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DH Drive air ae400 welcome to my unboxing an overview of whoa what the
gandas who's even heard of that before
the answer is probably not you because they are a brand new gaming peripheral
company and usually when you know some
random gaming peripheral company reaches out to me and says hey we'd like you to
check out our products I kind of look at their website and I'm just like H really
I don't know what you bring to the table but in this case they've actually
innovated which is pretty cool so there
are like I said brand new company that has brought some interesting things to
the table with the Hermes mechanical gaming keyboard so first and foremost
it's a mechanical gaming keyboard which of course you seen that before next up
it is Led backlight but if you check out their packaging they hardly even make
mention of the LED back lighting because
the sort of sad simple truth is nobody cares anymore because every gaming
mechanical keyboard is Led backlit so this particular one uses a red LED backl
okay so that's all fine and interesting so let's go ahead and get this baby
opened up so this is where they really got my
attention because ergonomically there's
not much that you can change about the layout of a keyboard for gaming without
messing it up for typing which is why companies like Razer have introduced
products like the orb weaver which is like a a keyboard replacement for gaming
so Gus's addition of gaming optimized Keys hasn't managed to bung up the
typing experience so we've still got long shifts long enter and long backspace and then we've got a bank of
macro Keys over here on the left hand side it should be noted that while I'm
pointing at particular macro keys the button the buttons are fully
reprogrammable on this keyboard you just have to use the included software so
they've added five here and instead of banks upon Banks of them they've actually added the other keys in places
that make a lot of sense to me so under the space bar is somewhere where you
could actually conceivably reach and then under the arrow keys if you use
your right hand on the arrow keys and your left hand with your mouse you can
actually use that as jump and then you've got a couple more functions right
here and then they've added a couple more keys above the right and left arrow keys which I think is really smart very
very cool so the included cord is using a braided design that
might feel a little bit thin and that might give it a bit of a sort of cheap
feel compared to some of the I think uh thermal takes branding is military grade
cable and it's like this thick around but I would I like the fact that you can
actually route it around things and it's
kind of difficult to do when you have not only the keyboard uh plug as well as
a USB pass through but also two audio
passrs for your headphone and microphone as well so so let's go ahead and have a
look at where those go so there's your uh pass through USB port you'll usually
plug your mouse into there as well as your pass through microphone and
headphone ports the overall build quality of the keyboard feels extremely
solid especially considering these guys are a newcomer so there's really not
much Flex to it at all I'm like wrenching on it in order to make it Flex
that much you've got two little feet down here that ah yes I haven't seen
this in a while I like this so you can see the entire tops of these are rubber
that means that it is still nonslip even
when they are raised so that you have a a higher inclination to the keyboard
love to see that that's one of my personal little like things that I like
so uh so anyway uh you've got a ton of
function key implementation things on here so for example your media keys are
accessible using function so right there is your back and forward as well as play
pause mute volume down and volume up you
can also enable game mode which will disable your Windows key and then
there's a whole bunch of other stuff over here including brightness up and brightness down so there are six
different brightness settings to this keyboard so we're going to go ahead and plug it in we'll be back in a moment a
few other things to talk about for the Hermes are the integration with your
system as well as with other Gams peripherals so for example when you have
multiple peripherals you can actually have them interact with each other and
as it detects supported peripherals it kind of like gears up your little guy
within the software which is kind of cool but not as cool I think as the
onscreen timer that you can enable and that should be noted that for any kind
of serious Esports competition having an onscreen timer would not really be
approved but when you're sitting at home playing or when you're practicing for
example you would certainly be able to use that functionality and you can also
set up voice alerts which is kind of neat as well so you could actually bind
any key you wanted to set up any timer you wanted or any voice alert you wanted
and you could switch between them with your profiles for example on the Fly
which I think is incredibly cool so they've managed to deviate from an all
black and red color scheme without it looking body so the gambas logo which is
actually Zeus if you look closely at it which happens to be their gaming mouse
as well we'll be checking that out soon is yellow but it contrasts nicely with
the rest of the keyboard and the whole thing actually looks very very good so
the other function uh functionality ha
that you have is you can switch between 1 to 10 gaming profiles up here there's
actually 512 kilobytes of onboard memory that allows the keyboard to uh save your
onboard profiles although you're going to want to set that up probably using
their Hara software anyway you can also
disable the functionality of the keyboard like you would on a laptop for
example using this one and then you've also got oh I'm sure yes ah here on the
Fly macro recording that is enabled using the function and control key so
again that relies on the Hera software in order to function correctly next up
you've got the cover oh yeah you get a couple gambus stickers included not that
that's a page taken out of razer's Playbook or steel series I think think
they also include them as well so the wrist rest I think is a really high
point for this keyboard because if you're anything like my wife you refuse
to use anything other than a steel series 7g not because you particularly
like Cherry MX black switches or because you particularly like the keyboard at
all in fact the layout has sort of a short back space which is terrible but
you like a nice big wrist rest the gandas has a huge wrist rest on their
Hermes keyboard and it doubles as a keyboard cover so you can go ahead and I
think it goes like that maybe it's like that there we go goes like something that's for sure there we go so you can
cover up your keyboard just like that which I think is very very cool it's
magnetic so getting it in place is not a problem just kind of put it close and
then it just snaps into place which means there's nothing to break no little
like plastic things here or anything like that I think this is one of the
smarter things that they've implemented about this particular keyboard you can
switch between six key rollover and N key rollover using the function key as
well so the advantage of nend key rollover is of course nend key rollover
you can press as many keys as you want without any ghosting or uh
non-registered key strokes but it can make compatibility with your motherboard
a little bit more difficult so you could switch to six key rollover for the best
possible compatibility and N key rollover for the best possible
functionality which leads us to the final thing this right here is a blue
cherrymx switch I'm just going to go ahead and turn off the uh the backl here
so oh yeah I can show you the six different backlight levels so it goes
all the way to brightness brightest then off oh that's pulsating rather sorry
let's go ahead and turn that off that's kind of nice all right that is a Cherry
MX Blue switch with what they're calling the gamus element around it in effect
this is sort of it's it's like it's a damper down there that what it does is
it makes the key bottom out a little bit earlier than it otherwise would so
gamdias is claiming this improves responsiveness by around 20% and can
improve the um well basically yeah
improves responsiveness and shortens the keystroke travel I personally don't like
it um just going to be completely upfront about that I find that
particularly with a Cherry MX Blue I'm
expecting it to bottom out and it feels a little bit weird to me however this is
my initial reaction I can't say for sure that I wouldn't get used to it over a
more extended period of time it's definitely a much shorter travel and if
you hear the sound
because you're not bottoming out because you're hitting that damper it has a
similar effect to something like an O-ring mod but it even feels a little
bit different than that because you're really going up against something that's under the entire key rather than
something that's just on the uh the top of the key or the bottom of the key cap
itself so this is the one thing that I'd say is kind of uh different about this
keyboard and I'll leave it to the
individual to decide whether you want your Cherry MX Blues messed with so to
speak or whether you prefer the more um
sort of vanilla Cherry MX Blue experience it definitely makes the key
travel shorter so if that's what you're looking for as Cherry MX Blue with a
shorter travel then this might be the one for you thank you for checking out
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does gambas have a chance as a new gaming peripheral company would you
consider it based on what you've seen so slick actually pointed out a couple
things to me about this keyboard I know the video was sort of done but we're back um number one is this is actually
kind of cool I didn't think of this but these uh spots right here are aligned
perfectly with the slots behind them meaning that you should be able to plug
them in blind fairly easily whether you're in the dark or whether you just
don't feel like looking over your keyboard like this I personally consider
that very very handy and definitely thumbs up for that next up is that it
looks like we could remove the gamus element quite easily if we preferred a
more um a more sort of traditional cherrymx blue experience see they come
right out so um there you go once that's
done we can definitely hear the
contrast between the two keys so it's much louder and we can also see in the
key travel
distance how much less the gam DS element one is so that's uh that's very
interesting this may actually be like a
pretty pretty ultimate grade keyboard especially if you have the option of
removing
this