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just when you think you've reviewed every organ ama keyboard on the planet a

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new company with the name like truly ergonomic launches something like this

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the cleave keyboard apparently the world's most comfortable keyboard but

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honestly there's lots of comfortable keyboards out there for me it's about

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meeting that minimum organ Amma creche hold while also having a decent layout

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that doesn't suck to use looking at the box it says it uses optical switches and

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the word new here to me implies that they might be proprietary thumbs with a

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combined peak at puller and p-switch puller board itself is pretty low

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profile with very little deck flex thanks to the aluminum faceplate

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although I would have liked to have seen a braided cable it's got an integrated

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wrist rest that's firm yet comfortable and doesn't act like a fuzz magnet

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really nice actually the best thing about this board though is the layout I

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like urgh anomic keyboards that use on clusters because then your strongest

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digits can do most of the work instead of using your weak pinky finger for

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things like backspace which frankly doesn't make a lot of sense by default

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on these large buttons you've got to space bars backspace delete and enter

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but you can reprogram all the keys to your liking you know in case you don't

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see yourself ever getting used to these dedicated copy-paste and undo keys in

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some ways the layout is similar to the ERG adopt which we reviewed on ltte but

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unlike that board this one has the full suite of F keys all the bracket and

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slash keys over here and the arrow keys are all in one place which in my opinion

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is way more usable than splitting them up you can type on this thing pretty

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normally except oh my god they made the caps lock key into another control key

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who is asking for this so where's caps lock it's up here now

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that's way too far for how often I use it and now instead I have two control

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keys right next to each other how is that helpful the switches themselves

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feel ok key stability is average at best

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which is surprising given the stem has a box design because usually switches like

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that are more stable the switch itself does say truly ergonomic on it and

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apparently these optical switches are removable if you can manage to pull it

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up

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look I bent the key cap practically

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speaking you're not likely to swap the keys out anyway because regular

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mechanical key switches aren't compatible with this board it is available with their version of Blues

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Browns and reds though though in theory you could mix and match or replace a

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switch if one dies except they don't give you any extras in the box the LED

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backlight can be adjusted through 10 brightness levels and a profiles which

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basically changes which keys are lit up and which are not and each of these profiles can be

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customized on top of that you've also got several effects you can cycle

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through and adjust the speed up so overall then this is a pretty awesome

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ergonomic keyboard it's got a split design and compact layout to reduce

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ulnar deviation and shoulder pain without losing so many keys that your

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productivity suffers and it's priced at 300 US dollars which while being a lot

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for a keyboard is actually about normal for as ergonomic keyboards go even if

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the optical switches aren't going to win any award so thanks for watching short

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