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The packaging for the Cougar 200K is more premium than you would expect for a keyboard that costs less than £30 in most outlets. It has glossy and matt card coatings, along with a large image of the board all lit up and a number of features listed in bold white to make them easier to read.
The rear gives you a little more detail on the layout of the keyboard, including all of its added function keys like the backlight colour changer, the brightness adjusters and the media keys. It also highlights two anti-ghosting zones on the board, which let you press any number of keys within two specific areas without the keyboard failing to register key presses.
For reference, it is the WASD and surrounding area, including space bar, and the up, down, left and right keys which also have WASD printed on them, as their functions can be changed for the left handed gamer – or the Trackmania racer.
The only accessory that comes with this board, is a small leaflet that details some basic features as well as warranty information, which for reference lasts for one year with the manufacturer.
£30 for a glorified membrane keyboard? There’s so many better things I could do with that.
This is the only “gaming” keyboard I have ever seen with a double height return key. Is there a reason the rest don’t have one?
It’s the only gaming scissor switch keyboard with anti ghosting features. If noise and lower key profile is what you’re after you’d be hard pressed to find anything better.
Yes, its not standard in the american keyboard layout. Are you from the UK? You need to look up the various ISO standard layouts. There are some gaming keyboads that come in the UK ISO format.
That it may be, but to me it’s still a glorified membrane keyboard.
I use a mechanical keyboard on a daily basis but I do genuinely enjoy scissor switches, Thinkpad and Avertech keyboards are my golden standard for scissor switches, never mind that nobody will read this as this article is almost 2 years old
I read it 🙂
me too!
Here’s my honest late review of the Cougar 200K @ http://www.thelategamer.com/professional-reviews/hardware/late-keyboard-review-cougar-200k/
I’ve been looking for a good desktop scissor switch keyboard – give me more details on this Avertech.
Avertech used to build laptops, now they are in cloud solutions and stuff like that