Young people's first portable keyboard——Rapoo V700-8A multi-mode backlit mechanical keyboard experience

Perhaps due to the influence of the mobile Internet, keyboards have gradually become popular in recent years as portable keyboards, especially the 84-key compact keyboard with contrasting color matching keycaps. Not long ago, Rapoo, a well-known domestic peripheral manufacturer, also began to complete In addition to this product line, it launched the V700-8A multi-mode backlit mechanical keyboard, which supports four connection methods of Bluetooth 5.0/Bluetooth 3.0/2.4GHz wireless/wired, including three colors of Lonely Brave, No Man's Land and Mech Purple. The body covers Pennefather's own black switches, red switches, tea switches and green switches. Among them, the mech purple keycap has the most bold color matching, white and purple, supplemented by green as embellishment, and the author is relatively mature, so I chose a relatively low-key isolated keycap. For the brave, the shaft is my favorite panacea - tea shaft.

The packaging style continues the consistent tradition of the Rapoo V series, intuitively showing the rendering of the keyboard, and the keyboard model and shaft are also clearly marked.

Out of the box, in addition to the keyboard body, data cable, 2.4GHz wireless receiver and manual, a key puller is also provided. It is really convenient to use the key puller to remove the keycap.

The V700-8A adopts a 75% arrangement of 84-key compact key layout, which greatly reduces the size of the keyboard and improves portability. desktop space. Compared with Mech Purple and No Man's Land, the color scheme of Lone Brave is much more low-key and introverted. Gray and black are relatively similar, and the orange Esc in the upper left corner is used as an embellishment, which is mature and low-key without losing its agility.

Despite the small size of the keyboard, the weight is not light, and the workmanship is solid. The frame is made of aluminum alloy, which has been subjected to metal sandblasting and oxidation treatment, and it feels delicate.

The key is Rapoo's classic floating frameless design, breaking through the shackles of the keyboard frame, it is very simple and elegant, especially after turning on the backlight, you can see the backlight around the shaft body from the edge of the keyboard, which is quite gorgeous

Because of the compact design, the V700-8A arranges the Del, Home, PageUp, PageDown and End buttons in the rightmost column of the keyboard. At first, it was a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, these keys are not used frequently. And it takes a while to get used to it.

There is a Rapoo V series Logo LED light in the lower left corner of the frame of the V700-8A. It is full of faith, but also has practical functions. White means power on, and red means charging.

V700-8A is equipped with Rapoo's independent shaft. After more than ten years of technical accumulation, the feel of the shaft is very close to that of CherryMX. The life span is as high as 60 million times, and the feel is durable and reliable. The brown switch I chose will have a slight sense of paragraph, but it is not as laborious as the green switch, and it is not as hard as the black switch. It can also experience the pleasure of a mechanical keyboard, taking into account typing and games. It can be said that it is the best in the mechanical keyboard switch body. Panacea, it is recommended for users who are new to mechanical keyboards.

Large key positions such as Shift and space adopt a satellite axis design, which has high key stability and good hand feeling consistency.

The keycap is made of two-color injection molding process, which has good light transmission and wear resistance

There is a Type-C interface on the top frame, which is used for charging and wired mode connection, which is very convenient to use and has strong versatility.

Press Fn+1/2/3/4/5 to switch Bluetooth/2.4GHz wireless/wired mode respectively, Fn+right Ctrl can switch to ripple, constant light, single light, breathing, starry and curve light effect modes in turn, Fn + left and right arrow keys can reduce/increase the light frequency, Fn + up and down arrow keys can increase/decrease the light brightness, it is worth mentioning that when Fn is pressed, all keys that can be combined with Fn will automatically light up, which is really user-friendly

There is a toggle switch at the bottom, two foot pads and two foot supports.

The built-in 4000mAh lithium battery supports charging and using at the same time. Thanks to Rapoo's low-power wireless technology, the battery life can reach 25-225 hours when fully charged (depending on whether the backlight is turned on and the brightness of the backlight). Basically, it can support about a week of working time, which can be said to have met the normal needs.

The first thing to note is that the driver settings are only available in wired mode.

The V700-8A and V960S use the same driver. This is a change of Rapoo’s style of one model and one driver. It is estimated that Rapoo will have a unified driver in the future. This must be praised, especially the unified driver of the keyboard and mouse is necessary, because gamers Generally, everyone has their own brand preference, and the peripherals are most likely to be products of the same brand. In this case, it is not only troublesome to install the drivers for the keyboard and mouse separately, but also feels too fragmented to use.

The driver interface style is more modern, with menu categories on the left and specific content on the right. It supports multiple configuration files, which can be designed according to office, game and other purposes, or game categories such as FPS and RPG, or specific games.

All 84 keys of the V700-8A keyboard are programmable. Basic functions, key combinations and macros can be set. Macros can be modified after recording. If used properly, the functions are quite powerful and can easily complete combos and a series of functions.

In addition to the light effect mode supported by Fn + right Ctrl key, you can also set a custom mode through the driver. In this mode, all keys can independently set 10 levels of brightness, which means that players can set the backlight brightness according to the frequency of the keys required by the game. , to remind yourself of the game buttons you use. For example, when playing FPS games, you can set the commonly used W, A, S, and D to 10 levels of brightness, and the less frequently used F, R, C, 1, 2, and 3 to 6 Level brightness, rarely use Z, X, V to set 3 levels of brightness, and the Logo light at the bottom left corner of the keyboard can also be set to be always on, breathing and off.

The driver can be easily upgraded. It is recommended that the driver and firmware must be upgraded first after the keyboard has just arrived in order to obtain the best experience.

The author is a programmer. Typing code is my daily work, and I often need to go out with a thin and light notebook on my back. The keyboard feel of the thin and light notebook is really hard to describe. Anyone who has used it understands it. I have long wanted to match it with a portable one. Mechanical keyboard, the portability of V700-8A is really good, a 14-inch laptop can be installed, and it also supports Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless modes, especially when typing on a smart TV, it is really easy to use It is convenient, needless to say, colleagues who use the remote control to input text know the pain in my heart.

Thanks to the excellent ergonomic design, although the V700-8A is compact in size, it is not easy to accidentally touch it. It feels very comfortable to type on. This time, my mother no longer has to worry about me being at a loss at the customer site.

I also need to relax moderately after work. I will become a gamer. The V700-8A is also capable of gaming. It can support full-key no-click in wired mode and any 6-key no-click in wireless mode. It is enough for daily life Use, after all no one will be double-playing fighting games on such a compact keyboard, no way, no way. With the blessing of the driver, using the macro definition function, complex combos can be easily completed.

There is also my favorite custom mode in the lighting effect. You can directly set the button backlight according to the game key position, so that you can focus more on the game operation.

Overall, the experience brought to me by the Rapoo V700-8A multi-mode backlit mechanical keyboard is quite amazing. The cool appearance, excellent workmanship, portable experience, and full-key programmable all leave a deep impression on me. Impression, the bucket-level configuration, coupled with the sincere price of 299 yuan, will surely become the best choice for young people to start with a portable keyboard. In addition, I was very pleased to see Rapoo's efforts in software before, because in the case of gradually converging hardware configuration, software is the hard power of a manufacturer. I expect Rapoo will make further efforts in the integration of peripheral drivers , looking forward to Rapoo can bring us better integrated driver software next time.