welcome to my unboxing of the AO levitron Mech 4 gaming keyboard This
actually has some pretty unique features at a pretty unique price point and let's
start with uh a warm welcome for our guest camera operator who is also
interviewing for the tech tips assistant job so hopefully he does pretty well
operating the camera here he's giving me a kind of a weird look from behind the camera so that's a good sign okay why
don't we start with the main features which are the cherry black mechanical
switch keys so that is okay according to
AO why don't we go with what they think widely believed to provide the best
gaming experience fascinating okay modular design adds functionality by
attaching modular accessories numeric keypad and macro keypad modules are
included interesting and it has anti- ghosting so there is actually an anti-
ghosting zone I'm going to go ahead and flip it over and so you can see your WD
Z x c q e key zone is all anti- ghosted
so while this keyboard does not feature n key rollover by any stretch of the
imagination it does have an anti- ghosting Zone which is where you're
going to be pressing most of your keys in gaming so unless you type with your
face you're probably not going to run into any issues as far as ghosting is
concerned now the features are all listed here but what I'd really like to
do is get the Box open before we just start listing
features so I can show you where they are on the keyboard itself now one thing
AIO did ask that I mention on this unboxing is the use of cardboard
packaging which is recyclable versus styrofoam packaging
which is not recyclable so there you go I have mentioned it so you can clearly
see the cardboard packaging present here the highly recyclable cardboard
packaging okay quick start guide is in color look at that so they show you how
to install the software manual as well as installing theof software to manage
your profiles as well as your macro settings and key customization all right
what else we got here okay so oh look at that it's a like a it's an actual color
manual and it's a start it's a quick start guide that says more than plug the
thing into the thing and then turn it on awesome okay so there is your manual as
well as your software although you're going to want to download the latest software from the AO website here are
some modular pieces including a number
pad very nice it's got a good feel to it
already calculator so there's a button to just open up the calculator program
which is this is a good place for it I'm un liking that okay there's the USB
interface and there's the USB interface on the other side so I'll show you why
it has two in just a moment here's a way to oh cool so you can attach it by an
extension cord too so it basically comes
with this is like the smartest thing ever actually I'm really impressed right
about now so look at this you can either clip
it directly to the keyboard or you can go ahead and plug it in by USB somewhere
else and then you just have like a little number pad these are like 15
bucks 20 bucks if you want to buy one so comes with your keyboard now cool all
right here's a little macro key piece so this one is going to clip onto the
keyboard and it's going to add some additional macro keys so I'll show you where those go I don't think those are
mechanical but I'll let it go this time all right honestly I think it's a little
bit overdone the whole partial mechanical versus full mechanical and
how it's you know sinful to do it one way versus the other way
thing but that's just my opinion nobody
watches this channel to hear my opinion so I'll keep it to
myself okay actually I lied people do
watch this channel to hear my opinion so there you go that's my opinion this is
the levron mech 4 the first thing I notice about it is is is it is built
like a mechanical keyboard it's got some heft to it it has some weight let's do
the over all appearance first so we've got uh oh look at that two different
stands so you can either put it up a little bit like that or you can put it
up a lot like that or you can put it up
not at all like well like that um we've
also got rubber feet on the bottom so there's rubber bits along the bottom of
both of these this is actually like really nice little touches like this
rubber feet here and then uh rubber feet
here so if you have it running flat it is completely rubber gri ified so it's
not going to move on your table regardless of what configuration you are
using uh overall layout let's uh let's
have a look at some of the custom Keys we've got so we can turn the Windows key on and off here uh we can switch between
macro profile A and B here and look at
that the macro keys are actually on different heights I want you to get down
at a at that yeah at that level there so you can see how these are actually kind
of staggered so you can actually feel if
you run your if you were to run your fingers down them or if you were to reach for them which key is which
because they're all at slightly different heights so that's something
that may not seem like a big deal to the Casual Observer but personally I think
it's a very big deal because the last thing you want is macro keys that you
cannot feel in the midst of a firefight
okay cable we've got a standard sort of sleeved looking USB cable we've got two
bundled together in one here so I'm guessing one of these is for the Hub yep
and one of them is for the keyboard itself it doesn't tell you which is which but my guess is that you'll plug
both of them in anyway so I'm not too worried about that on the back we do
find the USB hub that I did refer to before and let's see what else we got
going on here so you know what I'm going to I'm just going to pull my cheat sheet
out and uh kind of run through with you guys so we've got a volume knob which is
right about here all right our anti- ghosting allows
for six keys to be simultaneously pressed for USB expansion we have two
USB expansion ports which I showed you before uh the Windows key we saw each
key has its own mechanical switch the advantages registers without pushing the
key all the way down and the keys snaps back to the original position faster
they are rated for 50 million keystrokes so I could sit here and I could do this
all day and probably never wear it out the numeric key bad keypad yes okay so
let's show you guys this so I showed you this way which is like this already so
then I can put it over here if I want but there's also another way to hook
this up I can go like this and I'm just going to make sure that I have it in the
same uh configuration as the keyboard itself and okay I don't know how this
works I've never tried this before so bear with me here you guys I'm just
going to go ahead I'm going to try and figure out how that go ah there we go so
there you go you can clip the keypad and that's mechanical too you can
click the key bad onto that side or you can take the whole thing off which comes
off somehow okay now it's on there pretty good does it lock in place oh yes
it does there we go and it locks up here too there we go
or you can put it on the other side so depending on the configuration of your
desk you can actually change the overall width of
your keyboard or which side of your gaming Keys it is wider on very very
cool all right modular design uh modular
rail aha enables the macro d-pad to be
adjustable in positioning and allows future modules to be hooked on the same
rail so this rail up here which looks kind of like uh for mounting sights on a
gun and this kind of looks like sights doesn't it yeah kind of ignore the
keyboard keys on it so you just slide these along
here and they click into place wherever you happen to want to put them so you
want to put them here let's say you never use the F1 to F4 keys while you're
gaming and let's face it who does I mean I'm sure there's some sort of weird game
out there that requires the use of f4 key you know I don't know maybe F10 you
can C up F10 um but then you know you
couldn't do whatever functionality you're trying to figure out how to do in Counter Strike when people tell you how
to do it right so okay so this allows you to actually reach it if you needed
to so maybe you have like an alternate WD that you want to put in for I don't
know what I I don't question what they're actually for the point is just
you have six macro Keys here six macro Keys here with A and B so that's a total
of 12 functions and it's all within reach of your actual gaming Keys unlike
keyboards that have Banks of macro Keys over here or on the other side whatever
the case may be now you can reach them all very neat all right 11 dedicated
macro Keys we just went through that water resistant seals and drainage holes
built in this I didn't know spilling your drink on your keyboard is no longer
an excuse for losing drainage holes there they are one
two three four four drainage holes ah ah
ah and uh simply keep playing as the
liquid will come out from the bottom via the drainage holes now if you spill
something sticky I still wouldn't expect it to work 100% what you might have to
do at that point is take like some rubbing alcohol and then pour that down
after it mind you that might you know wreck any you know rubber or whatever
happens to be in there okay the whole thing is not good still try not to spill on your keyboard please or drink water
around your keyboard at the very least uh braided and gold connectors we talked
about that already fully programmable
all keys can be reprogrammed not just the dedicated macro Keys very cool so
the first thing some people are going to say is Windows key we don't need no
stinking Windows key but you could actually just change that to do what
whatever you want including the Tab Key the caps lock key in fact one of my big
gripes about keyboards tends to be short backspace keys well I'll probably just
reprogram this to be a backspace key and then my problem is
solved uh actually let's look at the overall layout while we're at it then uh
we've got nice long enter shift shift uh
normal size control and ALT so the one thing that I don't like about the layout
is the short backspace key but the fully programmable functionality really does
help to make me me forgive it for that
okay and I think that's pretty much all there is that I have to say about the
levron Mec 4 with the aggressive pricing the very full feature set the one thing
it doesn't have is uh back lit Keys although it's arguable whether that is
necessary or not especially with all of the other things that it does include so
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