Long Term Review of NuPhy Air Keyboards

I have been using the same two NuPhy keyboards for almost two years, and I’ve also been wanting to write something about them for quite some time. Why not just do it?

Back in 2022, I wanted to replace my higher profile Ducky One 2 Mini keyboard by something with a lighter and lower profile. Back then, I was also working at a coworking space, and I had noticed the switches I had on that keyboard were a tiny bit too loud.

I think the main reasons at the time were that a lower profile keyboard would be a bit more comfortable to type on that the Ducky One 2 Mini, especially without a wrist rest, which I do have now anyways.

So after quite a lot of research, I ended up purchasing the NuPhy Air75 with Gateron Red switches, as well as their own wrist rest. This is a reasonably low profile and low sized keyboard. It doesn’t have a keypad and I thought it was nice looking and comfortable to type on. I still do.

A few months later, I decided to buy one of these to replace whatever we had in our home desk office. I don’t remember exactly what we had there, but maybe it was just an Apple Magic Keyboard.

So after a bit of research, I ended up purchasing the Air96 also with red switches. The difference here is that this one includes the numpad. Not because I wanted, but Chris works quite frequently from home and he uses the numpad quite often in comparison to me.

Some months later I ended up buying a fancy cable from CableMod for the keyboard at home, to match the aesthetics. Not very important, but it looks good with the keyboard and the rest of the desk.

A fun thing about both of these keyboards is that they work with bluetooth, but I almost never use them wireless. Sometimes I realize they are wireless and think: “oh, wow, I’ve never noticed this”, even though I know back there in my mind that I knew it very well.

I have a reason to do it at home, though: everything is connected to a dock, which is then just connected with whatever laptop is being used at the moment. And it works.

Anyways, it’s been almost two years since I have both of these keyboards and they still work well and I never had problems with them. In my opinion, they look great and are comfortable to type on. From all the keyboards I have owned before, these are my favorite ones. So I’ll give them a solid 4.5 out of 5.