HUO JI E-Yooso Z-88 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Metal Panel, Brown Switches, 75% Compact 81 Keys for Mac, PC, Silver and White

Its a beautiful keyboard. The white keycaps really work great with the aluminum plate. The lights are bright and looks absolutely mesmerizing at night. I was very happy when I got it because of the aesthetics. However, after using it for the better part of the last couple days, I am considering returning it- and, Ill tell you why. First, it misses keystrokes when typing fast. I am a programmer and sometimes I type hundreds of line of code in a day, so that was an absolute fail for me. Second, the aluminum backplate while pretty has this ping sound because it is hollow inside. Anytime I hit a key, even touch type- it drives me absolutely nuts with the pinging sound. I thought it was because of the keys, but its the plate and unless you put foam inside the case, that cannot be solved. I guess you get what you pay for. This might work great for gaming and such, but definitely doesnt work well for prolonged uses. I am gonna use it probably till the end of week, and if I still dont like it I am gonna return it.

I mainly thought when I would get it would be a minimal keyboard nothing too good because of the price range it was given. When I actually got the keyboard it felt like it was very high quality there was little to no bend or flexibility when trying to do that with the keyboard. The overall build quality is great for its price. I bought the blue keycaps with it they feel and almost act the same as the Corsair Blue keycaps. Honestly, I wasnt expecting much from this keyboard but I was very amazed by all the pros that come with this keyboard. Some downside about it is the RGB settings are all prebuilt, something that would really make this keyboard amazing is if it had a program that allowed you to make custom profiles for the keyboard. I really recommend this keyboard to people who are on budget and are not willing to spend 100+ on the lastest corsair, etc. keyboard.

Ive been using this keyboard for a few weeks now, but with increased frequency in the past couple weeks since Ive been working from home due to the pandemic. I do not game on my PC so I cannot comment on how well it works for that. The keys are very satisfying to type on and give a nice clicking sound. The keyboard lights up in a variety of colors. There are many lighting settings to choose from (so hard to decide!). The base is quite heavy, so it doesnt shift around even when vigorously typing. The only complaint that I have is that I dont love the font used for the keys (I would have preferred a simpler, less stylized font). Overall though, I am quite pleased with my purchase!

This is my first mechanjcal keyboard and I absolutely love it! At first I was worried that mine didnt work, but I just had to unplug the cord where it plugs into the keyboard and flip it. Might be something wrong with the cord, but it works how I put it in now! I havent tested the different light modes cause Im satisfied with the default setting! Clicks are 10/10, very satisfying and are motivational on productive days

I was pretty pumped up to find a mechanic keyboard for this price, so I decided to give it a shot, and went ahead and bought it. For any of those interested, I went for the brown switches. Ive had it for six months at this point, and have been using it as my main keyboard for all that time. When I bought it, I knew I had to keep my expectations as low as the price tag is, so I was pleasantly surprised when I received it. My first impressions were pretty good, with my only complaint with it at the time being the keycaps. They are big enough to put a strain on my wrists when typing for long sessions, which I have to do as I am in college, and constanly typing reports or essays, as well as code. This was solved with a wrist rest, and I foolishly thought that the worst had passed. Oh, how wrong I was. I play videogames during my free time, and tend to use the WASD keys the most. Well, two months after receiving the keyboard, I noticed my W key would stop working when I was running or walking forwards in a game at random times, making me have to press it again to continue moving. At first this happened sporadically, a few times a week at most. But over the next few weeks this happened more and more, and not just during game time, but while I was typing stuff. I would try and type words with the letter W in it, and the letter would not appear until I practically smashed the key. At first it was a minor inconvenience, but quickly became a major issue that disrupted my workflow. Finally after two and a half weeks of having this problem, I thought enough is enough and went ahead and replaced the faulty switch with one of the 5 spares they send with the keyboard. As soon as I did that, the problems stopped. For around 3 weeks everything worked fine again, until it didnt. It was the A key this time. Same exact pattern. Random switch malfunctions that got more and more frequent. This time I didnt wait, after a week of having problems with the A key I went ahead and swapped the switch for a new one. Everything worked fine again. For a month, give or take. Same issue, this time the S key. Waited a few days to see if it was a fluke (spoiler alert: it wasnt), then replaced it, only for the D key to start acting up a few days later, so I also had to replace that one. It took only a week from that point for my W key to start malfunctioning again, and there went my last replacement switch. Its been roughly one and a half months since that last replacement, and in that time, the W, A, and S keys are once more malfunctioning constantly, with only the D key seemingly working fine (hope I didnt jinx it by saying that). And before you ask, I checked all of the malfunctioning switches with a multimeter right before writing this review, because I had a hunch. And guess what, I was right. The switches work just fine. I am sure the problem Ive had could be solved by just soldering the switches to the PCB, as Im certain that it comes down to the switches loosing contact with the PCB because of poor switch holders, but my question is, why is this keyboard hot swappable in the first place? This keyboard has 82 switches, and a decent enough switch pack, like a 90 switch gateron red pack will set you back $25, which is more than half the price of the keyboard. Meanwhile, if you go for a 90 switch pack of CherryMX reds, thats $50, 10 more than the keyboard itself. For those prices you may as well buy a fully assembled 70 or 90 dollar keyboard, and probably get more out of it. What Im trying to say here is that theres no point in upgrading the switches in this keyboard, and so the hot swap feature is completely useless, and makes this keyboard a joke. In summary, if you dont mind soldering the switches to the PCB right after pulling the keyboard out of the box, then go for it, but otherwise dont bother.

Solid keyboard. Half the price of an equivalent.

Its a nice keyboard, objectively speaking. But, the quality assurance is most certainly low, as the Delete key was sticky. As an average person I didn’t really know what to do aside from returning it (but thats a hassle). I tried opening the thing up to replace the key with the extra keys that came with the product, but it turns out that the keys are literally soldered to the board, so I couldn’t do anything. In the end I just pulled back the warped plastic that was causing the stickiness, but I don’t think i should’ve had to do so in the first place. Other than that. This is a keyboard that is rainbow, all the time. You don’t get to choose a specific color, and I think that the seller should’ve been more specific about that instead of having people lie about it in the FAQ below the product. This is not a minimalist product. But overall, the keyboard works. It’s a competent keyboard... but I have looked back at my old 11 dollar keyboard and seriously considered switching back due to the small problems this keyboard has. If I knew it was gonna be like this I would’ve just got a different keyboard. But I’ve made my bed and now i have to lay in it.

Purchased the white version with brown switches. Other reviews have noted the black version does not have replaceable switches, but I wouldnt know about that. Keycaps seem fine. Switches are Outemu brown box switches(Outemu branded browns with a [+] top to put a keycap on), with an opaque white bottom housing. The board allows swapping with other outemu switches via soldered in outemu sleeves where the two contact pins go into the board. Other switches are not compatible because the outemu pins are slightly smaller(therefore other brands pins will not fit into the sleeves being too large). A cheap plastic keycap puller and a cheap stamped/bent metal switch puller are included, but I recommend using better tools than these things which are worth maybe a penny. 5 switches were included in the bubble wrap acc bag, but 3 had severely bent pins. 2 switches(A and left arrow) were defective on the keyboard on receipt(pressing the key would intermittently not cause the switch to close the connection, the left arrow would register if pressed in and wiggled) and were replaced. I would recommend upon receipt of the keyboard to use a program such as switch hitter by EliteKeyboards(not a website keyboard checker, those wont do the job) to test each key a hundred or so times to verify the switches always make good contact when pressed. If you press a key and sometimes it doesnt register, replace the switch as the most likely culprit. The lighting is internal to the keyboard, no software supported or needed. I wish there was a solid color, but the closest mode is a single color with an unlit band that makes its way across the keyboard. All in all, a good keyboard for a cheap price, but be prepared to check all the keys and possibly replace a few, possibly even having to buy replacement switches separately. Knocked off one star for poor installed switch quality assurance/bad packaging of replacements.

I bought this keyboard because I have had Cherry MX blue switches for a while and I saw this 60%keyboard with Cherry MX red available which is hard to come by. Delivered quick which was nice however the USB-C cable that it came with did not work. I tried it with my phone and other USB-C products and nothing worked. Luckily I was already using a keyboard that used a USB-C cable so I was able to start using the keyboard right away. Considering it was the cable that was bad I think this is a manufacturing issue, so if you do plan on getting this keyboard i would just prepare for that. Hopefully my issue was just an anomaly and no one else has experienced this problem. Other than that the keyboard works and looks great!

I had been looking for a decently priced/decently reviewed smaller form keyboard. I bought this January 15, 2020, as of March 3, 2020 a few keys are starting to give dead inputs. Shift Key, (D) Key, and (W) Key all will randomly not work which for some fast-paced shooters etc can be a HUGE issue. I will go to use a key to escape a situation but the buttons not working gets me killed/almost killed. Its a GREAT keyboard otherwise think I just got the lemon of the bunch.