"Peripherals" are the products of online games or e-sports that will inevitably develop vigorously when they reach a certain stage. We all know that external devices have no impact on the computing performance, graphics performance, storage performance, etc. of the PC itself. However, with the development of the game, countless players have devoted themselves to competitive games, among which there is no shortage of enthusiastic players for vision, hearing and even touch. Because of this, the mechanical keyboard suitable for game players has developed rapidly in recent years.

This time, we are very lucky to be invited by Lei Feng.com to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the "Colorful T9 Plus One Hand Mechanical Keyboard".

Colorful Technology is an old brand peripheral manufacturer integrating R&D and production. It is believed that players who have contacted domestic e-sports earlier should know this big domestic peripheral manufacturer.

Well, don't talk too much, let's enter the unpacking link:

In general, the T9 Plus package received this time is surprisingly simple, with corrugated paper outer packaging.

(Packing box)

There is no plastic film or foam paper for protection after opening. There is no driver download address or QR code and no instructions.  

(Unpacking drawing)

Of course, I guess it may be because Lei Feng's staff took it away during the delivery inspection. But the most surprising thing is that this one handed mechanical keyboard has no key puller! Generally speaking, large manufacturers with a little experience in keyboard manufacturing should attach a simple key puller, which is usually plastic or metal. This time, I didn't see the attached key puller in the colorful T9 plus. It has to be said that the attached key puller is very helpful for players who have not used a mechanical keyboard and want to change their own personalized keycaps. I hope Colorful can strengthen the packaging and supporting gadgets in the future package.

The overall interface of the keyboard is simple and generous. I marked the position of the 28 key green axis with a yellow line and added a silver special shaped space bar marked with a red line. Generally speaking, the keyboard design is good, and the palmrest fits the palm well.

It should be mentioned here that the antiskid palm rest is honeycomb rubber. This time, T9 plus did not send a dust-proof bag or keyboard bag. Although this honeycomb mesh palm rest has a very good antiskid effect, it is very easy to enter dust and dirt, and it is difficult to clean. It is also hoped that T9 Plus will add a simple dust-proof bag in the future packaging to facilitate the storage of the keyboard.

Next, let's look at the keyboard wire.

(Power cable)

Good wire material is an important guarantee for the keyboard output signal to be transmitted to the PC. This time, T9 plus uses the six core copper wire plus the cable with gold-plated braided magnetic ring, which is used in traditional medium and high specification mechanical keyboards. The advantages of such cables need not be mentioned. They are stable, wear-resistant, antifreeze, anti-aging, etc. In addition, as shown in the figure, many friends may not know what the cylindrical head on the keyboard cable is. Here's an explanation. Because the E-sports equipment has very high requirements for the output model, simple interference may cause relatively large output errors, so the general game peripherals will add such an anti-interference magnetic ring to the whole machine to ensure the stability of signal input and output.

On the whole, the wire specifications of the colorful T9 plus can definitely reach the middle and high grade mechanical keyboard.

Then enter the formal game experience and full keyboard RGB dazzle experience.

The PC platform I used for this evaluation is Alienware Alpha. It is also a game computer with RGB full-color backlight as its selling point. I believe it can form a more dazzling effect with the glare of T9 Plus.

(Preview of overall effect)

After downloading the driver of T9 Plus on the official website, you can set a preliminary RGB backlight for T9. There are three preset modes, but I'm sorry that the backlight has not been activated successfully through these three preset modes. I don't know whether WIN10 is incompatible with the keyboard driver. I also hope Colorful will improve this bug in the next driver update. So I downloaded the official website manual and checked the manual method of backlight setting. It is very convenient to achieve the preset effect for the combination of various ESC+keys. In addition, the backlight color and flicker of each key can be set separately. As shown in the figure, I set WASD to color, thus activating the backlight through physical methods and starting a wonderful journey of use.

(T9 drive setting interface)

(feel map, experience a good fit)

Here again, the fit of the palm is really very good. The space bar is comfortable and easy to touch. Since the single key position of the space is the red axis, the paragraph feeling of the red axis is not obvious and belongs to the soft hand feeling. I think this design is based on the fact that it does not take much effort to hit the space with the thumb, thus improving the comfort. The other 28 keys are Kaihua Green Axis, which is a common design in the medium and advanced mechanical keyboards. The sense of paragraphs is very strong, and the sound of clicking is also the strongest every time. We know that the best technology for making Qingdao Axis is Cherry's. Cherry, of course, doesn't need to be introduced. Everyone has heard everything. As for this Kaihua, maybe friends who play peripherals have heard of it, but I believe that a large number of players are unfamiliar. Here's an introduction. Kaihua is an old brand domestic keyboard shaft manufacturer. In recent years, with the continuous entry of international famous mechanical keyboards into China, Kaihua has made the greatest progress and is also the main manufacturer of green shafts in China. In fact, there are two versions of T9 plus on sale this time, one is the Cherry shaft with monochrome backlight, and the other is the Kaihua shaft with full-color backlight in this evaluation. After this trial, I think that Kaihua's technology as a manufacturer of domestic mechanical keyboard shaft body is very mature, and it is completely indistinguishable from Cherry.

Let's enjoy Kaihua's green axis:

I'm very sorry that after all the key caps were removed with the key puller, there was some dust inside the keyboard, but fortunately it was very easy to clean up. This is very commendable for some friends who pay attention to hygiene and Virgo. On the whole, the Kaihua green shaft has a certain level of manufacturing technology. The shaft body is clear and the plastic material is more exquisite, No corner or residue made of plastic abrasive tools.

Look again at the key cap:

(From the front, the key cap is very clean and refreshing)

The back of the key cap is fixed by the cross alignment adopted by the common mechanical keyboard key cap. The key cap material is light. If a friend like me wants to replace a metal key cap, the feel will change to a certain extent. Please take it into consideration. If you insist on replacing a metal key cap, a treasure can purchase a Cherry green shaft standard size key cap.

Attached are three RGB preset backlight effects that I think are very good:

Emit color light around the click button

Chromatographic streamer

Click Position Flash

this There are two main games in this evaluation. One is the League of Heroes, also known as LOL, whose keys are customized by T9 plus. The other one is Blizzard's new masterpiece, Watch Pioneer.

Let's talk about LOL first. The traditional QWER skill keys have been highly integrated. This is not surprising. What is remarkable is that this time, the two keys PB (P in LOL is for opening a store, B is for going back to the city) have replaced the T and G keys on the right side of the keyboard. It is worthy of being a one handed keyboard customized for LOL. Almost no more keys need to be customized to cover all commonly used keys. In addition, it is remarkable that the CAPS capital lock, which is useless in the traditional full keyboard, has been removed. This key position is generally useless in the game, so it is simply removed in the one handed keyboard to avoid misoperation, and SHIFT is moved up one row. This trait also means that if you are used to the full keyboard operation, it may take some time to get familiar with this one handed keyboard without CAPS key. Once you get familiar with it, you will be very happy.

Personally, I am not a senior LOL player, but I prefer Blizzard's Watch Pioneer. This game has been favored by countless players since its official launch. Of course, many players go for their farts (are there really such players?), and it has also become the most frequently played game besides Hearthstone after lunch. What about the support of this T9 Plus for FPS games like Watch? The first thing I did when I entered the game was to find that the WASD of the pit father could not move! After checking the instructions, we learned that the original WASD mode is up, down, left and right by default. You need to press ESC+B to switch to WASD mode. In addition, you cannot switch heroes without H, so you need to enter the settings and change the B key to H key to switch heroes. There is also spray painting. Although it is useless, it is now the era of national voice. The reason why spray painting is retained is simply because it is cool. The default key for painting is T, which is not available on T9. You need to change a key yourself. In addition, there are SHIFT positions, SHIFT positions and SHIFT positions. The important thing is to say three times that it will take some time to get used to the Shift key. Because of the preference for Green Axis, it is still very cool to play FPS with this keyboard in general.

In conclusion, compared with the full key keyboard, the colorful T9 Plus has increased portability and game targeting to a certain extent, and as described above, the support for LOL by this keyboard has also become perfect. T9 plus is aimed at notebook players and players who have requirements for glare. It is not too much to call it LOL artifact. If we pay more attention to the details mentioned above, it will be more perfect.

In my gold WASD, I also come here to play. Although there are some leaks, it's cool in gold!

That's the end of this evaluation. The author believes that the hand comfort of mechanical keyboards is hard to be directly reflected by pure words. If you want to try, you are welcome to buy physical keyboards. After all, hearing is believing, seeing is believing. I wish our domestic peripheral brands can go global, and made in China can also be recognized by e-sports players all over the world!