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for 30 years Cherry MX key switches have

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rained Supreme in Enthusiast and gaming keyboards but as much as I love

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Neapolitan ice cream I think after eating it for 30 years I might be ready

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to at least try something new and apparently Razer Logitech and steel

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series feel the same way because each of them has released mechanical gaming

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keyboards in the last year based on a new made for gaming key switch by the

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way drop us a like on the video to let us know if you're ready to get your

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so let's get this out of the way now while it was co-developed with kaiwa the

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famous manufacturer of Cherry MX clones

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the qs1 switch in the Apex m800 Bears

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little resemblance to Cherry's MX design and any similarity to the rron and

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Logitech co-developed RoR G seems to be purely coincidental qs1 switches are

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totally different feeling from anything that I've personally used before but

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I'll have to return to that in a bit the Apex m800 has two braided USB plugs for

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extra power a built-in USB 2.0 Hub at the top and interchangeable rubber feet

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on the bottom to change the angle on the desk like the original Apex and Apex raw

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rubber Dome keyboards the m800 features an aggressiv looking industrial design

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with a flatter than usual interactive surface and this goes for both the key

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switches underneath and the key caps especially when you compare to the

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stair-stepped profile and contoured key caps of most mechanical keyboards this

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was done for a couple of reasons number one to slightly reduce the travel time

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between Keys although neither Ed nor I was Elite enough for the reduced

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vertical distance to help in a noticeable way and without help from the

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bump on F or double bump on W it did make it more difficult to determine what

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row of keys you were resting on and number two to reduce fatigue something

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that I personally find a bit easier to buy into since particularly for gaming

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the m800 low stance reduces pressure points for me in spite of it lack of a

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wrist rest with my lazy resting a lot of my weight on the table posture and the

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space bar helps with this hand position as well I still don't like it for typing

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that'll be a common theme for this video and thanks to the very low 45 G

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actuation force of the qs1 switch under it is actually possible to accidentally

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press while resting on it though not nearly as bad as the death outer 2013

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but for gaming spamming space bar and just general use there is a reason that

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2 and 1/2 years after Steel series first introduced this space bar to their

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gaming keyboards this design unlike the

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macro row above the F Keys is still here

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it is better and more comfortable but let's talk macro Keys now the six macro

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buttons to the left are really well spaced so they're Within Reach but far

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enough away that you won't accidentally trigger a console command to change the

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name of every non-clan member in your server to headshot magnet every time you

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want to crouch and no you can't actually do that but you can do almost anything

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else steel series engine 3 might have

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ballooned to the size of a several yearold graphics card driver but damn it

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I guess they've got enough functionality in the thing to justify it there's one

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processor in the keyboard dedicated to just inputs up to 256 of them at a time

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just in case you thought your other dimensional clone might also want to

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press every single key on his m800 at the same time you are and then a

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separate processor to handle lighting effects so the utility of the keyboard

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is never affected by the bling bling and every single key on the keyboard

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including those macro Keys is reprogrammable and can be rebound to a

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keyboard function Mouse click some combination of the two a modifier a

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profile changer so you can switch up everything on the keyboard mid program

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instead of relying on auto profile switching when you launch an application

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which engine 3 supports as well and I didn't think I'd ever hear myself say

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this but steel Series has finally nailed it it's the e easiest customization

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interface I've personally used for a keyboard and they managed to do it

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without hamstringing the functionality good job and it looks like

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they've done a great job with the illumination effects as well with all

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the standard Fair like breathing reactive typing um but also some nice

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little touches like three different modes of selecting which Keys you want

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to configure including a handy little magic wand that intelligently grabs keys

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that are already grouped and some really sick pre-done effects including a Danish

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flag and a Yan cat inspired waving rainbow both of which made me smile

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they've also added Cloud sync to the driver but it's entirely optional so you

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don't even need to create an account you can just exit it when it first comes up

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and I think that's a really nice touch okay so we've beat around the bush

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long enough let's talk qs1 switches like the RoR G's qs1 are not going to be

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compatible with Cherry MX stem key cap so forget about customizing the key caps

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on your keyboard and like RoR G's they have a center mounted RGB LED that

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enables brighter more even lighting effects with less spill and they actuate

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at 1 and 1 12 mm of pressing down up to 25% faster than a Cherry MX but that's

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where the resemblance pretty much ends RoR G's have a very noticeable tactile

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bump while Qs 1's are a linear switch

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but I still think saying that they're like shorter Cherry MX Reds doesn't

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really get the point across they have a strange resistance when you bottom them

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out that feels uh kind of like pushing

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your hand down on a couch cushion like even even even oh yeah there's the you

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know there's the base of the couch um like if you had really thick O-rings on

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a cherry this makes them really quiet which is nice but also a little bit

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mushy feeling so between that and the lack of a tactile bump they are purely

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IMO abominable for typing at least in

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this super flat configuration so I won't be switching from MX Browns anytime soon

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but that doesn't mean that they're bad there's zero dead zone between the

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actuation and reset which is good for gamers and from talking to edzel whose

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skills are a little sharper than my own the Apex m800 felt a little cramped in

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his words but it is so well tuned for FPS gaming that it would beat out the

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g910 and every Cherry keyboard out there

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as as his csgo Board of choice if they

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had taken it one step further and left off the number pad to leave room for

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more natural mousing posture and I guess

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that's the conclusion here unlike many other keyboards that were designed for

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gaming this one really did go all in

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gaming first typing second and it shows

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so well done steel series now let's see a 10 keyless and you really got our

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attention not mine mind you I type on my keyboard but Ed's attention for sure

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speaking of ugly faces or whatever I was talking about your face isn't ugly so

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