Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard OUTEMU Brown Switch 83-Keys Gaming Keyboard-UK Layout

I bought a similar keyboard from a different vendor on Amazon three years ago, and by similar I mean it looks exactly the same, the only advertised difference is the type of switches (brown on this one, and blue on the other one). Since I was impressed with the other keyboard and I needed a second keyboard I decided to give this a try, thinking it must be the same manufacturer as the two keyboards look identical.I was wrong. This keyboard came without the back risers to tilt it, they were missing from the keyboard and the box. The keys sound hollow when pressed, and 2 keys failed straight away. It's clearly cheaply made, and they clearly have no quality control.My unit ended up in the bin.Buyers beware.

On the whole I like it. Few questionable choices however. I get it might be handy to disable the windows key so you don't accidentally press it.... but why would you have it disabled by default? Having to press Fn+Esc to enable each time you reboot? Cheap way to test if you like brown switches which it turns out I do. Still tactile but without the loud click of the blues. Scratchy though with no factory lubrication, expected for the price.

It looks nice and has a detachable cable, size and layout is nice however, the keyboard with brown switches is very pingy as the case is metal and as it's pretty hollow it's very resonant, so you'll get a pingy reverb sound, also the tactile bump on the switches isn't too noticeable and you may as well get linear switches (reds).

It works well for typing, the "brown" switches have a slight notch when you press them that provides good feedback when typing but quieter than the clicky "blue switches". The layout is ok, roughly the same as the MacBook that I use it with. I'd recommend this for typists, but no backlighting or other features for gamers.

9 months of light typing use and some keys are already failing - double presses or failing to register any press. Never buying non-Cherry switches again. In comparison I have a 12+ year old and much more heavily used Cherry-based board still working perfectlyAlso the controller/USB implementation is poor - if you type extremely fast, such as passwords, it consistently swaps letters. Not suitable for gaming or fast typists even when it worked!