THIS is the MOST POPULAR Keyboard on AMAZON! - Redragon S101

[@superpandabacon]

After playing with a ton of mechanical keyboards from several brands, I feel that membrane keyboards are just good enough for when you’re selling a pc to someone and need a kb to get them started.

[@Beesem]

Another popular and cheap mouse and keyboard combo is the Cooler Master Devastator 3 keyboard and mouse combo. Can be had for $40 Canadian. Probably a pretty good option to put head to head against this Red Dragon option.

[@Katjaneway]

Look into the Royal Kludge line. I needed a cheap mechanical RGB (I just wanted a backlight) keyboard for work that still had a 10-key so I picked up their Rk918. You can get them for under $50

[@RANDOMNATION907]

I have the Redragon KARURA 2 (model no. K-502rgb). I like it. It's quiet, semi-water proof and the lettering is very large and in a standard font. Also there is NO Under-Key light spillage. What I mean is, the light emits THROUGH THE KEY ONLY. There is no light emitted AROUND the keys illuminating everything. The wrist rest is at least 3" wide & it's only $25 bucks.

[@richscott2483]

Uhm. Defective Keycaps on these Redragon S101. I bought the 2024 wireless version the S101-PKS. Bought 2 from Amazon on Jan. 2, 2025 and wanted to return to Amazon on Jan 8, 2025. Found out they were not a Returnable and Refundable product which was not mentioned when I ordered/purchased them. I did Amazon Online Chat and was told to keep the crappy keyboards and I was given a $95 Gift card credit to my account.

[@8lec_R]

Gk61 and sk61 are often under 50 bucks. The yellow switch variants aren't as easy to find anymore at that price point, but the other switches are very easy to find and work great. I personally bought mine for 48, with the yellow switches. Not from Amazon tho.

[@cbridgmon]

Coolermaster makes an inexpensive pretty good keyboard that has dedicated audio keys also. I have been using it for about 2 years and it seems to be holding up very well!

[@Silverhks]

That's a pretty good review of a super budget starter keyboard. The true competitor for this keyboard are the various one bundled by system integrators.

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

I've recently posted about the first keyboard I bought for the first computer I built for my personal use way way back. It was a membrane keyboard because that's what most everyone bought back then. We had just been weened of the buckling spring keyboards and words like "soft touch", "quiet" and "membrane" was selling new keyboards in droves. I'd worked a lot with IBM buckling spring keyboards and those were not quite as bullet proof as people tend to claim. Sure they were built like tanks, but they were heavy, loud and occasionally one of the flappers would jump out of their hinge. Then you had to remove something like thirty screws to take it apart and place the that little piece of steel back in place. So many screws... At the time these were cheap as they were thrown away as scrap. Membrane keyboards were the new shiny. There were even high end membrane keyboards with individually weighted switches and all kind of features such as static discharge through the space bar and so on. The individually weighted switches were actually pretty nice. The keys under your dominant hand was slightly heavier and the ones that you typed on using the pinky were the heaviest of them all. Then they tapered off the further out from the center you got so keys like backspace, enter, shift, control, tab and so on were the lightest. I'm sure there are such keyboards made still today, but I haven't seen much marketing of features like those for a long time... Back to the cheap one I bought. I think it was made by, or at least sold as, Mitsumi. And compared to other cheap keyboards it was another tank. I never really had a problem with the feel of membrane keyboards, but I did run into ghosting problems as well as lack of N-Key rollover. Still I used it for more than ten years and I still have it laying about somewhere, I think, if it didn't got thrown away the last time I moved. As for feel I really miss those old buckling spring keyboards. None of the modern clicky key switches I've tested really lives up to the buckling spring keyboards, but they are a decent alternative. And yes I like that click. Actually it's the click more than the feel that's lacking if I'm perfectly honest. One funny thing was that for a long time every keyboard bios had a option to generate a click using the MB speaker whenever you pressed a key, just so you could simulate having a clicky keyboard. There were also options for how fast the keyboard would repeat and how long the delay would be before it started to repeat. It's funny that I never noticed when those disappeared. Now we come to the review. I think most of it was relevant, but the rigidity test? Really? Who twists their keyboard like that other than to test if they can twist it? And what does it prove? Sure most cheap keyboards are probably not the most solid constructions, but then doe they really have to be? It's not like most of us use the keyboards on an uneven surface or our lap or something. It's pretty safe to assume that most of use has a desk or at least a reasonably flat rock to rest our less expensive keyboard on. After all we're most likely using a mouse that is another thing that works best on something reasonably flat. Now if the keyboard flexes when you type then it's a valid complaint, same if it groans when you get a bit heavy handed in a game. But other than that do you really care how easy or hard the keyboard is to twist? More important for a keyboard is that it doesn't have ghosting problems as those can make gaming a very bad experience. As for N-Key rollover it's nice to have, but the basic 6-Key rollover of USB is probably enough for most gamers. Just don't tell them that as it shows just what a noob you are. But to be honest most action games on PC are played with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard. Now try to find a situation when you need to press more than six keys on the same time, and then do it with one hand... I'm not saying that there aren't games where you might need to press six keys at the same time, but at the moment I can't really think of one, and they aren't very common. I know I wrote that I had run into the problems due to lack of N-Key rollover, but to be honest I think it was actually a ghosting problem. The game was Earthworm Jim, a platformer, and there was a place where you had to perform a pretty weird maneuver. As it was a platformer you used both hands on the keyboards and I remember failing at this section time and time again before finally figuring out that the keyboard simply couldn't support all the keys needed at the same time, so no matter ho much I tried it was actually impossible with that keyboard. So that's why I say that anti ghosting is something you really need as a gamer, and N-Key rollover is something that's nice, but probably not critical for most. But once you run into the wall because it isn't there you might curse me for saying that. If so then feel free to ridicule me for stating this opinion.

[@VihangaDananjaya1214]

A lot od people need reviews like this. Please keep doing this for keyboards, mice and even audio peripherals. I've never used a gaming keyboard. On the mouse side Logitech G203/G102 is the go to cheap mouse.

[@Gamingtechgg]

Deltaco fits budget role very good, it is just shame price has been changed lately

[@cerealport2726]

I keep reading the brand "redragon" as re-dragon - the thing you do when you run out of dragons.

[@BootSequence]

Fill that dragon meter 🤣

[@Bare_Essence]

Excellent review! I never really thought about the flatness of the rows of keys. Huh. I'll keep that in mind. One other thing you did not mention is the bottom row (ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar,...) and how the bottom of each of those keys curve toward the wrist rest. Most keyboards have these keys cupped like the other rows above them. Older Dell membrane also have curved keys like this for that bottom row. I've become accustom to that curve down and cupped keys on the bottom row hurt my fingers when I press them in certain combinations. I guess it's just my style of typing. Cheers.

[@theInnocentJem]

EVGA Z15 are under $50 on Amazon right now. Hot swappable mechanical keys, RGB and media keys. I just picked up one this month

[@deaditelives4295]

Grabbed the Z15 and their X15 mouse earlier this week. Extremely high quality products. Best deal I've gotten in a while.

[@ragingfred]

I had one of these for three years and nothing broke or faded or wore out. It's really cheap feeling but it got the job done no questions asked. Probably the cheapest way to get into RGB keyboards by far.

[@DirtyMikeTM]

Yes the prints on the keys do wear off making it impossible to know what key it is

[@spiro7000]

love your new content, we need more budget stuff. i dont have 150 dollars for keyboard. and i see you on the next one 🙃

[@willvr4]

It comes in wireless form now. Just bought one as a gift.

[@ppsarrakis]

this is pretty much ment to be as a gift to a kid depending on your countries market this might be the best you can get for the price...

[@tallyforeman3145]

I wish I would have known the RGB on the mouse does not change color.

[@DKLGalactus5]

cannot find the software for this keyboard when opening file it says mouse not detected.

[@ddpwe5269]

Great review! One thing that got me, was the sound test at +20db. Do you plan to do that for all testing? If so, mechanical keyboards are going to sound super loud with +20db. I thought the point of a sound test was to have a standard from X distance away at normal levels? That's one thing membrane have going for them, they're quite a bit more quiet than mechanical, but adding that db kinda makes it sound like a mechanical. If you don't plan adding db to mechanical keyboards, why not just say that you have to turn your volume up to hear it at X away from the mic as the membrane is super quiet? No need to confuse people about the level of sound coming from the keyboard, even if you say it's a +20db added. What if people don't watch the entire video and miss that part, but then only focus on the fact it sounded like a mechanical keyboard, despite you mentioning that's what it had going for it from the start? =)

[@kuyaglen]

How about the name "Keyboard Konsiderations" for this series?

[@halistinejenkins5289]

i have a TKL mechanical non RGB keyboard from Red Dragon off amazon and it's been a top notch keyboard. i also bought a Red Dragon MMO mouse for the fiasco that was WOW classic 😂and it worked perfectly.

[@KaiSizzlink]

Did you just say that cloth is less flexible than plastic?

[@BootSequence]

Yeah. I mean that doesn't really have to do with anything. The braided material is still plastic.

[@TechDunk]

Happy new year dude, best wishes to you

[@poeticsilence047]

Dig the new intro song. Still has the Boot Sequence feel.

[@vttrrd]

what are tehe dpi settings

[@russbailey420]

You really need to test out the "Tecware Phantom 87 key" off amazon!!! Hand's down the best keyboard I have EVER purchased under $50 literally bought 6 more for everyone in the house and they all are in love!! I'm telling you it's a beast for the price heavy as hell and solid keys!! Really is outstanding value for a new build when ya want a mechanical!

[@mickmiah7605]

Well now I have dropped a pint of beer onto my Corsair k95 I am in between keyboards which has made me reflect on keyboards I have known. They have been something i have changed regularly mostly because once its dirty I can never be assed to clean them up. The very best keyboard I ever had, including my K95, was a cheap model by iTrust which came with a mouse. It worked perfectly for several years and when finally it gave out, full of pork scratching dust I think, I was gutted. I have never had a keyboard that felt so natural, responsive and that was top-notch at both gaming and typing. I do like corsair I just find them expensive and crappy to type on plus the icue software is dog.

[@adrianconstantin1132]

Can you please review the Logitech G600 and other moba mice ? Especially for productivity I find them very usefull, and with it maybe more people can benefit from not switching their right hand between the keyboard and the mouse all the time. Personally I can not believe how usefull it can be to have the most basic key operations right on the mouse, like Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, Esc, PgDn, Ctrl+PgDn ...

[@KrK-EST]

the red mouse disturbs me, is there for example blue or some other color options ? Yes the keyboard chin also disturbs me grately, can do withouth the volume functionality but it would be a good bonus.

[@BootSequence]

there is a white version of it, but i believe its also red 😅

[@KrK-EST]

@@BootSequence Thnaks for the inf. I'll then have to to with my cheap 16 € wireless mouse + wireless keyboard (with 15 extra keys including volume, full layout but compact) + mouse pad. Quite ok with it, mouse is a bit cheaper side but love the keyboard, both run on a single AAA battery (2to3 per year for mouse and over a year for keyboard). Had it 1,5 years. After an year seeing it lasted well and had not broken i wanted to order several sets (to gift ot locally sell who needs) but that store did not have them anymore, sad. I do not know the company only a logo/text on front: ART Only text in the back is: ZESTAW BEZPRZEWODOWY KLAWIATURA + MYSZ AK-48A USB A "S/N" and i think maybe made in (in some language): Wyprodukowano w Chinach

[@JamesFox1]

My Question Would be on The Software , many software implemented utilities are intrusive to personal data , how does this one fair out in such ? what does the software look like , how does it operate and to WHOM is it From ? Redragon site looks kinda Janky / Ganky , hmmm

[@Mom19]

There is no software as far as I'm aware

[@JamesFox1]

@@Mom19 Look Up = redragon s101 software , it is there , i am not downloading the software though , Thank you for the comment though .

[@Mom19]

@@JamesFox1 ah okay, never used Red Dragon stuff, so I couldn't tell for sure, but the mouse and keyboard looked and probably feels literally the same as the keyboard and mouse a friend of mine is actually using. Not Red Dragon branded though. And those don't have software. Maybe they simply just come from one major factory and get branded differently. And depending on the branding maybe get a few other electric components inside, maybe a different controller board. I'm not sure, and I'm not going to spend my money to checkout the exact differences between all these very similar looking cheap chinese peripherals or hardware. Sorry for that, can only speak for things I had myself, but thank you for your input aswell ❤️

[@JamesFox1]

@@Mom19 yea i get it , was just wondering if the software was something that needed to be looked into

[@Mom19]

@@JamesFox1 every software actually would need deeper investigation actually, but who does all that work for every single piece of software out there really? The pool is basically infinite and every day people pour more stuff into that pool :O

[@truckwrecker6822]

I would actually buy 1 of their mechanical kb(I bought 1 for my gf), except like you I prefer a scroll wheel or dedicated keys for volume.

[@gamergremlin25]

Would this work on a Xbox series x?

[@ZheerBestoon]

Yes

[@aidentygames1559]

Yes, I Have That Keyboard and Mouse

[@user-zz4zt7kh3c]

I own the set, but quite frankly, I will prefers other keyboards. But of course I'm grateful for my set! A headset came with it tho.

[@jessiejames1681]

I seen that you tore that sticker up. If you want a cleaner peel just heat it with a heat gun or hair dryer.

[@BootSequence]

Yeah, it came without an external box. Just the product on its own with shipping aticker 😅

[@jessiejames1681]

@@BootSequence As for the review I loved it! It's awesome to see tech YTers reviewing cheap products. I've built 6 budget PCs within the past 4 years & it's kinda hard to find reviews on cheap products that aren't from some guy with 4 subscribers & 2 videos (I still appreciate those videos, I just want another reliable source). I normally skip reviews on expensive tech (relative to their category) but on cheap products I always watch.

[@derecksheppard5913]

I haven't heard of anybody *needing* a wrist support in years.. Much less getting _tired_ from clicking buttons.. What the hell...?

[@80sALT]

Great combo for the gamer kid in your life!

[@ragingmonk6080]

I am still using a Logitech G105 that I have had for years. Just looked and it is $180 on Amazon so it should be better than a $35 combo.

[@Mom19]

Of course it is better, but I think it's kinda missing the point of this "series". I could also say my K95 RGB Platinum is better than this combo, but realistically its not considered cheap. Which this is all about. But yes, have the G19 on my other PC, good stuff still after years of years and years. Software is a bit old, but the display on it is very nice :D

[@cerealport2726]

I still have a Razer Diamondback from 2004 going strong (not my only mouse though). I feel old.

[@Mom19]

@@cerealport2726 I also have a Razer Deathadder I think it was. I use it for evey system I have to setup for basic installation tasks and watnot. I got that mouse for free, good thing even untill this day. Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless for one of my personal systems, 2 Glaive RGB (aluminum version) for my other personal systems. Good stuff. 1 I use for switching between PCs in the same room, the other is for another room :O The Ironclaw wireless can be used everywhere, so thats great too

[@ragingmonk6080]

@@Mom19 I didn't pay $180 when I bought it years ago, it was like $60. Yours launched in 2017 at $180 to $190. I thought the price of mine would have came down, which is why I looked. Yes, $60 is more than than $35 but after all this time I thought it would go down not up. Love the keyboard though and have no reason to change it. Happy gaming.

[@Mom19]

@@ragingmonk6080 oh I see, well then I'm totally with you on that note. Only problem is, if something was 60 bucks back then, but nowadays isn't, it probably won't be a good comparison by today. But yes, if you compare their price back then, assume it would be the same today and it's better quality and so on, then that's a great thing I think. I didn't pay full price for mine either. I paid 115 bucks in total and that is with a separate wrist rest (K95 RGB Platinum XT foamy wrist rest to be exact. They both can be attached to both versions of the Keyboard). Printed a phone holder and a white grill, for the keys underneath, for this keyboard and its been pretty awesome so far. Great deal :O Love your input on that, thank you ^-^ Have a nice weekend

[@H-Rexz]

Keep it up nice video

[@angelasongcheung6796]

Just got one and it’s incredible😅

[@rossmclaughlin7158]

I actually like some of these red dragon keyboards n mice yeah not as good as super high end stuff but get job done. The k552 for example is actually really good build quality solid and mechanical keys are actually reasonably good especially for the price there was one of there mice I really liked as well but can't remember the model name

[@Kneecaptain]

I have it, and i love it.

[@matthewhawkins2707]

1st player makes a decent tkl mechanical keyboard for around 40 bucks

[@TinBin-Craig]

cooooool stuff cheers

[@digiboiwand]

There are times when something is too cheap.

[@chrisbenn]

It is a best seller cuz it is Cheap! Not cuz it is good! :-(

[@BootSequence]

I mean it has 4.5 stars

[@chrisbenn]

@@BootSequence Would you use it as your "main"? :D

[@javencomeaux304]

Is this a hot swapabble keyboard

[@istar4422]

its realy good key boardo,

[@WolvenSpectre]

Logitech K-120. If you get them on sale or with a mouse bundle, they last well and are good budget boards used by allot of business and are supposedly loved by young gamers except for the wear on on the ABS spacebars looks greasy. Not allot of features but like Volvos they are boxy but good. Unfortunately between the young gamers and hardware buy ups from the human malware the prices went up, but considering that the prices aren't rediculous. I got 3 10 years ago and put 2 of them through a beating and one even got splashed when a watercooler jug of water burst while popping its top to put in the cooler.

[@varolibrium4634]

Hey.. did you gain weight ??

[@BootSequence]

Same weight since 2020

[@Mom19]

@@BootSequence lol. Don't worry too much about such tbh, as long as you are considered in a good health concerns, weight doesn't matter ❤️

[@istar4422]

z

[@billcurtis7687]

Thank you, wonderful presentation. I bought a Red Dragon S-101-3 and I love it. I've bought keyboards that cost a lot more then the Red Dragon, but got nothing more from them then I have from my Red Dragon. I've been using computers since 1978 or 79, which is 44 years give or take, and of all keyboards available, I highly recommend the Red Dragon S-101-3, as you get the most bang for your buck! LOL Note: I bought the Red Dragon Keyboard because my cats love to chew up the cable from the keyboard to the computer. So, I bought 4 of them, of course with the mouse. I'm on my 3rd keyboard, as my cats put to sleep the first two in 6 months.