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malatrix sent us a box they made the zoom 65 about a year ago now i've got it

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at home great keyboard this is the essential edition i think the main

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differences are it comes in a bunch of different color waves and it's got

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bluetooth now i'm pretty sure let's take a look is it still the king

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of the budget boards because uh the nice thing about this guy is that it's only

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like 165 dollars which is pretty cheap for the build quality that you get well

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it's a big box they got a lot of stuff in here what'd they send us what is this

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what you got what you got for me oh it's a little pink bag oh it's one of their

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bear keek it's one of their bear switch

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openers check this thing out oh and prism look at this yeah i have the red one you

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have this one uh so this is great if you got to open

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switches you just like press it down on these little guys here pretty sure they

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sell these on the site i don't know how much they are um but this is the prism

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prism version which is pretty nice what else we got we got probably switches

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oh okay these are nice i don't know what switches these are they're not labeled

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in any way but they're these clear boxy guys

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let's see if they are linear or tactile

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linear we got another box what is this

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is this guy oh keycap

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little bear keycap prism oh sorry it's

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it's metal so it's a little heftier but it's honestly not that heavy i'm

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surprised by the robustness of the case that it comes in this is like a rubber

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material and it's kind of heavy all on its own just for this tiny little keycap

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but hey i'm not complaining we've got okay now i'm going to stand up a little

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bit there's this guy there's another box

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there's another box

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another box another of these guys probably another

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prism or whatever and then we've got a bunch of the accessories here i'll just pull all

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these out i think that they've sent us a fully

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assembled version and then a like kit that you can assemble yourself a bare

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bones kit also prism if you like the prism stuff

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this is for you i got one of these already you want one

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yeah uh these look like stabilizers oh i broke the box that's not good yep so we

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got a little stabilizer kit this is for uh it's either extras for the fully

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built one or they are for the assembling the bare

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bones kit oh these are pretty like little gold i mean they're probably

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not real gold but they're nice little gold stabilizers with uh clear housing

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and then for these you've got all of our

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uh i don't know what to call them they used to just be called band-aid mods but basically you take uh these guys you put

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them on your pcb underneath your stabilizers and they just don't make it

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like scratch and clack when you press them all the way down as much and the

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great thing about these is you no longer have to cut out little strips of band-aid uh they're sticky on one side

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so and they're perfectly sized so you literally just peel them off put them on

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as part of the build process really great little feature here oh it's in

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here hey it's another prism bear probably

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just for clarity this is stuff that they sent us this is i don't think it's part

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of the kit when you buy it yourself but i'm not 100 sure um so don't go

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expecting a nice little prism switch opener

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or the like anything like that what else do we have what's okay what's in these

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two boxes what the hell

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oh keycaps wow this is a really nice keycap box yeah this is

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great because it lets you put like whatever size keycap you want in here a

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lot of the time when you order them they don't come in the best especially when you're ordering cheaper

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stuff they'll just come in bags or they'll come in these little plastic

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like flimsy plastic holders this is great though it lets you put them in

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like whatever order you want because there's no separation but they're nice

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and like separated by row bell was curious about how to open the

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switches and how to use the switch opener so you just line up

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the tabs sometimes they're a little finicky there we go and then you just

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press down look at that switch open top

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easy peasy lemon squeezy oh they're gr irish wsgr irish keycaps

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i don't know that set personally but they look nice i kind of like them

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andrew what's your take on these you like them they're irish apparently

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what's in this box this is probably our actual keyboard to build

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packaging is pretty good it's called the zoom 65 and it's like a

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telescope you know you zoom in on stuff

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you'll see it they've got it on the on the weight on the back too which is nice

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so if you buy the kit you get a little carrying case like the other one we have

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and when i got mine everything was inside this little case

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here this looks like pcb foam or something

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this is oh what's in here a little envelope

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oh it's the battery yeah so it's bluetooth wireless and it's got a 2250

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milliamp hour battery at 8.325 watt hours what else do we got it

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comes with a cable too here is our pcb or plate maybe hold on

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i'll take a look oh polycarb plate real nice i kind of like polycarb i'm

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not like i think i still prefer uh brass

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but polycarb's pretty nice too this looks like the pcb yep yeah it's for a

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knob so it's it's a 65 with like a knob

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which is great here's your usb it's a center usb

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so if you have a keyboard cable that's meant for the left or the right instead

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of having a center one that like goes straight out or goes to the right or whatever first you might have to get a

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new cable for this if you don't already like the one that comes included uh

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because they're pretty decent actually i really like these it's just a simple braided coiled cable

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but it's braided and coiled you're spending 165 dollars and you're getting

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a braided coiled cable with your keyboard that's not bad i like opening

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this like this is cool this is a nice keyboard for 165 bucks

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it's just this is why i get frustrated when i have to unbox

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Corsair stuff and logitech stuff or whatever it's like those are like 200

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dollars 250 and like just look at the quality comparison do i have to build

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this one myself sure but i'm pretty sure you can also buy these not in bare bones

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yeah this looks like the knob uh the one i've got is like a gold one to go with

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the pink olivia stuff this looks like silver i think this one's silver and

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white for the most part

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the big difference with these ones aside from the wireless features is the

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colorways so i went with the dark navy

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blue or whatever they're calling it on the website and i love it so there's

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like a silicon pad that goes in here and then you've got another one that goes

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around the outside if i recall correctly and then on the bottom here i don't

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think they've included it with this guy but you can fit a weight in here no

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problem unless it's just somewhere else and i haven't found it yet we'll keep

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looking fortunately for us since i don't have like two hours to

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build this thing on camera for you guys we've got a second one and it should be

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fully assembled we haven't looked at it yet but it should be fully assembled

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they've also got pretty good build guides on their site as well so whether it's your first keyboard or you've built

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a few and you just want to be able to follow along with something to make sure nothing goes wrong they've got you

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covered this should be our fully assembled board

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oh it's clean and yeah they've got the they've got the plate on the back here

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here we go you know i had to do it to him that's

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that that's that really nice mirror finish though holy crap i can see myself

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so cleanly in this thing oh that's beautiful the one i've got at

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home is just black one thing i really like about these keyboards is the

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texture uh it's an all-aluminum case but they've done something to the uh texture

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so it's not super smooth it's kind of rough in a way but i really really like

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it i wouldn't call it rough i'd just call it textured cool yeah so it looks

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great oh it sounds so good

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but seriously though that's really great you can tell that they've done a great

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job with the stabs with the lubing and everything and even with the switches

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i'm not sure what's in here right now let me take a key cap off and take a

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look it's those same box whites that they've

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sent us and yeah it's hot swap

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because why not and the knob has a tactility to it

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that is very satisfying let's plug it in and do a typing test

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this is like my ideal sound for a keyboard this is like perfect already i

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i love it i don't think even if i tried to lube these switches myself i could do

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a much better job all right here we go

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oh no oh i looked up so bad this is gonna be

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terrible i still got 115 96 but i made a huge

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mistake early on i love this thing oh my god it's just

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don't get me wrong there's better keyboards out there um

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and especially if you don't like 60 65

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the reason i'm actually pretty big on this one in particular is the layout is

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uh just kind of almost exactly what i need the only thing that would really

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push this one over the top for me personally is if it had a function key

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row the reason i don't prefer smaller layouts is because i don't like having

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to hit the function key and then hit like a number to hit like for example

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alt f4 you want to quit out of a game now it's not just two buttons it's a

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whole three key presses to get your alt f4 on

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the go it's not the end of the world i can deal with it i have been dealing

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with it and i've really been enjoying a smaller form factor on my desk just kind

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of taking up less space this keyboard the zoom 65 essential edition starts at

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159 and you're gonna add some more cost something like 50 60 bucks if you want

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the bluetooth wireless version i'm not sure if this one is bluetooth or not

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we've got a cable but no sort of

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documentation or anything saying hey here's how you enable it so we haven't

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tried that however i still think at 159

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for a cabled keyboard this thing is a pretty good value the only problem is

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that it's basically already sold out everywhere the biggest problem with the

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whole mechanical keyboard custom market is that a lot of the time you've got to

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get in on group buys you've got to wait for a product to go live for like three

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days and try to score it while you can

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it can be very frustrating and that's kind of why i tend to

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push companies like kikron or glorious

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when i'm suggesting keyboards to friends family or anyone messaging me on twitter

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i think that if you can somehow snag

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the zoom 65 or the zoom 65 essential edition i think it's a great buy um i

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think the the value for what you're getting is just solid and honestly i

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don't think you can go wrong so the answer ultimately is yes i would totally

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buy this thing thanks for watching everyone this is ShortCircuit this is

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the zoom 65 essential edition and if you

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want to check out another video on keyboards uh check out the vissels one i

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did that one came with a waifu and it was a lot of fun checking that out

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see you later