Kensington Pro Fit Ergo KB675 EQ TKL Rechargeable Keyboard Review

We type a lot here at PCMag, so we’re always on the lookout for the latest ergonomic keyboard technology to ease our wrist pain. Kensington’s Pro Fit Ergo KB675 EQ TKL is an affordable ($69.99) wireless keyboard with a built-in wrist rest and a wave pattern that moves your hands into a more comfortable position. It’s a pretty good solution, but a few quirks keep it from replacing the Logitech Wave Keys, our current Editors’ Choice award-winner for budget ergonomic keyboards.

Design: A comfortable but big wave

The Pro Fit Ergo is a tenkeyless (TKL) keyboard, meaning it has a numeric keypad to the right of the full-size keyboard and is a favorite of spreadsheet jockeys. A TKL usually saves desk space, a benefit that many PC gamers appreciate as they lug their mice around. The Kensington doesn’t deliver on that score, though, as it measures 1.4 by 14.8 by 8.7 inches (HWD), giving it a much larger footprint than something like the NZXT Function 2 Mini TKL (1.5 by 13 by 4.8 inches). Of course, the split key layout requires a certain amount of extra width.

Considering its low price, you won’t be surprised to learn that the KB675 EQ TKL is a rubber-membrane keyboard with thinner keys than a mechanical keyboard. It’s fairly light at 1.32 pounds, though its size and shape aren’t ideal for carrying in a briefcase or backpack.

A fair bit of the Pro Fit Ergo’s size is in its wrist rest, which spans the entirety of the keyboard’s width and adds about 3.6 inches to its depth. While it loses some points for bulk, we can’t make any deductions for its comfort; After an afternoon of typing, resting our wrists on the padded surface made for a sweet rest before getting back to work. It would have been better if it was removable, but it wasn’t a huge annoyance.

The wrist rest isn’t the only feature that makes this an ergonomic keyboard, as the keys are positioned for more comfortable typing. The two halves are divided by a middle section equipped with three LEDs: one for Bluetooth connection indicator, one for caps lock and one for showing battery level (green for full, red for almost empty, flashing green for charging).

Like the Logitech Ergo K860, the split design forces you to place your hands a little further apart than a standard keyboard, helping to reduce wrist and hand stress. Also, like other split keyboards, the keys are slightly different sizes (especially the G, T, Y, 7, H, and N keys) to make it easier for your fingertips to reach.

While the Pro Fit Ergo lacks a numeric keypad, it does offer some much-appreciated additional keys. Some of the more useful ones include a set of video conferencing keys for apps like Zoom or Google Meet, hang-up and microphone mute buttons, a screen-share button for presentations, and a key to disable your webcam. There is a dedicated screen-capture key and a key to launch the Windows calculator.

We connected the Kensington to our PC using the supplied USB dongle for 2.4GHz wireless connectivity. Below the on/off switch is a small cutout to store the dongle under the keyboard. The Pro Fit Ergo also has Bluetooth connectivity, which is enabled by default by turning on the keyboard. Angled feet at the bottom provide an optional typing tilt.

Since this is a wireless keyboard, we knew we’d likely be charging an internal battery via the bundled USB-C cable. Kensington rates the KB675 for about two and a half months between charges, which seems outrageous—Logitech rates the Wave Keys for 36 months. Unfortunately, the keyboard has no wired mode to work with just a USB cable, even when we tried our own cable, which we knew could transfer both data and power.

Verdict: An effective, but merely average, Ergo effort

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the Kensington Pro Fit Ergo KB675 EQ TKL Rechargeable Keyboard except for the name. We always appreciate a padded wrist rest, and the split design helped limit stress on our hands. And we’ve found some good use of the meeting buttons during video calls, even if they don’t save time over keyboard shortcuts we’ve already memorized. But the keyboard’s build quality feels a bit cheap, and it takes up a lot of desk space for a TKL keyboard. Ultimately, the Kensington is worth considering, but it falls short of our current pick, the $59.99 Logitech Wave Keys.