Keychron K8 ISO-UK-Layout Tenkeyless Wireless Bluetooth & Wired Gaming Mechanical Keyboard, White Backlight, Multitasking for Windows Mac with Gateron G Pro Brown Switch

I've now used this keyboard for a couple of weeks and I love it. I hated the thud when the keys hit the bottom, but I've 90% cured that with some cheap o-rings. The sound when the key returns to the top is the next thing to tackle, probably with better o-rings and PBT keys (I want to mix up the colours of my keys anyway).I love the light on the keys, the feel is amazing and it's a whole new typing experience for me - takes me back to the first laptops I had. I somehow selected the lighting effect that dims the key as you press it, not that I watch what I'm typing, but when I do, it somehow reaffirms to me that I hit the right key.I did lots of research on keyboards and settled on Keychron because of the reviews. If I started again, I'd buy each component separately, but I'd still buy Keychron. I had no idea there was so much to choose from!

This keyboard is perfect, nice feel to the keys, good battery life, good size and backlighting is good. Perfect for programming

This is a beautiful keyboard, comes from the factory with all of the features that you usually have to modify a keyboard to achieve in terms of sound dampening and key feel. Double gasket design, hot-swappable keys and switches, fully QMK/VIA compatible, programmable keys, programmable rotary encoder and so much more. Honestly I couldn't recommend this keyboard enough. The only downside if you're after a full RGB setup is that the LED's are south facing so they don't shine through the keys as brightly as some other keyboards (Really not an issue unless you're a teenager obsessed with blinding multicoloured light on everything). Out of the box it's not compatible with software like SignalRGB for unifying your RGB, but it's supported by SignalRGB and all you need to do is flash the keyboard. Not a big deal for people in the keyboard hobby, and then you can use all of that software customisation to your heart's content such as individual key colour customisation, keystroke effects and so on. Pair it with their custom wood palm rests for a lovely combo.

By no means is this a bad keyboard. However, the sound and tactility isn't great, the keycaps feel a little cheap, and it often struggles to connect via Bluetooth. It unfortunately feels like it's very close to being great but isn't quite there? It definitely does the job for now but it's not my forever keyboard. Whether that's because of the board of because of me? I'm not sure.

I won't write a long review. It's as luxurious as you'd imagine. But with one huge caveat. The lighting is South Facing, which us a tragic error.See, in the UK, we use the UK-ISO standard. Yet there us quite literally NO keycap set that is south facing, PBT, and with All UK-ISO keys (2, 3, 4 and Enter). None. At all. I fact I challenge anyone to find some, with that criteria. Believe me. You won't find any...Also, for whatever reason, Keychron have not given this keyboard a firmware that allows per key lighting using VIA, meaning you're limited to some (not all) of the built in effects.For £250 I would like to see these things take into consideration. The UK market is growing but without quality keucap available, it's not going to get any further. Not enen Keychron themselves offer suitable keys. Tragic waste of money in afraid.

Upset I had to swap all the keys around to windows. Great keyboard. Sounds amazing. Only just realised I don't have Bluetooth on my computer but the good thing is it comes with a cable 😂. Feels amazing. Build is amazing. And it's great to type on. Tiny bit expensive but the build quality is there10/10 product