I should've expected it given the price point and that it's plastic, but it just felt too thin and lightweight for me to comfortably enjoy using it. Software is what I'd expect from a cheap chinese board and the caps are mediocre.
Honestly, I'd just recommend paying more for a better board in the end. You might as well just get a cheap non-mech keyboard if you don't want to pay a bunch.
Bought it to try. North and south leds but the switches that came with it were only north... Had a hard time to find dual axis led switches but found them on alibaba. Now i can have dual color per key. Changed the case for cnc alu. Bought side print black backlight keecaps. It looks nice now. The soft for programming is quite obvious. But with a bit of practice... Now it stands on a shelf. Won't buy another one. But was fun to custom.
Yes it is bad keyboard, i'm a computer program writer and i usually code in the road using tmux, ssh and vim in my phone, so i really enjoi an mechanical keyboard, but i really really hate when suddenly stop working because of battery, i'm going to give it 2 stars just because i feel sorry for the bad reviews of the keyboard, other wise i will give it 0
There's no on/off switch, so the battery is constantly draining. There's not much point to being wireless if it needs to be recharged on every use.
The optical switches are incredibly sensitive to vibration, to the point that putting something down near the keyboard causes unwanted keystrokes.
The software is garbage, full stop.
Buy literally any other keyboard. This thing is barely functional.
Would give it 0 stars if I could. Doesn't sit straight on the desk, the corners are uneven and it wobbles. The keycaps are awful, and were swapped for inferior ones after the purchase was made. Doesn't allow normal mx switches to be used, so not really as hotswap as you'd want. Too late to get a refund from Drop so now I'm stuck with a useless paperweight.
Everything other reviewers have said with the exceptions of having to turn on - off BT to get the keyboard to work. Seems to connect every time for me.
Board doesn't wobble for me either so there must be a QC issue?
This is my first 60 kb and I'm super disappointed with the bait and switch.
Hell no I would not recommend this to a friend, nor would I recommend Drop.
Where to begin, as many have stated what was sold was not delivered.
Far from the advertised. You can read the other reviews for the in depth analysis .
Case wobble,keycap change , crappy software, etc. Just not pleased.
My GK66 DDD arrived the same day as the unexpected and untimely demise of my MD-supplied Magicforce 68 Bluetooth keyboard, and I’ve used it at work as my daily driver for the past fortnight or so.
First the bad:
Switches: So close, yet so fail. I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t specified that the hotswap switches are some weird ‘Gateron optical’ switch that bears a superficial resemblance to a Cherry-MX switch, but is most definitely NOT compatible with MX switches. All Skyloong had to do was design for hotswap basic standard MX switches... but nope. Could have been great, but instead we’ve ended up with a board that’s orphaned. I really dislike linear switches, and these “Gateron Optical Browns” are not very tactile. Frustrating.
Programmability: Again, really close, but no cigar. As others have mentioned, the reprogramming software is very hard to use if your skills don’t include Mandarin, and even with that aside, the top layer is not able to be changed. I’m a simple guy, all I want is to be able to swap L-CTRL with L-ALT, so my macOS / OS X muscle memory translates. Dear keyboard manufacturers, stop trying to reinvent the wheel - Use QMK. Frustrating.
Keycaps: These got changed at the last minute. I didn’t really like either option, and always intended to replace them anyway, but the delivered keycaps aren’t great. See below for a pic of mine with MDA Big Bone set on it (https://kono.store/products/big-bone-keycaps). Of course, those aren’t easily available, and cost extra, so most people are probably out of luck, which ain’t the best.
Now for the middling:
Layout is OK for fitting other keycaps, but be sure to buy lots of other kits on top of a standard TKL kit - this puppy has lots of weird sized keys. That MDA Big Bone set I link to above was perfect in that it covers the shorter than normal L-SHIFT, shorter than normal |\ key, and has a bunch of 1U modifiers in the correct row shape (SHIFT, DEL)... and the SPACEKEY2 kit has the exact sized space keys (2.25U, 1.25U, 2.75U).
Battery life is... OK. Charging protection is overly protective, it won’t charge off a tiny Apple USB charger, only when connected to a PC/Mac. It must really be careful.
With no hardware ON/OFF switch, if you turn it off (holding 6X + TAB) and put it in a bag, it’ll invariably have no battery left when you pull it out of the bag.
The split-into-three-parts spacebar is... neither here nor there. I tend not to use extra layers, and so the easy access to the “6X” key is of no real advantage to me. The overall effect of having the three-part spacebar is mainly that I occasionally hit “6X” instead of SPACE and two words areleft stucktogether wherethey should be separated.
Good stuff:
Bluetooth works flawlessly, switches fast.
The options of wired/BT1/BT2/BT3 give the ability to connect to four devices and keep the keyboard charged. Nice.
Layout is nice to type on in general.
Is there a version of this with both Bluetooth and hotswappable NORMAL MX-compatible switches? I can’t find one with both.