AULA F99 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard,Tri-Mode BT5.0/2.4GHz/USB-C Hot Swappable Custom Keyboard,Pre-lubed Linear Switches,RGB Backlit Computer Gaming Keyboards for… by AULA

Apenas tengo una semana con el teclado y va todo muy bien es como y lleno mis expectativas pero no le doy 5 estrellas aun porque no tengo casi nada con el teclado.

Bought this for my wife’s WFH setup. She fell in love with the Creamy Switch craze on TikTok and this was a reasonably priced keyboard that fit the bill. I found a cute sakura themed keycap set to replace these, but she said she’d have been happy with the blues and purples that came preinstalled.

It looks great, feels and sounds fantastic, and does everything you’d want from a keyboard. She loves the size, specifically that it includes the number pad. Not enough decent keyboards do these days. People want minimalism in everything, but the functionality of a dedicated number pad is hard to beat.

Connecting is super easy. We’re using the hardwired USB-C option, but I was able to use Bluetooth on my laptop at work while I was testing and installing the other keycaps prior to giving this as a birthday gift. She loves that it’s such a lightweight feel of typing, even noticeably so to someone without the heavy handed typing of myself, having grown up on IBM and Alps switches which allow for some decent banging.

I’m not a keyboard snob or really a deep enthusiast, but some of my friends and coworkers that care more than I do really loved it as well. It’s a crowd pleaser, and that wonderful little subdued THOK on each tap is soothing as foretold.

This is my first time around with a mechanical keyboard.
That being said, I can’t comment on how this keyboard rates against other similar or more “top of the line” models.

What I can say is that the feel of typing on this keyboard is so lush, I just want to type nonsense, or home economics typing practice mantras or my lifelong manifesto.
The key sound is bright, clicky, but in a throaty kind of way – again, I have nothing to compare this to other than the non-mechanical keyboards I’ve been using for ages. This tool has the feel of an in-between non-mechanical keyboard and an old school typewriter.

The keyboard came with a quick start guide with some easy to remember shortcuts to change the keyboard lighting scenarios – super cute – I AM OBSESSED with that.

At first blush, I think that any charging or firmware updates require this baby to be wired to ones computing machine. Right now, I’ve been using her wirelessly and flawless, just flawless experience.

One thing of note to older typists – the board is much smaller (as in reduced length) than what you may be used to, I am still getting used to having my hands a bit closer together when typing, but soon I will be back to typing uncorrected.

I have this baby and my Logitech mouse connected via Bluetooth – this seems to be the way to go to prevent conflicts between wireless devices – what appears to be behind the weird typing errors so many note here and for similar devices.

This keyboard is a dream to use, and my only true regret about it is that I didn’t get one sooner. This keyboard looks, feels, and sounds unreal so I’ll go over a few more of my favorite points in detail.

* The greywood switches are fantastic. The action is smooth and the actuation force is incredibly low. Having already come from an AP2 with linear red switches I bottomed them out assuming they’d feel the same, but I’m loving them being an even easier press than that. They sound fantastic when you bottom out on this board as well, it’s hard to really appreciate from sample videos. They are indeed very easy to hotswap too as I’ve already accidentally popped them out while pulling keycaps – they’re very easy to remove and set, and I look forward to trying other switch types in the future.

* The key lighting is bright and comes through well on the default switches. The vertical lightbar is a beautiful little addition with a few colorful presets and pops out in a great way.

* The software is very light and capable. It’s very familiar-looking coming from using stuff like Obinskit for the Anne Pro 2, but it’s a little rougher around the edges as you do modifications to your lighting and bindings on a low-resolution mockup of the board. It’s hard to see what has been set when doing so, but it gets things done.

* The keycaps themselves are beautiful and feel solid but my only con is that they have no shine-through at all. In a dark room you’ll be pressed to see your keys and having the board backlight on actually only makes that harder. For this, I transplanted my AP2 alphanumeric keys with shine-through letters onto the F99 and it works like a charm. I like the rest of the board so much and it can be rectified easily so I won’t even knock a star for it, but be aware of this if you’re used to your other boards having more visible letters. Not having that certainly came as a surprise to me.

After all, I heartily recommend the F99 for making it feel exciting again to have a keyboard hobby again!