i'm still rocking an original Corsair k70 RGB with cherry mx brown switches
from a number of years ago to be clear i love
that thing it performs exactly like the day i got it but lately i've been
considering a new keyboard for a little while because i've been finding myself
doing more gaming and less spreadsheets so i don't really
need the number pad that badly anymore and this one
caught my eye for a few reasons it's 10 keyless which means more room for
mousing a huge consideration for me since the only games i really play are
beat saber which is downstairs on my vr
setup and anno 1800 which is basically
mouse movement simulator what do they make this tape out
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free at the link in the video description now back to this thing that i was
already in the middle of thank you sir
that's better reason number two is lightspeed wireless this is a wireless
keyboard and logitech's lightspeed technology means you get negligible
latency while cleaning up some of the wires that i keep getting attacked about
online do you know how much flack they give me about the wire mess at my desk
it's not fair for the low low price of just 220 or 230 us dollars or whatever i
can take care of that reason number three look how low profile this thing is
like that is a slim
keyboard we've actually got a bunch of messaging bragging about the engineering
of making a keyboard this thin on their website i guess the engineers over at
logitech have never seen a laptop in all seriousness though okay what is
special about this is that it uses mechanical switches these are using what
they call their low profile gl switches
and they're apparently high performance mech switches for gamers with half of
the physical height of typical mechanical switches and while i wasn't a
huge fan of logitech's roamer g initiative i didn't mind them and they
have done so much great peripheral engineering over the last like
really the last five years that i want to give this a chance i i want to give
these a try oh boy that's disappointing it uses a
micro b cable for charging yeah that's a
bummer so they boast long battery life
on this puppy 40 hours with the RGB enabled but like
oh man micro usb's time has officially
ended as far as i'm concerned on anything that cost more than like
20 bucks i understand that the type c connector is more complicated to
implement and it is more expensive but
micro b is just it's too fragile look at
it ew see ew
oh yeah last thing RGB all right let's go ahead and plug in
that i don't want we'll try and plug it right down uh other side toggle there we
go yeah cool thing about lightspeed is i'm already using a g pro wireless i
actually just switched over that recently so you can use a single light
speed dongle to handle both of your peripherals in that case and because i
picked up a power play that means i don't have to have basically any
dongles or cables for my peripherals other than of course
cable for charging oh interesting
that is not working oh there's your problem
it's not switched off all right that is some pretty vibrant
RGB considering this thing is a wireless
keyboard does it stay as vibrant yes all
right that's pretty cool well let's take a quick look at iboo at
this thing so we've got oh lightspeed wireless versus bluetooth wireless cool
this could actually be handy for me because when i'm streaming i don't have a secondary monitor i just have one big
ultra wide on my desk i don't really have anywhere to put another monitor so i actually prop up my phone under my
monitor i have a little stand for it and i use that to monitor twitch chat when
i'm monitoring twitch chat so realistically if i was replying to twitch chat i would probably just say
something okay whatever the point is we're going back to lightspeed wireless we've also got a gaming button which as
far as i know just like disables the start menu although it's with logitech
software i'm sure you can configure it to do other things if you really want to i never really cared about that anyway
we've got brightness adjustment here and then media keys
nice got the volume wheel big fan of the volume wheel guys buttons just not a
replacement for a volume wheel and then of course a 10 keyless layout now
i wasn't really sure about low profile
the low profile experience because the thing is what's funny is if you look at
it from the side it's low profile but at
the bottom edge of it like you still have if you want to rest your wrist on
the table you still have that kind of that angle to your
wrist but what's cool is even though this is a low profile design they've gone and they've
included these feet anyway so you can pop it out and i would
probably go with just the first level of pop out here pop this puppy out
and that actually looks a little better one other thing i noticed on the bottom
here too check this out a little spot for the dongle this gets overlooked so
often by lesser products just like hey yeah got this wireless dongle by the way
you're gonna lose it because we didn't make a place to store it
interesting i'm actually super happy right now
for whatever reason the vast majority of gamer marketing key
switches out there are linear switches which i personally find
spongy and actually like uncomfortable i do not like typing on them i make a ton
of mistakes did this thing just go to sleep it's awake but
i'm not getting any input
a little dirt moment there yeah it wouldn't wake back up until i turn it
off and turn it back on that's not a great first impression let's start with
a typing test because i'm ready to jump right into it i'm
feeling good about this
85 words per minute with five errors on
a keyboard that i am touching for the first time
that is not bad these have a nice subtle
tactile bump in them kind of like a brown switch it's a little heavy like
it's not it's not light like you've definitely got that strong mechanical
feel i actually really like this thing for typing thing is even though i have
been doing a lot more gaming lately i also type a lot at my computer so it's
it's a consideration for me no matter what let's go ahead and fire up a game
shall we apparently the only thing we loaded on this thing is csgo because you
guys just love watching me fail at cs go don't chat i'm surprised more people
don't practice uh cs go with bots you know all the fake accounts on social
media it must feel good to really you know get
back at them right the bots
i completely forgot that i was testing a keyboard and just immediately got into
playing the game which i consider to be an extremely good sign
i can't really see the crosshair from here this is not optimal
oh lordy
oh no there they are oh they're harmless oh i got killed
this is actually quite comfortable
i'd say there's less of a distinct tactile bump compared to a cherry mx
brown but like the travel feels
comparable to a higher profile like full mechanical
keyboard experience okay i am really impressed by how thin it is this is not
your typical laptop keyboard it's kind of heavy too considering its
size like not a lot of flex i i like this
thing oh terrace one that's why i can't take over the uh
wow did my team lose holy bananes that's fine because i'm
getting uh i'm getting it up this time i'm open boys
just gotta run faster with my knife get out there
oh no oh no oh no
oh no oh no
oh no oh no oh i missed
how did i die i really like this thing
i'm gonna give it a shot as a daily driver maybe you guys will see a full review over on the Linus tech tips
channel sometime in the future one thing i would kind of want to look into is
like if there's any way that i could mod it to just run
while continuously charging without a cable like a power play charger doodad
inside it or something like that that that'd be that'd be sick that's the next
level for logitech is they need like a power play desk pad that'll charge both
your keyboard and your mouse while you're while you're gaming so you just don't
have to have any cables on your desk there you go logitech i'm the idea man
here free of charge all you got to do is engineer it so guys you can check out
the link to uh where to buy one of these this is the g915 tkl lightspeed wireless
tactile so that explains what oh that's why they sent two
nope this is also jail tactile they must just know me pretty well uh we're gonna
have that linked in the video description and i don't know subscribe we don't
really have a standard outro over here