malatrix sent us a box they made the zoom 65 about a year ago now i've got it
at home great keyboard this is the essential edition i think the main
differences are it comes in a bunch of different color waves and it's got
bluetooth now i'm pretty sure let's take a look is it still the king
of the budget boards because uh the nice thing about this guy is that it's only
like 165 dollars which is pretty cheap for the build quality that you get well
it's a big box they got a lot of stuff in here what'd they send us what is this
what you got what you got for me oh it's a little pink bag oh it's one of their
bear keek it's one of their bear switch
openers check this thing out oh and prism look at this yeah i have the red one you
have this one uh so this is great if you got to open
switches you just like press it down on these little guys here pretty sure they
sell these on the site i don't know how much they are um but this is the prism
prism version which is pretty nice what else we got we got probably switches
oh okay these are nice i don't know what switches these are they're not labeled
in any way but they're these clear boxy guys
let's see if they are linear or tactile
linear we got another box what is this
is this guy oh keycap
little bear keycap prism oh sorry it's
it's metal so it's a little heftier but it's honestly not that heavy i'm
surprised by the robustness of the case that it comes in this is like a rubber
material and it's kind of heavy all on its own just for this tiny little keycap
but hey i'm not complaining we've got okay now i'm going to stand up a little
bit there's this guy there's another box
there's another box
another box another of these guys probably another
prism or whatever and then we've got a bunch of the accessories here i'll just pull all
these out i think that they've sent us a fully
assembled version and then a like kit that you can assemble yourself a bare
bones kit also prism if you like the prism stuff
this is for you i got one of these already you want one
yeah uh these look like stabilizers oh i broke the box that's not good yep so we
got a little stabilizer kit this is for uh it's either extras for the fully
built one or they are for the assembling the bare
bones kit oh these are pretty like little gold i mean they're probably
not real gold but they're nice little gold stabilizers with uh clear housing
and then for these you've got all of our
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
them on your pcb underneath your stabilizers and they just don't make it
like scratch and clack when you press them all the way down as much and the
great thing about these is you no longer have to cut out little strips of band-aid uh they're sticky on one side
so and they're perfectly sized so you literally just peel them off put them on
as part of the build process really great little feature here oh it's in
here hey it's another prism bear probably
just for clarity this is stuff that they sent us this is i don't think it's part
of the kit when you buy it yourself but i'm not 100 sure um so don't go
expecting a nice little prism switch opener
or the like anything like that what else do we have what's okay what's in these
two boxes what the hell
oh keycaps wow this is a really nice keycap box yeah this is
great because it lets you put like whatever size keycap you want in here a
lot of the time when you order them they don't come in the best especially when you're ordering cheaper
stuff they'll just come in bags or they'll come in these little plastic
like flimsy plastic holders this is great though it lets you put them in
like whatever order you want because there's no separation but they're nice
and like separated by row bell was curious about how to open the
switches and how to use the switch opener so you just line up
the tabs sometimes they're a little finicky there we go and then you just
press down look at that switch open top
easy peasy lemon squeezy oh they're gr irish wsgr irish keycaps
i don't know that set personally but they look nice i kind of like them
andrew what's your take on these you like them they're irish apparently
what's in this box this is probably our actual keyboard to build
packaging is pretty good it's called the zoom 65 and it's like a
telescope you know you zoom in on stuff
you'll see it they've got it on the on the weight on the back too which is nice
so if you buy the kit you get a little carrying case like the other one we have
and when i got mine everything was inside this little case
here this looks like pcb foam or something
this is oh what's in here a little envelope
oh it's the battery yeah so it's bluetooth wireless and it's got a 2250
milliamp hour battery at 8.325 watt hours what else do we got it
comes with a cable too here is our pcb or plate maybe hold on
i'll take a look oh polycarb plate real nice i kind of like polycarb i'm
not like i think i still prefer uh brass
but polycarb's pretty nice too this looks like the pcb yep yeah it's for a
knob so it's it's a 65 with like a knob
which is great here's your usb it's a center usb
so if you have a keyboard cable that's meant for the left or the right instead
of having a center one that like goes straight out or goes to the right or whatever first you might have to get a
new cable for this if you don't already like the one that comes included uh
because they're pretty decent actually i really like these it's just a simple braided coiled cable
but it's braided and coiled you're spending 165 dollars and you're getting
a braided coiled cable with your keyboard that's not bad i like opening
this like this is cool this is a nice keyboard for 165 bucks
it's just this is why i get frustrated when i have to unbox
Corsair stuff and logitech stuff or whatever it's like those are like 200
dollars 250 and like just look at the quality comparison do i have to build
this one myself sure but i'm pretty sure you can also buy these not in bare bones
yeah this looks like the knob uh the one i've got is like a gold one to go with
the pink olivia stuff this looks like silver i think this one's silver and
white for the most part
the big difference with these ones aside from the wireless features is the
colorways so i went with the dark navy
blue or whatever they're calling it on the website and i love it so there's
like a silicon pad that goes in here and then you've got another one that goes
around the outside if i recall correctly and then on the bottom here i don't
think they've included it with this guy but you can fit a weight in here no
problem unless it's just somewhere else and i haven't found it yet we'll keep
looking fortunately for us since i don't have like two hours to
build this thing on camera for you guys we've got a second one and it should be
fully assembled we haven't looked at it yet but it should be fully assembled
they've also got pretty good build guides on their site as well so whether it's your first keyboard or you've built
a few and you just want to be able to follow along with something to make sure nothing goes wrong they've got you
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
here we go you know i had to do it to him that's
that that's that really nice mirror finish though holy crap i can see myself
so cleanly in this thing oh that's beautiful the one i've got at
home is just black one thing i really like about these keyboards is the
texture uh it's an all-aluminum case but they've done something to the uh texture
so it's not super smooth it's kind of rough in a way but i really really like
it i wouldn't call it rough i'd just call it textured cool yeah so it looks
great oh it sounds so good
but seriously though that's really great you can tell that they've done a great
job with the stabs with the lubing and everything and even with the switches
i'm not sure what's in here right now let me take a key cap off and take a
look it's those same box whites that they've
sent us and yeah it's hot swap
because why not and the knob has a tactility to it
that is very satisfying let's plug it in and do a typing test
this is like my ideal sound for a keyboard this is like perfect already i
i love it i don't think even if i tried to lube these switches myself i could do
a much better job all right here we go
oh no oh i looked up so bad this is gonna be
terrible i still got 115 96 but i made a huge
mistake early on i love this thing oh my god it's just
don't get me wrong there's better keyboards out there um
and especially if you don't like 60 65
the reason i'm actually pretty big on this one in particular is the layout is
uh just kind of almost exactly what i need the only thing that would really
push this one over the top for me personally is if it had a function key
row the reason i don't prefer smaller layouts is because i don't like having
to hit the function key and then hit like a number to hit like for example
alt f4 you want to quit out of a game now it's not just two buttons it's a
whole three key presses to get your alt f4 on
the go it's not the end of the world i can deal with it i have been dealing
with it and i've really been enjoying a smaller form factor on my desk just kind
of taking up less space this keyboard the zoom 65 essential edition starts at
159 and you're gonna add some more cost something like 50 60 bucks if you want
the bluetooth wireless version i'm not sure if this one is bluetooth or not
we've got a cable but no sort of
documentation or anything saying hey here's how you enable it so we haven't
tried that however i still think at 159
for a cabled keyboard this thing is a pretty good value the only problem is
that it's basically already sold out everywhere the biggest problem with the
whole mechanical keyboard custom market is that a lot of the time you've got to
get in on group buys you've got to wait for a product to go live for like three
days and try to score it while you can
it can be very frustrating and that's kind of why i tend to
push companies like kikron or glorious
when i'm suggesting keyboards to friends family or anyone messaging me on twitter
i think that if you can somehow snag
the zoom 65 or the zoom 65 essential edition i think it's a great buy um i
think the the value for what you're getting is just solid and honestly i
don't think you can go wrong so the answer ultimately is yes i would totally
buy this thing thanks for watching everyone this is ShortCircuit this is
the zoom 65 essential edition and if you
want to check out another video on keyboards uh check out the vissels one i
did that one came with a waifu and it was a lot of fun checking that out
see you later