that's the intro cat sponsored this video to promote
their new vulcan pro it's a keyboard you can tell they're german because they
snuck in these little german colors on the side so this is a full 10 key keyboard it
means there's a numpad let's uh get the box opened up we have a
wrist rest i love a good peel
this looks like it clips in and it actually has a rubber
grips on the bottoms to prevent sliding they easily could have not put rubber on
here and just had it on the keyboard so that's kind of a nice touch
then we've got the keyboard itself with the cable
is this detachable no okay there's
nothing else in the box other than this quick installation guide
which i don't want to have to read so let's put this aside
a lot to notice right away first things first
uh this looks pretty low profile
you might not even need this wrist rest but if you did have it
is this magnetic is that it literally was that easy
it'll come off if you lift it but like magnus that's nice
okay yeah that's sweet you get very little wrist extension
uh which is one of like the big three ergonomic things that a keyboard can
mess you up on uh does it have yeah if you don't like
that you like extending then why not just put the feet
up that's this is kind of like the more
normal configuration but it's the key caps that are low profile
the keys themselves look regular size it's just that they have
taken the actual key cap and just pancake-ized it
flattened it right out i always start by
typing james is the best these are linear af
holy can we plug this in okay there's the lights
usually you're relying on the light passing through the legend of a double
shot injected keycap where you've got the clear plastic
behind the in this case black and then the light passes through that
but in this case they chopped off that part of the keycap
you still get the light through the legend and
the housing of the switch itself is transparent it's clear plastic so
this is a very evenly lit very bright
and vibrant board yeah and this is their aimo imo RGB
which is like an ecosystem from rocket you can get headphones and mouse pads
that all sync together to give you you know unified RGB experience which gives
you more FPS and uh better kill death ratios i'm told
so nice having a numpad i mean okay there's trade-offs i
always need a numpad this is a a 10 key
keyboard and i would like that because i do excel and even
when you're just entering a password or two-factor authentication i hate bouncing around the num
uh the numbered line over here i love having a numpad that's great the
trade-off for that is potential shoulder pain uh for ergonomics because you're gonna be like
this a lot which is less economic than this it does take out more desk real estate
so if you're gaming you might have to move your whole keyboard over to get as
much as much mouse real estate as you want holy crap this mouse pad is huge
okay my preference is this if that's not your preference go for the ted keyless
this is so much different than what i'm used to because i use either tactile or clicky switches
and usually you get a tactile feedback when the switch is actuated so as i
press it down i'm going to encounter a bump or maybe bottom out on the keypad
and that is going to correspond to the signal reaching the system where the
letter appears on screen here it's different you want your action
to happen immediately like a movement a strafe or something then you want this keyboard because the
actuation is way higher up on this with the linear switch it's uh
1.4 millimeters even though the whole key travels like
3.6 millimeters so it's i can feel it when i'm typing it's right
at the top it's so immediate that's all i have to do to actuate it
this is a an interesting switch this is their titan switch it's a it's a
combination mechanical and optical switch so it has the feel of a
mechanical switch but actually um the signal is being sent
by just a light getting blocked so those are supposed to be faster and
if you're a competitive gamer which i'm not i suck
but i'll take the edge i'll take anything i can get key stabilities
actually pretty rock solid i think they have a novel designed for that
that's responsible for that i'm just ripping these things off yeah it looks like they've got like
um there's some extra shroud around the typical
kind of cherry plus sign you see there on the stem the layout is totally
standard you know the american flag on the box there's no wacky like
key that's shorter than normal they've got an aluminum top plate here now one
of the differences between the pro and the non-pro number one the
big one is optical mechanical switches but the other thing is the
top plate they also have an aluminum top plate on the non-pro but it
isn't stealthed out and blacked out this is just black all around on the other
one you're gonna have like a kind of a chrome edge on it and everyone knows
stealth is more premium this is pretty
rigid there's not a lot of depth deck flex here for especially for a
a 10 key a lot of the time you can feel like oh this is such a stiff keyboard
that's great but it's a 10 kilos or even like a 60 or something like a really
small small one and those small ones they barely flex even if they're
just cheap plastic lots of rubber feet on the bottom not just a couple strips
but like the whole bottom at least two-thirds of
the top here and even on the feet and both sides of the feet
when the feet are closed there's a rubber strip and up top it's just binary
up or down we have some media buttons
on the top row that's pretty standard you can function calculator bam
now we what you don't always see is a knob for volume
this one happens to be ratcheted
and doesn't have a top or bottom it just goes goes goes
then you've got big buttons for mute
those are really nice okay it looks like there's some indicators down here
there's a game mode game mode of course makes it so that when you hit the Windows key
the menu doesn't pop up that can be uh really disruptive in a game
another thing about these switches in particular as opposed to the non-pro
these ones are ready for 100 million keystrokes on the non-pro they're 50
million keystrokes uh why don't we weigh this thing with
our special scale i'll get this braided cable up off
the table for the weight 900 grams even a kind of
a good middle weight i would say like when you're at like 600
that's too light that's cheap um and when it's over a
thousand that's kind of when it's like a chunk 900 respectable so that is pretty much
it i do want to see how long this cable is can you unplug that
this is a braided cable i think if you get the non-pro it's not braided
this is 1.8 meters it seems to me pretty
good and it has the little keyboard picture on there which is always
uh appreciated when you're at the vacuum machine trying to figure out what the hell corresponds to what
that's nice uh you got six macro keys right there there's onboard
memory and processing you take stuff with you i think this is
a pretty good and good looking keyboard
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