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Today, we’re taking a look at the MageGee MKBox mechanical keyboard! This compact 60% keyboard features clicky blue switches, customizable LED backlighting, and a wired USB-C connection—perfect for budget-conscious gamers and typists who love that tactile feedback.
🔹 Compact & Portable – 68-key layout saves desk space. 🔹 Clicky Blue Switches – Loud, tactile, and satisfying. 🔹 Customizable LED Backlighting – Multiple lighting modes and effects. 🔹 Wired USB-C Connection – No Bluetooth, but reliable performance. 🔹 Budget-Friendly – Great entry-level mechanical keyboard!
⚠️ Note: This is a wired keyboard—if you need a USB-C connection, you’ll need an adapter. The space bar is a bit clunky, but overall, the keyboard feels solid for its price.
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Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO9pzzHXUU
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Hey all, today we’re looking at this MageGee MKBox mechanical keyboard. Let’s open it up — flip it over, pull the tab, and just like that. Inside we have some replacement caps in a different colour (we’ll look at those later), a manual, and the keyboard itself — ooh, that’s nice and clicky. We get a USB-C to Type-A cable, which is required because this is not a Bluetooth keyboard — it’s a wired keyboard. There’s also one of those little tools to remove keycaps. That’s everything in the box.
Here’s everything laid out again: remover tool, extra keycaps, the USB cable, and the keyboard. Just a note — this is USB Type-A, so if you want to use it with a Type-C port you’ll need an adapter, which I’ll need to attach. Let’s plug it in and see how it glows. We just plug it into my computer — the USB-C port is located on the back of the keyboard, you just plug it in like that and now it’s powered on.
I’ll dim the lights down so we can see the LEDs glowing better. The camera isn’t quite capturing it right — there’s a bit of flicker on camera but it’s not doing that in real life. Let’s rotate through the different backlight patterns. This is the default one, then Function+Insert and we end up in a breathing one — we can change the speed with the arrow keys, slow it down so it pulses really slowly, or speed it up. We can cycle through the patterns one by one.
In this pattern the keys turn off when you push them. This one just cycles. Another cycle, another cycle. In this one, keys light up like a ripple when you push them — if you push a line it ripples in that direction. This one lights up each key individually; I actually quite like this one, it’s kind of like ghosting, although people can see exactly what you type. Same idea, just ripples. A pattern. A bit of a wave going through each one. This one is colourful. This one’s like a sine wave. And then back to what I think is the basic one.
Let’s talk build quality. Overall it feels pretty sturdy, but it’s not made of metal or anything — this is all plastic. That’s to be expected; this is an entry-level keyboard, and for the money it feels perfectly fine. It’s enjoyable to type on, but it is quite loud — I’m not sure I would bring this to the office. The keys feel nice to push; when you push one it does a nice tactile thing that’s very satisfying. It’s quite small too, so it would be easy to take with you somewhere. But again, I’m not sure I’d bring it to work — I’d drive my coworkers crazy with the noise. That’s not the keyboard’s fault, that’s just what blue switches are — they’re clicky. If you like clicky keys, you’ll like this one. Let’s remove a cap and take a look underneath. There we can see the blue switch with the LED peeking through.
Here are my final thoughts on the MageGee MKBox mechanical keyboard. Overall, for the price, it’s not bad. It doesn’t feel premium and it’s quite lightweight, but it still feels nice to type on. If I was a gamer on a budget I’d be perfectly happy with this — just keep in mind the noise of the keys. If you’re getting this for a kid, that might drive you up a wall; you might want to look at some of the other switches MageGee sells. This is a perfectly fine, economical mechanical keyboard and I think any entry-level gamer would be happy with something like this. The space bar is a bit clunky — not a deal-breaker, but less satisfying than the rest of the keys. Thanks again for watching, and as always there’s a link in the description if you’re interested in picking one up for yourself. I’ll see you in the next one.