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many gamers prefer to use 10 keyless keyboards because lopping off the numpad

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gives you a few more inches of desk real estate for your mouse hand along with

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improved ergonomics the only problem is that well sometimes you really do miss

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those buttons fortunately the good people at shaspo have come up with a

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sensible solution why not take all those keys over there

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and move them over there how did nobody think of this

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before so here it is the shaspo c1000 a

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beautiful 114 key keyboard with an innovative design

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that i love and hate

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let's talk about why after this message from our sponsor madrinas madrina's

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shaspo a company apparently named by someone who's really into 19th century

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french rifles says the c-1000s design was guided by three principles

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respecting users input habits reducing finger travel and twisting and

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increasing efficiency with shortcut keys at least that's what i think this

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sentence is trying to say but there are some problems here like that the first

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two principles happen to be in direct conflict with one another for example

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one of the most dramatic breaks from convention on this layout aside from

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having the numpad function keys and most

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of the navigation keys up top here is the decision to move the arrow keys to

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the left side of the board now they claim that they did this for gamers but

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in reality i think they just had nowhere else to put them not only do these

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buttons offer no clear advantage over wasd which happen to also be surrounded

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by useful keys for your pinky and your thumb to strike but their placement here

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really screws up regular old typing that's the exact thing they said they

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weren't going to do because the up key is between the z and shift keys which

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are normally neighbors it is super easy to accidentally move your cursor

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mid-sentence especially if you're coming from an ortholinear layout like the

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ergodox which you can check out over here and if you're really unlucky you'll

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also hit shift at the same time as up highlighting and then overwriting

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everything you just typed but wait there's more now that there's

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three arrow keys on the bottom row some other buttons had to move like the

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Windows key get the [ __ ] out of here you're going to the left of the tab now

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now that one actually doesn't bother me too much because at least it's still

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accessible with the pinky key which i already used to strike it but it is

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going to mess with any muscle memory that you've built up for Windows hotkeys

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as will the slightly increased distance between left control and the alphabet

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keys like sakurai blue chessbo

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no functional there's also some changes for the right

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hand they've actually shortened the space bar and added a second backspace

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key next to it for some reason and then

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they went put delete over here too instead of function which is super sized

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and way the crap ah yes up here because

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of that they had to move the tilde key putting it where the question mark

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should be and again moving shift further

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away honestly shaspo i'm starting to feel like this was designed by someone

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who's only ever read about keyboards in a book now in fairness

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at least you can remap almost all of the keys in the fairly robust shaspo power

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console software almost so these extra switches look like

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remappable macro buttons that just happen to be set by default to show

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desktop file explorer and task manager

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unfortunately they along with the lock screen button and

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this nifty double zero key are the only buttons that you may not remap basically

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the exact buttons that you'd be most likely to want to remap are the ones

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that you cannot remap now to be clear over time i

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could probably get used to all these little quirks and changes but they raise

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an important question why should i bother

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okay so here's why the c1000 is a pretty sweet keyboard the

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uv coated keycaps are made of abs plastic with a laser etched legend that

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looks techy without being over the top the round corners thin bezels and the

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integrated carry handle give it a sleek geek chic look and the

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steel top plate precludes any kind of deck flex and gives the c1000 a

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comfortable weight of

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grams also comfortable by the way this hoodie head to lttstore.com and get it

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on your skin asap now the board is available in two versions the c1000 go

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has a white led backlight and blueotemo switches while the pro is full RGB with

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your choice of blue red or brown switches the instruction manual mentions

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that cherry mx switches are available but apparently that's only if you email

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support wait 20 business days and pay an extra 50

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and that's a pretty challenging thing because for 50 bucks this g-skill km360

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10 keyless with cherry mx switches is available we actually have one in the

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mail right now so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that review

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another advantage of the c1000 though is that it can be paired wirelessly over

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bluetooth to up to three devices thanks to its 1860 milliamp hour lithium ion

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battery which shaspo claims will last for 90 hours with the backlight off or

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15 hours with RGB blasting full pony

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power the keyboard charges in three and a half hours via usb type c but if

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you're not into that you can also just operate it in wired mode to take

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advantage of its usb passthrough so should you buy this keyboard then

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honestly i'm pretty disappointed by shaspo's decision to play some buttons

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in a way that prevents this product from being completely plug and play with a

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minimal learning curve they said that was one of their goals but to me what it

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looks like is they prioritized having a

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sleek looking symmetrical keyboard layout so they like put all the keys on

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in a cool attractive way and then decided which keys did what i mean why

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else would they do something like separating the home and n keys and

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making one of them twice as big next there's the price 200 actually isn't

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that steep for a wireless mechanical full RGB keyboard especially from a

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young company that's producing small runs but it does sting a little that

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we're not getting cherry switches at that price i think even a drop of just

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20 dollars would make it a little less top-heavy and then at that point if you

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can get past its shortcomings it is a well-made keyboard in a form factor that

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makes sense on the desk and it will definitely turn heads at your next lan

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