8BitdoRetro Mechanical Keyboard, Bluetooth/2.4G/USB-C Hot Swappable Gaming Keyboard with 87 Keys, Dual Super Programmable Buttons for Windows and Android - M Edition

A perfect mechanical sound, just like the old terminals. Nice gray color and cute rounding on the keys. Good form factor - not excessively large, but with all keys needed for comfort coding.

8BitDo have nailed the IBM 'Model M' retro aesthetic and the switches are a joy to type on.Rock solid build qualiity, far better than many far more expensive mech keyboards (looking at you, Logitech MX Mechanical Mini)EDIT: I'm using on Mac, and the A and B buttons serve very nicely as two Command keys.

This might be my favourite keyboard I have ever owned.The build quality is second to none.The feel and sound is so nostalgic.It's everything its trying to be.If you like retro keyboards, but this one.

Amazing keyboard for fans of retro style keyboards!

It's a very retro mechanical keyboard, similar to the IBM ones from the 80's. It's hard to find a good compact TKL keyboard like this. It connects with usb-c cable, bluetooth or (included) 2.4ghz dongle, which is a great set of options. The keys are good and nicely clicky, and it has some programmable & swappable keys, which is useful. The keys are loud, but that's exactly how they're supposed to be. I'm using it with a Mac, so have swapped a couple of keys to make it more like a Mac layout. There's a few downsides. It doesn't have a UK £ symbol on it, though the £ does work. I wish the the Enter/Return key was double height, as I keep hitting the key above it. And the giant buttons seem more of a gimmick than something really useful. Those programmable buttons are duplicated on the keyboard anyway, so they do seem like a pointless waste of plastic. But they might be useful for some people.

This has a great set of features for a relatively low price, though that price seems to fluctuate a lot: hotswappable key switches, 2 forms of wireless connection, and a volume dial. Decent build quality too, though more control over the angle would be good. But it has some vital flaws that makes it not very good for UK/Euro users, but also not great for anyone looking for a useful keyboard.Though the propietary software looks promising, you can't do some very common and important things. There is no way to use modifier keys to make different keystrokes - for example if you wanted to have a numpad again, an obvious choice accommodated by many keyboards at this price range, would be to hold a modifier key to turn a section of the keyboard into the numpad, or you may wish to type accented letters, or type an unusual currency symbol. Not possible.Another common, very useful feature is media keys - play/pause, volume and so on. These ARE actually present on this keyboard, but completely undocumented - if you look at the manual for the xbox version of this keyboard, something that should not be required in a sane product, you will see it is possible to manually bind a Fn key in the configuration software, and press Fn+F8-F12 for various media key functions. No mention of this in the support pages, the manual for this specific product, no markings on the keyboard, no hints in the software. Batty.The £ character cannot be bound at all to any key using the software, it simply does not have that character in the dropdown lists it presents to you. You would need this if you were using the US layout setting in your operating system. Setting your layout to UK in Windows, to be able to type it with shift-3, means you lose the backslash key - normally on the US layout that'd be above the enter key, but that key now turns into # and ~. And if you bind the special A or B keys to backslash, they just come out as #, because it's apparently reporting that same above-enter keystroke.It really shows that they came to this keyboard with a 'game controller' mindset and didn't pay so close attention to the fact you'd also have this in day to day use - but also didn't spend too long looking at what the competition does and why. The fact the documentation doesn't even tell you about the media keys and the poorly thought out key binding software is really emblematic of a half-effort approach, which is a shame, because it's an appealing design, as i mentioned before, with some good features for the price.

Pros: switches are beautiful in use. A little noisy but that’s ok for my environment (just no stealth typing in meetings); I love the design; the accompanying software opens up huge possibilities for customisation; the A & B buttons are customisable so you can truly customise for efficiency.Con: for me just one but it’s a big one. The keyboard is US layout which means | is missing and @ “ are in the wrong places i.e. when I type shift+2 I get “ but the keyboard has an @ symbol. 8bitdo doesn’t supply UK keys either with the keyboard nor for purchase afterwards so you will be stuck with the wrong symbols on your keys. You could but third party keys to fix this but given the style of the keyboard it would take away from the retro look.

Hate this new trend of US keyboards showing up all over UK websites. Please stop it.