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Beautiful design, ugly execution
Let me start by saying that I really, really wanted to like this keyboard. It looks sooo cool - and wireless and mechanical "clicky" keys - OMG this has to be the best keyboard ever - or so I thought. Such was my fervor that I paid the additional $8.95 for overnight shipping. When I got home and saw the Amazon box, I felt anticipation that I hadn't felt since my honeymoon. There it was - all retro and clicky and un-wired - and all that remained was the unboxing and then ... typing bliss. Now, kids, the facts of life here are that, if you can't type on a keyboard, it really isn't a keyboard at all. Rather than being solid, tactile and clicky like Cherry keys, the Azio's keys had a kind of "rattly", imprecise feel to them. The deal breaker though was that the spacebar actually STUCK! No matter what I tried, it was clear that the problem was that the long plastic stems attaching the spacebar to the switches were binding and so no amount of patience or finagling was going to fix it. This was a simple case of a $219.00 keyboard engineered like a $20.00 keyboard. So, after an appropriate moment of silent contemplation, I admitted to myself that it was not to be, and returned it. I now own a Logitech G613, a perfectly functional plastic, wireless, mechanical-keyed keyboard. I've learned not to seek emotional fulfillment in my hardware anymore. I've moved on.
April 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase