Outemu Switches Land On Biostar’s $45 Mechanical Keyboard

[scolaner]

Biostar now offers a mechanical keyboard, which is outfitted with Outemu Blue switches.

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[synphul]

It might make things interesting if they can keep the price down around $45. So far so good with a tesoro using kailh brown switches, no rattling or malfunctions or anything. For the price it might be worth a shot, it's not much more than most membrane keyboards and maybe even less than a few membrane boards.

 

[wifiburger]

these keyboard upgrades / changes to technology is getting a bit out of hand ! I'll wait for them to introduce a cell cpu into the keyboard for fancy light / response time with a pci-express interface for nice high bandwidth typing

 

[jonny27]

Hmm, this looks suspiciously like the chinese "mechanical" keyboards on ebay and the likes, I think I've seen that frame and lighting layout before. And yes, "mechanical". I once ordered one of them to check out for 40€, only that it wasn't actually mechanical. When it arrived, one of the switches got loose, and underneath it, instead of the usual electrical contacts I saw a nub that actuated on the keyboard a - you guessed - rubber dome. So in short merely a mechanical feel keyboard that always had to be bottomed out. Needless to say, felt terrible.
Not to say there aren't any genuine cheap mechanical keyboards out there - the Motospeed CK104 immediately comes to mind as the go to choice in this price range, which btw sports also outemu blues - but at this price one should be very careful on what the keyboard actually is.

 

[spigias]

as stated above you have to be extra careful when buying keyboards from ebay due to dozen mechanical "like" feel keyboards. i ve got E-3LUE K751 with outemu red seems ok. also you can check ebay for ck104, ak47,rk920 most of them use outemu.