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checking out the ducky shine mini a 60%
size keyboard with a whole lot more under the hood that initially meets the
eye Cooler Master neptun Series CPU
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next build click now to learn more despite the as expected excellent
build quality with you know it's aluminum housing and stuff right off the
bat there was some stuff I really didn't like about the shine mini some things
are good you can use the function modifier to access your F Keys volume
control arrow keys print screen Etc but its tiny layout means that it has to
make the best possible use of the keys
that it has and I really felt like not having a function key on the left hand
side requiring a function modifier to access escape and having TIY as the main
layer over there and the placement of the arrow keys in the second layer on
the right directly above the lone function key so you can barely get both
hands in there we're pretty serious sins then I uh I put on my actually
doing reviews instead of just hating on things based on initial Impressions hat
and checked out the stuff that came in the Box turns out you get a plastic dust
cover you get a key cap remover you get
a warranty card you get some replacement Laser eted Key caps and ah yes the
manual turns out ducky thought of everything that I just bitched about you
can use those replacement key caps and some really neat reconfigurability of
the keyboard to change the Escape key functionality add a contextual menu
button swap the priority of delete and backspace add another function key
wherever you want on the bottom row as long as you don't override both both of
your controls both of your alts Etc and
change the wi at the internet lock key to something a little more useful like
function or control freaking awesome we're off to a good start here now the
setup process for this is not as intuitive as I think ducky would like to
think it is it definitely require some trial and error the manual or the kind
of intimacy with the functionality of your keyboard that only certain people
will ever have but if you've got a reference in front of you it's pretty
quick to set up and even then it's not the kind of thing that you'll need to do
often anyway just hold function alt H to
enter the ducky advisor setup mode and
the appropriate keys will be eliminated Q quits the mode and if you press
anything else it'll guide you through the reconfig process using illuminated
numeric keys to change modes freaking awesome again and I haven't even touched
on lighting yet it's a ducky shine so of course there are lights and this time
it's not just single color lights we get dual LEDs in each key ke switch that can
operate alone or Blended together for a pretty satisfying variety of colors you
can change modes with function alt G from 100% back lit with any Blended
color you'd like just adjust each led by holding Z or X to reactive typing with
the same independent LED brightness controls to reactive mode with
randomized colors I actually really like this one to tripping balls mode also
known as completely random effects on every key all the time to wave mode
which is pretty self-explanatory to color cycling mode which just Cycles
through every available color to finally off mode which if you're using on a
ducky shine is is basically bad and you should feel bad one last lighting mode
is the custom mode which allows you to use the LED in the caps lock key to
determine what color you're setting then assign individual colors per key you can
save two userdefined schemes here that you can recall using functional V or B
which leaves us with the final feature one that I intentionally glossed over at
the beginning of this video and expected to give exactly zero cares about because
when Nick told me about it I was like but actually it ended up being one of
the my favorite features on this keyboard the mouse emulation key block
hold function and use WD to move the mouse cursor around you can also with
nearby Keys press left and right click and you can actually swap those around
with ducky advisor if you prefer and you can even move the scroll wheel up and
down the only unfortunate thing that's missing is that you can't middle click
the scroll wheel but the acceler ation curves are well tuned and overall it
works surprisingly well this whole review was done on my laptop without
touching the trackpad or a mouse and without getting frustrated I used my
keyboard for all my mouse movement now we just need a wireless one for media PC
users so conclusion time then it's a ducky so that means you get all the
things that go along with that there's Stellar reputation for build quality
genuine cherrymx key switches no software required for configuration of
any of its functionality which means everything it does works on any OS
anytime but that you can't really find tune things like if I wanted uh trip
balls mode to leave off out of the randomized pattern for
example but all that ducky goodness
comes with one big caveat here you need to decide if a 60% is right for you you
get the extra desk space especially on the right side where you move your mouse
with the ergonomic benefits that are associated with having your arms closer
together but you lose convenient access to a lot of keys on your keyboard that
you might find yourself missing at least for a while while you're still getting
used to it speaking of getting used to things deals aren't hard to get used to
and boy howdy have we got one for you today today's video is sponsored by mass
drop and they worked with ducky to bring you guys an awesome deal that is live
right now on the ducky shine mini in this video you can get it with cherrymx
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clear switches now I'm sure most of you have heard of Mast drop by now but if
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and to top it all off M drop is even giving away a ducky shine mini to one of
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I'm not going to read that out and you will be entered to win if you're already
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by mast drop on October 25th so thank you to Mast drop for sponsoring this
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thing though because this review of a ducky product features a deal on a for
mention product and apparent conflict of interest I feel like I should clarify
the arrangement Mass drop not ducky sponsored this video and they did so at
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