Redragon K550 RGB Gaming Keyboard, 104 Keys + 12 Macro G Keys Wired Mechanical Keyboard w/Aluminum Top Plate, Custom Clicky Purple Switch, Extra USB Port & Wrist Rest

I've just purchased this K550 RGB keyboard and set it up today. My first impression of it is very positive. It has good feeling keypresses, isn't super noisy like some mechanical keyboards (sounds a lot like the old IBM keyboards we had back in the 80's), and has good response to button presses. I especially love the ability to customize the colors on the keys individually instead of just having only the pre-set options. Some of the pre-sets are actually kind of nice, but I wanted to be able to have the choice of each key being set to a color of my choosing. The brightness seems good in the somewhat dark office space I work in, but I haven't tried it in a well lit room to know if it's bright enough to be seen in that environment. It's got four brightness settings, the two lowest are somewhat dim but bright enough for gaming in the dark, the two highest seem almost the same brightness and are good when there's more ambient light around.The build quality seems quite high, the built in wrist rest is removable but I like how it feels so I'm leaving it on. The kickstands to raise the back side up could be a little taller for my taste, but they're not bad. The keys seem durable, though they do have a little bit of "wobble" to them (hardly noticeable but it's there). The font on the keys is a bit different than most keyboards out there, but I personally like it.It's got 12 macro keys, but I've never used that feature before so I have no idea what to even do with it. Honestly I'd have been fine if that wasn't even on here, but it is so I may eventually figure it out. The volume "scroll wheel" is a nice feature. I like it better than the dial knob a lot of similar keyboards have. The media keys are well spaced and decent size, though I wish they lit up too so I could see them at night in the dark. The WIN key lockout is handy so you can toggle the windows key to be "off" or functioning normally. Locking it makes the key not do anything if you accidentally hit it, which is nice while playing games.All in all, I have to say the value for the quality seems to be high. At around $60 it's a lot less expensive than a lot of the other "budget" keyboards that have the customizable key colors. I researched various keyboards in that price range for quite a few hours before choosing this one. So far I'm glad I did.I'll try to post more info after I've used it for a while to let people know how it's holding up.

This is by far the best mechanical keyboard with many macro keys that I have come across since I got my original Gateway 2000 Anykey keyboard with my Gateway 2000 computer back in 1994. I've tried a number of keyboards since, but this one is the first to have all the features of the Anykey, plus more, all at a very reasonable price. Yes, older versions of the Corsair K95 had 18 macro keys to the Redragon Yama's 12 (the Anykey also has 12), but for $200, the old Corsair K95 just didn't really provide significant additional value. Neither did the various Logitech keyboards of years past that provided large numbers of macro keys. And today, it seems to be impossible to find a keyboard with at least 12 macro keys that is sold as new. Most keyboards, including the Corsair K95 and K100, have a maximum of 6 dedicated macro keys.The K550 Yama is no longer listed on the main Redragon site, although you can still find it on their redragonzone.com site. For this reason, if you're considering buying this keyboard new, you might want to do so in the not too distant future.The keyboard can be run strictly as a plug-and-play keyboard, with full macro key functionality available, available with a wide variety of 18 preprogrammed lighting schemes. Or you can download software designed specifically for the K550 Yama, which allow you to reprogram just about any key on the keyboard, either with a single key replacement or a custom macro - just like the Anykey. You can also create your own custom lighting schemes. The software comes with three custom profiles, so you can easily switch from one to the other depending on your needs at the time.The biggest gripe that people have with this keyboard is that by default, when macros are recorded, the delay implicit in typing the macros is recorded with the macros themselves. This appears to be a rather bad design decision, but fortunately it's very easy to overcome via an undocumented feature. If you don't want any delays between keypresses when your G macro is replayed, simply hit the Rec button twice quickly (instead of once) when you start to record your macro. Normally, any time you hit the Rec button, it will toggle its state between lit and unlit. But if you hit it rapidly enough twice in succession (which isn't very hard), it will light up after the first hit and stay lit after the second. Any macro you record now will not have any delays.The other problem people have is that they can't find the current software for the K550 Yama, as it isn't listed with the software for Redragon's other keyboards. As I mentioned earlier, the K550 Yama is no longer listed on the main Redragon site, and so you have to go to a different Redragon site to find the K550 Yama and its software. You can find everything you need at https://www.redragonzone.com/pages/download. There's an image of the K550 in the second column, third from the bottom. If you click on this image, you get a little popup window that contains a link to the actual software in the form of a zip file. Don't be discourage by the fact that the first two files in the zip file are in Chinese; the third file is the actual program, and it is entirely in English. It also appears to work fine.Using the software, you can also save and restore your configurations.All in all, this is a fantastic keyboard at a great price, and the availability of RGB lighting with essentially unlimited lighting schemes, plus a few extra dedicated keys for frequently used programs (email. browser, calculator, calculator, search, etc.), make this the best keyboard I have seen in 30 years, and the first to truly surpass the Anykey.

Better than expected. Great quality, the colors are very vibrant and the preset light patterns are really cool. Overall amazing price for a fully mechanical 100% keyboard. I also didn't expect to fall in love with the metal frame, but it looks great with my setup.