75% equipped with small size keyboard, exquisite metal frame, Rapoo V700-8A mechanical keyboard out of the box

Rapoo’s products change quickly, and recently launched a new product, the V700-8A mechanical keyboard. The metal shell on the side frame greatly enhances the appearance of the entire keyboard, and it has an 84-column layout. The compact size is more refined. In addition, this keyboard has a variety of colors to choose from, as well as multi-mode wired and wireless connections. All functions are not missing. .

The keyboard packaging is still the Rapoo family-style color scheme, and the blue-black style has obviously solidified into a characteristic, with a relatively high degree of recognition.

On the back of the package is the introduction of the multilingual keyboard features. Among them, the four modes of Bluetooth 5.0/3.0/wireless 2.4G/wired are still very popular. After all, the desktop of a small-sized keyboard will be clean when it is connected wirelessly, and the advantages are obvious.

In addition to the main body of the keyboard, the packing box also includes an instruction manual*1, a key puller*1, and a tpye C connection charging cable*1

This Rapoo V700-8A mechanical keyboard is also designed by Rapoo with a metal full-enclosed frame, a compact 84 layout, and a key line separation design, with a net weight of about 787 grams.

There are many kinds of keyboard colors, all of which are color-blocking series: Mech Purple, No Man’s Land, Lonely Brave, etc. Later, we saw that Rapoo also released several cute style keycaps and XeStarPro King Glory team jointly customized, Looks better than mass-produced ones.

This keyboard keycap color matching is black, gray and orange. It is called the Lonely Brave, maybe named after a little orange of Esc.

The keyboard is designed with an extremely narrow frame, the metal corners are rounded and curved, and the gun-gray metal matte frame has a very good texture. The metal shell is CNC-cut, sand-blasted and oxidized, and the workmanship is in place. There are no flaws in the overall frame.

The keyboard shell looks like a ship's hull, with half the depth of burial, and a large gap between the shell and the keycap, but this way the light transmission effect is more obvious. There is also a white luminous Rapoo 'V' logo in the lower left corner of the keyboard, and a tpye C connection port is designed on the left front.

This keyboard uses Rapoo's own brown switch, with a lifespan of 60 million clicks, a slight sound and a sense of paragraph. You can experience the feel and sound of a mechanical switch without being too loud in daily office or gaming. It is a compromise choice. . The large key position adopts the satellite axis scheme, and the degree of tuning is improved compared with Rapoo's previous keyboards, but there will still be some slight steel wire sounds.

The keycaps are made of abs plastic material with two-color injection molding process, with closed characters, and the surface of the keycaps is relatively matte. There is almost no water outlet on the back of the keycap, and the two-color keycap wall looks thick and durable.

The back is a one-piece foot support design, the back power switch OFF/ON marks the keyboard switch status, and the physical buttons are more convenient to use. The built-in 4000 mAh lithium battery provides a battery life of up to 225 hours when the light is turned off, and 25 hours when the light is turned on, which solves the current pain point of wireless battery life anxiety.

V700-8A can have 7 groups of backlight effects (including driver custom settings), 4 levels of backlight brightness, support for Bluetooth 5.0/3.0 and wireless 2.4G connections, and can be connected to 5 devices at the same time, through Fn plus the number 1 to 5 to switch, greatly improving office efficiency. In the wired mode, the keyboard can achieve full-key no-click, and in wireless mode, 6-key no-click, and the average player can also meet the demand for 6-key no-click when playing games in time.

The latest UI interface used by the Rapoo keyboard driver has a much more beautified visual effect than the old version driver. The driver stores multiple sets of configurations in class, and also has onboard memory. After logging in to the account, it can be uploaded to the cloud, and it can be used directly next time.

Drive the above basic buttons and lighting settings, as well as macro definitions, a real physical plug-in.

On the whole, the practicability and functionality of the Rapoo V700-8A multi-mode gaming mechanical keyboard are quite outstanding. Wired and wireless multi-mode connections and multi-device one-key switching are much more convenient for office use, and 75% of the keyboards are equipped with small-sized metal frame keyboards. Compared with competing products, it seems that there is still a lot of room for improvement on the keycaps. The monochrome backlight system does not look as cool as the RGB backlight, but it is worse than no light. The new version of the driver also improves the additional attributes of the keyboard. Finally, guide The price is 299 yuan, which is moderate, and the cost performance of the domestic Rapoo is definitely not a problem.