Opening the box, the GMMK doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary.
Underneath are rubber feet, with fold-out plastic to raise the surface a few degrees.
Seriously, this branding is insufferable.
But there’s no accounting for taste, so I won’t even try.
It’s a keyboard, it does what keyboards do.
Those who love their keyboards to light up will find plenty of options on the GMMK.
Function keys allow you to switch between six different patterns and select either full RGB lighting or individual colors.
you’re free to even change whether the patterns flow to the left or right.
If you want even more, it’s available in the Windows software.
(Not available on any other platform—kind of a bummer.)
It’s a nice addition that’s not always a given.
I’m happy to report that it works.
), plus a bunch of random ones I had sitting around.
), they all worked just fine.
That’s more than I could say for Redragon.
The standard tenkeyless layout makes the GMMK compatible with alternate keycap sets.
So it works, and it lets you use (almost) any MX-compatible switch.
The software is a little on the basic side, and I wish it used USB-C instead of MicroUSB.
But those two sentences are really the only bad things I can say about it.
The keyboard is flexible, high-quality, and hits all of the notes that it’s trying to.
And even that awful branding is mostly invisible if you want it to be.
