welcome back to another ShortCircuit chair unboxing today we're talking about
razer's new anki chair which they're releasing to join the ranks of the isker
that they have people that are watching this video you're probably wondering why another chair why are they doing another
chair well this one is kind of designed for everybody in
mind right this is supposed to be a chair that you can sit in all day and
still be comfortable so that's kind of the market that they're targeting also
they have two variants of this chair the anki and the anki x and the anki x is
actually going to be i believe 299 dollars whereas the anki is 3.99 i
always love these warning labels i need to surf the chair who would do that do
not touch the backrest recline lever while installing or removing the
backrest glad we're reading the instructions here is this for us or just
for everybody that gets these chairs builders gauntlets i got the builders
gauntlets everybody protect your razer gear today get a piece of mind with a
razor protection plan so this chair comes with a three-year warranty and the
instructions are right here this is already looking a lot different than the
isker even at this point bottom
i feel so cool with these gloves man memory foam headrest pillow this one's
shaped a little differently that's a bunch of accessories
i mean one thing about doing all these chair ShortCircuit videos is i'm
starting to get like really good at building chairs this is where the instructions just go out the window i'm
just gonna open it up here oh boy is that razor stickers talks about the
three-year warranty i can't open it with these gauntlets
i will say with the accessories i do like the way that they've kind of laid everything out like everything's right
in front of you as far as i can tell which is cool so like a lot of chairs they've got uh 60 millimeter
pu casters for the bottom of your chair do i take the gloves off i feel like i
can't take the gloves off but it's so hard to open the plastic and lastly
but not leastly chunker i like it we're gonna start by
attaching the base to the back rest of the chair it's exciting stuff this is
content so these screws are just pre-installed just need to take them out
and actually put them on and we'll be good to go this is where i'm taking the
gloves off i can't take the gloves off i'm gonna get a little bit of water from
my favorite lttstore.com water bottle user error
what have i done i think i crossed rid of the screw i'm trying to do all of the
screws at once bad idea i take back everything i said about me being good at
building chairs i do like the included tool pretty standard practice though
there's a lot of chairs that come with these kinds of tools now it's time to put on these covers super easy slot that
in and put the screw in
and these put a little cover on it you're good now we're gonna install the base screws are all pre-and screwed so
we're gonna take them out do not touch the mechanism when tilting i'm glad they have that there to reiterate that hey
there it is so razer's got instructions this goes towards the front that's awesome honestly there's probably a
better way i could do this but i'm just going to use my foot to brace it make sure all the screws are snug so the
whole chair itself is a steel frame construction and then i believe this is
an aluminum base we're just going to put the casters on
hello look i don't know if these things are just difficult to install or if i'm
just weak david there you go expect me to go deeper than
that is that not in i don't know who would have thought the casters would
cause us trouble yeah just put them in at this point we're just gonna put all
the wheels in about the same spot and just hope for the best
all right that feels about right that feels good to me pretty straightforward
boom very standard on these types of chairs
that's a chair now the chair is built all we got to do is just sit in it and
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we sit in this chair brandon the sticker actually this is almost like it was
intended razer if you want to hire me to be a designer i i could apply take it for a ride here
oh yeah not bad there's a few cool things about this chair that i'd like to
point out right now now that i'm sitting in it first off is that it has a wider
seat base than it does for the back here and as you can tell it has this kind of
sloped arch at your shoulder height or what would be your shoulder height if
you're a little bit taller than me there we go or if i sat straight the idea behind this kind of arch and the wider
seat base is it's supposed to kind of centralize your weight so just even your
weight distribution across the entire chair another interesting thing that you
can't see on camera but i'm feeling right now is that the back is definitely
pretty stiff but that's good because i feel like my back is actually being held
and properly supported while the base is actually
relatively comfy like it's cushy you can even see that the base is thicker
because they put more kind of cushion and padding on the base to support you i
weigh about 157 pounds razer says this chair is supported for people up to 300
pounds and who knows if in the future they'll do what they did with the isker
and kind of release a separate variant for different frames and different uh
weights let me do the good old caster test hold on i'm gonna start over here
not bad not the best i've ever seen but this chair also costs you know less than
500 so one of the biggest differences between the anki and the isker from the
moment that i first saw this chair is the lumbar support system if you
remember the isker had a really unique way of dealing with adjusting lumbar and
turning knobs stuff to just the kind of different feel on your back but this is
all built in which i assume is probably for cost savings but it's respectable
and it does well for a chair of this price point so i think i mentioned
earlier that there is going to be the anki and the anki x differences between
those two are that the anki x does not come with this
head pillow the anki x also doesn't have four dimensional armrest adjustability
like the regular anki that we have here does and the last big difference between
the anki and the anki x is the system for which it handles recline so the anki
here has your 152 degree tilt has a frog system which
like a frog you know while the anki x has a traditional
butterfly system another notable thing about these chairs they come in different colors so they come in green
quartz and black i believe i mean it's a razer gaming chair designed for everyday
comfort so we need to game in the thing so we're actually going to bring a few
people on to do that we're bringing jeff to the table here and that's because
jeff bought the razer esker chair that we unboxed
before take this one for a ride yeah get it adjusted get it dialed in
play some uh counter strike good old counter strike the uh the lumbar is
there lumbar in it there is lumbar in it and there's no adjusting that's it that's it
how does this thing feel how's your back how's like your your posture how do you
feel it feels good it feels almost exactly the same as how i usually have
the razor escape set up at home it's not like too too
pressed up against my lower spine the neck feels kind of nice though you like
the neck pillow i like it more it's actually bigger than a lot of neck pillows which is
interesting i think i appreciate it i didn't actually think about that before but the different shape of the head
pillow and the way that it sits i mean it kind of rests on the top of your back
which i could see actually being kind of nice rather than just having this like
giant thing jamming into the back of your head how does the bass feel how do
you feel sitting on it does it feel pretty comfy i feel this works do the
same maybe it's a little stiffer on this guy here the idea behind the razer esker
is the back is actually supposed to be a little bit more stiff where the base
actually has more cushion it's supposed to kind of just more evenly distribute
your weight but coming from the isker like yeah it's going to be tough to tell
these things especially when you only sat on it for like five seconds
yeah cool whoa bud i thought you were gonna fall
for a second
david you're next bud what do you think it's not ugly i would
definitely get rid
yo this is supposed to this is supposed to provide better back support okay
that looks good the quilted stuff looks good this chair retails for 3.99 and
there's another variant that's pretty similar that's 2.99
what do you have at home what do you sit on a home chair i have like a really cheap ergo chair the adjustability is
okay for a chair that's cheap i like i like being able to go back
uh especially if i'm playing more chill games i can kind of and kind of lounge
yeah i have like my feet up the cushion is kind of
not super there so if you want like a cushy chair this isn't great i'm
actually really impressed at how much control you have over the placement of
the armrest for a cheap chair this is like actually pretty cool it's an okay
chair i wouldn't buy it but yeah it's not bad but i wouldn't buy
a game should i buy an ergo chair anyway fair i'll give me that yeah give me that back look some people
some people like that that's it for the razer anki you know this chair for its
price category if you're looking at other chairs included i don't think it's
anything super fantastic the esker was so exciting because it was the first
chair from razer had its custom lumbar support system but i honestly think
razer's going to sell more of this chair anyway so yeah if you're interested check it out the link below you can
learn more about it thank you all very much for watching make sure to get
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see and we'll uh we'll see on the next one bye bye