Corsair K65 RGB Mini Gaming Keyboard Review
Corsair’s getting in on the 60 percent keyboard gold rush. The $109 K65 RGB Mini, a pint-size refresh of the company's K65 TKL design, removes everything but the essentials to create a minimalist mechanical keyboard that's compact and portable. In a superficial sense, the K65 is a highly successful 60 percent adaptation. The keyboard is small, but the layout doesn’t feel compressed as compact designs sometimes do. At the same time, with a wave of 60 and 65 percent keyboards launching from major manufacturers this year, there’s no feature or component that makes the K65 Mini particularly noteworthy. It’s a solid, but ultimately bland choice in a keyboard category that’s heating up.
Fewer Keys, More Room to Breathe First of all, we should point out that the K65 Mini is a 60 percent keyboard. It has 61 keys, which is actually just under 60 percent of a 104-key, full-size layout. To reach that point, the K65 removes the number pad, function row, editing keys, and navigation keys. I...
With the K65 RGB Mini, Corsair successfully shrinks its basic mechanical keyboard design down to 60 percent comfortably, but otherwise, it's a bit bland.
Compact, 60-percent design feels natural; Detachable USB-C cable; Cool fractal design on spacebar; Lets you create up to 50 onboard keyboard profiles
Lacks strong differentiating features; 8000Hz polling isn’t particularly helpful