It’s a premium keyboard that looks great on any desk!
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It features a beautiful design and so many features, all for $129.
The keys are slightly domed, offering a comfortable typing experience.
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The typing experience itself is also very good, with a chiclet-style typing experience that provides soft-yet-tactile feedback.
The keys feature scissor switches and have key travel of 2mm.
The keyboard is also equipped with a backlight, which isn’t very common on wireless keyboards.
The keyboard looks so lush.
The backlight gets plenty bright, with four different brightness levels to choose from.
Great for saving battery life.
I also like how the keyboard provides you with different ways of connecting to your devices.
You can plug in via USB-C, or use wirelessly via Bluetooth 5.0 or 2.4GHz dongle.
This can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store, and takes no time to set up at all.
There are 20(!)
different keys on the keyboard that you’re able to customize.
The HP Accessory Center app is what you will use to customize the keyboard.
I also don’t like how, by default, the keyboard doesn’t include a print screen button.
Shockingly, you cannot change the behavior of these buttons to something else.
They are stuck being for emoji’s and voice dictation, for some reason.
These keys cannot be customized.
Lastly, this is a real nitpick, but the backlight fading animation is quite janky.
Instead of smoothly fading in and out, it steps up and down in brightness quite significantly.
HP 970 Programmable Wireless Keyboard: Should you buy it?
The keyboard include a full-sized number pad.
You should buy this if…
You should not buy this if…
I think the HP 970 Programmable Wireless Keyboard is one of the better keyboards from HP.
It’s incredibly customizable, looks great on pretty much any desk, and has a top-tier typing experience.
