Tesoro Excalibur

The Tesoro Excalibur is i of the most affordable keyboards to offer backlighting in our roundup. That said for the nigh office the Excalibur is quite a basic keyboard which has no doubt helped Tesoro go along costs at a minimum.

Where Tesoro has likely saved the most money is on the switches, similar Tt eSports they are using the Kailh switches rather than the 18-carat article. However, unlike Tt eSports, Tesoro is forthcoming about their choice in switches. They clearly country that Kailh switches are being used on their website, so a large thumbs up for that.

Interestingly, Tesoro claims a lx million keystrokes lifespan for the switches and presumably the keycaps too. Tt eSports only claims l million keystrokes for the aforementioned switches, so there is a discrepancy here, though it doesn't actually matter given that Tesoro only provides a express one-year warranty, while Tt eSports will look after you for five years.

Equally we mentioned, the Excalibur is a basic keyboard and could really be passed off as an office keyboard as well every bit a gaming keyboard. There aren't any dedicated macro keys, though that isn't a big deal as the keyboard is fully programmable and users tin can store upwardly to five profiles.

There aren't any dedicated media keys either and like most of the cheaper keyboards in our roundup the media-keys are shared with the F-keys. The Excalibur comes with a rather short i.5m cable and there isn't any connectivity on the keyboard itself, and so no USB or sound passthrough.

Of grade my biggest gripe with this keyboard is the lack of a wrist rest, I hateful come on guys this is still a $100 keyboard. The simply Tesoro keyboard to include a wrist remainder is the Durandal and although information technology costs a lot more at $130, the added features and more interesting design brand it the better keyboard in our opinion.

The highlight of the Excalibur is the bluish backlighting, a nice feature to take at the $75 price signal.

If blue lighting doesn't get you all excited so the RGB version chosen Excalibur Spectrum can exist had for just $100.

Tesoro'southward Excalibur software is quite skilful despite the fact that at that place isn't whatsoever documentation provided, thankfully it's very intuitive. The software has to exist downloaded from the support section at Tesoro website and it weighs in at just 35.4MB.

The Tesoro Excalibur is a solid keyboard that feels dainty to use providing you bring a third political party wrist rest. Without the wrist residue I found it difficult to type with the Excalibur and my easily drawn much faster than they should have. Other than the RGB lighting and fully programmable keys, at that place isn't much going on here.

At the very to the lowest degree some dedicated macro keys would take helped the Excalibur feel a little more gaming-orientated. Although it is ane of the most, if not the most affordable backlit mechanical keyboards at $75, the characteristic set is lackluster.