The Corsair Galleon 100 SD is a very good keyboard and a very good Stream Deck. But you could also buy a very good keyboard and a very good Stream Deck for about the same price.
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If you weren't sold on the idea of a virtual Stream Deck built into Corsair's Scimitar Elite SE Wireless mouse , what about a physical Stream Deck built into Corsair's latest keyboard? Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard is a premium mechanical wired keyboard with a built-in Stream Deck. Instead of a numberpad, you get two programmable dials, a (non-touch) screen, and 12 customizable LCD keys. It's not a bad idea — Stream Decks are like macropads on steroids, and what dedicated macro user doesn't want hyper-customizable macro keys built into their keyboard?
Of course, this functionality doesn't come cheap. The Corsair Galleon 100 SD will set you back $350 (that's more than the Asus ROG Azoth X ), which isn't too surprising considering Stream Decks cost anywhere from $60 - $250 (not counting the studio version). But the best gaming keyboards start at just over $100, so the Galleon 100 SD needs to be both an excellent gaming keyboard and an excellent Stream Deck to be worth that price tag.
Design and Construction of the Galleon 100 SD
The Galleon 100 SD is a mechanical gaming keyboard with what is technically a TKL layout — alphanumeric keys, function keys, arrow keys, and a full 3 x 3 navigation cluster, and no 10-key numberpad. However, it does have a built-in Stream Deck where the numberpad would normally go. And the Stream Deck does have 12 keys, a screen, and two programmable knobs, and can technically function as a numberpad. So it's... sort of a full-size keyboard? Corsair is calling it full-size, but since I need both my numberpad and my Stream Deck for some things, I beg to differ.
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The Galleon 100 SD is a pretty good-looking keyboard, all things considered. It's definitely a gaming keyboard — it's got bright, per-key RGB lighting (that comes with an obnoxiously flashy default setting... and I love flashy RGB, so that's saying something) and a Corsair-branded lightstrip across the top, plus the built-in Stream Deck; it definitely looks like a gaming keyboard, but a premium one. It features an aluminum top case over a plastic bottom case, and the aluminum is finished in a smooth, sparkly matte black with beveled edges and the keyboard's name printed in tastefully small letters along the bottom of the left edge.
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The right side of the board is where you'll find the built-in Stream Deck, which consists of two programmable knobs, a 2.5 x 1.25 inch (63.5 x 31.75mm) color screen, and 12 LCD keys arranged in a 3 x 4 grid. I know Corsair says that this keyboard has a 5-inch (127 mm) diagonal screen, and it technically does — the LCD keys are laid over the screen (that's why they're LCD keys). However, the part that functions as a screen only measures approximately 2.75 inches (70 mm) diagonally.
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