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14.02.2024 - 14:07 / mmorpg.com / Christopher Coke
The mechanical keyboard market is more competitive by the day, but we’ve found what may just be the best value pick under $100. The WOBKEY Rainy 75 offers a fully aluminum case, gasket mounting, Foams, and other features usually reserved for much more expensive keyboards. It sounds and feels far better than a $99 has a right to and is one of the best values in keyboards right now. Read on to find out just what makes it so special.
Current Price: Starting at $99 (Kickstarter)
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The Rainy 75 is like a greatest hits album of mechanical keyboards over the last several years. If there's a feature you can think of, it probably has it. That is very much intentional and a core part of its design. As the company says on its Kickstarter page, it is a keyboard that's meant to encapsulate the sound of the 2020s (at least so far). To do that, it needs to adopt many of the design elements of the keyboards that inspired it.
The result, as you'll hear in the typing tests embedded in this article, is a keyboard that has a marbly, poppy sound signature that is frankly far better than you would ever expect to find at this price point. It is no exaggeration to say that only a few years ago this very same keyboard could have sold for triple the price.
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As it stands, the Rainy 75 will be available in three different versions and six different colors spread across the versions. Each of the versions has more in common than different. They each come pre-built with switches and keycaps, each use full aluminum cases with tight tolerances, each have a stylish weight in the back, and each feature tri-mode wireless connectivity. Each feature similar construction with a flexible switch plate and layers of sound dampening foam and plastic sheeting (more on that later).
The Lite version is the cheapest at $99 and is available in anodized black or silver with matching stylized keycaps. There’s no RGB on this version, which is the only difference between it and the Standard version at $107. This version features A-RGB backlighting and is available in anodized silver, electro white, electro blue, and electro pink. The electro versions are not anodized. Instead they use an electrophoresis coating process to deliver a durable finish. Both the Lite and Standard versions feature 3,500 mAh batteries (450 hours without RGB, 40 hours with) and glass rear weights that are either mirrored or, in the case of electro blue and anodized black, gradient finished with a beautifully scaling set of hues. They also utilize soft polypropylene (PP) plastic plates.
The PRO series changes things up a bit. This version is available in electro white, electro blue, electro
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