RK ROYAL KLUDGE RK84 Wireless RGB 75% Triple Mode BT5.0/2.4G/USB-C Hot Swappable Mechanical Keyboard, 84 Keys Bluetooth Gaming Keyboard w/High-Capacity Battery, Clicky Blue Switch

I bought this small keyboard for travel when I take my Steam Deck with me but also use it from time to time at home for its wireless capabilities. Its not the highest quality but definitely a great keyboard. RGB is a little dim in a well lit room, but in the dark its pretty good. Love that it has so many options for connectivity and USB-C is my go-to cable now. Pros: - Great price - Portable - Durable -- doesnt feel cheap - RGB - Swappable key caps & switches - Great battery life Cons: - Connectivity can be spotty at times when not close to the receiver. Bluetooth seems to be the best at a range. - RGB can be a little dim - Switches for connectivity are on the bottom - Height adjustment feet are magnetic, can fall off and get lost/dont travel well if not zippered in a small pocket

I’m a journalist and I wanted a good keyboard to make working from home more fun and I LOVE this thing. It’s so sturdy and satisfying to type on compared to some of the other more plasticky ones being sold on Amazon that honestly feel like Fischer price toys. This is a solid keyboard. And I love how it lights up!! Also having multiple ways to connect it to my laptop has been really convenient. I did a lot of keyboard research before buying this and it paid off because I love this thing.

Edit: I originally gave this thing 5 stars but after a month Im gonna have to knock it down. The keyboard itself is great, built-in LED modes are awesome and the fit and finish feels good to me. Coming from my 5-year-old K95 platinum, the switches on this board feel more premium and less pingy to type on. If youre someone who expects Apple level integration, this might be a little letdown. Nevertheless, Im happy with my purchase. This thing has never had any real issues just some slight annoyances or quirks. The quirks: - The included dongle is crap. Just dont use it. From a distance of 2 feet, it occasionally lags out which is unacceptable for a gaming keyboard - After the computer is shut down, the LEDs will start flashing to notify you that Bluetooth is disconnected and will not stop until it falls asleep - Even with a wired connection, it defaults to Bluetooth and falls asleep after a few minutes of inactivity. If inactive for a very long time, it takes a couple of seconds to re-pair with your PC. Windows will ding you every time this happens. - Im glad they offer software but its very barebones compared to what others are offering, but this is just a fact of life to expect when buying a keyboard from smaller manufacturers. - Cannot lock fn key / invert F keys. I wish there was a way to do this so I dont have to press Fn each time I want to change the volume

I purchased this RK84 keyboard back in 2021 and thought it was a pretty good keyboard out of the box. However, I recently had some connectivity issues with it randomly disconnecting from my PC. I reached out to Royal Kludge for product support with low expectations, since they are not as well known as the major peripheral brands like Logitech and Razer. This is where I admit that I was wrong. Royal Kludge blew me away with their level of support and responded to my inquiry within hours. They walked me through testing the keyboard and updating the firmware before acknowledging that there is a defect and helped me set up a replacement. I received my replacement within days, and I was shocked at how much better this new RK84 felt compared to my original purchased in 2021. Its clear that they made some changes to the product and the current iteration is much improved. The keycaps are thicker, have a nicer rough texture and have a more satisfying bottoming out sound. The spacebar and modifier keys also have no stabilizer rattle at all! I thought I liked my RK84 when I bought it in 2021, but I love how much they improved it. I wouldnt hesitate to recommend this board to anyone looking for a very usable 75% out of the box. Huge shout out to Royal Kludge for developing such a great product and having top notch customer support!

I originally went shopping for a new board, because my large tenkey board sat too far to the left of center and made my right wrist hurt, so I wanted something a little more compact, and figured I may as well go wireless while Im at it. I initially had some issues with this RK84 freezing up every 10 minutes or so, and though it was the board. I contacted customer support, and they sent me a replacement, which seemed to suffer the same issue. After some troubleshooting, I narrowed the true issue down to my own motherboard -- updating my BIOS and removing my RAM overclocking/overvolting fixed the freezing issues for me. For the record, I have an Asus Z170. RK customer support was very responsive though. - Keycaps on this seem to be ABS and OEM profile. I swapped them for some blank cherry profile PBT caps, for aesthetic and durability reasons. - The 2.4GHz connection for me is stellar. Not only is it very responsive, but it also lets you use the board to wake your computer from sleep, which cant be done using bluetooth. - Having bluetooth capabilities to write long messages on my phone is a nice use case as well. - Its yet not clear to me what the full lifetime of the battery is, but Ive been heavily using the board without backlighting now for 1 full week, with no sign of dying. Update: the battery life on this thing is nuts. Ive been using it for a month now without charging it. - Its a relief to know that if I get tired of the blue switches in this board, I can just swap them out for whatever I feel like. My only real gripe with this board is that, as far as I can tell, theres no way to monitor the battery level, so Ill have to have it die on me to know when its time to plug it in for charging. Initially I was debating between this RK84 or a Keychron K2, which is very similar. Its true that the Keychron has a slightly larger battery, but it also places the delete key in a really poor spot, and the RK84 can act as a USB hub in addition, so overall I think this board is a better option.

If youre just getting into mechanical keyboards that you want to customize this is a great option. There are so many mods out there, you can easily make it sound to your personal preference.

If youre familiar at all with custom keyboards, its that you know it can get expensive. I spent a long time looking for a keyboard that would fit my needs without blowing my budget. I can say that this keyboard is 100% worth it. Out of the box, it already sounds decent and most people wouldnt even feel the need to change anything about it. But if you were like me and wanted to customize it, its perfect. I switched the red switches for akko lavenders and changed the keycaps and its like a completely different board and sound! Plus, I was surprised that this keyboard came with foam already inside! What shocked me even more was the stabilizers that came with the keyboard were already sturdy with foam. Both of these inclusions made my modding experience a lot easier. Overall, Id highly recommend this keyboard to those looking for

RK84 80% With linear red switches. For starters - YES, this keyboard works on Mac! It even says so in the description AND user manual. It has a Mac mode and a Windows mode right on the keys! I can’t speak for the software - I imagine that may only be usable on windows - but it is swappable, and it is compatible with both! I own both and use it on both so I promise you that it is. You can even swap the windows key with the alt key to where the command key normally is on a Mac when you switch the keyboard to Mac mode if you’d like. Much more comfortable! That said - here is my review: While this Mechanical keyboard is considered to fall under the “budget” end of mechanical keyboards for its size - this keyboard is a great value. Hot-swappable switches, swappable keys, works both wired via USB-C, or wireless via any of its 3 different Bluetooth channels or it’s 2.4ghz USB, and even has two pass-through USB (type A) ports on the back for added convenience. It comes pre-built (although u would’ve loved to assemble it), is compatible with Windows AND Mac, and it even has software! All for under $90? That’s hard to beat. I’ll be honest — this is my first mechanical keyboard, so take that for what you will. However, believe you me when I tell you that I did my research (and a lot of it) before purchasing this one. Seriously, it’s been months. This Royal Kludge RK84 met all of my criteria for a starter keyboard and then some. Has all the keys I really need (including a couple for convenience), could connect to two computers (but not at the same time), has red linear switches, is hot swappable, had decent battery life, adjustable RGB backlight, USB-C, and doesn’t break the budget (around $100 since this is my first mechanical keyboard). I also wanted it to show up the next day, so keep in mind that these thoughts also include that I searched primarily on Amazon (which may or may not have limited me here, although I didn’t feel that it did based on the options I found on YouTube and other forums as well). The selection on Amazon is quite decent for boards in this price range. I digress. Being a budget pre-built, and despite watching video after video on this mech (let alone probably 15-20 other keyboards), I was super unsure of what to expect after opening the box. I was nervous that it would feel super chintzy. I almost expected it to. I was worried it would rattle and clunk, it would be lightweight, and that it would feel cheap. More so, I was worried that I would be disappointed. However, that was not the case at all. I am currently blown away at the features and quality of this board (and I’m a picky guy). Considering I could’ve spent double for a keyboard with the same (or even fewer) features that this bird has, confirms to me that this is a great starter levied for me, or for just about anybody who wants to affordably ‘dip their toes’ into the mech world. I can’t speak much for longevity, but I am confident in saying that this is an awesome option among the many in its price range (at least on Amazon). I’ll upload a video of it completely stock later, but there isn’t all that much rattle considering that things are minimally lubed from the factory - if at all. Now, no decent review is complete without an honest list of cons. After using it for a few hours this afternoon I have come upon a few things that are less desirable - but to be expected. - The user manual could be considered somewhat confusing at parts. Not that bad, but it’s mostly just pictures so some things are left to the imagination. For instance, the P button blinks indefinitely until you either pair it with the 2.4ghz USB dongle included, or switch the keyboard into Bluetooth mode and connect it. - There is some rattle in the stabs — but again this is to be expected and isn’t severe enough that it can’t be fixed fairly easily. - The case does sound a bit hollow/cheap — also an easy fix. It doesn’t feel cheap though (as a reminder). - The brightness could be slightly more adjustable, although there is enough adjustability for me to be content. All things considered, this is a great keyboard. I would recommend it to anybody who thinks they might be interested in the enthusiast-side of mechanical keyboards. Easy 5 stars from me.

For the price the amount of features this keyboard comes with is amazing, the Rk red switches I got with my board feel very nice and smooth. - The only cons I have with this keyboard is that the software for this thing is pretty crappy and could use some major work. In the software I set the RGB to never turn off (by default it turns off every 5 mins) and while Im glad that they at least have this feature it sucks that when putting my PC to sleep they still stay on... so I have to unplug the keyboard every time I go to bed. - The last thing is that even with a Bluetooth 5.1 adapter in my PC there is still a very noticeable input latency while gaming in Bluetooth mode, so I have chose to keep it wired. This is the first Bluetooth keyboard I have used so Im not sure if that type of latency is normal for BT keyboards or not but it makes playing any kind of online competitive game out of the question while connected with BT. (btw my PC is right next to my keyboard so it is not a distance latency thing.) Other than those two cons I am very happy with my purchase of this keyboard and plan to easily upgrade it with new keycaps and switches down the road thanks to the useful hotswap feature!

This keyboard is a good budget mechanical option. The board itself feels like good quality. The stock switches and keycaps are decent, but it is hot-swappable, so you can customize it later on (which I have done). The stabilizers were pretty good out of the box. Im not a big rgb person, but I actually really like the way the rgb looks on this. Bright enough even if you keep your setup pretty well lit.