Redragon S101 Wired Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Combo RGB Backlit Gaming Keyboard with Multimedia Keys Wrist Rest and Red Backlit Gaming Mouse 3200 DPI for Windows PC Gamers (Black)

This keyboard and mouse work. Theyre perfectly serviceable. The light options on the keyboard are nice. Thats the extent of the good things I can say about this set, unfortunately. To start with, the mouse. I thought I was getting a five-button gaming mouse (not including scroll wheel): I did not. The two side buttons are MACRO playback buttons that require Redragons propriety and obviously-machine-translated software to function. The macro function sucks because it doesnt have good manual editing; you cannot type in a set of instructions to push X button at Y time, etc, etc, the way you could with AutoHotKey. You have to record all the keystrokes in the correct order and manually edit the timing/delete anything. But you cannot add! You CAN assign the side buttons - and, for that matter, the regular Mouse1 and Mouse2 buttons - to other keys. However, you CANNOT simply assign them to, say, Mouse3 or Mouse4, as those options are anomalously missing. You may only assign it to Left or Right Mouse, or a bunch of special windows keys like IE Forward/Back, Multimedia, Mouse1/Mouse2, Internet Explorer special keys, and the like. The middle button, below the mousewheel and between the left and right mouse keys, is not a mouse button! ALL it does is swap between one of four programmable mouse input DPI steps. This seems mostly superflous to me, as you can set the mouses DPI in the software. I wouldnt mind so much if switch between DPI settings was an OPTION and I could reclaim that button for, say, Mouse5, but nope! That is absolutely, positively ALL it does. The keyboard has some FANCY light options, Ill give it that. The instruction book is reasonably helpful at explaining them all, too. Annoyingly, theyre only a set of input-based options from the keyboards own function key, and NOT programmable via the software - which has nothing at all to do with the keyboard. Furthermore, the mouse only has one color - red - and you can only choose between light on, light off, and if it is on, change the speed of the mouse lights breathing. These products are obviously not made as partners, theyre just two different products manufactured by the same company and sold as a set. The keyboard, also, feels cheap. See also the damage on the S, D, N, M, and . keys in my picture above. I have only had this keyboard about six months (arrived mid-April 2019, photograph taken mid-September 2019, day before the date-of-posting since midnight has just passed as I am typing this,) and its already visibly worn from use. This is the kind of keyboard thats made to be unboxed immediately before a PC gaming pro sets down for a tournament, it doesnt feel like its going to stand up to two decades of wear and still be functional the way my last keyboard was - and still is, though filthy and with many keys worn physically through. I bought this combo for the mouse, which, speaking of cheapness; The mouse is also bloody cheap, too. It FEELS nice and solid and thunky and heavy in your hand - thats because theres a bloody great mass of sodding metal weights inside it! You can pull them out to adjust their spacing and numbering if you like, so thats nice I guess, but with them all out, if just looks feels like a generic Logitech corded mouse going through a Goth phase. In conclusion, they work, theyre cheap enough and if you like gaming stuff, or dragons, or black, or colors, or fancy rainbow cycling lights and you need to replace either or both of a keyboard or mouse, theyll do the job. But do not expect a gaming mouse (it is not,) or a gaming keyboard (it has literally no gaming features whatever.)

I bought this pack primarily for the keyboard to see at night when the wife is asleep. So for that, the keyboard has fit the bill perfectly. Theres still some abnormalities with it. Why it needs to start in flashing rainbow mode, among others. But I digress, so far the keyboard has been a great improvement to my situation. The mouse, well, its in a box on the shelf. Put bluntly, I dont like it. I dont like the goofy holes where your thumb rests, I dont like the heavy texture on the buttons. Unless your thumb and fingers are made of putty or sopping wet, having a smooth rough texture like this does not provide added grip---it provides less surface area contact on your fingers. Thats less grip. Theres a reason race cars use tires with no tread. So unless youre worried about your fingers hydroplaning on your mouse, rough textures really have no place on a mouse. Unless youre pounding down potato chips while you use your mouse. I digress. In all seriousness, my dream keyboard would just be the cubicle-ubiquitous Dell Quiet Key, but with keys that illuminate. I dont care about ghosting. I dont care about RGB colors. I dont care about multimedia keys or any of that stuff. This one looked to have fairly generous lower profile keypads rather than the often-imitated IBM model M super tall, skinny keys which I dont like for typing. And so far, its been just fine. Not as nice to type on as my office drone special, but still alright.

Bought this set primarily for the keyboard to use at work. LOVE the fact the keys are SILENT when typing. If you like a keyboard that makes a loud clicky clacky, this is NOT the keyboard for you. Keys are smooth, medium height and show color pretty well. Really happy with this set.

I bought this for working from home love that I can change the lights. I sit in a kinda dark office because of migraines and the keyboard is just bright enough to ser

Bought to make work more fun and then changed it out for our home computer. We have an excellent base “gaming” computer that we play Fortnite on and use for bills, etc. We hooked this up and love it. It’s a very soft and easy press keyboard. No long keystrokes- keys are slim to reduce amount of time it takes to press button and prepare for next button…. And stays quiet when I sneak on to play while kiddos are downstairs! Mouse is great, easy customizable and has ability to add/reduce counter weights if you’re that technical.

Ive had this keyboard for awhile because I needed a a new one that was a bit quieter so I dont wake anyone in the house while working or gaming at night. Overall this keyboard does the job in regards to that. The main issues I have are the size of the keyboard and the lights. The keyboard is a bit too small for my hands and gets uncomfortable to use after awhile. As for the lights? The main issue I have is that it always resets itself to the rainbow nonsense every time you turn your computer off and back on. Yes its easy to set the lights back to what you want but I just want the light to remain on the setting I put it on. The last issue I have is that for whatever reason, if I need to restart my PC, the keyboard stops working and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Ive tried different USB ports and even test my USB ports and settings in my BIOS to see if it was a port issue and its not. Its just this keyboard. So overall all I can say is that my issues could just be localized to the one I bought and my own personal feelings towards it. If you have smaller hands and you dont care about the lights resetting every time you turn your PC on then buy this keyboard. As for the mouse, I havent used it. I have a good mouse and Im leaving the redragon mouse as a backup when I need it.

This was my first combo that I bought back in 2018. I liked it lasted a long time, the wights in the mouse were unique, and the light were cool.

If you can spare two USB ports, this set is a fantastic bargain. Maybe theres more customization on more expensive gaming keyboards - this is my first step into the field. However, everything works great and I honestly have no complaints. It exceeded my expectations so far (A month or two of use so far). 2020 Update: I liked my first Redragon set enough to buy a second set for at work. The price is still right, and everything still looks and feels great. A few things have changed, though. The keyboard is now RGB backlit rather than plain unlit keys with red LED embellishments. There are FN controls to regulate the breathing (light-dark pulsing) of the keyboard, which is good because I found it distracting. The included instruction booklet lists these key combinations. FN+END pauses and unpauses breathing. FN+PGDN enables and disables the backlight entirely. FN+PGUP rotates through 3 still rainbow lighting arrangements. FN+HOME rotates through 7 monochromatic colors (white, blue, red, green, purple, yellow, and cyan). FN+INS smoothly transitions through the 7 colors over the course of a few seconds, though to my eyes the brightness was uneven. FN+UP and FN+DN scale through 4 levels of brightness, and FN+LEFT and FN+RIGHT scale through 4 speeds of animation. For my money, the backlight will be kept motionless on a monochrome light, but to each their own. All told, very happy with the keyboard. It also features two new sets of buttons above the F-row, which are oddly not backlit. The set to left of center includes links to My Computer, Search, Refresh, Email, Calculator, and Home Page. The keys to the right are media controls for Stop, Last Track, Play/Pause, and Next Track. These are all fine, but unnecessary since the F-row already has FN shortcuts to most of these things, and the topmost row, again, isnt backlit. And we have the mouse. It feels identical to the previous mouse, though it has 4 DPI settings rather than 3. Theres a catch though, which is that the mouse backlight (red only) is set to breathe by default. To disable this, youll need to download software from the Redragon support page. Although my mouse and keyboard both list their parts # as S101-3, the mouse is actually a M601-3 CENTROPHORUS. Youll need to download the drivers for this mouse in order to disable breathing. All the way left on the softwares slider will disable the light fully, and all the way right will leave it permanently backlit (my preference). The other new thing with the mouse is that a LED flashes when you change DPI; its flash speed correlating to how high the DPI is. It seems unnecessary but harmless. All told, my first impression is that the addition of pulsing lights just makes first time setup harder as you need to track down the software for the mouse and learn the keyboard controls. I want to take off a half point for the mouse not having a hardware option to disable the light, but all told Ill keep my rating at a 5 as the backlit keys are actually an improvement once you learn how to freeze them. *****

This is the second S101 kit Ive purchased and I hope they keep making it. The keys are responsive, the LEDs are subtle and the mouse feels good in the hand.

My job gave me a computer with a crap ass keyboard that had broken feet and the previous guys nastiness all over the keys. I could have waited for them to slowly decide when it was in the budget to replace a crap ass stock keyboard with another crap ass stock keyboard, but I decided I had waited long enough. If I am going to spend the better part of 8 hours staring at a computer, I might as well make it my own. So I dropped a couple of bucks and got a keyboard and mouse that would be complete overkill for an office environment... and its perfect. Why? Because now my boring ol office has some uniqueness to it, making me forget I am trapped at a desk. Now I am trapped at a desk with peripherals that are much better than anyone else. This may not be a big deal to you, but in my mind, its better to do the mundane tasks on a keyboard that visually distracts me with colorful bliss. The mouse takes the feeling of dread I had from clicking that worn out stock mouse and gives me the excitement I need to not only click, but DOUBLE CLICK as well. Im sure i could play games and other things with it too. So why did I buy a gaming mouse and keyboard for an office computer? Because Im awesome. That, and think about it... gamers sit there for hours double-clicking to use the Sword of Gondor repeatedly, so it must be comfortable. Logic.