WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.520 I've unboxed a lot of keyboards on ShortCircuit over the years, but none have 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:12.440 been as bad, at least in terms of performance, as Red Magic's mechanical 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:12.440 keyboard, the GK001J. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.400 Not only is it wired, but it's wireless. 00:00:18.340 --> 00:00:25.760 [laughter] >> Really? Let's get it out of the box and take a 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:31.000 look so I can tell you just why I don't necessarily think that you should 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.000 purchase this keyboard. 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 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:42.399 like these plastic [music] covers. I mean, it kind of sucks that they use a 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:47.760 bunch of plastic, I guess, but uh makes it look protected. Here's the keyboard. 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:51.600 It's a mixture of plastic and aluminum. Mostly plastic though, so it's going to 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:57.199 be a little flexy cuz yeah, it's definitely not the most rigid thing. But 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 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:09.040 included like a keycap puller or a switch puller or a combination like this 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:12.080 guy. What else we got? Cable. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:13.840 Coiled cable. Okay, that's nice. It's 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:17.520 not enough to convince me to tell you that this keyboard is worth buying, but 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 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:24.880 wondering. Before I dive deeper into the keyboard itself, let me just take a 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. 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:33.040 >> It's hot swappable. >> It is. This one's stubborn. Why are you 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:36.720 so stubborn? There we go. Okay, whatever. It is hot 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:43.600 swappable. And this one has linear switches for gaming. 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:45.280 Oh my god, look at the flex on this. Cuz 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:48.399 why? Cuz the feet are on the sides. Yeah, I guess the feet are raised so 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:53.280 much. Oh, and it's got adjustable feet. Okay, that's always nice. And a little 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.880 holder for your 2.4 GHz dongle. God, I 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.040 love the word dongle. Whoever invented the word dongle, you deserve a raise. 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.000 You're probably dead by now, I guess, actually. So, maybe you deserve to be 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 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:11.599 that's a little transparent. And I like the like 01 generation win more games. I 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:16.400 like how gaming oriented it is. Like if you wanted a gaming keyboard, this is 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:21.840 definitely screaming gamer keyboard at me. Name Red Magic 3 mode mechanic. 00:02:20.160 --> 00:02:26.239 Mechanics keyboard. This is for mechanics only. Uh, you guys please, if 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 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:35.440 so flexible that you can actually like see the whole board bend in the middle 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:40.319 when I press. Honestly, not even that hard. The typing experience is perfectly 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:44.519 fine. I don't think I like these key caps, 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 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:55.920 you've got a little try mode switch back here. cable off or wireless. Um, and 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 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. 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, 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 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.840 here. I think it's kind of neat. And then they've got this like interesting 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:23.440 triangular kind of neat shape here. Uh 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 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 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 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 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:42.159 boy. So let's flip these feet up. Plug 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:45.280 it in. While the laptop boots up, I started 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:52.640 looking at the screen because it started doing things because it's got power now. 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:54.720 And look, one, two, three, four, 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:58.080 and then five. Excellent. [music] There's five images that cycles through. 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:02.080 Most of them are just red magic or something like their logo. And then you 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 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:11.280 I can't denounce [music] my first love. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:18.000 [ __ ] What was her name? Yuthi. I can't denounce my first love. Yuthi, I can't. 00:04:16.107 --> 00:04:22.720 [snorts] So, yeah, you get your own wall art, your own poster for Newi. If you 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 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 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 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 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:45.680 I also really like the kind of pudding style key caps that it comes with. Um, 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:49.040 they're not exactly shine through. In the dark, you might still be unable to 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:53.120 make out what character you're pressing if you know you're still kind of hunting 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:56.560 around for something, but um, otherwise it emits a pretty nice glow. Actually 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. 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:04.880 I know that on camera it actually looks really bright. It's not that bright in 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:08.080 person. This is actually remarkably dim unless I'm like, [music] "Oh, that's 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, 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.680 it's really clearly green. But from this angle, it's like really not like 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 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:26.240 like you don't you don't really see the tops of each key. Typically 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:30.639 >> typically people want north facing. >> Really? >> Yeah. Cuz it's better for uh shine 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, 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 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 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:46.479 actually want south facing. They're not really shine through key caps anyway. 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 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:54.000 camera, but just a little disappointed. It does have custom software. Does this 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 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 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:06.639 the LEDs on the top down. That's funny. 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:08.800 All right, day two, computer 2, and 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 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:16.720 error, but an error nonetheless. And so, I can't check out Red Magic's amazing 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 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:24.800 as these images here. And RGB, actually, I just realized I don't think I can 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:28.120 change the RGB. There's probably some hot commands. 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:36.400 Okay. Well, now is it just flashing red? Ooh. 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Okay, and away we go. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:28.880 118 99%. Well, if I was playing Final Sentence, I wouldn't be dead right now. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:34.160 That's good. I'd only have one mistake. But, uh, it's not bad. The reality is 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:41.120 the problem in this keyboard lies not in how it sounds 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.800 or how it feels. Um, it lies in how it 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:48.560 operates. You see, when the Labs tested this thing, they found that the average 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.400 latency was about 50 milliseconds. And 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:56.400 that's over a wired connection. When it went wireless, it got even worse. Not by 00:07:53.599 --> 00:07:59.520 a lot, but like yeah, that we shouldn't be seeing that on a wired connection. 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:05.039 Even a wireless connection shouldn't be as bad as 58 milliseconds on average. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:07.199 Our max was jeez 75. 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 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:15.039 really feel it? Let's play some Counterstrike. Honestly, I can't really 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:20.160 jiggle peek anymore. It was a a skill that well, muscle memory works pretty 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:24.000 well, but kind of goes away. 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:27.199 You know, it's incredibly minor, 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:30.879 but it's there. 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:33.919 Oh, yeah. It stops like just a little 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:36.240 bit after I want it to stop. And it 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:40.479 takes just like that what half a second to get going. Uh yeah, 50 milliseconds 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 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:48.959 going to get from your system processing as well as your display latency. Um and 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:53.279 it really adds up and it starts to make the whole experience. It just it starts 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? 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 00:09:01.839 --> 00:09:07.200 everyone else is probably going to have as long as they're using modern 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:11.519 peripherals anyway. But there are other games than just shooters that actually 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:14.880 really care about your keyboard inputs. I can't hear anything. Oh, this is going 00:09:12.959 --> 00:09:19.800 to suck. Okay. Well, realistically, I shouldn't need sound to do this. 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:30.080 The practice mode is easy enough, but I'm also doing this by inputting earlier 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:32.080 than I should have to. Um, not a lot. 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:36.640 you know, 50 millisecond isn't like a 110 ping kind of situation or anything, 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:40.959 but it's you can feel it. It's noticeable. And [sighs] I don't know, 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.120 you guys, I think if you really want this thing for whatever reason, you like 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 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 00:09:52.160 --> 00:09:57.120 $170, which I mean, you get a screen 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 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:04.399 that. And then my last complaint is the whole like win more games branding. I 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 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:13.360 going to be against that. But 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:15.040 it's a 1,000 hertz polling rate 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:21.120 keyboard. Gaming keyboards are up to like 8 kHz now. And even at 1,000 hertz, 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 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:30.560 recommend the GK001J mechanical keyboard from Red Magic? No, 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 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 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:46.079 buying just about anything else. 00:10:42.640 --> 00:10:48.399 Thanks for watching. This is a keyboard. 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 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:56.320 the cameras. Glenn's there, too. You can't see him either. But, uh, see you 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.320 in the next one.