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that's the intro cat sponsored this video to promote

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their new vulcan pro it's a keyboard you can tell they're german because they

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snuck in these little german colors on the side so this is a full 10 key keyboard it

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means there's a numpad let's uh get the box opened up we have a

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wrist rest i love a good peel

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this looks like it clips in and it actually has a rubber

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grips on the bottoms to prevent sliding they easily could have not put rubber on

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here and just had it on the keyboard so that's kind of a nice touch

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then we've got the keyboard itself with the cable

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is this detachable no okay there's

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nothing else in the box other than this quick installation guide

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which i don't want to have to read so let's put this aside

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a lot to notice right away first things first

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uh this looks pretty low profile

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you might not even need this wrist rest but if you did have it

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is this magnetic is that it literally was that easy

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it'll come off if you lift it but like magnus that's nice

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okay yeah that's sweet you get very little wrist extension

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uh which is one of like the big three ergonomic things that a keyboard can

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mess you up on uh does it have yeah if you don't like

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that you like extending then why not just put the feet

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up that's this is kind of like the more

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normal configuration but it's the key caps that are low profile

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the keys themselves look regular size it's just that they have

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taken the actual key cap and just pancake-ized it

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flattened it right out i always start by

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typing james is the best these are linear af

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holy can we plug this in okay there's the lights

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usually you're relying on the light passing through the legend of a double

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shot injected keycap where you've got the clear plastic

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behind the in this case black and then the light passes through that

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but in this case they chopped off that part of the keycap

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you still get the light through the legend and

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the housing of the switch itself is transparent it's clear plastic so

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this is a very evenly lit very bright

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and vibrant board yeah and this is their aimo imo RGB

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which is like an ecosystem from rocket you can get headphones and mouse pads

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that all sync together to give you you know unified RGB experience which gives

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you more FPS and uh better kill death ratios i'm told

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so nice having a numpad i mean okay there's trade-offs i

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always need a numpad this is a a 10 key

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keyboard and i would like that because i do excel and even

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when you're just entering a password or two-factor authentication i hate bouncing around the num

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uh the numbered line over here i love having a numpad that's great the

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trade-off for that is potential shoulder pain uh for ergonomics because you're gonna be like

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this a lot which is less economic than this it does take out more desk real estate

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so if you're gaming you might have to move your whole keyboard over to get as

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much as much mouse real estate as you want holy crap this mouse pad is huge

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okay my preference is this if that's not your preference go for the ted keyless

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this is so much different than what i'm used to because i use either tactile or clicky switches

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and usually you get a tactile feedback when the switch is actuated so as i

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press it down i'm going to encounter a bump or maybe bottom out on the keypad

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and that is going to correspond to the signal reaching the system where the

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letter appears on screen here it's different you want your action

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to happen immediately like a movement a strafe or something then you want this keyboard because the

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actuation is way higher up on this with the linear switch it's uh

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1.4 millimeters even though the whole key travels like

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3.6 millimeters so it's i can feel it when i'm typing it's right

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at the top it's so immediate that's all i have to do to actuate it

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this is a an interesting switch this is their titan switch it's a it's a

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combination mechanical and optical switch so it has the feel of a

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mechanical switch but actually um the signal is being sent

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by just a light getting blocked so those are supposed to be faster and

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if you're a competitive gamer which i'm not i suck

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but i'll take the edge i'll take anything i can get key stabilities

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actually pretty rock solid i think they have a novel designed for that

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that's responsible for that i'm just ripping these things off yeah it looks like they've got like

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um there's some extra shroud around the typical

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kind of cherry plus sign you see there on the stem the layout is totally

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standard you know the american flag on the box there's no wacky like

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key that's shorter than normal they've got an aluminum top plate here now one

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of the differences between the pro and the non-pro number one the

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big one is optical mechanical switches but the other thing is the

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top plate they also have an aluminum top plate on the non-pro but it

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isn't stealthed out and blacked out this is just black all around on the other

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one you're gonna have like a kind of a chrome edge on it and everyone knows

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stealth is more premium this is pretty

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rigid there's not a lot of depth deck flex here for especially for a

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a 10 key a lot of the time you can feel like oh this is such a stiff keyboard

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that's great but it's a 10 kilos or even like a 60 or something like a really

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small small one and those small ones they barely flex even if they're

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just cheap plastic lots of rubber feet on the bottom not just a couple strips

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but like the whole bottom at least two-thirds of

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the top here and even on the feet and both sides of the feet

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when the feet are closed there's a rubber strip and up top it's just binary

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up or down we have some media buttons

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on the top row that's pretty standard you can function calculator bam

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now we what you don't always see is a knob for volume

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this one happens to be ratcheted

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and doesn't have a top or bottom it just goes goes goes

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then you've got big buttons for mute

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those are really nice okay it looks like there's some indicators down here

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there's a game mode game mode of course makes it so that when you hit the Windows key

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the menu doesn't pop up that can be uh really disruptive in a game

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another thing about these switches in particular as opposed to the non-pro

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these ones are ready for 100 million keystrokes on the non-pro they're 50

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million keystrokes uh why don't we weigh this thing with

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our special scale i'll get this braided cable up off

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the table for the weight 900 grams even a kind of

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a good middle weight i would say like when you're at like 600

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that's too light that's cheap um and when it's over a

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thousand that's kind of when it's like a chunk 900 respectable so that is pretty much

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it i do want to see how long this cable is can you unplug that

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this is a braided cable i think if you get the non-pro it's not braided

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this is 1.8 meters it seems to me pretty

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good and it has the little keyboard picture on there which is always

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uh appreciated when you're at the vacuum machine trying to figure out what the hell corresponds to what

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that's nice uh you got six macro keys right there there's onboard

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memory and processing you take stuff with you i think this is

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a pretty good and good looking keyboard

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so if you guys like this please check it out at the link below you can get it

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from best buy not sold out there finally something you

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can actually buy so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video give us a

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time when i'm gonna review a christmas tree

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holder the little thing at the bottom i like the ones with the spikes that go into

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the wood i'm just joking i'm not going to do that