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you've seen me talk about a lot of keyboards you've seen me talk about a lot of displays but what about the EPO

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maker rt100 as you can see here it's got the optional smart screen and our box is

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checked off I swear to God if we open this thing and it doesn't have the

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screen included I'm going to be so mad we've also got some switches from impo

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maker they're Flamingo switches I've never tried these but they're pink and

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they look cool so I'm excited and we've got a little card for Maple maker that

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says they want to thank us for supporting their Community I haven't bought any EPO maker keyboards before

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but you know I've never heard anything bad I've never heard anything particularly good so let's open the box

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and give it a shot as we've got on the back actually I want to look first it's

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got a customizable knob Wireless could driver I think that's supposed to be

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Cloud gasket structure double sound

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absorption built-in lithium battery so this thing is Wireless it's got a 5000

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milliamp hour battery and Innovative smart screen on top of

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full Keys hot swappable and I don't know what the refined stabilizer is I get

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what they mean by refine to stabilizer but I don't really understand the

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graphic that they've chosen it's like a little gear Cog and there's a switch and

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there's a circle around it I don't get how that is a stabilizer but whatever

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it's supposed to be a retro design and I can see that it's pretty apparent with

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the like brown and gray the enter key is upside down for some reason we'll fix

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that if you like an 1800 layout it's kind of like that with the navigation

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cluster in the bottom here but like it's compressed so it's not a

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full keyboard but you're really only saving like half an inch to an inch

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compared to a tkl which can shave off like a couple inches of space well I

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guess more than that actually user manual for the smart screen see this I

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actually need to know click the sketch pad menu click adjust screen time and

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then what else we got we got a cable okay it's got this like fake leather

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cable tie so I guess it's just pleather oh it feels like kind of okay

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um and then it's got the absolutely thickest USB cable I have ever had the

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pleasure of handling we've also got our switch and keycap puller and then

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there's something in this foam box it's the display oh my God

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this is our little little mini TV thing

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that we slip on to the end of the keyboard I'm guessing because it's got

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like what looks to be a USBC connector it looks pretty cool it's like an old

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CRT monitor it's not very big this is probably like an inch by one inch uh

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well an inch by whatever three quarters of an inch is and then it looks like

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it's just plugged in through USBC on the bottom here it normally houses the

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dongle and it's actually kind of nicely labeled too 2.4 gigahertz RF transceiver

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looks pretty good I actually like the labeling and this will house your dongle

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however I don't want the dongle I don't

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like how flimsy it kind of feels just seated through USBC I wish there was a

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better like rail system or some kind of lock so it's a little Wiggly but to be

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fair once it's on your desk and you're not moving like it's not going to move around anyway that's not like you're

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constantly touching the monitor or something like that so whatever

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it's a tri-mode keyboard so you can do Windows Mac I guess Linux probably too

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and it'll basically go through oh there's a little on off switch it's got

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south facing RGB for those of you who care and then it's also got you can go

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between Mac or Windows which will probably just change your like Windows

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key to a command key if you don't want to use the dongle but you also don't

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want to keep it wired it does have Bluetooth 5.0 so you can connect through

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Bluetooth I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but you know do whatever

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you want it's got flip up feet adjustable

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so two stage actually before I do I'm going to take this monitor off before I

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start flipping the keyboard around because like I said it already felt kind of flimsy in there and I went to go move

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it and it was leaning up against the table and yeah just not good

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it's plastic construction so a lot of you out there who are like metal only

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it's it might not be the keyboard for you however honestly I think it's pretty

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tasteful especially with the Retro look it definitely looks and feels like like

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old plastic from back then with a little bit of that like beige kind of tinge to

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it and honestly because it's wireless if you do want to travel around with this

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thing lighter is kind of better and so for a wireless keyboard I don't mind at

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all that it's not metal personally speaking of weight let's see how much it

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weighs under a kilo so it's just over two

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pounds which means to travel with it yeah it's really not that bad if it was

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a full metal keyboard CNC aluminum we're probably talking at least like three or

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four or five pounds at least it doesn't feel like really cheap it is pretty

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flexible but I don't know not in a bad way

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and I personally really kind of dig it especially the

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knob one kind of minor thing that I noticed right away though is it's a

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separate housing on the bottom than it is on the top so this little play button

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or whatever with the speakers and stuff that all stays perfectly still and it's

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just the side that's rotating here which is a really small thing but I

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actually really like that and I like the play buttons got RGB on it as for the

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keycaps I actually think they're okay they're PBT

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doesn't look like double shot or shine through or anything like that but I actually really like the typeface

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they've chosen um it's kind of fun it's like a more industrial kind of feel to it with a

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backspace press to backspace and like need more space and it's a big space bar

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even the why are these little running men with

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the minus and a plus arrow on them I'm going to try typing on it and take a

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look at the little included screen turned on but not before a word from our

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get 30 off today before I plug it in I actually want to appreciate this USBC

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cable a little bit I really like these connectors on the end this kind of looks

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like one of those Slimline limo connectors but it's on the edge where the USBC is it's not like a like a plug

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that you plug in and unplug it together and then the USB a is this really crazy

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metal how housing it sounds like metal and it looks like you can actually take

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it apart really easily with those triangle tip screwdrivers so I would

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love to actually take this apart sometime and check it out because uh normally the construction on the ends of

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these isn't nearly as good as this let's plug it in because what I really want to

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carry what I really want to see is the screen wow

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it's got a really satisfying like like slot in on a USB

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and I've never experienced that in my life I got to figure out where they're

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getting these connectors because I actually really want the housing for everything now to be honest it's such a

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dumb point of the cable to like but I really really dig it is this working

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if you're confused like I am just turn it off and then that's just the wireless

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mode being turned on or off it's not the keyboard itself being turned on or off

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because now it's detecting just fine device rt100 wire to set up and ready to

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go I don't know why they went with rt 100 because it's 97 keys and then I

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guess maybe they're adding the knob plus the rotation for another two and then

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what's the third one the display I don't know if our display is borked but it's

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currently just showing like a couple of uh garbage lines here on the outside

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let's see if we can set that up with the driver this is pretty sick we've got our

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driver installed it took a little while but now it's going through this little

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like boot up kind of thing it's cycling through some dates Monday

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Tuesday Saturday Wednesday I have no idea why it's doing that it's got a

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little temperature gauge and a CPU usage which is pretty sweet I don't think

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they're working at all um because my CPU is definitely in use

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and the temp isn't zero degrees that's for sure you can change it in the sketch

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pad kind of thing you can change it between RGB or black and white

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and you can do a frame by frame picture if you want so you can actually make

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your own animations or you can just upload images so say you want a static

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image you can do that too how do I apply that's what I really want to know I've

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made this really garbage you know circle plus some lines and I would love to

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apply it save I'm finding the software a little bit confusing mostly just to

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apply like I can't find a way to actually like take the image that I'm

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setting and then get it to here I'm sure you can but you know don't expect to

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just open this thing and start scribbling stuff down and then applying

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it to your little extra display still super cool the display definitely works

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the software seems to work just you know fire beware it's not as easy as click

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click you're done let's try the actual keyboard itself here that's what I'm

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really curious about because while the display is super cool and I kind of I

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kind of like it and I kind of want one now uh the reality is if the typing

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experience sucks then who cares you've

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just wasted all of your money so we're gonna do a quick monkey type on the

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switches that came with this let's check those actually really quick I think that

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they are they look like just some kale yellows

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with a clear housing and this is hot swap also now you can definitely see

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that there we go one thing that they're promoting is that these are kale hot

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swap sockets I don't know why they're calling them kale sockets more more

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people than kale use five pin switches or sockets but yeah it's five pin which

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is great so any switch is going to fit in there and then like I said before it's south facing RGB

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which is preferable for a lot of people luckily that's not like just the case

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was that your whole phone Andy so I'm not crazy about this switch I don't know

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what it is it's just a linear with kind of like it feels almost mushy on the

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very bottom and I'm just I'm not sold on simply the switches

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alone and I don't have time to swap out for these uh flamingos that came with it

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let's take a quick look at them before I actually do our typing test uh they look

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pretty they're pink if you're into pink and

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yeah these are much more my speed okay we looked it up and we're pretty sure

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these are the sea salt silence that come with the board there's four different

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options one of them I can't pronounce at all I'm not crazy about silent switches

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because there's something about them to get them to be quiet! that feels like

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almost mushy or like it's dampened in a way that I'm not fond of so overall I'm

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probably going to be a little disappointed by the typing test but that

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is I want to be very clear that that's definitely the switch this time and I

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don't think it's the keyboard this thing seems relatively well constructed and

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I'm actually pretty happy with the PCB itself so we'll do a little test and uh

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yeah you'll hear right away you can't you can barely hear this thing and away we go

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type pretty quick on them

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ah no okay I screwed it up right at the end

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there but I was actually going pretty quick I actually really like the

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keyboard itself overall uh the switches and stuff there's something else and I'm

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not fond of them but that's the style those are that's just kind of silence for you I've never tried a silent switch

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that I'm a big fan of and I'm sure if I swapped it with these guys I'd like the

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whole experience a lot more Honestly though the layout itself is something I'm a big fan of because I like

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relatively full keyboards but I want to save that just a little bit of extra

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space because I don't like giving up my numpad so um if you like a full keyboard

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but you want something a little smaller and you can't give up the F keys in your

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numpad maybe a layout like this is the layout for you it's definitely the

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layout for me this is basically the same as my Odin that I have at home I think

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that's a little bit bigger actually but not much

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the keycaps themselves are PBT and they're an MDA profile

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which isn't super pronounced but it's also not flat either and with something

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that can have up to this much of an angle I'm actually pretty fond of that

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but I like sa keycaps call me a heathen

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if you want I just I like those big sculpted keycaps

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so I'm actually pretty fond of these ones and I definitely like the style

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Choice as well so I think what it comes down to at the end of the day is is this

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thing worth any money and I've got to say it's actually really feature Rich

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the keyboard itself goes from anywhere between 105 to 120 dollars depending on

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which switch you want to have included with it and honestly for a 5 000

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milliamp hour wireless keyboard with a

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window and Mac switch so that you can actually just have a command key and it

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just works like a command key both options for a dongle or Bluetooth

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wireless and then a full keyboard with adjustable feet and like hot Swap and

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apparently there's some yeah I can see some layer some there's some foam above

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the switches here and there's probably a silicone pad on the very bottom or something like that honestly overall for

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like 120 bucks at the top end that's pretty good and the only way that you're

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going to beat it is by going with something that's gone a lot I mean I

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forgot about the screen 120 bucks and you get an additional

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screen like I don't know I'm pretty sold I also really like the quality of this

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cable it's not something that I actually focus on too much because most of the

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time like a cable is just a cable and I mean I'll be honest the USBC end could

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be well no it's pretty good actually

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um these connectors are just really impressive I'm having a really hard time

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I I think that if you don't want the

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silent switches and you want something more normal like these flamingos that we

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have here that I unfortunately don't really have time to try I think you'd

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actually get a pretty good experience out of this thing

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because even with the silence I can kind of

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I can kind of Judge how good it would be anyway I don't know what they've done to

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the stabilizers but they're not bad honestly so I am

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going to recommend this thing not to everyone there's definitely a subset of

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people uh myself included that just don't really care about Wireless

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personally I'm never taking my keyboards anywhere I don't mind the cable because

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I like having like a nice coiled cable attached but frankly I think you're

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getting something pretty decent but other than that I I think you're

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actually getting quite a few features for 120 at the absolute top end for a

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full keyboard because that's coming with switches and yeah I I just I can't think

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of something else that I would recommend more than this if you want all of those

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features or at least most of them thanks for watching it's the EPO maker rt100 if

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you want to see another keyboard with a gimmick check out the 65 less that was

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pretty cool