HAVIT HV-KB389L RGB Backlit Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

I have been using this keyboard for ~2 weeks. It has been great experience since very beginning, but I think that lack of some features is quite disturbing, like: – no external software to drive background lightning effects – no previous and next song buttons (really? How is it possible XD, that would be like most common use case except mute everything) – no extra usb slot on side of the keyboard – no cable protection I’ve also found that keyboard sometimes resonates with underlying material (desk, my knees etc..) sometimes emitting weird metalic noises, but that’s thing that I can live with. What is also worth mentioning is that IMHO key travel distance is quite big. What I have said up to this point isn’t quite positive but in fact I’m loving this keyboard. It looks like good sturdy heavy duty `shiny` piece of equipment that satisfies all of my needs, but might be better in future. I hope that this keyboard will have it’s successor that fixes all the issues that I pointed. Sincerely, Haito

"So a lot of you all tell me and others that Razer is overpriced, so I picked up a Havit KB389L to see if razer is really an overpriced piece of rubbish (If you want to watch the video version it’s linked here: https://youtu.be/Nf3N_f3yoN8 ). So I have been using the HV-KB389L for just under 2 weeks now and for only ?73 on amazon ($74.99 USD on the product page) it has performed reasonably well. The Keyboard can come in either white or black (white being a more unique colour for a keyboard but harder to clean) and the key caps are also in the colour chosen. The keyboard houses khali switches (the same company that makes the Razer switches) the switches are khali “browns” which are more like a hybrid of cherry reds and browns (leaning more to reds) but they’re okay and they don’t feel too bad but still not the same as cherry switches. I’m going to compare the rest of the features to razer’s blackwidow Chroma as I feel like that’s where it is competing. The Havit keyboard has a matte finish with a built in palm rest (which I find a little too small when writing) and overall it’s not a bad experience but compared to Razer’s soft surface (which does pick up fingerprints very easily and requires a lot of cleaning to look clean) on the blackwidow Chroma it’s not quite as nice when typing however the chroma does not have a palm rest which does make long typing sessions exhausting. Gaming however is okay on the Razer keyboard however the very clicky switches do make it annoying for teammates in games where teamwork and calls are key (mainly CS) and this is nearly eliminated with the Khali brown switches in the 389L. The Havit keyboard doesn’t have any software to program the LED’s which is kind of a double edge sword, you don’t have to load up software and make an account to change anything and you don’t need to install any software, however it does limit the customisation and it also means you have to get back to your profile each time, you can setup up to 3 profiles at...