Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless review

There is a specific audience who’ll be over the moon about this keyboard, and happy to pay the $260/£240 Corsair’s asking for it. The thing is, it really is a specific audience. While some of its best assets can be universally enjoyed, like the creamy-smooth key actuation and Corsair’s trademark construction quality, a lot of what you’re paying premium price for here is useful only in very particular use cases and tastes.

Let’s take the defining spec of the Vanguard Air 99 Wireless, for example: low-profile, optical keys.