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so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard

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This is a powerful programmable gaming keyboard so the first question we should

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be asking is what makes this a gaming keyboard and the answer as far as I can

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tell is the art on the front of the box you can see we have a caveman with a

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spear if that's not gaming I don't know what is and then we have an arrow being

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shot by a guy and then we have a rhinoceros wielding an enormous sword is

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what I can as far as I can tell that's what this is and I wish I had a game

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with a rhinoceros and a sword because that would be the coolest game ever okay

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so why don't we get into the actual features here first of all you got a switchable keypad and I'm going to get

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the cameraman to come look at these every time I talk about them switchable

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keypad means that you can move the number pad from either side of the

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keyboard depending on whether you want to use this with your left or your right

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hand it just Clips in okay then you have mode switching you can manually change

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the mode of the keyboard and I believe that's somewhere around here yep from

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either typing mode to one of two gaming modes okay then you've got macro Keys

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which are located over here you can program up to 90 macros to these Keys

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then the next thing you've got is cruise control and this is kind of a cool feature you can use cruise control to

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continue an action without having to hold down the key or Keys assigned to the action so that means if you have a

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game that doesn't allow you to toggle Crouch for example you could use cruise

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control in theory to keep crouching even when you're not

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pressing that key so it would be like a toggle switch okay then you have in-game

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macro record which is neat if you have to record macros ingame then you have WD

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gaming Keys which is great because without those keys I couldn't type a

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wasted on this keyboard just kidding okay what you actually have is little

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lights on your WD Keys which will allow you to find them in the dark then you

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have a quick launch key okay for the Microsoft games Explorer yeah cuz

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everyone uses that and then you have a two-color adjustable backlight dial

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which is here so you can change the dial to more brightness or less more

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brightness and then you have media Keys which are here and then you have a

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volume control dial okay so let's ah I dropped it okay let's get this keyboard

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open and we break the seal right here so

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we actually recently unboxed the X8 gaming mouse which I guess would be the

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the mouse to go with the X6 gaming keyboard the cameraman liked it he said

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the uh the tracking was excellent but the overall feel of it wasn't uh wasn't

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as much wasn't as good as he would liked and he went back to his G5 so take that

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for what you will I didn't actually try the X8 so I can't really speak about it

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one way or the other okay inside here we will find The Sidewinder X6 keyboard

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manual so this tells you how to use everything how to plug a USB port in

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make sure you study this picture carefully before you buy this keyboard USB goes in excellent then you have a

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driver CD never use a driver CD always download the latest drivers off the

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manufacturer website and a Microsoft product guide so they tell you about all

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the other stuff you could buy from Microsoft I guess actually this doesn't

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seem to have anything useful in it okay then you have the number pad so this is

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a little Standalone number pad that you can't actually use unless you have an X6

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keyboard so there's your interface here and there's your interface on the other

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side so we'll show you how that works in a minute but now the keys feel all right

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they're not the best but they're not the worst oh they have a calculator but that is the smartest place I've ever seen for

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a calculator quick launch that is exactly where it should be on every

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keyboard in the world because if you're actually using calculator with the mouse

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then you either don't do many calculations or you really don't care if

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they take forever all right so let's get the plastic off this keyboard so I can

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actually get it out of a bag here all right so let's put okay here we go

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actually I should show you how this works so you just plug the little interface in right there oh that's

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actually really easy and then to take it off you just do that and then you can

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plug it into the other oh it's magnetic oh that's cool check this out you can

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like slide it in wow that's really neat okay anyway I'm I'm done playing with

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that now so the general layout of the keyboard is fairly standard which is

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always good for a gaming keyboard you never want to see something like a

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shortened shift key or you know an extra key down here or a shortened backspace

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key I personally like to see a very standard layout the keys don't have much

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travel which can also be quite useful for gaming because that means you're not

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pressing down a quarter of an inch just to get a key reg to register okay you

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find all of the macro Keys the uh um

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what is this one the continuous action key this is to record a new macro this

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is to switch the mode here are all your media keys this adjusts your keyboard

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brightness here is your volume control knob here is your glossy finish to the

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keyboard so I'll do like the obligatory shiny look how shiny it is shot so there

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you can see my finger and that pretty much covers everything I wanted to talk

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about in terms of the Microsoft Sidewinder X6 so thank you for check oh

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I don't know what this does cameraman wants me to say what that does but I don't remember so thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the Microsoft X6 gaming keyboard