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🎹 Vintage-Inspired Black and Chrome Mechanical Keyboard: Azio Retro - Blue Switch (MK-RETRO-01) Review

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Revainrating 3.5 out of 5  
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3.3
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Description of 🎹 Vintage-Inspired Black and Chrome Mechanical Keyboard: Azio Retro - Blue Switch (MK-RETRO-01)

Chrome Plated Body & Keycaps. Country Of Origin : China. Water & Dust Resistant. Clicky Mechanical Switch (50G).

Reviews

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Type of review

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Bad quality: keyboards, mice and accessories

The keyboard looks good, but there are serious quality problems. The buttons themselves feel very cheap and flimsy, and the switches make a normal clicking noise, but nowhere near the same as cherry switches. Also, most of the keys are upside down and one of them has been printed twice as you can see in the photo. i will return this

Pros
  • Fingers crossed
Cons
  • There are disadvantages

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Form-over function on keyboards

The design of this keyboard is great, but the build quality leaves a lot to be desired. Several keys on my keyboard get stuck when pressed and require a bit of fiddling to get them up again. If you are a Mac user, note that you will lose the command key to the right of the spacebar. which may or may not annoy you depending on how often you use keyboard shortcuts

Pros
  • Good workmanship
Cons
  • is embarrassing

Revainrating 5 out of 5

*KEYS WEAR* Much better than Armato

Much better than Armato. I've tried both. MK Retro is really accurate and smooth when typing very crisp very responsive and accurate sounds really very nice elegant and beautiful design the legs at the bottom never fall off because they are not stupid folding legs! These are pads that expand and they are amazing ArmataLEDs but they don't shine through the keys. What's the point? it looks tasteless. The volume rocker is amazing, but the multimedia keys are the kind of cheap plastic you can…

Pros
  • New
Cons
  • Volume

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Perfect for blind typists

If you know what a blind typist is, then you've probably learned how to type on a typewriter, and this might be something for you. It's spacious, doesn't move around the table when I'm typing, I don't need backlit keys because my hands know exactly what to type without even thinking about it. Added bonus, looks really cool! It makes a noise when you press the keys, about as loud as I remember an IBM Selectric and quieter than a Smith Corona portable electric device. Having typed letters on both

Pros
  • Alright!
Cons
  • alt

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Look but don't touch

There are a lot of rave reviews about this keyboard so I went with it. Here are my reasons I didn't like it and sent it back. 1 - The keys are wobbly. They don't feel harsh and I've posted a video of me playing the keys back and forth. 2 - The keys have to be pressed quite far to register a number or letter. A lot of keyboards are like this, but I like thin keyboards with flat keys (similar to Mac keyboards) and I can't and won't retrain my brain. Yes, it looks more like a typewriter, but it…

Pros
  • Easy to read control panel
Cons
  • A long time ago

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Already dead after 2 1/2 years of use.

I bought this in 2017 hoping to get a nice keyboard that will last over a decade as I know mechanical keyboards can work when paired well with quality switches are made. That's pretty much the only reason I'd pay $100 for a keyboard — it would have to survive five $20 rubber-dome keyboards, which isn't a huge feat since, as an active user, I can easily burn through one of them every two years. . And don't get me wrong, it's gorgeous, even if the silver finish has robbed the most used keys after

Pros
  • Handsfree
Cons
  • Quality

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Nice though. for keyboards

3.11.17. That's beauty. But for $115 or so, there are notable cons: 1. Ridiculous manual. This is the same as the PDF available online. This is without information.2. After half an hour of googling, I found out that the "W" LED can be switched off with the FUNC + Windows key. Which disables the Windows key. That is why there is an image of a padlock under the Windows logo. Of course. Since I regularly disable the Windows key in other ways, I'm spared. And of course, the keyboard will initialize

Pros
  • Nice to use
Cons
  • Secret

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Excellent keyboard with a few hits.

First of all I am typing on this keyboard when I am doing this review. I waited about two weeks before leaving a review to see if I liked it. But it's not perfect. First the good: the keys are pleasant to press. The long drive and comfortable return helped my typing speed a bit. On the other hand, the round buttons are a bit damaged. LAUGH OUT LOUD. As I've gotten more accurate I'm pretty much back to where I was and expect to improve. I just went to typingtest.com and did a quick 2 minute test

Pros
  • A Dream Come True
Cons
  • Updates Available

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Oodles of Cool but not perfect

I bought this set on another site but wanted to give a review. All in all when you look at this keyboard you probably fall into one of three categories: 1. This would be a cool add on keyboard to expand my existing mechanical keyboard repertoire! I am very excited to buy my first blue switch mechanical keyboard and they have great styles too! 3. What is a mechanical keyboard? I just love how this thing looks! If you're in the first or third category, I'd say go for it. If you're looking to add…

Pros
  • Acceptable
Cons
  • There are some nuances