Perfectly well done keyboard, love how it’s wireless and has such amazing features. Definitely a must have.
Solid keyboard. Would have liked to see it come with pudding caps. Also would have been great is the keyboard lights had more advanced customization. Still a good keyboard, but not great.
Love my keyboard. Great click sound, knob is great, a lot of functionality I haven’t even tapped into yet!
I liked this keyboard. Very beautiful, soft for typing and cool modes for backlighting this keyboard. But.. there are no keys for replacement under mac os system although there is such mode and it works perfectly
Generally good experience all-round (especially the layout!) with a few caveats.
1. Space bar is loud enough that my partner complained from two rooms away, which they've never done about any of my other blue switch keyboards.
2. Blue switches have a slightly higher operating force than I'm used to (but I can always swap those out).
3. Max backlight brightness is lower than I'd like, making the keys hard-ish to read at peak daylight.
edit: RKGaming's support reached out to me with suggestions. No magical fixes, but the aftercare is appreciated!
The RK N80 Low Profile is a great keyboard. Solid build, nice to type on, and overall really good quality. It’s a pleasure to work with. Switching to different devices is smooth and nice. Battery is also a plus, allows to work for several days without charging with lights on. The only downside I’ve noticed is that the key legends aren’t transparent, so the backlighting doesn’t actually help with visibility at night. Not a dealbreaker, but it would’ve been a nice touch. Still, a solid choice if you’re looking for a quality mechanical keyboard, strongly recommend.
Board is built well. I love every aspect of this keyboard with the exception of the software.
There is an issue with the board's RGB not working when your computer sleeps or is power cycled. It will only resolve the issue when you unplug and plug the keyboard back in. Minor annoyance, but this is a $100 board and should not have glaring issues like this.
The underglow RGB is separate from the main board RGB and you cannot change color of it. Want all red lights to match the rest of your set up? Too bad. The main board can be red, but the RGB under glow will stay the default rainbow color. You can't even just turn off the underglow. It's either all lights on or nothing at all.
Everything else about this board is fantastic though. I cannot understate how much I like this keyboard, but the glaring software issues on a $100 keyboard cannot be overlooked.
Insanely good value for the money. Well built, sounds good, plays amazingly well, and the RGB is a lot more impressive than expected. 10/10 will be buying from RK again. They also even threw in a free key cap box set when purchased directly from them!
boyfriend had a similar one before, bought this as a replacament when he wracked his old one. the keyboard is great, he said hes very pleased with it, so 🤷♀️ taking his word for it here
This keyboard is magical to type on, the thock is unreal. Especially love with my peaches and cream caps!
Received my first ever mechanical keyboard and I can say, this is the best!
Keyboard is very pleasant sounding with great rgb and many other features. However, it has some shortcomings:
Wired mode doesn't work with USB 2.0 port;
Keycap font is a little inconsistent;
Some buttons press in harder while spacebar presses in too easy - resulting in accidental clicks.
Regardless I will be keeping this keyboard as it's features is what I was looking for myself and the price is fairly good.
To be fair this is my first foray into mechanical keyboards. A coworkers mechanical made me want this feel. Then I spent hands-on time learning and testing switches at MicroCenter. I'm not a gamer, but an ambidextrous mouse user and wanted a narrow width in a mechanical keyboard. I love the blue switches. I love the back lighting. Great build quality.
This keyboard is seriously out of this world. I love it so much, and the creamy switches are literally perfect… I loved red switches before but this definitely has changed. I love how beautiful it is as well.
I mainly got this keyboard for the sound and form factor, which it excels in I suppose. But I have two issues. One the display isn't very bright so it's a nice addition but goes unnoticed most of the time but is very nice :) and two a much bigger issue is that once the computer enters sleep or rest mode, the RGB will not turn on upon wake unless you unplug the device and plug it in again. So with that being said I will probably be looking elsewhere soon for another keyboard. But it does its jobs. Oh and it takes a long time for gifs to be uploaded to the display, but I'm not sure if that's just an issue with all keyboards that allow you to do this.
I like this keyboard, however, they should have atleast have a shine through version. I usually worked with lights off and on low light, I cannot see the letters and symbols. Its fine if you memorize all but its better if you can see the characters in low light.
Hopefully, they also release linux version of the app/software. and also, release shine through keycaps, keycaps with different designs and different switches. so we can have other options for this keyboard.
But overall, i really like this keyboard. already changed my keycaps to a shine through and it looks more amazing.
tl:dr If you have a Mac, download Karabiner.
This is my 2nd mechanical keyboard. I love the creamy switches, they feel & sound great! It would've been nice if the keycaps had been "shine through" but from the photos I knew not to expect that (and I can always change them out later).
My one real gripe is a result of me using a Mac & a PC all day for work. The M87 switches between them easily, except it doesn't tie the layout to each connection type. E.g. when I switch to Bluetooth I want it to switch the system to Mac. Not the end of the world, but it slows things down and I have to use 2 Fn-key combos (which I sometimes mess up). Also, I found Fn+P switches to the 2.4GHz dongle and there are Fn switches to switch to Bluetooth, but I haven't found a way to switch to Wired (USB) without using the knob.
The USB port on the back is a stellar feature. I noticed my 2.4GHz mouse dongle works via the wired USB connection even if the M87 is set to use a wireless connection. That's brilliant! The upshot is, I can be using my Mac but still use the mouse on my PC...and still save a USB port on the PC. Pure genius, that.
The included Windows-only software is pretty straightforward. On Mac, there is no included software. The macOS keyboard settings keep you from getting into trouble, but are limiting. I found Karabiner-Elements and was able to get the Calc button to work as well as assign several other keys (Pause now Locks my screen, for instance). That has been super helpful.
On both systems, PC and Mac, the volume control & media buttons worked out of the box. The Calc button worked on PC as well.
Very nice creamy sounding keyboard with good rgb features , only slight tiny downside is that the rgb doesn’t shine through keycaps so you can’t see the letters in the dark. The volume knob is also pretty good