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it's been a while since I looked at a keyboard with enough RGB to fill my soul

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with goodness and light and angry meow is kind of promising to do that today

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with their am neon 80 because it's a

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synthwave reminiscent keyboard that is

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supposed to be filled with holes that's

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right holes they've drilled over 3,000

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holes into this thing and I'm really excited about it because about 3 years

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ago to the very day I opened the cyberboard R3 and I love it I don't care

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what you guys say I love that keyboard and so we're going to look at this one

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today just out of the box we got our keyboard here I'll unveil it in a moment

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and then we've got some leaf springs because in true am fashion they've kind

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of move to using leaf springs as their main mounting system and while I'm not

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crazy about it because I don't Tinker too much once I've got my keyboard

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finished this lets you do that it's got apparently 12 total different stages

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that you can set it to cable I don't normally comment on how smooth and soft

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the cable feels people are complaining because it's an expensive keyboard we'll

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talk about price later and at the price point you don't get the nice coiled

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cable that's a fair complaint I'll be honest though this is it's just really

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soft and smooth and feels good to touch it's not super long this is probably

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like a 3ft cable so that's a little disappointing I would like to see a

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longer one but it's USBC to see one really nice thing though is it is

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labeled as a 100 wat cable love to see

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it because people often don't label their USBC cables and then you get the

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cable and you plug it in and it's not charging right because it's

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not sorry and something else I just found out it's magnetic and in true

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angry meow fashion this whole thing comes in this beautiful case that is a

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little overbuilt but you know what the keyboard's very expensive so I get why

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they put it in such a nice case what's

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really cool is that on the bottom of the briefcase esque box we've got a bunch of

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specs and stats for our keyboard it's mostly our model number voltage stuff

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like that it's uh wired only for reasons

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we'll get to in a moment but this thing

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can allegedly draw up to 12 Watts

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because of all the LEDs that are installed and then we've also got in

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this little bag here it looks like it's just a spare piece of foam for one of

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the many foam layers that are I that I am sure are inside this keyboard today

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that we're going to check out I'm going to keep this handy in case I need it because you never know the

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unveiling it's

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heavy oh my gosh it's been a while since

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I've had one of these thick boys on the

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desk this is absolutely stunning it is

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just a giant thick sheet of aluminum and

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oh my gosh I I love it on the bottom uh

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we've got what looks to be oh my God it's three peels

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two three we've got the classic angry meow catpaw logo there's a ton of holes

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in this bad boy so if you got Trypophobia I would just turn away right

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now cuz you're going to get Eed out but I love it and apparently there's a bunch

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of RGB they've got over 300 LEDs uh below the surface here to

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light up this whole keyboard on the top on the front on the sides and on the

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switches hence the clear key caps they're calling it four dimensional cuz

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there's four dimensions of lighting I don't know about that but you know what

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sure it's great I really like the type feel these are icy silver Pro V2

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switches they look and sound pretty good

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that is creamy not much rattle if any in the

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space bar oh same with the shift enter

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it's all good don't get me wrong you might be paying a lot of money but the

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quality is there is it worth that much I don't know that's for you to judge but I

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will say it feels solid you're not going to get this thing and then feel completely ripped off it's so hard to

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lift up partly because you can't really get your fingers underneath it because

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the rubber feet are very thin and then on the back here we've got this

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indentation it looks like they're wireless charging stuff but there's no

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battery in here so I don't know if the plan was to fit a couple of 5,000

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milliamp hour batteries and then they just said nope it doesn't have enough

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juice because apparently it doesn't it's just too much light too much RGB it's

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14.56%

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just put holes in it easy peasy 3,000 of

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them it's actually really difficult to machine them out but they've done it

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those mad Lads USBC in the middle some

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of you care some of you care about the left side or the right side I'm a middle

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kind of guy personally so this actually suits me pretty well comes in three

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different colors cyber gray space silver and Cloud white looks like we've got our

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cyber silver it's so shiny it's very Apple do you think it's Apple just okay

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yeah it does look like the finish on your MacBook bring your MacBook over here this one's darker it's better I

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like mine more and one of the best parts is if you don't like these switches for

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whatever reason I actually really like them so far I do believe this is hot

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swap even though I didn't see it mentioned like anywhere I found one

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review yep no problem easy peasy oh

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these are so pretty just crystal clear it does also come in a little bit

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cheaper DIY version that you'll have to put together yourself so if you want to

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buy that one go ahead I want to play plug this thing in though I got to see

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the RGB it's so shiny like I can't wait

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to see the just explosion of color apparently uh you need a motherboard

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with a USB 3 port and I guess USBC like

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it's kind like it's it's giving you a ctoc cable instead of the typical c a

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cable uh and I mean it's delivering 100 Watts because this thing is going to eat

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through that power and they actually have a little bit of warning on about

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how you need a good enough power supply for it 12 Watts it's fine you're not

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going to you know you could probably run this on whatever but you are going to need a motherboard with USB 3 but before

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now we've got everything set up let's plug it in it in plug it

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in you can customize it of course so we

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put ShortCircuit on there and oh my gosh it's so pretty and then let me see

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what else we can do F10 turns it onor off that's pretty cool F9 turns my RGB

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honor off for my keys that's why you got them sweet sweet clear uh key caps oh

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and then you've got a bunch of modes so you can just change like full colors all

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the modes oh oh

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oh let's hit the lights let's hit the lights

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wow I don't want to pay for it but I want this thing oh and I haven't even

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looked at the side yet oh my God or the front wow I man I love this thing but

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how does it how does it type I I say it feels good but you know oh wow they got

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their am neon 80 software just ready to

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go here it supports qmk vile and their

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own software layer 1 layer two layer

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three layer four that's pretty cool seems easy enough to do ooh lighting

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effects Library oh that's cool you got a bunch of presets that you can change it

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to and yeah like uh kind of like the uh

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cyberboard you can change this Matrix to whatever you want um so you can make

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your own custom pattern patterns and like you like I mean you saw the short

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circuit logo and the LTT logo um you can do whatever you want and if this isn't

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enough for you you can download other Json files that other people have

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uploaded for their own lighting effects uh so you can share if you want you know

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so you make something really cool you want to give it to your friend or just the community you can do that I'm not

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going to do that the angle is a little less Steep and I kind of like it it's

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it's much flatter and uh it's a bit more pleasant to type on some people like a

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really high angle I'm like okay with it I don't hate it but this is preferable

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to to me let's go sounds so

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good 11298 you know what oh it feels and

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sounds just so good that space bar is just that nice

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little extra kind of deep sound to it as you just jump through the words man can

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I just take this back with me I have three other keyboards on my desk I will

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swap all of them for this guy and the a cool thing is as well is it's really

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easy to take apart came with these little Hex wrenches for you so if you do

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want to Tinker you can just go ahead and pop those out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight screws

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that's not too bad my real complaint is only the cable I I know it's 100 watt

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and the more bandwidth or power you try to push through cables the shorter

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they've got to be before they start losing signal strength and I get it I

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just really wish that it was a bit longer cuz uh it's really short honestly

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other wise I think the only thing to complain about is the price if you want

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the base kit because you already have a bunch of other stuff you've got switches

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key caps stabilizers whatever

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$516 that's a lot if you want more if you want it to come fully decked out

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kind of like we got right here you're looking at

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$656 it's a hard pill to swallow uh I

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personally I I can't say I would buy it

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it's so tough like I want to uh but I

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can't and that's so disappointing cuz it's it's incredibly beautiful but what

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do you think you think it's worth it you think it's not let us know in the

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comments below and Shout at me and tell me why I don't

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need the am neon 80 this synthwave

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awesome keyboard that I so desperately want to steal thanks for watching Short

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Circuit this is a big

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keyboard goodbye