Vava’s mechanical gaming keyboard is affordable and ergonomic

Mechanical keyboards are flooding the market now that the PC gaming audience has shown it’s willing to spend the money for higher-quality peripherals. This has also created an opportunity for mechanical switch manufacturers beyond the go-to Germany company Cherry. One of those competitors is Kailh, which provided the switches in the new keyboard from Vava and enabled that company to sell a quality device at a low price.

The Vava Chroma Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is available now for $80. It features Kailh’s blue switches, which are equivalent to the tactical, noisy feedback of the Cherry MX blues. They are also the switches that served as the basis for the Razer switches in the Blackwidow keyboard in 2014.. But the keyboard is about $20-to-$40 less expensive than many of the devices featuring Cherry switches — even though you’re getting a similar typing experience.