Rosewill RK-9000, in ISO!

[Calade]

I believe what I have here is one of the first Rosewill RK-9000s in the ISO layout. A Finnish store ordered a bunch of these straight from Rosewill, and at least I couldn't find them from anywhere else in Europe (correct me if I'm wrong).



It has red switches and I'm loving it! Had a G15 for ages and this is my first mechanical keyboard. Especially good for typing, and for gaming too once you get used to the feel.

[bounce]

How much did u pay for it and is it available with blues aswell?

[Calade]

It's 95€ from silentrig.com, and they have it in all the four main switch types. Unfortunately I don't think they ship outside Finland.

However, I'll soon be founding my own online store for keyboards and other computer stuff, and will most likely be stocking these along with some other very sought-after stuff. It'll hopefully have the company founded and the site set up in about a month from now, but in the meantime I can also act as a proxy for SilentRig if someone can't wait.

[bounce]

damn thats too expensive for me

[fossala]

damn thats too expensive for me

Sounds cheap to me.

[tlt]

Is there something special with this one or is it like a steel series or qpad? There seems to be many Cherry based, standard form factor, black keyboards available now days. Feels like you could just go for the cheapest one with the switches you like.

[IvanIvanovich]

Basically Rosewill is a Filco with a different brand name made at same factory. It has the same everything as Filco except the cable is detachable and it costs much less.

[tlt]

That sounds good. I have got a Filco and a Qpad (that I used as a donor board) and the Filco is defensively of higher quality. So now you can get a Rosewill, CM Storm, WASD, Filco or Das keyboard if you want a board made by Costar. Looks like the wiki needs to be updated.

[Calade]

Yea, Rosewill is a funny company. On top of keyboards, they're having all these different products like cases and power supplies and stuff made. Everything is cheap in comparison to many competitors, but also high-quality.

Although I have heard that the detachable cable plug has broken for a lot of people in the RK-9000. I haven't personally tried how strong the connection is since I can't be bothered with all the RMA trouble just for the sake of finding out, but at least there's a nice 3-year warranty on these RK-9000s. Should work fine for me since I don't have to disconnect and reconnect the cable that often. I think it's also nice in comparison to having just one cable, since the keyboard comes with a separate USB and PS2 cable. No need for any adapters.

[nullstring]

Yea, Rosewill is a funny company. On top of keyboards, they're having all these different products like cases and power supplies and stuff made. Everything is cheap in comparison to many competitors, but also high-quality.

Although I have heard that the detachable cable plug has broken for a lot of people in the RK-9000. I haven't personally tried how strong the connection is since I can't be bothered with all the RMA trouble just for the sake of finding out, but at least there's a nice 3-year warranty on these RK-9000s. Should work fine for me since I don't have to disconnect and reconnect the cable that often. I think it's also nice in comparison to having just one cable, since the keyboard comes with a separate USB and PS2 cable. No need for any adapters.

They aren't really a funny company when you think about it.. They are the newegg store brand.
Do you guys have storebrands?

They are similar to the walmart storeband, although a bit less obvious.
Both walmart and newegg probably make almost no products. They just contract other companies to make products for them. This means that everything made rosewill branded is likely a cheaper clone of another product.

Therefore, the quality of a rosewill product is highly variable depending on:

• 1. The quality of the manufacture's average product
  2. What cost savings measures were found to be feasible / valuable for rosewill's product.

Rosewill's RK9000 keyboards are exceptional quality.
This is because costar's products are of general exceptional quality.
It was probably cheapest to just have a product that was highly similar to filco's product.

They did cheap out on the detachable cable design... which you notice, is the only main difference between the two products.

[Calade]

Hmm, that's interesting. Of course we have store brands here in Finland, but they sure don't sell their products to other stores outside the chain.

It's not just store brands that don't make their own products, though. Most IT brands don't.