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so many boxes today okay what is all this crap

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it's razer's new huntsman mini keyboard from their huntsman line now they have a

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60 keyboard joining the line a 60 keyboard is a small keyboard it has no

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numpad no function row no navigation keys like home and end no arrow keys

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it's just the alphanumerics pretty cool pretty tiny let's look at it but what's

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this other crap i have some extra keycaps we'll get to those in a bit and

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some special boxes i haven't even opened these i can only guess what's inside and

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i can also further guess that this is not available to the public so is it

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even worth unboxing right after this message from our sponsor that we might

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exclusive bonus what's this

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this is uh just a wooden box some kind of metal hinges there's a

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button on the front oh all right

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okay cool it is a keyboard and it's personalized

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how do i get you out of here oh this little pull tab maybe

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it's a ShortCircuit on it that is cool again i'm pretty sure you will not be

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able to get this definitely can't get a ShortCircuit one but here's the keyboard what else we have in this box

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dominate on a different scale ha cute writing our first 60 keyboard available

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in razer clicky or improved linear optical switches improved experiencing

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lightning fast actuation in our most compact form factor yet for gamers by

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gamers razer also comes with

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a bag which undoubtedly holds the usbc

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cable there it is it has a nice razer cable

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tie flexible multiple steps

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usbc on that side usb a on that side and it's white

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matches the keyboard now what do we have in our other wood box

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huh is it a black one huh yes it is okay cool let's see if i

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can do this trick twice oh this one actually just comes out like normal

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this is the clicky one

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black cable black cable tie and even black little what do you call these hats

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condoms wait a second whoa that's sweet there's actually little grooves

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in this channel that correspond to female grooves on the plug

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so that there's no risk of the cable getting yanked in this direction which

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would bend

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bend the end that is just a nice step for longevity

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and durability things that razer has not traditionally been known for so good for

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them for trying to rebuild their brand in that respect here they are

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but that's not really a complete unboxing because that's not the box you guys are gonna get so why don't we just

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rip through here really quickly this is the clicky option in this box which they

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call purple their linears are also called red cherry style

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oh that really hurt this key is too girthy

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andy

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okay inside this much more simple box your keyboard actually comes with

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plastic around it shrink wrap

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and again the black one is clicky now the

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mercury or white color and the black color are each available with either the

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clicky or linear you can mix and match it's just by coincidence that both my

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blacks are clicky look at all these keyboards and we also

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have yeah there's the cable for that one and

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a little bag of books here you've got a great device in your hands

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complete with a two year limited warranty

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serial number oh look at that on the back that's nice it says four gamers by

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gamers over and over again like some kind of bart simpson chalkboard

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punishment that's just cool it's on the bottom it's like when the inside of your

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clothes like the inside of your hood has a nice neat pattern that you don't see that often you get that one's like dress

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shirts sometimes by the cups or in the collar and it's just a nice touch even

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though it's seldom seen there's stands six for six degree and nine degree tilt

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configurations i mean they're both nice i would

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probably go black but it depends on your setup if you have a white case or a white mouse already or your monitor yeah

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they're both nice so

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where to begin how about the feel how about the feel

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now these are a lot quieter than previous huntsman keyboards i understand

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that they actually made an adjustment to the switch

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where they basically underneath that plus sign

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that you see there there's a like column a tube inside of that tube they place

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dampeners they used to have like a this metallic kind of ping that had this

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kind of roll off on it you know when keyboards were like

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they used to have that it's not so bad anymore so the linear switches require 40

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grams of force to actuate and they just bottom out of course because they're

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linear there's no tactile bump or anything in them and these are optical

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switches they say that they're a little bit faster they have fewer mechanical

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moving parts so they should have higher durability be more consistent the issue

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with it though is that these switches could come out you still couldn't pop in

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any other switches other than just i guess maybe the linears like whatever

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that razor provides you know whereas if you just got a normal mechanical

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keyboard there's just myriad switches available

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thousands of them all different types you can really get into it with this you're kind of just married to what you

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get if what you get is good then stay married to it whatever

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these keys are pretty consistent and then on the clicky side

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these sound okay not not the best sound i've ever

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these only take 45 grams of actuation force

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this is still a gaming keyboard you really don't have to press very far i

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feel like i could get my shots off pretty immediately all right so why get a 60 percenter two

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reasons really either aesthetics if you have a really clean setup you want

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everything to be minimal and the second reason to get a 60 is if you are the

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type of person who has a low sensitivity mouse and you're playing shooters and

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you just need a lot of space for your mouse ARM to whip around it can be nice

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to not have that extra stuff on your keyboard so you don't have to reach as

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far you have more desk real estate and you don't get as much shoulder strain

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actually a third reason is portability it's way easier to put a 60 percenter

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into your backpack and go to a lan party or an esports tournament than it is a

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full-size keyboard productivity wise it sucks not having a

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numpad for me it sucks using second functions but razer says you lose no

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functionality on this keyboard because all the second functions are available

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on a secondary layer and you can see where they are by looking at the side

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printed legend on these keys i want to plug this in because i want to see if

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the light shines through there uh and no it looks like the side

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printed legend is just it's just on there to be fair i don't think i've ever

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seen secondary functions be lit up so now you can see the light is shining

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through these other keys and that is because these are double shot injected

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which means that the black area you see here is one layer of plastic and it

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would have had a hole in it for the words and then there's a second layer of

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plastic which is white you can see it therefore you can never scratch that off

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there's no way to scratch this off it's impossible you'll wear through your

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fingers first another thing is that these are pbt plastic and so they're not

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going to get shiny you know when you use a keyboard for a long time and you don't

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wash your hands between eating and gaming what happens is the plastic

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degrades and you get this like shiny look on the most commonly used

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keys that's not gonna happen to these so that's nice i guess it's a good time to talk about

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these other sold separately key caps that we got here

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they're mostly just different colors these are black razor green mercury

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white and quartz pink so if you wanted

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to have a black chassis with white keycaps

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or vice versa or if you wanted to just what i think looks cool just have a

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certain number of them swapped out so you kind of have like a half and half

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look like panda style i think that can look really cool striking

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is this really necessary oh yeah all like little stabilizers and

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oh man they're like vacuum sealed in here it's like their tofu or something

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see the issue with these is that they don't have the side printing for your

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secondary functions i mean i guess that's kind of understandable and for 30

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bucks this is actually a decent value oh and you get a keycap removal tool so wow

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i don't know how well the quartz is gonna go with this black they're kind of

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opposite pallets

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yeah that looks pretty bad i think i should have put it on let's

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try it on the white one yeah this is already so much better

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ah that's nice it's cute

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when you have the colored keycaps like this though i feel like you're a little more limited with what RGB colors you

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can choose because some colors they just don't look great when they're shining through

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and so you might want to just restrict yourself to something that

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looks good with the color like i don't feel like the red going through here looks very

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good so like basically any keyboard you can get it has n key rollover it's got

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anti-ghosting uh it actually despite being at 60

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it has a standard bottom row which is nice sometimes these get kind of screwed

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up and things are moved around this is standard uh it also has a game mode so that your

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Windows key won't come up in games uh there's even media keys on the secondary

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row the one thing that you can't do on board despite being able to have five

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keyboard profiles that you can save on device and despite there being some

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default RGB settings as you saw me cycle through on device there is no ability

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for you to create a new RGB profile and then save that to your device and take

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it somewhere you can make your own custom RGB profile but you have to do

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that in razer's synapse software and then it'll save to your account on

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sydnaps so if i brought this keyboard somewhere else i would have to plug it into that machine get synapse on that

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machine log in and then i could have my profile

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again on this but uh the build quality is pretty nice it's got an aluminum

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faceplate on it here and you know you don't really get that much deck flex

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with these as is so it feels pretty stable it's not as fat as that candy bar

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keyboard i had a little while ago on ShortCircuit and for weight we're

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looking at 430-ish grams which is like that's fine

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it's pretty average in terms of weight i wouldn't call it heavy for its size

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or really too light it's just pretty it's kind of normal pricing wise kind of

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weird 120 dollars for the clicky version making it the

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cheapest in the huntsman lineup however an extra 10

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for the presently unavailable linear version weird that there's a

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price difference i think it's because they just revamped the linear switches from their previous iterations so maybe

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they had to cover some r d cost or something there but 10 bucks difference

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not the cheapest keyboard out there but it's razer so what did you expect it's

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not a groundbreaking device but um it's cool

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you'll probably like it i don't know if they're going to last in the long term we'll have to wait and see

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but you get a 2-year warranty so whatever if you're a fan of razer if you

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want to use your razer chroma lighting effects with all

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your other devices and your supported games and you want a 60 keyboard

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then this is the one to go for so thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you like

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this video you might like our other previous review of the candy bar

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keyboard that came with a cool kind of diy kit and that is a good foot in the

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door for enthusiast keyboards if you want something that's plug and play then

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this is the way to go bye