1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,520 I've unboxed a lot of keyboards on ShortCircuit over the years, but none have 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:12,440 been as bad, at least in terms of performance, as Red Magic's mechanical 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,440 keyboard, the GK001J. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,400 Not only is it wired, but it's wireless. 5 00:00:18,340 --> 00:00:25,760 [laughter] >> Really? Let's get it out of the box and take a 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:31,000 look so I can tell you just why I don't necessarily think that you should 7 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,000 purchase this keyboard. 8 00:00:32,239 --> 00:00:38,960 It's got a plastic cover with a nice red Magic logo stamped onto it. You know, I 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,399 like these plastic [music] covers. I mean, it kind of sucks that they use a 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:47,760 bunch of plastic, I guess, but uh makes it look protected. Here's the keyboard. 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:51,600 It's a mixture of plastic and aluminum. Mostly plastic though, so it's going to 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:57,199 be a little flexy cuz yeah, it's definitely not the most rigid thing. But 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:02,079 you get a knob and you get a screen. And I think it's hot swap. Let's see if they 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:09,040 included like a keycap puller or a switch puller or a combination like this 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:12,080 guy. What else we got? Cable. 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,840 Coiled cable. Okay, that's nice. It's 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:17,520 not enough to convince me to tell you that this keyboard is worth buying, but 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:21,920 it is nice that it comes with a nicely coiled cable. USBC to A for any of you 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,880 wondering. Before I dive deeper into the keyboard itself, let me just take a 20 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:28,479 quick look and make sure if these are hot swap. I don't know if they are. 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:33,040 >> It's hot swappable. >> It is. This one's stubborn. Why are you 22 00:01:31,119 --> 00:01:36,720 so stubborn? There we go. Okay, whatever. It is hot 23 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:43,600 swappable. And this one has linear switches for gaming. 24 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,280 Oh my god, look at the flex on this. Cuz 25 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,399 why? Cuz the feet are on the sides. Yeah, I guess the feet are raised so 26 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:53,280 much. Oh, and it's got adjustable feet. Okay, that's always nice. And a little 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,880 holder for your 2.4 GHz dongle. God, I 28 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,040 love the word dongle. Whoever invented the word dongle, you deserve a raise. 29 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:02,000 You're probably dead by now, I guess, actually. So, maybe you deserve to be 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:07,759 raised from the dead. Now that we're looking at the back, I actually do like the kind of like smoked gray plastic 31 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:11,599 that's a little transparent. And I like the like 01 generation win more games. I 32 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:16,400 like how gaming oriented it is. Like if you wanted a gaming keyboard, this is 33 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:21,840 definitely screaming gamer keyboard at me. Name Red Magic 3 mode mechanic. 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:26,239 Mechanics keyboard. This is for mechanics only. Uh, you guys please, if 35 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:31,599 you're not a mechanic, I'm sorry. You're not licensed to use this keyboard. It's 36 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:35,440 so flexible that you can actually like see the whole board bend in the middle 37 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:40,319 when I press. Honestly, not even that hard. The typing experience is perfectly 38 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:44,519 fine. I don't think I like these key caps, 39 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:50,400 but you know, that's personal preference. Like a lot of modern mechanical boards, it is wireless. And 40 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:55,920 you've got a little try mode switch back here. cable off or wireless. Um, and 41 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,800 then here's our USBC cable where it says 5volt. What's that? 5 volt 1.5 amp. You 42 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:06,640 know, I don't know how often it's labeled the actual amperage and everything on the USBC cable uh port. 43 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:10,560 So, it's kind of nice to see. I don't know how necessary it is, but you know, 44 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:16,159 as for the rest of the design, like I said, it's super gamery. I actually kind of like the cool like break in plastic 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:21,840 here. I think it's kind of neat. And then they've got this like interesting 46 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,440 triangular kind of neat shape here. Uh 47 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,480 you can't see it too well on the camera, but it's got the brushed aluminum look 48 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,799 that some people like and some people don't like. But I want to turn this thing on. I want to take a look at the 49 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,640 screen. I want to see if the knob will actually work. I want to see what the 50 00:03:32,799 --> 00:03:39,360 RGB looks like cuz you better believe that there's going to be RGB in this bad 51 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:42,159 boy. So let's flip these feet up. Plug 52 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,280 it in. While the laptop boots up, I started 53 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:52,640 looking at the screen because it started doing things because it's got power now. 54 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:54,720 And look, one, two, three, four, 55 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:58,080 and then five. Excellent. [music] There's five images that cycles through. 56 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:02,080 Most of them are just red magic or something like their logo. And then you 57 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:08,400 get this cool anime waifu girl. She got pink hair. My heart goes out to her, but 58 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,280 I can't denounce [music] my first love. 59 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:18,000 [ __ ] What was her name? Yuthi. I can't denounce my first love. Yuthi, I can't. 60 00:04:16,107 --> 00:04:22,720 [snorts] So, yeah, you get your own wall art, your own poster for Newi. If you 61 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,680 really want to simp over uh Newer, come on. You got to This is what you got to 62 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,080 put on the wall. >> We'll get to how to actually turn this into a volume knob and control, you 63 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:36,800 know, the software and everything in a bit cuz I want to just, you know, talk to you about this uh nice RGB. I really 64 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:41,360 like this nice RGB kind of a strip of like little squares at the top here. And 65 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:45,680 I also really like the kind of pudding style key caps that it comes with. Um, 66 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:49,040 they're not exactly shine through. In the dark, you might still be unable to 67 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:53,120 make out what character you're pressing if you know you're still kind of hunting 68 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,560 around for something, but um, otherwise it emits a pretty nice glow. Actually 69 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,400 wish it was brighter. I'll try to turn it up in the software in a second here. 70 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:04,880 I know that on camera it actually looks really bright. It's not that bright in 71 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:08,080 person. This is actually remarkably dim unless I'm like, [music] "Oh, that's 72 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:14,000 why." as soon as you're looking at it like straight on and that's why it looks so right for you guys. Um then yeah, 73 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,680 it's really clearly green. But from this angle, it's like really not like 74 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,160 >> facing south facing. Like >> it does look like they're north facing. >> And is that why it's hard to see cuz 75 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,240 like you don't you don't really see the tops of each key. Typically 76 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:30,639 >> typically people want north facing. >> Really? >> Yeah. Cuz it's better for uh shine 77 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,639 through cuz the letters are I mean these are pretty centered but a lot of the time letters are closer to the top. So, 78 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,720 I don't know about you guys, but like when I'm typing, I'm not typically kind 79 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:42,240 of hovering over it like this. Uh maybe this is the one of those times where I 80 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:46,479 actually want south facing. They're not really shine through key caps anyway. 81 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,280 So, it would look a lot better to me. I mean, it looks great for you guys on 82 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:54,000 camera, but just a little disappointed. It does have custom software. Does this 83 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,680 turn up? It's not turning up volume yet on my computer. So, we'll install their 84 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,880 custom software and see if I can fix that. It's cool. I can see the pulse of 85 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:06,639 the LEDs on the top down. That's funny. 86 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:08,800 All right, day two, computer 2, and 87 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:12,560 we're still getting an error when we try to run the software. It's a different 88 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:16,720 error, but an error nonetheless. And so, I can't check out Red Magic's amazing 89 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:21,840 software where they're going to let me change the uh usage of the knob as well 90 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,800 as these images here. And RGB, actually, I just realized I don't think I can 91 00:06:23,039 --> 00:06:28,120 change the RGB. There's probably some hot commands. 92 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:36,400 Okay. Well, now is it just flashing red? Ooh. Okay. 93 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:42,400 So, yeah, there's hot commands to at least change the RGB. Now, let's do a quick typing test, but not before a word 94 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:46,319 from our sponsor, Corsair. 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But, uh, it's not bad. The reality is 104 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:41,120 the problem in this keyboard lies not in how it sounds 105 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,800 or how it feels. Um, it lies in how it 106 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:48,560 operates. You see, when the Labs tested this thing, they found that the average 107 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:50,400 latency was about 50 milliseconds. And 108 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:56,400 that's over a wired connection. When it went wireless, it got even worse. Not by 109 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:59,520 a lot, but like yeah, that we shouldn't be seeing that on a wired connection. 110 00:07:57,919 --> 00:08:05,039 Even a wireless connection shouldn't be as bad as 58 milliseconds on average. 111 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,199 Our max was jeez 75. 112 00:08:05,039 --> 00:08:11,199 It seems awful, [music] and I know that that's a lot of latency, but can I 113 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:15,039 really feel it? Let's play some Counterstrike. Honestly, I can't really 114 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:20,160 jiggle peek anymore. It was a a skill that well, muscle memory works pretty 115 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:24,000 well, but kind of goes away. 116 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:27,199 You know, it's incredibly minor, 117 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,879 but it's there. 118 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:33,919 Oh, yeah. It stops like just a little 119 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:36,240 bit after I want it to stop. And it 120 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:40,479 takes just like that what half a second to get going. Uh yeah, 50 milliseconds 121 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:45,040 on its own. I mean, it's not great. Uh now add in the extra 5 to 10 that you're 122 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,959 going to get from your system processing as well as your display latency. Um and 123 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:53,279 it really adds up and it starts to make the whole experience. It just it starts 124 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:59,760 and stops just a little bit slower than I'd like it to. Is it going to make you lose? 125 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:03,680 Probably not. Um but you're definitely losing out on just a bit of an edge that 126 00:09:01,839 --> 00:09:07,200 everyone else is probably going to have as long as they're using modern 127 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,519 peripherals anyway. But there are other games than just shooters that actually 128 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:14,880 really care about your keyboard inputs. I can't hear anything. Oh, this is going 129 00:09:12,959 --> 00:09:19,800 to suck. Okay. Well, realistically, I shouldn't need sound to do this. 130 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:30,080 The practice mode is easy enough, but I'm also doing this by inputting earlier 131 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:32,080 than I should have to. Um, not a lot. 132 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:36,640 you know, 50 millisecond isn't like a 110 ping kind of situation or anything, 133 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:40,959 but it's you can feel it. It's noticeable. And [sighs] I don't know, 134 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:45,120 you guys, I think if you really want this thing for whatever reason, you like 135 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:50,160 the way it looks or you just like really like Red Magic, it's okay. It's a 136 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:55,360 keyboard. Uh I probably wouldn't pay the price for it. I think it's like $160 or 137 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:57,120 $170, which I mean, you get a screen 138 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,480 that's cool, but I don't know. I don't think I'm personally willing to pay for 139 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:04,399 that. And then my last complaint is the whole like win more games branding. I 140 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:09,760 mean, sure, it's gamer and like that's fine if that's what you're into. I'm not 141 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:13,360 going to be against that. But 142 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:15,040 it's a 1,000 hertz polling rate 143 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:21,120 keyboard. Gaming keyboards are up to like 8 kHz now. And even at 1,000 hertz, 144 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:25,839 let me tell you, 50 millisecond is not great when it comes to games. So, can I 145 00:10:23,279 --> 00:10:30,560 recommend the GK001J mechanical keyboard from Red Magic? No, 146 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:35,839 I can't recommend it to you. Especially at the MSRP of $200. It's sure it's down 147 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:42,640 to like 160 now, but even at that price, I just I think you're so much better off 148 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:46,079 buying just about anything else. 149 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:48,399 Thanks for watching. This is a keyboard. 150 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:51,600 I'm PLO. This is ShortCircuit. That's Belle. You can't see him. He's behind 151 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:56,320 the cameras. Glenn's there, too. You can't see him either. But, uh, see you 152 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,320 in the next one.