AUKEY Mechanical Keyboard KM-G6
Amazon.com Price: $27.99 (as of 20/07/2021 01:36 PST- Details)
LED-Backlit Mechanical Keyboard: 6-color backlight (each row has a different specific color), 9 preset lighting effects, and 2 slots for assignable lighting effects. Choose a preset effect or customize your configuration to match your computer setup
Blue Switches: The individual, clicky Outemu Blue switches deliver accurate, responsive key commands for typing and gaming. They have an incredible 50-million-keystroke lifespan, proven in testing
Full N-Key Rollover: 104-key rollover means this keyboard will never miss a single key-press or confuse your commands in any use case scenario
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LED-Backlit Mechanical Keyboard: 6-color backlight (each row has a different specific color), 9 preset lighting effects, and 2 slots for assignable lighting effects. Choose a preset effect or customize your configuration to match your computer setup
Blue Switches: The individual, clicky Outemu Blue switches deliver accurate, responsive key commands for typing and gaming. They have an incredible 50-million-keystroke lifespan, proven in testing
Full N-Key Rollover: 104-key rollover means this keyboard will never miss a single key-press or confuse your commands in any use case scenario
Durable & Water-Resistant: The double-shot-molded ABS keycaps and brushed metal panel are extremely durable and abrasion-resistant
Package Contents: AUKEY KM-G6 LED-Backlit 104-Key Mechanical Keyboard, Keycap Puller, User Manual
Specification: AUKEY Mechanical Keyboard KM-G6
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Steven M. –
Amazing keyboard at an unbelievable price!
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Great product! After a few months it still has the same great mechanical sound I’ve come to know and love.Many lighting options to choose from, from pulsing to key following, and very customizable.WARNING you cannot change the color of the keys, they are pre set and won’t change unless you want to open up the keyboard.This is customizable in many ways, just not the colors.Incredibly quick response, I never knew how “soggy” the membrane keyboards felt until I started using this delightful piece of equipment.Great price for the quality, I haven’t needed or wanted to replace any keys on this, and all of the characters are visible as the day I bought it.The instructions were initially hard to follow, but holding the function key and pressing the “Ins” key changes the rate and style of lighting.Holding the function key and pressing any of the “L” keys (under the top number keys) will change which keys are currently lit up.Even in daylight you can tell which buttons are lit up, and at night, they shine like a flashlight (comes with adjustable brightness if that’s a bit much for you!).9/10 Can’t change individual key colors, but would 100% buy again!
M –
Ok for the price
I am not a gamer. Neither am a 10 finger speed demon. I just wanted a mechanical keyboard. At work, I use a Corsair Strafe 2. That keyboard is sublime and makes passers-by do a double take. At home, I wanted something similar, but the 140$ price tag of the Corsair was too much to swallow. And the laptop keyboard on my Lenovo Ideapad is simply not responsive enough. So, I bought this. Just plugged it in. The main takeaway is that it is loud. Of course, this could be because I am writing this at home and it is quite here. AT work, the Corsair’s sound is probably drowned in the office.The keyboard looks and feels well made. It is hefty. The lights can be cycled by pressing Fn Ins. Fn DnArrow will dim the brightness. The lighting pattern itself is fixed. Green keys will stay green and red keys will stay red. But the lights can be cycled in several ways, if you are feeling a little bit disco.I cannot speak to durability and ease of cleaning yet.There are a few suggestions to Aukey which I hope they will incorporate in a future product (at this price point):1. Include a USB passthrough2. Include a volume and media keyset3. The keyboard back is heavy. Find a slot to place and store the key removal tool. This way, users will not lose it.
DSF –
It seems like they do stand behind their products and customer satisfaction …
11/02/2017 UPDATE:Aukey was really quick to respond to my review and send me another unit at no charge. It seems like they do stand behind their products and customer satisfaction is important to them.I do not care for this product at all. The first one I ordered had an uneven plank. Needless to say, it rattled on my desk while typing. Therefore, I returned it and decided to give it another try. When I got the 2nd unit, keys were working fine except left shift. Over time left shift started working okay and not completely sticking. Now I realized “del” is completely getting stuck and I have to manually release the key from stuck position. You get what you pay for. Cheap product for a cheap price. I would not recommend it since there are better alternatives for a few dollars more. Keys getting stuck in a mechanical keyboard is unacceptable. Poor quality.
Trusty Rombone –
Pleased with my first mechanical keyboard
Overall I give this keyboard a thumbs up, especially if you can catch it on sale. The feel is pretty nice, this is my first mechanical keyboard and it requires a little more deliberate input but only because the keys are a lot higher with longer strokes than what I’m used to. The key feedback feels nice though. It’s a pretty linear stroke with a very slight resistance at the click and input happens exactly at that click. Noise is of course audible but not very loud and sounds more like a keyboard that also clicks instead of a machine that registers input because you clicked something, if that makes sense. But again compared to a membrane keyboard it does actually feel very mechanical.I thought I saw a picture of this keyboard with all white lights, so I was under the impression the RGB LED’s were color changing but that is not the case. There are lighting effects but in regard to actual color the rainbow color scheme is all you get.Minor Annoyances:The base is really heavy which it doesn’t need to be and only is to give an impression of substance and is therefore a bit of a gimmick. The keyboard has 4 rubber feet but only the forward two make contact with your desk unless you extend the kickstand feet at the back, which would usually bother me but this keyboard actually feels better to me with them extended so whatever. The caps lock, num lock “on” lights are SUPER BRIGHT and illuminate my bedroom ceiling very well unless I remember to turn them off before going to bed (a dab of black sharpie may help). The USB plug required an unusual amount of force to insert into my PC, which made me suspect I had received a defective unit until I tried a second port with much more force.I suspect AUKEY and ANKER are somehow related??!?
Pdok –
Sturdy, seems like a good quality board, smaller key tops and wider gaps between keys sort of ruins it for me.
Cheap price, solid feel. would be perfect if the key tops were not so narrow. Funny thing to complain about, but the contact area on the key surface is taller than it is wide, and compared to standard 104-key boards there’s a considerably larger gap between keys. For me, that leaves some room to mis-hit keys that are off the home row, resulting in inaccuracies. Overall, it’s enough to make me want to move to something else. Almost. I hate picking out keyboards, so I will probably keep it for a while until another good deal comes along and then move. I prefer a more square shaped key with more top area. I just didn’t notice it in the pictures when I bought it, and it never occurred to me that it might be a negative.I like the backlighting, don’t really care for the colored lights, but that isn’t a negative for me overall. It’s bright enough to be helpful, which is fine. Keyclick and noise level is fairly high, but nothing unusual for mechanicals. If you don’t know what that means, then you’re probably looking at the wrong keyboard…! One nice thing is the weight of the board. It is heavy and does not move around at all when typing, feels extremely solid and I appreciate that.Edit: 5/28/2018 Aukey responded after this review. Although my complaint was not something a replacement keyboard would fix, at least they seem to stand behind their product.———-Let me express my sincere regrets for the problem that you’ve experienced with the AUKEY Keyboard. Thank you for telling us your problem, and we would improve the further batch.Rest assured that AUKEY products are backed with a 24 Months Product Warranty and because we do not have the similar product at the present, we are willing to issue the full refund to your original payment.In the meantime, because we concern customers’ satisfaction, we would like to send the equivalent as the sorry gift to remedy the situation, and here below is the link to our platform. If you would like to try AUKEY, please search the item from following link, offer the item’s link and shipping address to us.——————-
Allen –
Great Keyboard
I originally bought another AUKEY keyboard off of a Lightening Deal and that KM-G9 keyboard was my first return back to the world of mechanical boards. I loved it so much, that I bought this keyboard to use on a different machine. I guess you never forget your first love; this board is great, but I have to say that I like the other one better. Perhaps it is one of those one-off production things, but the differences are noticeable. This one has the same great, crisp feel, the same loud, clacky keys … mostly. Some of the wider keys such as Return, Space and Backspace are a teeny bit mushy compared to the rest – something that isn’t the case with the KM-G9. Regardless, for the price, I’m very happy with this KM-G6 for my gaming PC so far. I’d prefer that the colors on the back-lighting were customizable, but for $40, I like it much better than the Razer board I’m replacing it with.
Specialized9898 –
Great Mechanical Board!
My 1yo son recently broke a Saitek gaming keyboard I have had for nearly 8 years because he likes to bang on things. I found this replacement not long after I started looking and read a couple of the reviews – some key points are below:This keyboard is heavy. It definitely has a decent amount of metal in it and does not feel cheap. I have never used a “mechanical” keyboard before but I do like the way I can type on it. It it a bit loud, but they don’t advertise it as being quiet. All 9 of the color options on the keyboard are pretty cool but not much for other than show. Lights are bright and can be seen very clearly in the daytime, which is helpful because the lettering on the keys is not super bright.I do like the travel of the keys on this board and it feels like I can type much more accurate than I could on my last. I have large hands and long fingers so it feels nice, but I have not tried typing anything longer than this review. The key travel feels good and you dont have to hit them straight on to make them push down like some plastic keyboards have you do. You really only have to push any of the keys down about 1-2mm for it to stroke. If it were a gun, it would have a hare trigger.At first sight, my wife said it was ugly. I disagree, but I think she isn’t used to having raised keys like this one has. They don’t “sink” down into anything so the aesthetics are different. In my opinion, it looks like a keyboard. I don’t think Aukey’s intention was to create a show stopper here so I think its fine.This board feels a bit more narrow than my last, and even at full size it comes in at just 17 inches, but again its just a board with keys and no frills around the outside.Overall I would definitely reccomend this board if you’re okay with it not being flashy (other than the lights). It has a good feel and the sound is right. No problems here and I would probably buy again if I had too – Also worth mentioning, Aukey has a 24mo warranty on this baby. If it breaks, you’re covered.
M. Night Shyam-alien –
Lights are weak sauce. Everything else is cool.
Overall this keyboard is very nice. The Outemu blue switches have a positive feel and an authoritative click. I like that they are slightly heavier than the browns, which I often engage accidentally. The key caps feel relatively nice– not overly matte or glossy, and the font is very legible (which I can’t say for all my keyboards!). The lights shine through the caps really well.That said, the lighting in this thing is really my only complaint. First, I wish that it was either just a single color or full RGB instead of one color per row. Oh well, I knew that when I bought it, so no biggie. The lighting effects are fine, and similar to others you’ll find on the market.One thing I was excited about was that pressing FN+any number lights up a set of predetermined keys, mostly based on important keys for various games. FN+1 lights up WASD for instance. The cool part is that your can define your own set. The stupid part is that for every key you define in one row the weaker the light is for the whole row! For instance, I wanted to set the home row (ASDF JKL;) lights, but they were so weak I couldn’t see them in a lit room. I’ve included pictures. You can see that if I define just one key in a row it’s plenty bright, and gets noticably dimmer with each new key defined. It makes defining more than just a few keys a pointless endeavor. Oddly, if you use the function that turns on ALL the lights, then everything is super bright. That means they’ve implemented it this way on purpose.
iEspresso –
BEWARE: switches are NOT removable
This is an excellent quality mechanical keyboard for $40. I was certainly impressed with the overall quality and feel, and was not disappointed by the Outemu blue switches. However, one of the main advantages of a mechanical keyboard is the ability to remove the switches and replace them when they wear out, or simply replace certain key switches with ones of a different type (e.g. a green switch for the space bar). Unfortunately, on this particular model, the switches are soldered in and not removable. This is not advertised anywhere in the description, so I had to discover this for myself after receipt, and thus this keyboard has since been returned.Additionally, the RGB is static with a different color for each row of the keys. This is not a particularly big deal to me, since all I really care about is the fact that there is a back light for the keys and I’m not particular about color.So in conclusion, if you have absolutely no intentions of ever replacing any of the switches on the keyboard, and the static colors for each row is something that works for you, then I believe you will be fully satisfied with this particular keyboard. However, if you want to be able to replace switches now or in the future, and you would like to be able to set the color of the whole keyboard to whatever you like, or assign each individual key it’s own color (i.e. full RGB control) then I would highly recommend the X-Falcon keyboard I bought to replace this one which is only $10 more and you can find it here:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FXBZXFC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1