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open source what does that mean to you does it sound like software does it

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sound like i don't know some kind of philosophy

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or could it maybe be something a little bit

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more this is system 76's latest product it's

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called the launch configurable keyboard and as it its name suggests it is a

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configurable keyboard i'm not sure where the launch name comes from probably

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because of the uh galaxy theming here

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so there's not a whole lot going on on the packaging for what is a very very

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exciting product so let's pull this out

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there we go nice

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oh wow oh it's actually really fancy on the inside ready for launch welcome to

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the launch keyboard crew we're happy to have you on board the configurator will

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allow you to adjust your flight path to your liking at any point along your journey unlike

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they're so nerdy make a difference at warp speeds and most importantly have

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fun ah that's that's really that's really cute

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just grab it and oh oh that's

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that is substantial it's a lot heavier than i thought it would be i mean

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obviously it's got a all metal chassis

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get back to that in a second let's dig through the rest of the box uh we've got

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a nice braided usb type c cable here very nice actually

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type c to a so this is a 3.0 cable

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this is a nice braided c to c cable and we've

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got a bunch of replacement keys so we can set uh we can

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get different size escape keys is that right so this is the escape key here use

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the key puller here so if i pull off this escape key here

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okay yeah so these are jade switches so they're

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they're clicky so how does this larger escape key work

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presumably this would go like somewhere else you can remap this keyboard to

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basically do whatever you want so you can re you can type in like you put in

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like a b c d e f g and like set it up in

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the configurator so that it actually works alphabetically

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it actually matches your layout so i guess that's what these are for i don't know maybe if you replace tab maybe tab

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or caps lock who needs caps lock let's just do

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that we have different color escape keys that we can use so i can use another

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blue one over here i really want it oh well

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put the tilde key back in so that's that um one other thing that i can do is i

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should be able to just pull these key switches off

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there we go so if you have your own

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key switches then you can replace these jades with whatever you want basically

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as long as it's this uh cherry style mount with the two

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pins here it's something you're seeing a lot more these days uh it's basically

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the perfect way to customize your keyboard like you can have a mix of

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different keys like you can have caps lock feel like something different

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there's also this little uh like a stand almost

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and that just attaches magnetically oh that's cool

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and it raises up your keyboard for you which i

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i love how smooth that looks like i'm not sure if you can see that there's

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basically no seam they've precision crafted this like

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it is it is awe-inspiring i mean maybe maybe that's

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being a little bit too glowing but like

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it's not this is a level of detail you don't often see

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the point of the keyboard is

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you can do whatever you want with it so you can remap all the keys like you

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can rearrange all the keys remap them to whatever you want you can make it so

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that this function gives you another layer so you can have like macros or

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whatever uh you could have multiple layers like

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that and uh it just passes through

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different keystrokes for each of these functions

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probably the most configurable keyboard you can get would be the one that you

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build yourself but probably one of the more customizable

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ones you can buy so you plug plug this guy in

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like so you also get an integrated usb hub

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so you have two more type c's as well as

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two type a's just kind of chilling

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i can weigh it taking a lot of direction from jono today that means i'm not doing

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a very good job i'm just trying to

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let me help you this is uh this is pretty hefty here 867

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grams 1.9 pounds

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so it is basically a weapon and when you add

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this how much is this 0.182 pounds

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which would make it i think a full kilogram didn't it

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almost 950 grams that's um that's pretty heavy

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yeah there's no such thing as deck flex on this board though like if you try

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hard enough you're just gonna bust it but one thing i am noticing

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on the back here there's no such thing as like a security

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screw all of these are phillips screws and

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they're like kind of inviting do you have a screwdriver

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membership neat these are these screws so in order

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to not strip out or even mark the uh

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aluminum enclosure they use these little plastic cups almost so you drop the

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screw into that and it just screws down into it i don't know if you

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can see that but it is ridiculously thoughtful it's almost like they want

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you to take this thing apart this is open source hardware you can build this

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on your own if you want

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probably not you 3d printed why not actually there are cnc uh

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like websites kind of like 3d printing sites now so you can actually get custom cnc done

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all right let's see what happens when we drop this

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panel off there's not a whole lot on the inside

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this is part of how they got that structural

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rigidity this is thick

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what we're looking at back here though we've got this

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probably either the keyboard's controller chip or the usb hub i can't

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quite make out but over here you can see that there's actually a little test

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point here and i guess presumably if you really wanted to you can

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either probe or yeah abr isp so that would basically

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let you unbrick it if you were to break the firmware here

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so that's pretty cool these little bumps here obviously if you

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look around the other side they match up with the actual keys themselves

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these are the hot swap sockets and i think the the reason why

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the leds are on the back here as well is because

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these hot swap sockets need a certain amount of clearance in order to actually

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work properly so that is a design consideration that they actually made um

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i saw somebody asked a question about that which is actually

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really cool like you can talk to their actual engineers on twitter it's pretty

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great can you tell that i like system 76

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so let's talk about the actual feel of the keyboard now from what i can feel

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well i mean they're they're jades they feel pretty good the keycaps themselves

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feel like they're pretty good as well i think they might be dye sub

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so yeah it's just fine you can replace them later if you want

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uh the split space i think for me anyway would take a little bit of getting used

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to but one thing that it does do is it gives you a

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much more stable space bar than a traditional long format space bar would

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be so you can actually map one of these to

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something completely different if you'd like

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yeah this one is backspace this is forward space

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i think i would actually prefer it with the 15 degrees of incline

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that this provides yeah that's that's a little more natural

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for me anyway but yeah i actually quite like it it's compact without being like

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too compact you're not missing a whole lot of keys you've got your page

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up and page down you've got home and end you have delete and backspace here you

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have all the f keys interestingly there's no um

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what is it called properties key you know the thing that gives you like uh

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like a context menu like right clicking but it's something you can put back in

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because it's a it's completely customizable in fact this actually is

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qmk compatible as well so if you're used to that

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there you go i think the only thing left to do is to like plug it in and see what it's

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actually like eh yeah let's do it

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so if i want to do something with uh

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this here spacebar let's say i want to want that space to

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be backspace let's see what happens here um

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backspace okay testing backspace

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oh yeah yeah i i

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i went to hit spacebar with my left hand or my right hand

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and it deleted the g that's

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it worked that's it doesn't even need you to like

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hit apply or anything it just it just does it if i wanted uh

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the alt key to be where the super key is i can just do that left alt and this can

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now be left super this can be function okay so that's

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that's now alt so if i wanted to replace

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those keys so that's now alt that's now function

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and that is now super that might take a little bit of getting used to but you

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know depending on who you are that may not be a problem but yeah you can rearrange this layout

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to your heart's content you can do whatever you want with it

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uh what they have for patterns as far as the RGB goes right now it's on

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100 brightness it's on space-time right now

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looks like it's just a moving rainbow bound keys only oh so this just lights

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up all the keys in your in the current layer that are actually used for

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anything so if i were to hit function a lot of these keys will blank

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out because they have no functions but they have these keys over here do have

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functions splash down so that's like your lighting propagation

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thing like you press a key and it just like propagates out it's the only thing

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that's really left to talk about is the price so

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it starts at 285 dollars

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i don't know what your problem is jono mechanical keyboards is a expensive

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hobby it sounds like a lot of money which is because it is

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but the thing is you're getting a really

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well engineered keyboard that is completely open completely

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customizable works on Linux macOS and Windows you

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can basically do whatever you want with it i do not think this is a bad price

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for what you're getting considering what the options are

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it's exorbitant and i wouldn't personally

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spend that much money on a keyboard but this thing feels pretty indestructible

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and it is very configurable

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screw you jonno it's a lot of money but i i can't not recommend it for somebody

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who's looking for a custom mechanical keyboard for everybody else it's a bad

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deal okay just so we're clear you can get like a 80 keyboard like a red dragon

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or a g skill or something like that and be perfectly happy but if you are a

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keyboard nerd you um you would do well

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to look at this and you'd do well to

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like and subscribe and check out more ShortCircuit videos in

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the future screw you jenna maybe maybe i could kill someone with

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this