MageGee Portable 60% Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, MK-Box LED Backlit Compact 68 Keys Mini Wired Office Keyboard with Red Switch for Windows Laptop PC Mac – White/Blue
$29.99 Original price was: $29.99.$26.99Current price is: $26.99.
- Mini portable 60% compact layout: MK-Box is a 68 keys mechanical keyboard have cute small size, separate arrow keys and all your F-keys you need, can use it for gaming or work while saving space.
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Mechanical red switch: characterized for being linear and smoother, slight key sound has no paragraph sense with minimal resistance, but fast action without a tactile bump feel which makes it easier to tap the keyboard.
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Classic charming blue LED backlit: Customize multiple illuminated LED light effects, supports about 15 backlight modes, press Fn + Ins can control it, FN + ←/→ control backlight speed, FN + ↑/↓ control backlight brightness.
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Full anti-ghosting keyboard: all 68 keys are no conflict, white blue mash up design, ergonomic suspension double-color injection keycap, double kickstand feet adjustable typing angle and detachable usb cable, both practical and beautiful.
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Extensive compatibility: MageGee MK-Box mechanical keyboards use USB 2.0 connector making it compatible with Windows (2000, XP, ME, Vista, 7, 8), Linux and Mac, plug and play, no drivers or software required.
Windey –
It’s noisy, but not so clicky. Your coworkers will not like it. Otherwise, no flex, hot swappable keys, plenty of lighting modes, and has arrow keys. Just about everything I’d want…..
Jared D. Brown –
Product works as described, not a ripoff. It is small and clackity clack, we like that. Like the backlighting, though the point of backlight patterns escapes me.
BUT the engineering and design are less than well thought through.
1) Caps symbols are side by side with L/C symbols. “You should just know that”, no they should be over-under. Quick: which is the lower case, ‘[‘ or ‘{‘?
2) No or keys. I use these a lot. Another case of “you should have known”. OK.
3) No utility to change key assignments (see previous point). “Just” do that in the OS key bindings? I wish the keyboard could be reprogrammed instead. Other manufacturers offer this. OK, this is a cheap keyboard.
4) and symbols are indistinguishable. “Learn to touch type”. No, make the symbol bigger. I fixed this with a sharpie, but why?
So, overall moderately useful. It will probably end up in the bin I’m afraid.
Carlos R –
I purchased this for under $25, so I will review as such. I got the yellow keycaps with blue switches.
One of my hobbies is to buy dirt cheap mechanical keyboards and mod/improve them as much as I can. Sometimes I fall in love with them, other times I just give away as custom made gifts.
This caught my attention because it is pretty rare to see a removable USB C connection in the right spot on cheap mech keyboards, I’ve retrofitted one with a after market port and it was such a pain I said I would never bother again.
For the price this is a pretty good keyboard, although one of the loudest I have, and I’m currently neck deep in about 15 different mech keyboards. The switches are soldered on and are Jixian blues. Reviews aren’t great and I would agree. They feel fine but sound obnoxious. I havn’t tried the red switch option of this board but I would go that route if I ever repurchased, probably duller to the ear with similar feel when it comes to this grade switch.
However, sound aside this is really nice to type on, and the cheapest 60% with USB C I have seen. The keycaps it comes with are really nice doubleshots and it came with a bag of extras, even some that don’t fit on this board, like number pad big 0 and long vertical enter. Mine shipped all white and grey, and a bag of yellow modifiers/space/numkey/FN/backspace etc. Also a red esc cap.
I immediately took it apart by removing all keycaps and removing six screws. Pretty solid board, but a big empty echo chamber of a base. I added one layer of Zip-n-fit foam to the deep well towards the back, than another full panel layer to the remaining space. I put 5 layers of masking tape on the back of the board and screwed it back together.
This helped a long with the “pinginess” and reverb but the switches are still really load. Replacing the switches will be my next project but a long on as there are 136 pins to solder. Won’t probably be worth it, but it’s my wierd hobby and I will report back.
My plans for this are my travel board for hotels. I recently lost a very expensive keyboard in baggage check and would rather just have $25 loss over the aggravation and hassle over a $150 claim with the airlines. If I was traveling with my wife though, she would tell me to throw this thing through the window because it is so loud.
I guess if you are single, or plan to use it in a place with no one around, and budget is a concern and are willing to take it apart and make some adjustments, this is a very good $25 keyboard. For anyone who has a great mechanical keyboard or are in earshot of 50ft of someone, this probably isn’t for you.
Edit: I bought another one with red switches. I highly recommend going with red’s, it feels better typing, and sounds 1000% better.
lmf –
Produto de boa qualidade, muito confortável de digitar e fácil de configurar para uso, só plugar e usar. As funções de iluminação se dão nos botões FN e INS para alternar como a iluminação funciona. Recomendo, pois pelo valor ele entrega muito, no entanto não é um produto grande, ele tem um tamanho próximo de um notebook convencional.
Adam –
I wanted a keyboard for travel with a pad. I’m super-fussy about keyboards because I write for a living. I wanted the smallest possible keyboard with a mechanical touch. (I really hate laptop-style keyboards with no “feel”.) This is it. The keys are full size, so don’t be confused by the “60% size” product description–that just refers to the overall footprint. The space-saving design omits F1 through F12 keys but you can get them by pressing the Fn key with keys 1 through 0 , -, and =. The tab, caps lock, shift keys, and enter keys are normally sized; there is no compromise there. The enter, backslash, and backspace keys are also full size. The cursor keys are well placed. The one compromise is they omitted Home and End keys, but PgUp, PgDn, Ins, and Del are all there.
Backlight is activated by pressing Fn with cursor-up or cursor-down. There are four levels of brightness (plus you can switch it off), and you can also activate some entertaining lighting effects which I found unnecessary.
My one complaint is that the keyboard is a little bit heavy for traveling. But the size is perfect and the key touch is just perfect.
This keyboard has received some negative views which I find confusing. A couple reviewers complain that the keyboard has an auto-off feature, but mine doesn’t have that; it stays on. A reviewer complained about poor manufacturing finish, but the finish on my keyboard here is excellent.
I hardly ever give 5 stars to anything, but this keyboard deserves it.
Ryan Fates –
Es una basura para su precio tan caro hay mejores por menor precio
Adam –
After daily driving for 3 months, I have very few complaints. Only once on start up did the keyboard not turn on but a quick unplug/plug-in it worked just fine. If you are coming from a full sized keyboard, it takes an adjustment period to get used to a 60% keyboard. I was worried I would miss the numpad but it hasn’t been an issue.
João P. –
Amazing colors, maybe on the loud side but it’s great
Charles Platt –
Good programmable keyboard for small spaces. Really enjoy the ease of unplugging the USB from the back of this thing. Like the extra buttons it comes with. Only thing is that there are key commands to be able to use the third programmed keys. You have to look them up in the product description. Mine didn’t come with instructions
Carlos R –
It is very sturdy, the keys feel great when typing, no misses or delays. Love the backlit colors.