Cheap Backlit Keyboard g11 or Reclusa

classicVin · 15 Jun 2010 at 18:20

Hi guys,

Currently looking to get another keyboard that has backlighting.

My current one is a bog standard microsoft black thing, and dont get me wrong its been brilliant.

Looking at :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-090-LG

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-062-MS&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=1258

The thing i like about my keyboard atm is the Big-ish space bar, mine is this one : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-139-MS&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=2

And i have had it for a good 4 years now and its done me well !

thanks a lot x

ricky · 15 Jun 2010 at 18:27

g11 here.Can't fault it for the price

classicVin · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:30

Any little quibbles or annoying features that you get with the g11 ?

ricky · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:36

Hmm,the keys felt a little "wobbly" to start with,a fairly long keystroke/push..comming from a laptop style keyboard,felt a bit odd,took me about a day to get used to it,fine and dandy now.
The amount of "G" keys is a little OTT,im never gonna use em all.
Apart from that,awesome keyboard,love the backlight,and to disable the windows button,Logitech support is very good(so i hear from many threads).

PapaLazaru · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:44

I have a reclusa. Looks a lot better in real life than the photos.

Solid construction. Nice backlit keys. Really nice wrist rest. Cannot fault it.

Got some piccies if you want, though they do not show the backlight for some reason.

FatRakoon · 19 Jun 2010 at 06:01

I got the reclusa.

I like it, and I am, for the most part, very happy with it.

I cannot however say that its a great keyboard because it is not. Not by any stretch, unless of course you are used to naff keyboards and then you'd probably say its brilliant.

No, for a start, I am used to it now, but this sodding backlit junk is bloody irritating. I went for over a week of non stop headaches, and I really really wished that there was some way to adjust the brightness... Its better now like I said and this is possibly because of the large ammounts of biscuits etc that are probbaly stuck in it more than me getting used to it.

( Ok, thats more or a moan than a flaw )

My second irritant is that my last keyboard was a TRUST, and while you can laugh at that, it had aUSB 2.0 Port on the back of it and its never let me down, and indeed I am still using it on my No2 PC on the LAN and this thing while it has 2 USB ports, I thought that they would be a great help, but in fact they are only USB 1 and cannot handle high powered devices so even some flash drives can fail on it. I therefore no longer bother wasting my time in trying to use them... They are Absolute drivvel.

I think mine is a different keyboard to PapaLazaru because this thing is certainly NOT solid construction, the keys wobble, and it cannot handle fast typing, as the keys dont fully depress unless you press them cleanly and so anything like playing games too frantically or my speed of typing is a bad idea.

I am glad I got mine, dont get me wrong but I will NEVER buy another one.

Devrij · 19 Jun 2010 at 08:01

FatRakoon said:
I got the reclusa.

I like it, and I am, for the most part, very happy with it.

I cannot however say that its a great keyboard because it is not. Not by any stretch, unless of course you are used to naff keyboards and then you'd probably say its brilliant.

No, for a start, I am used to it now, but this sodding backlit junk is bloody irritating. I went for over a week of non stop headaches, and I really really wished that there was some way to adjust the brightness... Its better now like I said and this is possibly because of the large ammounts of biscuits etc that are probbaly stuck in it more than me getting used to it.

( Ok, thats more or a moan than a flaw )

My second irritant is that my last keyboard was a TRUST, and while you can laugh at that, it had aUSB 2.0 Port on the back of it and its never let me down, and indeed I am still using it on my No2 PC on the LAN and this thing while it has 2 USB ports, I thought that they would be a great help, but in fact they are only USB 1 and cannot handle high powered devices so even some flash drives can fail on it. I therefore no longer bother wasting my time in trying to use them... They are Absolute drivvel.

I think mine is a different keyboard to PapaLazaru because this thing is certainly NOT solid construction, the keys wobble, and it cannot handle fast typing, as the keys dont fully depress unless you press them cleanly and so anything like playing games too frantically or my speed of typing is a bad idea.

I am glad I got mine, dont get me wrong but I will NEVER buy another one.

I'm afraid I have to agree with the above: I like my reclusa and it certainly never bothers me, but I do think it would not be my first choice if I had to replace it. The backlighting leaks really badly from inbetween the keys, so instead of helping you find them in the dark they just blind you lol. I don't have the above problem of keypresses not registering, and I find the keystroke about right for my style, but it could be a bit crisper. It's reasonably compact too, which is good for me, but maybe not an issue for you. It could have more/better placed macro keys too. It's not really a gaming kb, more of an all-rounder.