Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Tenkeyless Keyboard (Space Gray)

1 review for Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Tenkeyless Keyboard (Space Gray)

1. Rated 2 out of 5

   Luz Kuhic
   January 15, 2023    Verified Purchase

   I bought this keyboard to replace an old Kensington SlimType Keyboard for Mac, which died. In the interim, I’d been using an Apple Aluminum USB keyboard, which I really like, but there’s not really room for it and my mouse in the keyboard drawer of my desk. So the Matias Tenkeyless seemed like a perfect compromise. Plus it is backlit! The design of the Matias keyboard in impeccable, borrowed a lot directly from the Apple Keyboard; nice metal base, quality printing on the keys, etc. The controls for brightness and color of the backlight are very intuitive. The problems are in the execution. The key springs seem softer than the Apple or Kensington keyboard, and the sound that results from typing is therefore much louder. The backlight is great, but there’s more light leaking from around the keys than coming through the keycaps. The letter keys are fine, it’s from under the function keys and larger keys like shift, caps lock and return where the light pours out. To be fair, when I look directly down at the keys, there’s no light leak, but when I sit one forearm’s length back from the keyboard, the space under those keys is the brightest spots visible. For example, it’s hard to tell if the caps lock is on because of all the light leaking from under it.