i-rocks K10 Keyboard Review

Introduction

The Chinese have been building the components that appear in many of our systems for years, and a quick look at the underside of most of your peripherals will probably reveal them being made in China too.

So of course it makes sense for companies to produce their own branded hardware, and one such manufacturer is i-rocks. A new name to these shores, or at the very least to us, we have a small selection of their products to test. Today we’ll start with their K10 keyboard, which promises a better feel than most membrane based keyboards at a third of the price of a proper Cherry MX one.

Given how quickly China has come to dominate many areas of the world is this the first wave of a gradual take-over, or is it cheap, rather than good value?

Technical Specifications

Initial specifications promise enough key rollover, 30, to cope with even a head to keyboard moment let alone the regular amount of fingers we have. The key switches themselves are a hybrid of membrane and genuine switch, so it will be interesting to discover how they perform.