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performance welcome to a very special outdoor unboxing I basically dragged a
dining room table out into the yard with me and we are going to be checking out
the TT Esports by thermal take knucker now I originally thought that said
knuckler and uh so my initial impression was really a keyboard that you operate
like this
no probably not actually uh so the knucker is a plunger gaming keyboard
which got me pretty excited about it and the reason for that is that plunger
switches are a type of keyboard switch that I have never encountered before so
they are a sort of like they're a membrane switch okay so to be clear
these are not a mechanical switch but they have been engineered and integrated
into this keyboard by the thermal take team in an effort to simulate the
tactile experience of a mechanical switch with a membrane switch that is
obviously coming in at a lower price point than what you would pay for a
mechanical keyboard such as the Mecha G1 which is also a thermal take keyboard so
in terms of included accessories we've got ah some replacement key caps so they
give you WD key caps as well as your
arrow keys that you can replace on the keyboard as well as a key cap puller all
right coming a little baggy like that we've also got the keyboard itself as
well as a thermal take tte Esports battle dragon sticker and then a manual
which hopefully you don't need for a keyboard because I'm going to tell you
everything you need to know about the knucker in this particular video it has
a couple of unique features okay so there's the plunger switches which are
kind of like what they're saying and I haven't tried them yet I haven't touched
this keyboard yet what they're saying is that it's a lighter mechanical switch
feeling at a lower cost it's only 15
million key press is for the total sort
of rated endurance compared to 50 million for a Cherry MX switch but they
should be lighter and therefore more comfortable for some people now there's
a couple other unique things check out these s buttons here those actually
change the repeat rate of the keys so
you can go anywhere from 1X to 8X by holding function S1 S2 S3 S4 this looks
like a feature that was actually built specifically for one of their sponsored
Gamers which is very cool because a lot of companies talk about how they work
with sponsored Gamers to design their peripherals but a lot of the time it
really feels like the company designed the peripheral and then went in search
for gamers to put their stamp on it um not going to name any names of course so
plunger switch offers response feeling like a mechanical switch enhanced anti-
ghosting function for up to 12 keys with USB and 16 keys with PS2 oh yeah and
that uh repeat rate changer only works with PS2 um plunger switch enables excellent
gaming elasticity with life expect up to 15 million keystrokes so let's have a
look at this they also say they're quieter than mechanical
switches they sound about like blacks to me so in terms of the audible level here
I want you guys to I'll get my mic in nice and
close Okay so they sound about like a Cherry MX black which is a very very
quiet mechanical key switch by comparison s sort of compared to all the
other ones maybe even closer to Reds uh the other sort of unique feature is
function F12 illuminates the battle dragon down here and other than that
it's a fairly standard keyboard layout this right here is a cardinal sin though
for me um long shift Keys long enter keys and long backspace keys are a
requirement for uh for for getting sort of the Linus seal of approval because I
have small hands and here if you actually we're going to switch places I
think this is known as crossing the axis am I am I right be roll um so what
happens for me is when I'm on the home row here if I reach here I you can
already tell from The Limited flexibility in my hands I can barely reach this let alone this like my hand
will move from the home row see that that L I'm I'm not able to keep my
finger on there so that's that's a problem for me uh but it might not be a
problem for you especially if you have larger hands than I do and let's get
impressions of the sort of the back of the keyboard you got your little razors
here this is good I love it when manufacturers include this where you've got a little rubber piece here along
with the rubber piece here so it actually doesn't slide even when you
elevate it a little bit the wrist rest is non- removable on this keyboard and
that's probably at least partly due to the fact that this is illuminated and
let's get some impressions of the actual Keys here
so they do feel like they have a tactile
bump they definitely do are they mechanical key switches are they
replacement for mechanical key switches see you've probably never seen anything quite like this
before no they rebound very quickly though which is nice um a feature of
membrane keys so that that's something that we kind of expect to see they have
a very it feels like a shorter no maybe not a shorter travel hard to say but
they have very small key caps and if I had to complain about something on the
keyboard then it would be that the key caps have a bit of a wobble to them you
see that so while the actual plunging of
the key switch feels more like a mechanical usually a Cherry MX keyboard
tends to have uh tends to have a bit of a tighter F on the key caps can you see
that be usually tends to have a tighter fit on the key caps because right now it
feels a little bit unsteady like if I press on one corner of that key there's
more resistance whereas if I press it directly then there's less
resistance that said I don't think this
would slow down my whop my typing in any
way so that's not really going to be points off actually it feels very
natural to type on uh they're using a unique cyan print on the key caps
themselves so it's doesn't have white printing on it it has kind of a a blue
color printing on it that looks quite unique and I guess it's probably
conclusion time at this point so what is the knucker it's a very unique
keyboard it's definitely better than
other mechanical keyboards from what I've felt in my limited time with it I
can already tell you guys there's no question there it is closer to the
mechanical experience it doesn't offer the same durability and it doesn't have
the same kind of build quality that you'd get with something like Mecha G1
but it is better than other mechanical keyboard so it's kind of like how you
know the Logitech g15 gen 1 holds a special place in many gamers Hearts
because even though it was a mechanical keyboard it was A Cut Above mechanical
keyboard compared to the other stuff out there so I guess that makes them kind of
similar better membrane keyboards is this a good thing yeah probably because
not everyone's going to be able to drop 80 bucks on an entry-level mechanical
keyboard $80 to $100 some people are just going to stick with membrane so
we'd rather they at least have a better membrane keyboard thanks for checking
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