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Redragon K552-2 Kumara Wired TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard w/ Blue Switches Expired

$17.50
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Best Buy has Redragon K552-2 Kumara Wired TKL Mechanical Blue Switch Gaming Keyboard w/ Back Lighting (Black) for $17.49. Choose free curbside pickup otherwise shipping is free on orders of $35+.

Thanks to Community Member N123 for finding this deal.

Includes:
  • K552-2 Kumara Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
  • Keycap puller
  • Owner's manual
Features:
  • Outemu Blue Key Switches
  • Works with Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10
  • USB 2.0 Interface
  • Precision Engineered Keycaps
  • Customizable LED backlighting allows 19 backlighting modes, 6 brightness levels

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $17.50 lower (50% savings) than the list price of $34.99.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 400 Best Buy customer reviews.
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    • When purchased now through Jan 2, you can return this item anytime until Jan 16.

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$17.49 for the very popular REDRAGON Kumara Wired Gaming Mechanical Blue Switch TKLKeyboard with Single Color LED Back Lighting at Bestbuy:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/redr...Id=6419321

If you are interested in the red switch version with rainbow led backlighting (30,000 amazon reviews; each row is a single color--not individually assignable backlighting), amazon has a 10% off clip coupon bringing the price down to approx $27 (there are also some other deals for other RedDragon mechanical keyboard currently on amazon):

https://smile.amazon.com/Redragon...th=1&psc=1 OOS

Review of the rainbow backlit version but references some of the differences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaMxjiixJ18
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Perfectly loud keyboard if your boss needs to be convinced that you should still be allowed to work from home ;-)
Would help to label the thread as TKL for tenkeyless or to explicitly call this out as an 87 key keyboard.

Good luck!
Jon
Also wanted to add that these are Outemu switches, so they're not a completely unknown vintage of mechanical switch.

Good luck!
Jon

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thehash
10-25-2021 at 09:05 AM.
10-25-2021 at 09:05 AM.
pretty solid keyboard for the price. have a similar brand one with blue switches and have been using it for 3 years with no issues.
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10-25-2021 at 10:08 AM.

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10-25-2021 at 10:08 AM.
Would help to label the thread as TKL for tenkeyless or to explicitly call this out as an 87 key keyboard.

Good luck!
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10-25-2021 at 10:10 AM.
Also wanted to add that these are Outemu switches, so they're not a completely unknown vintage of mechanical switch.

Good luck!
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10-25-2021 at 10:16 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:16 AM.
Perfectly loud keyboard if your boss needs to be convinced that you should still be allowed to work from home ;-)
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10-25-2021 at 10:17 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:17 AM.
Quote from The_Love_Spud :
Would help to label the thread as TKL for tenkeyless or to explicitly call this out as an 87 key keyboard.

Good luck!
Jon
OP updated--thanks!
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jermojohnson
10-25-2021 at 10:19 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:19 AM.
I bought this last week when it was posted, good keyboard for 18 bucks if you don't mind a lil click clackin
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10-25-2021 at 10:27 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:27 AM.
I'm familiar with blue and brown, but not red switches, any comments? Although the browns I've tried are more quiet I find the typing experience is a tad mushier and feedback is not as good as blues.
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AceCooper
10-25-2021 at 10:29 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:29 AM.
Have this and love it. My wife hates it because of the clicky noise, which makes me love it even more.
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10-25-2021 at 10:34 AM.
10-25-2021 at 10:34 AM.
Quote from herbertlew :
I'm familiar with blue and brown, but not red switches, any comments? Although the browns I've tried are more quiet I find the typing experience is a tad mushier and feedback is not as good as blues.
Both of the switch types you're describing provide some form of feedback/resistance. Sounds as if you might hate reds. Reds are linear switches with no feedback (click/bump) so you might find yourself complaining about accidental key presses if you're used to that resistance.

Otherwise they're certainly not broken and, I'd argue, make for a more proper "gaming" keyboard than blue switches (which are really for a certain variety of deaf, OG touch-typist like myself).

Good luck!
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10-25-2021 at 11:09 AM.
10-25-2021 at 11:09 AM.
New to this stuff. Is it cherry key?
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10-25-2021 at 11:17 AM.
10-25-2021 at 11:17 AM.
Quote from aralk :
New to this stuff. Is it cherry key?

No. This is a cheap mechanical keyboard with cheaper switches. A set of 10 Cherry MX switches is $10, you're not getting a full keyboard with Cherry MX for $18 unless you find some YMMV closeout
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10-25-2021 at 11:25 AM.

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10-25-2021 at 11:25 AM.
If you don't use particular function keys very often you can use a vetted keyboard manager such as Microsoft's official powertoys release https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...powertoys/ to reassign any key to perform a particular function

. . . I have used this program to reassign particular rarely-used function keys on my keyboard to directly operate media controls (play/pause, next track, back track, volume up, volume down) without having to press the function key first....
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10-25-2021 at 12:26 PM.
10-25-2021 at 12:26 PM.
I have this exact keyboard. The quality is quite good, but it is EXTREMELY loud.

Don't think of getting this for use with a wife, roommate, or anyone else in an adjacent room. Not to mention, you can hear the keyboard over any smartphone or microphone.

I would spend a little more and get the red switch variant unless you live alone.
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