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- The Aula F87 Pro is a super underrated and overlooked TKL budget keyboard, although it has premium features to offer at an affordable price.
- It comes in eight different colour ways, with a 4000mAh or 8000mAh battery option, as well as north-facing and south-facing RGB options.
- It sounds extremely creamy with the Leobog Greywood V4 linear switches, but there are options to get 4 more switches of your choice.
When it comes to keyboards from Aula, the Aula F75 is highly appreciated because of how well it is for a budget keyboard, but at the same time, it has become overhyped. It’s the TKL version; the Aula F87 Pro is often overlooked, and it is so underrated that you should get it instead. Let me explain why.
One Of The Best Budget TKLs out There
Unlike the Aula F75, which only comes in 4 colour themes, the Aula F87 Pro goes up a notch and offers not five, not six, but eight different colour schemes. Although it is a good thing to have multiple colours but it makes it a bit confusing to choose one colourway because usually people tend to like more than one.
Color-Way & Switches
Alongside the multiple colour options, this keyboard also comes with multiple switch options. These switches are: Nimbus Switch V3, Grey Wood, Grey Wood Switch V4, Leobog Space Crystal, and Reaper Switch.
I wish they had a tactile switch option because having a five-linear switch option is kind of pointless in my opinion. The Aula F87 Pro is a TKL layout, as the name suggests. It’s a gasket-mounted keyboard, which gives it a nice bouncy feel.
General Spec
The keyboard is fully hot swappable with both 5-pin and 3-pin switches. The spacing between the keys is very comfortable to type on. I find it weird to type on keyboards with overly squeezed keys, and there’s such a problem with the Aula F87 Pro.
The PCB is flex cut, which gives it a nice, sturdy feel when it comes to typing. The keyboard is advertised to have a 3mm response time. The keyboard features tri-mode connectivity just like other Bluetooth keyboards.
Battery & Keycaps
It comes with either a 4000mAh or an 8000mAh battery, which is a lot of juice for a keyboard. Without the RGB, you can easily go over two weeks with a single charge.
The double-shot PBT keycaps have a decent font where the colours are sharp and vivid. For me, keyboard font matters a lot because I’ve seen keyboards (such as the Corsair Mk2) with absurdly huge fonts which look downright ugly.
Aesthetics
Aesthetically, I prefer the north-facing RGB implementation more than the south-facing one, just because the RGB doesn’t leak down, and it looks premium. Regardless, in my opinion, the different colored non-shine-through keycaps make the keyboard look good without the need for RGB.
Moreover, the RGB on the side is pretty decent-looking, and it boosts the aesthetics when it glows uniformly. However, I’m not a big fan of the RGB strip present just above the arrow keys, as it is distractive for me.
Bear in mind, the version with normal printed letters has a non-shine-through keycap, which means the letters won’t glow in the dark. The north-facing RGB only affects around the keycaps.
But don’t worry if that’s not your thing, there is a version with side-printed shine-through keycaps, which has south-facing RGB. So, you get the best of both worlds. While the north-facing RGB on the non-shine-through keycap version looks good, it might interfere if you were to replace it with other switches.
Connectivity & Ports
The wired connectivity option is located on the top right side instead of the left side. I’d love it if it had been on the left side since I’m used to the Razer Huntman, which goes to show how it was ahead of its time.
The Bluetooth connectivity button is located at the top, which is convenient compared to some other keyboard brands, which put it under the space bar or even under the caps lock, which becomes a hassle to navigate.
Creamy Sound
Now comes the best part, the sound. The variant I’m talking about has the Leobog Greywood V4 linear switches. Compared to other switches of the same tier, these switches come in the same category as the Reaper switches, with smooth, creamy typing and consistent feel across the board.
The bottom-out is nice and smooth, but it does sound a little nicer on the Reaper switches. The stock stabilisers are very good, and this is one of the best things about Aula keyboards. They sound nice, are very consistent, and don’t have that rattle or ticking, which makes a keyboard feel cheap. And they don’t have any stickiness either.
Verdict
With all of these premium features, this keyboard still comes in a budget category, but it is still overlooked. Although keep in mind, Aula F87 Pro, or F87 Wireless, or simply F87 are all the same, but with different names on different websites.
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