Gamakay TK101 Review

Gamakay TK101 seems to be one of those products that are almost too attractive to be true. AND USD 70/£ 58 The keyboard, which is mechanical, supports both Bluetooth and Bluetooth wireless, as well as 2.4 GHz, RGB-Backlit, mounted on sealing and balmy, must be equipped with compromises, right? Otherwise, this is really aggressive Gamakay prices.

Well, let’s look at what we have here and let’s find out. TK101 has a fairly strange system that the brand determines the 98 percent option. It looks similar to the 96 percent or 1800 system, as displayed on Q5 Keychron, although he chopes and changes things, moving some NAV cluster keys above the numerical pad and skipping the appropriate windows, alt and keys. This leaves others between the Enter key and the numerical pad, with arrow keys underneath. It is fine, providing mostly full completion of the keys, although it takes some habit-nawet as a long-term enthusiast, it was not a system I met before.

Keycaps consists of a double PBT shot plastic, which is perfect at this price, and has a similar retro -inspired higher profile for Q5 Keychron. At the top of the hats there is a petite curvature to make them more convenient to write, although the fact that there is a lot of key shakiness can make it a bit of pain. What’s more, if the Keycap plastic is robust, the rest of the TK101 structure is not to the same standard.

The chassis is completely plastic, with two-colored black and red colorful, which looks good. I do not regret the exploit of plastic here, as if it was high quality, it will not be versatile or creaky. This is not the case. Behind the pressure TK101 is *bedy *. He suffers from a lot of versatile in the corners and in the middle under pressure, which can leave a lot to be desired. I appreciate the fact that this is a more affordable option, but maybe a metal plate running through the agent for additional structural stiffness would be useful.

The nearest getting to everything metal is a mirror surface on the top of the keyboard to get an additional style in which the USB-C USB-C port is located for charging and wired operation, a petite cut-out for the USB-A wireless receiver as well as selector and selector switch various methods of communication. Unfortunately, this is not marked, which seems to be supervision. To find out which connection method is actually selected, next to the ESC key there is a petite LED status set that works on lock lamps, as well as wireless connectivity, and Bluetooth is blue and the wireless 2.4 GHz green.

Wireless connectivity works well enough, with plug-and-play support above the 2.4 GHz receiver on my computer with Windows Gaming without any problems. The Bluetooth pair is also elementary, using the FN key and key 1, 2 or 3, depending on the channel you want to exploit. Thanks to the wired connection, this means that you can exploit TK101 with up to five devices at the same time.

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There is a 4000 mAh battery inside, which according to Gamakay can last up to 20 hours. In my experience, I got about 25-30 hours for a fee for RGB lighting at its default level before it seemed. Although it is better than Gamakay’s own estimates, otherwise it is quite feeble, taking into account that the Kechron options can last four times longer on the same capacity and up to 400 hours for fees without any RGB lighting.

Inside, my TK101 sample was supplied with a tactile switches of the brand. These are 50 g of cushioned touch switches that seem reasonable under the finger with a decent touch and slightly shorter total journey at 3.5 mm. They are quite reacting to performance loads and are quite velvety thanks to lubrication. In the case of more affordable switches I do not necessarily remember them, although such Panda Dropa switches and special MX Cherry purples prevail the highest.

If either the tactile switches of Pluto or linear satuns are not depending on your preferences, then TK101 is at least balmy, which means that you can replace the switches without the need for desolders and soldering in modern ones. The box has a keykapa and a switch to make it a elementary process, and it is not too hard – just pull out the lumper with the tabs at the top and the bottom of the switch and pull up straight up. Then, to replace the modern switch, put the pins onto the bottom with cutouts in PCB and press until the switch clicks to the place.

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There is RGB lighting here, which works more as a backlight than fully released lighting due to solid keys above it. It is not too brilliant and can be blocked, even simply by pushing the keys down. Changing the lighting can be made on the keyboard by pressing the FN key and the Backslash key, which goes through various pre -settings, such as pushing one of the fans of keys illuminating in all directions or pulsates different colors. If you have a cheaper RGB keyboard from the last decade, you’ll know the initial settings.

RGB can also be addressed to the Launcher Gamakay software, which offers the basic method of re -assembly of the keys, macros and DIY with lighting effects in the field of preliminary settings or based on the key, if you want to spend some time outside. You can map lighting on any sound that plays, and even load the image into the system in which the software tries to present its colors on the keyboard. It is a bit artificial, but at least he is there for those people who want it. Gamakay Launcher can be quite ponderous in reacting and is a bit on the clumsy side, but I suppose it performs this task. It would be better if the TK101 were compatible with the flashing of the VIA and QMK firmware, because many other enthusiastic class options are more convenient.

If you want a inexpensive mechanical option, which is enough for the basics, it is completely fine, but there are better options only on the price ladder. Ducky Zero 6108 is equipped with appropriate MX2A cherry switches, a much stronger quality and battery life for almost $ 100, while Kechron K2 V2 remains excellent versatile for 69 USD, if you don’t mind giving up the keys in a smaller form in a smaller form in a smaller form of the system A coefficient with a similar set of functions for TK101, but with much better quality and strength.

To sum up, I would say that the proposal offered by TK101 is a bit too good to be true. While some Gamakay products, namely excellent TK75 Pro, were coarse diamonds, this TK101 lowers too many turns to really stand out at sea and more affordable mechanical boards at this price.