Cherry MX 3.0 S Wired Mechanical Keyboard, Pink (Open Box)

Great so far- the heaviness and quality of the keyboard is excellent. It is definitely worth the price for the quality. You are getting mechanical keys that do not make much sound if any- I think the only sound comes if you're taping very fast or mashing. I don't like the location of the FN key, I think its a bit too far but that will just take some getting used to. Keys are soft and comfortable, but I would appreciate if they were a little taller or not as sloped. I also wish the pegs that came with for the incline were a bit taller as well. RGB filters are pretty good, I just wish there was more filter/ pattern options that don't have the keyboard go dark for a bit. RGB settings can be adjusted and personalized when you download the hardware- link included in instruction manual- but even when I increase the speed of the filters I still find the majority of patterns boring. I only really like 2 of them. You can change to ANY color light if you pick one solid color which is nice since I like an orchid pink and that isn't common of a color on RGB items. My last keyboard was a very old Apple keyboard, likely the 2001 model and I loved that it had USB ports. My boyfriend told me it is not common now for keyboards to have USB ports anymore but just in case.. if that is a feature you looked for (I tried but none of the review or stock photos showed the back side of the keyboard) just know it does not have that function. I think if you really want a keyboard to last you for a while you should try this one. I'm glad I picked this one over the others I was considering.

I absolutely love this thing. It's got a great spring-back but is easy enough to press down that I can type really fast. It's the quietest keyboard I've ever had. The colors are really nice, too. My ONLY feedback for the creators would be: -Please make the font bigger on the keys, including the symbols -Make the home key nubs a smidge...nubbier In no way do these detract from the quality, but I WFH as well as run a business and am on the keyboard 60+ hours per week, large fonts and good home nubs are a must. These nubs are just good enough, and the font is just large enough, but if they could add those in that would be amazing. Still 5+ stars for the product. It's solid, non slip, quiet, nice and heavy, and I really like the amphitheater style curvature. It's a subtle curve, but nice and unique to my previous keyboards.

I have never owned an actual Cherry branded keyboard, although I have many with Cherry MX switches. The reviews seemed good, so I figured I'd give it a shot. SO glad I did! When I opened the box, and got the board out, I was very impressed. Full aluminum frame, very solid, but not too heavy. Excellent build quality, the board feels solid, and sits flat and stays put on the desk, thanks to nice rubber feet. The keycaps are excellent, provide great feel, have very good shine through caps with the RGB lighting. Very impressive job with the lighting, very even, well distributed and bright. I ordered mine with Cherry MX Blue switches, and these are the best (maybe in my mind?!) MX blue switches I have ever used. The clickiness (that is what blues are for, right?) is awesome. Both the feel, and the sound, outstanding if you are a lover of blue switches, like me! One of the best typing keyboards I have ever used, and I've got more than a few! This keyboard exceeded my expectations by a mile. Very high quality build, super nice to type on. I can't comment on the gaming aspect, as I don't use it for that. All around, an excellent keyboard, you can hardly go wrong with this one. The only real negative I have for it is the non-removable cable. Not a deal breaker for me, but it might be for some. The cable that is has, however is nicely made, and seems high quality and durable. It has a USB-A connection, for reference. I would purchase this keyboard again, no question about it. Very impressed!

I broke down and bought this keyboard because three low-end models in a row had been pieces of crap, and this model was rated #1 on a "best of 2023" list for silent keyboards. So far, I love it, but it's taking some getting used to. All keyboards are slightly different, but the font on the letter keys is a sort of "NASA" space style font which is a little harder to read than your standard sans-serif keyboard letters. Even more different are the numbers and symbols on the number keys being reversed, so the symbols on each (! on the 1 key, @ on the 2 key, etc) are below the numbers rather than above. There are indicator lights for caps lock, scroll lock and number lock, but talk about subtle--I just found them! But I love the feel, I love the solid construction, I love how quiet the keys are, and I can type really fast on it. It's heavy and it doesn't slip or move while you work. I'm not using it for gaming, but I'm a writer and publisher, so I really need a good keyboard. The keyboard not only glows in rainbow colors, the colors continuously cycle in a slow pulse, which is definitely funky. When I get stuck on writing something I can take a break and watch the keyboard change colors while I think. :-) It works fine with my older Lenovo desktop, I just plugged it into an USB expander and zoom, it was good to go. The delivery was blindingly fast, it arrived the next day. The packaging...not so great. The keyboard had just been tossed into quite a large box with a couple of packing pillows. It arrived just fine (it didn't spend very long in transit!) but the manufacturers might want to know that Amazon is being a bit casual with their product.

My taste in keyboard feel runs toward mechanical key switches with a distinct tactile bump-through and an audible click, as with the Cherry MX Greens and Blues – but that click is for home, not for the office, where a good neighbor doesn’t use a clicky keyboard. Good office neighbors choose quiet key switches. So I used to use the rubber-dome-type keyboards, the best of which, in my experience, was the Logitech K740, quiet and with adequate tactile feel. But rubber-dome keys wear out (I’ve had three of those boards), and the K740 is now a collector’s item. Hence, I looked around for a mechanical keyboard using the Cherry MX Silent Red switches. In the good old days, I would have ordered a custom board from WASD Keyboards, but those folks, sadly, appear to be out of business. There are good-quality boards from many brands using other Cherry switches, but darned if I could find any others with the Silent Reds – the regular Reds, yes, but the Silent Reds are rare. That’s why I bought this board, one of Cherry’s own, and using the Silent Reds. (It’s available with other Cherry switches, too.) About these switches: I am informed that “linear” switches – no tactile bump, just a smooth swish to the bottom of travel – are preferred by many gamers. That’s not what I am, and as above, I like a tactile bump on the way down. But one learns by trying, so I’m getting used to the linear feel of these keys. How is the board otherwise? It’s metal-bodied, heavy, solid, and stays put. If one is used to relatively flat rubber-dome keyboards or laptop keys, one might want to add a wrist rest to use with this “taller” board, and if so, that’s easy. The board comes with optional screw-in metal feet to raise the rear edge slightly, if desired. But then there’s the blaring, candy-colored rainbow backlighting in the product description’s photos. In action, this actually moves, and it’s the out-of-the-box default. If you’re a kid trying to impress other kids, okay, that’ll do it. If you’re an adult and trying to concentrate on work, you’ll want to turn this into something else. Fortunately, the documentation explains that with a simple key combo you can cycle through many variants of colors and moving patterns, two of which, thankfully, are “off” and “just constant white backlighting, please.” I’ve included a couple photos of the keyboard with the latter turned on, and that’s how I run it at work. Reminds me of my WASD Code Mechanical board at home. (In the first photo, taken from directly above, some red is “leaking” around some of the keys. This seems odd, but it isn’t a factor when working with the keyboard from one’s normal viewing angle, as seen in the second photo.) Finally, are the Cherry Silent Red key switches actually silent? Well, no. When a key hits bottom there’s a subtle thump, and the keys have the usual mechanical freeplay. Office neighbors close by will know when you’re in action, albeit only if they are themselves bored. Suffice it to say that these Silent Reds are more quiet than other mechanical keys, even regular Reds or the stiffer Blacks, and also more quiet than the tactile-bump non-clickers such as the MX Browns. I should add that one can download some optional Cherry software that makes a wide range of customization possible. But that isn’t necessary for simply changing the color scheme, and I haven’t any use for customization, because I use several other machines and keyboards and so must be satisfied with the standard layout and function. So to sum up, this is a robust and solid board with mechanical key switches that, unlike rubber-dome types, will never wear out. The key feel is consistent across the board, every press the same. The key action is smooth and…almost Silent.

Smooth keystrokes, quiet, heavy base so the keyboard does not move around on the desk and they had it in WHITE with lights! CHERRY is a great brand. Highly recommend their products.

I winced a bit about spending north of $100 for a keyboard, but I wanted a Windows keyboard with backlighting and I didn't want a "chicklet" keyboard because they tend to be "bouncy:" sometimes, a key press results in no letter at all, other times, too many. I'm not a touch typist, so reliable results from a key press matter. I also wanted a full-sized, three column keyboard, and wired because a wireless keyboard needs battery changes or charges annoyingly often and it works only intermittently with my KVM. This one fit the bill on all counts. What I received is impressive. It's impressively heavy, heavily (and beautifully) built, and it has great haptics. The keys aren't silent, but just on the right side of quiet. They don't "clack," it's more of a "whump." They provide good feedback and offer just the right amount of resistance. Apparently, it's also cleanable (I'll find out once I spew or dribble coffee on it). The light show annoys me (personal preference) but it can be tamed quickly via the app which installs near-automagically at a press of the Cherry key. I also appreciate little thoughtful details such as the feet that can be screwed in to change the keyboard's angle. I thought that I'd have to stuff the rubber feet into the raised feet after removing them to expose the threads, but no, the the threaded feet come with their own. Additional tweaks can be accomplished via the app. I'll use it for gaming now and then and am likely to appreciate the ability to assign custom functions to hotkeys and to store those in different profiles. However, for everyday use, this has ticked every single block. I don't wince anymore; I've paid a reasonable(ish) amount of money for a thoughtfully designed, very high-quality product.

Just received it and have been using it for 3 days. I have used many other keyboards with Cherry MX Red switches and NONE of them felt nearly as good as this Cherry keyboard. I know this one has the cherry silent red switches, but still, it feels WAY better than any corsair/hyperx, gaming keyboard I've ever used. The typing feels super comfortable ( Ive never felt a keyboard that's ACTUALLY comfy before). They key spacing is perfect, it makes typing just a joy. Gaming on this is perfection. The over all keyboard is nice and heavy made of full aluminum for a hefty, made-with-quality feel. There's plenty of RGB lighting profiles if you are so inclined. I use the white lighting with red WASD keys. Glad I found this keyboard, i will be going with Cherry keyboards for the rest of my life! Did I mention this keyboard is the most comfortable typing keyboard ever? The only gripe is , no removable USB type-C cord. I think the cord is the antiquated micro USB. But that's the only downside to this keyboard.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: The keyboard is heavy duty. It feels like it will last a long time. I love the lighted keyboard. It is smaller than the one I had before, so it took a little while to get used to it, but it didn't take too long. Overall I love it and am glad I bought it.

I was looking for a mechanical keyboard with good tactile feedback, and this one seemed to fit the bill. It is solidly built, no questions there, but I'm not sure I'd agree with the "slightly clicky" aspect. The keys make a bit of a noise, but it is more just hitting the bottom as opposed to a "click", at least compared to other Cherry switches. But that is not why I can't give this 5 stars. I don't understand why, but the symbol placement on some of the keys is not "standard" for most keyboards I'm familiar with. On the number keys, instead of the symbols because above the number, where it seems most logical given the "shift" state is considered more of an "uppercase", the symbols ($, *, # etc) are below the numbers. Even though I am a fluent touch typist this throws me for a loop. Even more confusing, the brackets, colon/semi-colon and a couple others are side-by-side, such as {[ and }] instead of one above the other. Which is the shift state? Very confusing to me. A couple other nits are that the some of symbols are quite small, and there are no fold-out legs to tilt the unit (although there are a couple screw-in pegs that are maybe intended for that - no mention of what they are for in the package). I bought two of these - one with brown and the other with red switches. After using the red for a month, I'm keeping it (it is still much better than cheap non-mechanicals), but decided to return the other one unused. I wish Gigabyte still made the Force K83 keyboard. I've used one for over 6 years for extensive gaming and it is a workhorse. Wish I had bought others way back when.