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hi officially licensed character are you ready to build a keyboard why yes I am

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officially licensed character I would love to build a keyboard we're going to

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build a keyboard with the Mel geek pixel world's first brick compatible keyboard

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it's a keyboard that you can then attach bricks to you might be familiar with a

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few Brands I can't say those Brands but we're gonna use them and have some fun

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canvas dots small big Minds B mechanical

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keyboard pixel Fun World mail geek wow

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so there's a product manual uh welcome to the pixel world I'm actually pretty

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excited about this thing it's pretty neat on their website you can make your

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own designs and stuff and then share that with the community or grab someone

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else's and then make it look however you want otherwise though I haven't built this thing yet but I'm pretty stoked

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what else we got on the back oh cool there's a bunch of different shortcuts

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and stuff this is a wireless keyboard which is pretty cool it's got like a

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3100 milliamp hour battery not only are there shortcuts and layers that you can

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do uh right out of the box but they have their own software that you can then

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customize as much as you want as well you make your own design and then you

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print it out and then you cut it and then you put it under the keycaps

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because the keycaps aren't the same like

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what you do is you put a switch in and then you put bricks

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over top of the switch in between the switch and the keycap we've got the van

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Gogh stuff so that's cool I don't know how that's going to go you get it

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because it's Van Gogh oh these are cool I like how they're bricks oh my God

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that's clever okay you see how these are like little bricks I don't even know

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what the point is of these but that's neat I love the boxes already uh sure

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there's going to be a lot of unusual things in this because of the way

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they've built it and Incorporated the brick compatibility so even the USB

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dongle it's got these little bricks on here so you can stick stuff onto this oh

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my God look at that that's my USB dongle already this is amazing I already love

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this thing can I just buy this after oh here's the cable also brick themed it is

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killing me having to say brick themed on the USB a side of the cable you've got

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like a six piece brick that you could put up here and then on the USB b side

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you've got four piece brick on either side which is great so you can do tons

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of customization past what you normally code with a regular keyboard they've

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gone with this like rubberized Style as well I've seen this in other cables

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specifically like flat SATA cables but I've never seen this on a keyboard cable

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so that's pretty neat oh cool they've got their own bricks you can get these

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kits in three different color ways I think and what that will do is gives you

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extra like brick color add-ons so that you can change the basically the color

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palette of it I don't know why they went with Christian though is it like it's

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got got wearing God's brick house now black red purple lavender rather yeah so

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it looks like these are definitely just aesthetic I normally don't really like

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extra little plastic bits here but I'll be honest this is really cute and it's

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really on theme so I'm gonna give them a pass here orange or like a tangerine uh

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Yelp green I almost said yellow I don't know why and blue and then we got the

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keyboard so I guess what the real question is is like is this keyboard

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going to actually be any good we'll talk about the price later but it's

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definitely not cheap what the hell is this it says open me and it says next

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page but like there's nothing else there

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oh you guys see this what

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that's odd awesome Okay so the minor thing but it's actually

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thing already looks super cool it's obviously pretty big like it's it looks

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like it's about a tkl there's a lot of extra space on all the sides but what

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you're meant to do is take your bricks are you sure we can't say what about

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what about Mega Blocks uh the bottom as well can be bricked out

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in whatever kind of design you want yeah I don't know it's just super customizable one of the nice things as

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well is the angle so right now it's it's like flat like this is super flat but

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what you can do is they should have feet in here I'm not sure if that's these

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guys or not but you get feet and then you put bricks down and then you put the

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feet over the bricks so you've got this perfectly customizable typing angle

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which is actually really cool a big complaint for me a lot of the time is

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the inability to adjust feet I love keyboard feet I love the adjustability

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but with this you're gonna get basically whatever you want you want to do

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something stupid you want to do like like this tall I don't even know what

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angle that is anymore but you can do that I don't know why you would but you

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could on top of that you got brick excess three options on the sides as

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well this is like a on and Powerless and wireless switch because it does do

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wireless it's got a battery in here and Bluetooth and 2.4 G if you want to use

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Wi-Fi this whole thing is plastic and it feels pretty similar to The Brick

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plastic used but you obviously see all these gaps and stuff especially the type

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C part right here you just end up with all these gaps and it's really a minor

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issue but after dealing with a lot of more expensive keyboards that are CNC

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aluminum and like meant to fit perfectly and seamlessly together it's something

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that you notice and it has sort of a cheaper feeling which I guess is a

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little unfair because the way this thing is constructed that's just bound to

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happen I would love to take this apart unfortunately we don't really have time

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otherwise some cool features are the dongle is supposed to fit under here

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check this out oh my God my only complaint right here is I wish that they

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had an insert or something so that you could like actually physically Stick it

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to the inside of the board now I've got it in there and that's

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great I love the little compartment but I mean you move this thing at all and

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it's going to Rattle around which is just kind of annoying not only are the switches custom they're custom t or L

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switches from kale they've got their own custom profile called MLG and then what

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they're doing with the keycaps is Nifty between the switch and the keycap

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there's actually a brick let me get this open there we go I can now take all of

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these guys these printed out things and then I just take this I put it in there

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and then look it's not the best example because it's

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scroll lock and you can hardly see but now my little bit of artwork is inside

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that and what you can do is you can take these and like put them over the entire

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keyboard so that now you've got this like cool whatever style you want to put

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on here you can get blank completely

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clear keycaps but the numbered and lettered and characterized ones come

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standard with the kit but that'd be super cool to get a fully blank set and

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then you just print off like whatever imagining you want to do and throw it in

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there super customizable super fun these have got to be the feet because there's

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four of them and yeah they feel a little rubbery cool to install the little

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rubber feet that you get with it it's pretty easy you just make like a four

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pattern and then you pop them right in the middle here

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and I'll just kind of slot in just like that

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um yeah I actually really want to get a cool typing angle on this so let's do

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that their bricks are not that that great um I think that if you can find your own

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brand bricks that you like personally you should just stick with those okay

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the ultimate feat for the ultimate typing angle and you can go more extreme

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than this this is just about as big as I think it would be comfortable

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I know I love this actually this is actually a much more comfortable

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experience for me personally typing at this angle on such a flat device my

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wrist might hate me after like an hour of typing like this I don't know but

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right now it feels comfortable at the very least all right let's take the switch out uh we've got the tactile ones

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this little green and white housings I actually really like these a lot I don't

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know if they come pre-lubed it doesn't really sound or feel like it or if it is

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it's pretty light but you know they're not bad I would be perfectly okay with

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using this and they're five pin so we're gonna plug it in type on it a bit more

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devices on this thing wirelessly and then swap it with the hotkeys so we're

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actually going to try to use the dongle today and see how good the dongle is cool oh oh that's my problem with defeat

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and these bricks that they come with I tried to slide the keyboard forward and

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it instantly broke one of the feet so we're just we're gonna keep this here

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and it's not gonna move really cool idea get your own bricks here we go

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okay 94 words for a minute 96 accuracy

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it's not my best and absolutely part of it is because of the weird way that

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these cups work once you push down if you go to type somewhere else because

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it's all super flat if you're really quick and you don't move your fingers up

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enough you're gonna get caught in between some of the keys I'm not crazy about the profile I've never been super

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big on a lot of flat profiles but I think that when it's like a chiclet

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style and there's basically no cups involved it's a lot easier to type maybe

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that's just me I think that the angle kind of helps like if I were to do that

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again with it completely flat um maybe it would be better I'm not sure at least

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we can adjust it basically as much as we want as for the keyboard itself though

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and how it feels and sounds it's pretty decent it honestly yeah like the it's

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definitely a more premium keyboard it costs a fair bit of money but you're

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definitely getting something for all of that money spent one thing I'm not crazy

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about is the sort of clear look so I think that me personally I would

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actually tear off all of these little clear guys and I would build on top of

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this this just goes to show how much you can actually customize this thing on top

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of that their app will let you change function layers and macro keys and

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whatever you want it'll hook up to up to eight devices which is great you can go

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to their website and then kind of like paint your own thing per pixel it's not

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pixel art but like when you're talking about blocks like this it kind of it's

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basically the same thing we can take Linus's face if we wanted and just like

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put it on the keyboard let's get some stuff on here Gamers we're gonna you

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know just throw a bunch of people on here but like imagine if you had the

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time to sit down and actually build something incredibly cool like a whole

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scene over here and like around your keyboard and stuff got a sign here

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what's the sign say only the best of course that's going on the front and it

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fits our white aesthetic you can like put a wheel down here somehow I mean

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this would fit actually boom fits right here sick amazing who needs a knob when

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you've got a spin wheel that does absolutely nothing except for looks

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super cool is this a bit of an Unholy creation yes but you know what I think

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it's pretty sick inside the keyboard as well while I haven't opened it their

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website does show off a bunch of layers of both pour on foam and uh silicone so

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you're getting the sound dampening and honestly I believe it uh it feels and

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sounds pretty decent here and you get some of this

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I have no idea if they've lubed the stabilizers or what they're using maybe

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they're clipping maybe they're screwing I'm not sure but either way they're

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actually pretty decent there's like zero rattle in that

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I guess the only really limiting factor is you're kind of stuck to this single

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layout so if you're not a big fan of tkl this might not be the keyboard for you

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and the funny thing is most people get tkl because it's a you know shaving off

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like this much of the keyboard so you can fit more stuff on your desk uh

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you're not really doing that with this this is about the size of a full-size

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keyboard we're pretty damn close they're using regular switches as well so if you

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don't like this kind of see-through keycap look what you can do is you can

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put whatever you want on here get your own custom keycaps maybe get some really

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fancy ones slap them on and type away

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the problem that some people are gonna have uh this

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entire base kit that we got today 280 and that's for the pre-order it's

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actually I think regularly 300 bucks now

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you get everything you're not just buying a base kit you've got switches

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you've got keycaps you've got the board itself and it is Wireless which is

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always going to cost a bit more money so what it comes down to is whether you

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think something this Niche and this cool is the keyboard for you honestly I think

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for a lot of people they're totally willing to pay the uh brick tax and so

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they're perfectly fine with spending a bit of money on something like this I'll

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tell you right now that I don't think you're going to be that disappointed

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especially because it's hot swap even if you buy it and you don't like the kales

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whether you get the linears or the tactiles you just switch them out with

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something else and off you go not only is this super customizable but it's just

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very versatile because you're getting both Wireless and wired options so it's

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kind of hard to go wrong I mean it it's expensive but it's not not crazy

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expensive in the world of custom keyboards if you want to take a look at

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another kind of interesting keyboard check out the am Alpha by Angry meow

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it's an ALICE layout with a bit of a Twist it's pretty cool