dont like to rest my wrists on anything, let alone flatly upon a table, while typing. Its much more alike an antiquated keyboard in that regard (which is the theme, if were being fair). Ive also noticed a certain aberration with the RGB lighting; its not entirely uniform. Some individual nodes are comparatively under-colored or possibly dimmer than others. Its nearly indiscernible unless you inspect the board closely though it is much more noticeable with the white-lighted RGB setting. Could be placebo, but I feel as if the RGB lighting has subtly degenerated over time, developing a greater apparent disparity with the ornamental lighting set at each side (which of course is diffused with a translucent plastic, but still not producing the same hues of color as the keys do).

I was super excited to see this product, its everything I wanted between a retro keyboard, and full RGB backlight (didnt know thats what I wanted until I found this!) You can tell that its definitely not the best quality product, there is a springy sort of echo when typing in silence, but other than that it feels great, Im very happy with the key design! If there is one thing that I would actually complain about, is that while the function keys can be used for volume control, they dont have the symbols on them like advertised in some photos, so you just gotta figure out which key does what. I also think the software and instruction manual could be made more thorough, as opposed to the tiny piece of paper you get and the control software you download from a sketchy site. All those things aside, Im very happy with this keyboard, the RGB looks great, and it even comes with a red key replacement for Esc, Enter, and SpaceBar, which gives you a very small option for customizing out of the box which is nice. But by far the thing Im happiest about is that it totally works on Linux! Yes, even the function keys! It is advertised as only working for Windows, and while its true the software is only available on Windows, any RGB settings you make on it will be saved to the keyboards memory, and be the same if you plug it in on a Linux machine! Now depending on what flavor of Linux you use, you may have more problems with drivers and such, but for me it has not presented a problem at all. Do be careful though, Im not guaranteeing that it will work for other people on Linux, just saying it worked for the two Linux machines I truied it on. In short, Id give this a 5 star if the function keys were fully described on the keyboard, and if the RCB control software was a bit more polished. Right now you could be downloading any sort of malware and not be aware of it.