CORSAIR K100 AIR Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

[VSG]

CORSAIR partners with Cherry for an exclusive first use of the MX Ultra Low Profile switches in a standalone keyboard! The new K100 AIR is a wireless keyboard with more features than you can imagine being packed inside its slim body, but with a price tag that is equally hard to look past.

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[bonehead123]

Agreed, a nice clicker, but WAY too rich for my blood

Thanks Corsair, but I will stick with my G613's for just a bit longer.....and could get like 4 new ones (if needed) for less than 1 of these !

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Think I'll stick with my very similar-specced Logi G915 Lightspeed, which I already got working with OpenRGB.

 

[Chaitanya]

Does this also have pouch battery(non user replaceable)? Unless Corsair is going to provide option to purchase replacement batteries not worth getting these wireless keyboards.

 

[VSG]

Does this also have pouch battery(non user replaceable)? Unless Corsair is going to provide option to purchase replacement batteries not worth getting these wireless keyboards.

You can't even remove the keycaps easily so how is anyone able to disassemble the keyboard to change the battery? The pouch battery point is not a practical issue here when there are more larger ones.

 

[Chaitanya]

You can't even remove the keycaps easily so how is anyone able to disassemble the keyboard to change the battery? The pouch battery point is not a practical issue here when there are more larger ones.

It would be easy to engineer a battery door(either screw in or snap lock) at the base to replace batteries towards the end of life. With RGB and mechanical keys, battery life is generally quite atrocious for these products and batteries dont last forever irrespective of their size. I remember one of EVGA keyboard has proximity sensor so if these wireless keyboards could copy that(instead of RGB lighting) to maximize battery life it would certainly help in extending battery life a little bit.

 

[VSG]

It would be easy to engineer a battery door(either screw in or snap lock) at the base to replace batteries towards the end of life. With RGB and mechanical keys, battery life is generally quite atrocious for these products and batteries dont last forever irrespective of their size. I remember one of EVGA keyboard has proximity sensor so if these wireless keyboards could copy that(instead of RGB lighting) to maximize battery life it would certainly help in extending battery life a little bit.

This keyboard has adaptive brightness for the LEDs so that actually helps with battery life even with RGB on. It is one of the few wireless keyboards that I am actually fine with in that regard, especially for the size of the keyboard.

 

[Space Lynx]

if it were $99.99 or 129.99 max I might consider it. that is a ridiculus price.

 

[Chrispy_]

Corsair are no longer a company I bother looking at for peripherals. Typically poor value and dissatisfying - I can live with either of those things but not both at the same time. I'll stick to treating them as a PSU company until they make something that doesn't feel like a bad deal.

 

[sLowEnd]

Thanks for the review.

It's unfortunate this keyboard has so many cons for the price.

 

[MachineLearning]

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Corsair are no longer a company I bother looking at for peripherals. Typically poor value and dissatisfying - I can live with either of those things but not both at the same time. I'll stick to treating them as a PSU company until they make something that doesn't feel like a bad deal.

Jon Gerow is the glue holding it all together over there. I'm not sure Corsair has any truly great products (considering quality/value) except for their PSUs. Even Corsair memory is mediocre.

 

[Airisom]

I've been waiting for this keyboard since they announced it, but 280 is waay too much. I was expecting it to be around 100-150. Wth is Corsair thinking?

 

[kha]

I was eager to try this keyboard, but it's 300 Euro for the moment. Maybe next year on Black Friday it'll have a decent price.

I was considering this keyboard for the switches and that you don't need a wrist rest.
Lately, there are keyboards where you can set the actuation point, but I usually bottom out in games I feel that tall keys add a delay.

@VSG I'm curios if you tried it for gaming, how was it?

 

[VSG]

I was eager to try this keyboard, but it's 300 Euro for the moment. Maybe next year on Black Friday it'll have a decent price.

I was considering this keyboard for the switches and that you don't need a wrist rest.
Lately, there are keyboards where you can set the actuation point, but I usually bottom out in games I feel that tall keys add a delay.

@VSG I'm curios if you tried it for gaming, how was it?

The switches are inherently faster owing to the shorter down/upstrokes but they are stiff and the tactile bump can get in the way of multi-taps in quick succession. I'd say this is better suited for slower games with deliberate actions such as Civ rather than racing or FPS.