PERIXX PERIBOARD-106M, Wired Performance Full-Size USB Keyboard, Curved Ergonomic Keys, Classic Retro Gray/White Color, UK QWERTY

Superb quality for not much money!
Excellent “budget” (or non-mechanical) keyboard.I bought the white version of this keyboard. It’s absolutely pristine. It’s made with beautiful, perfectly white plastic. It’s absolutely gleaming! Ideal for clinical settings or a beauty salon or minimalistic house. Lovely!It’s UK layout – absolutely vital if you live in the UK! I’m never sure why people in the UK put up with US-layout keyboards (why deprive yourself of a £ key? Why have such a small key when it gets used so much?).Anyway, this is kind of an “old-school” keyboard. I’ve worked at PCs for as long as they’ve been around, so I consider such a classic layout to be a great feature. By classic, I mean it’s got separate sections, with a distinct section for “Insert/Delete/Home/End”. Because I use these keys without even looking, I hate keyboards where this section has been messed with. It drives me nuts when the layout has changed. Nothing worse than having to stop momentarily because you’ve lost the End key. Well, there’s no danger of that with this keyboard. It’s that classic layout you know and love.If you’re more modern in your outlook, you might not like the keys: they are a good, traditional height, unlike many other modern keyboards (which seem to contain much lower profile keys). If you’re into mega modern, super-slimline, mac-like keyboards, then you won’t like this keyboard. This is an old-school keyboard with nice big keys, a classic layout and everything exactly where you’ve got used to it being.The keyboard doesn’t have any logos on its front side at all. Keyboard purists will love this. Perfection!There are no “shortcut” keys – you know, those irritating little buttons for play, stop, volume increase, decrease, etc. Again, being rather old-fashioned, I hate these buttons; I consider their absence to be good. They make a keyboard look cluttered, fiddly and confusing. I find I never use them, making them a waste of space. But, if you do like those little extras, you’ll be disappointed – there are none on this keyboard.In the description, it said something like “sound is similar to MX Brown switches”. I think that’s a bit much, it’s stretching things a bit. This isn’t a mechanical keyboard. Keys can sound a wee bit rattley, which I’ve never noticed with any mechanical keyboard. But you do get an okay sounding keypress. It is noisy (which I happen to like). But if you live in a monastery, this could bug your fellow monks. Don’t buy this keyboard if you want a quiet keyboard. The main keys sound good – nice response, if a teeny bit “rattle”y. But the space-bar is the exception: it’s annoyingly loud and produces an annoying “clack”, which is louder and sounds completely different to the other keys. Shame about that.Build quality is very good. Nice, solid plastic, but not absurdly heavy. The finish is great. Lettering is faultless. Num/Caps/Scroll lights/labels are perfectly spaced and excellently printed – nice! Even the cable & USB plug is the best quality – much better than my Unicomp keyboard which cost more than 5 times as much. This keyboard has not been made on the cheap.It’s even got the little notches on the F and J keys for the touch-typists amongst you! Bliss!Because of the nice key height, decent response and classic layout, I can type very quickly on this keyboard, without even having to look at the keys. You pick up quite a pace up on this sucker!For the price, it’s a lovely keyboard. Obviously it’s not a replacement for a mechanical keyboard. But it is of very decent quality for the money.

Very solid experience for a budget keyboard
I’ve been using this keyboard for a couple of months now, after toying for weeks over the possibility of throwing money down the drain of fancy mechanical switch keyboards or buying one of the official model Ms. Then I saw this and fell in love with the beige and grey colour scheme, green leds, and lack of a Windows key (the version I have has a plain keycap with the wort ‘Start’ printed on it). I looks stunning frankly, sparking nostalgiic memories of 90s PCs, and has a colourscheme very similar to my old A1200. Really fun to type on, makes a satisfying thocky sound though its a membrane.The only drawbacks are:Keycaps cannot be removed (I’d love to be able to swap them out for some different colours) – this is probably a very niche complaint.The cable is ugly, its cheap white plastic and does not match the colouring of the keyboard. It is also hardwired in so cannot be removed.Other than that this keyboard is a bargain. I love it.

So comfortable to use!
I’ve been wanting a new keyboard for a while. I like chunky keys like we had in the old days, can’t seem to manage with the flat keyboards they do nowadays. This is so retro, it really takes me back to the 80s. It looks and feels like a genuine 80s keyboard. I was a bit unsure about the colour and thought I might not like it in real life, but to be honest it matches my old CRT monitor perfectly!The most important thing for me is the comfort and ease of use. I struggle with the flat keys on most modern keyboards and keep hitting 2 keys at once. This one is perfect! Cannot recommend it highly enough.No flashy lights, no singing and dancing, just good honest typing like it should be!