Mechanical keyboards from major brands can be feature-packed, but sometimes suffer from concessions like plastic parts or subpar switches, even ones paired with a sky-high asking price. Smaller brands can often be more precise with how their premium keyboards are built, but you may run into unnecessarily boutique features like unconventional layouts or even higher asking prices. So, not everything makes it into consideration for the best gaming keyboard. With its Crush 80 Reboot Pro, however, keyboard maker Wobkey once again strikes a great balance that accounts for all the aforementioned concerns.
The Wobkey Crush 80 Reboot Pro Keyboard not only offers what are arguably the most essential premium features, but also does so at a very competitive price point. With its straightforward design, choice of colorways, great mechanical switches, and a surprisingly heavy weighted base, this keyboard should delight any PC gamer or serious typist.
Wobkey Crush 80 Reboot Pro Keyboard – Design and Customization
Touted as an evolved version of the Wobkey Rainy 75 Pro I previously reviewed, the Crush 80 Reboot Pro brings over the same type of CNC aluminium body, shiny backweight, robust colorway selection, and PCB compatibility as that highly-rated keyboard, but adds much more. While you can get the Crush 80 Reboot Lite for $10 less than the Pro at retail price, you’d lose out on the Kailh Cocoa switches, RGB lighting, larger 7500mAh battery, FR4 plate, and greater selection of colorways. This makes the Pro version the clear choice between the two.
The Reboot Pro is available in 10 different colorways, including black, yellow, navy, silver, warm silver, red, blue, pink, purple, and yellow. Most of the colorways are fairly tame multi-tone designs, with the top and bottom frames in the chosen color, and the keycaps, and keycap accents, in something complementary. For example, the navy, which is featured in this review, has a navy body and a mix of darker navy, light grey, and white keycaps with white or black lettering.
Regardless of color scheme, the total package is impressive. In the box you get the keyboard, carry case, cloth cover, alternative aluminum positioning plate, IXPE pad, three extra switches, two sets of four additional screws, four gasket dumbbells, an extra pair of rubber feet, two case corner protectors, a keycap/switch puller, 2.4GHz USB-A wireless dongle, USB-C to USB-A charging and data cable, and some paperwork. It’s not uncommon to see boutique manufacturers go above and beyond with what’s in the box, but it’s good to see Wobkey still do this.
What’s unfortunately common is the 2.4GHz and Bluetooth mode switch found under the Caps Lock key, which is always an inconvenience. While I understand why there's no external switch due to the seamless top frame, I'd love for one of these otherwise intelligently-designed keyboards to find a way to make it work. The keyboard can be used wired, via the rear-facing USB-C port, with the 2.4GHz and Bluetooth mode switch in either direction. Up to three devices can be switched between over Bluetooth, giving it some added versatility.
What isn't standard, and a genuinely welcome touch, is that there's finally a storage area for the 2.4GHz USB-A wireless dongle. You just have to remove the magnetic door in the middle of the shiny backweight underneath the keyboard.
The casing features what Wobkey calls a five-second quick release magnetic ball-catch structure for fast disassembly, which helps with hot swapping your choice of parts. Thankfully, even though it's pretty quick to disassemble the mostly toolless design, it's structurally stable. In fact, it's so solidly put together you'd have no trouble using its imposing 5.2-pound weight in a pinch to fend off an intruder and then go right back to typing.
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