many gamers prefer to use 10 keyless keyboards because lopping off the numpad
gives you a few more inches of desk real estate for your mouse hand along with
improved ergonomics the only problem is that well sometimes you really do miss
those buttons fortunately the good people at shaspo have come up with a
sensible solution why not take all those keys over there
and move them over there how did nobody think of this
before so here it is the shaspo c1000 a
beautiful 114 key keyboard with an innovative design
that i love and hate
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shaspo a company apparently named by someone who's really into 19th century
french rifles says the c-1000s design was guided by three principles
respecting users input habits reducing finger travel and twisting and
increasing efficiency with shortcut keys at least that's what i think this
sentence is trying to say but there are some problems here like that the first
two principles happen to be in direct conflict with one another for example
one of the most dramatic breaks from convention on this layout aside from
having the numpad function keys and most
of the navigation keys up top here is the decision to move the arrow keys to
the left side of the board now they claim that they did this for gamers but
in reality i think they just had nowhere else to put them not only do these
buttons offer no clear advantage over wasd which happen to also be surrounded
by useful keys for your pinky and your thumb to strike but their placement here
really screws up regular old typing that's the exact thing they said they
weren't going to do because the up key is between the z and shift keys which
are normally neighbors it is super easy to accidentally move your cursor
mid-sentence especially if you're coming from an ortholinear layout like the
ergodox which you can check out over here and if you're really unlucky you'll
also hit shift at the same time as up highlighting and then overwriting
everything you just typed but wait there's more now that there's
three arrow keys on the bottom row some other buttons had to move like the
Windows key get the [ __ ] out of here you're going to the left of the tab now
now that one actually doesn't bother me too much because at least it's still
accessible with the pinky key which i already used to strike it but it is
going to mess with any muscle memory that you've built up for Windows hotkeys
as will the slightly increased distance between left control and the alphabet
keys like sakurai blue chessbo
no functional there's also some changes for the right
hand they've actually shortened the space bar and added a second backspace
key next to it for some reason and then
they went put delete over here too instead of function which is super sized
and way the crap ah yes up here because
of that they had to move the tilde key putting it where the question mark
should be and again moving shift further
away honestly shaspo i'm starting to feel like this was designed by someone
who's only ever read about keyboards in a book now in fairness
at least you can remap almost all of the keys in the fairly robust shaspo power
console software almost so these extra switches look like
remappable macro buttons that just happen to be set by default to show
desktop file explorer and task manager
unfortunately they along with the lock screen button and
this nifty double zero key are the only buttons that you may not remap basically
the exact buttons that you'd be most likely to want to remap are the ones
that you cannot remap now to be clear over time i
could probably get used to all these little quirks and changes but they raise
an important question why should i bother
okay so here's why the c1000 is a pretty sweet keyboard the
uv coated keycaps are made of abs plastic with a laser etched legend that
looks techy without being over the top the round corners thin bezels and the
integrated carry handle give it a sleek geek chic look and the
steel top plate precludes any kind of deck flex and gives the c1000 a
comfortable weight of
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on your skin asap now the board is available in two versions the c1000 go
has a white led backlight and blueotemo switches while the pro is full RGB with
your choice of blue red or brown switches the instruction manual mentions
that cherry mx switches are available but apparently that's only if you email
support wait 20 business days and pay an extra 50
and that's a pretty challenging thing because for 50 bucks this g-skill km360
10 keyless with cherry mx switches is available we actually have one in the
mail right now so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that review
another advantage of the c1000 though is that it can be paired wirelessly over
bluetooth to up to three devices thanks to its 1860 milliamp hour lithium ion
battery which shaspo claims will last for 90 hours with the backlight off or
15 hours with RGB blasting full pony
power the keyboard charges in three and a half hours via usb type c but if
you're not into that you can also just operate it in wired mode to take
advantage of its usb passthrough so should you buy this keyboard then
honestly i'm pretty disappointed by shaspo's decision to play some buttons
in a way that prevents this product from being completely plug and play with a
minimal learning curve they said that was one of their goals but to me what it
looks like is they prioritized having a
sleek looking symmetrical keyboard layout so they like put all the keys on
in a cool attractive way and then decided which keys did what i mean why
else would they do something like separating the home and n keys and
making one of them twice as big next there's the price 200 actually isn't
that steep for a wireless mechanical full RGB keyboard especially from a
young company that's producing small runs but it does sting a little that
we're not getting cherry switches at that price i think even a drop of just
20 dollars would make it a little less top-heavy and then at that point if you
can get past its shortcomings it is a well-made keyboard in a form factor that
makes sense on the desk and it will definitely turn heads at your next lan
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