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meic light years ahead of the game that is their slogan this is the zal 60 high

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performance gaming keyboard and this keyboard seems to have everybody very

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very excited about it so there's a bunch of different things that meic is going

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to call out on the back here and I will go ahead and run you through them it has

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media and illumination function Keys up here it has a heavy duty braided cable

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it has a fulls speed USB 2.0 Hub that's actually a really good feature to see so

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many keyboards still include USB 1.1

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hubs which is infuriating if you go and plug a flash drive in you go oh why is

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it going so slow well that's why okay it has green backlit key illumination which

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I love I love green lighting whether

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it's in the case or on your components or whatever the case may be love it I

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think it looks great it has a mionix action key instead of a Windows key over

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on this side so you're not going to accidentally bump that while you're gaming a detachable wrist rest is also

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featured on the bottom which I'll show you when I open it up and oh my I can't

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believe they put this on the box okay we'll get to that in a minute hold on

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okay Black Cherry MX mechanical key switches that is critical why is this

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expensive because it uses proper mechanical key switches Cherry blacks so

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if you use any keyboard that has cherry black switches then you will know

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approximately what it's going to feel like detachable wrist r screen backlit

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multi-level brightness control meic action key to access light/ media

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controls okay six key rollover and I'm going to skip this next one because it's

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hilarious I'm saving it for last okay you can connect through Port connect

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through ports for audio and mic full speed USB 2.0 Hub plug-and play and

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check look at this rage proof

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durability yeah I know right rage proof durability so we're

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going to I mean we're going to have to have a look at this thing okay neonx zyo

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60 uh star has been born model overview

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so they have to say for themselves the zel 60 is a fusion of the best keyboard

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components together with great gaming features that give you the edge to your

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game engineered with non-tactile interesting mechanical Black Cherry MX

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switches that deliver the best feel to every keystroke I'm going to have to see what they mean by non-tactile

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okay uh with a six key rollover that

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allows you to perform up to six simultaneous keystrokes with any key on

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the keyboard remember that is a limitation of USB not of the keyboard

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itself otherwise I'm sure it could do more than six in addition to the

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performance features it offers smart functions like two Port USB 2.0 Hub

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audio and mic extensions and media control keys for full integration with your desktop setup NEOS Nito nit nit NE

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okay responsiveness is 2 mm 4 mm to the

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bottom of the key look at this look at all these technical specifications

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switch Mount is 18 karat goldplated back

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Cherry MX black linear mechanical switch actuation force of 60 G so if you care

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about any of this stuff you can read it here and finally we have installation

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which should be fairly straightforward for a keyboard and that's about it now

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let's look at the zal

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keyboard itself oo okay okay you know what I had

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said I had or I had glossed over the

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thick braided cable but I did not know how thick a braided

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cable could be this is a heavy duty

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cable I will give them that check this out you guys this is like the thickness

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of a of my pinky finger almost it's huge it's huge look

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look thickness compared to an iPhone that is a that is a heavy duty cable if

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I have ever seen one that's the first thing that stands out to me about this

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particular keyboard right as I open it up here so I'm creeping towards the

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camera assistant which I actually this is a new camera assistant who I don't

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really have a nickname for yet we'll have to work on something you know maybe

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if you guys want to leave suggestions in the comments of this video for what you

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think my new assistant's nickname should be this is not crazy Russian and this is

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not the cameraman this is somebody else all right at the end we're going to find

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two USB ports one of them is for the keyboard and you can see it has a

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picture of what looks like a keyboard on it one of them is for the Hub which has

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the word Hub on it and finally we have passrs for our headphones as well as

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microphone so that instead of plugging them around to the back of the computer

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we can plug them around to the back of the keyboard where we will also find the

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USB hub so there's your mouse there's a USB key boom there you go all right uh

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let's attach the wrist rest after we have a look at the bottom of the

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keyboard so we've got a couple of these guys in case you want it to lean up a

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little bit more we've got four rubber pads on the bottom so it's wo yeah those

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are grippy it's not going to slip around once it's put

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down F oh rage see we're finding out if it's rage

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proof already all right we have four more rubber pads on the bottom of the

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wrist rest so let's go ahead and latch those

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on and there is the keyboard as it's intended to be used so the first thing

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I'm going to do is I'm going to evaluate the layout because I'm pretty particular

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about keyboard layout and it's going to get major points off if they've done

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anything outlandish so first things first if I need to capitalize something

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that I'm typing with my right hand will I be able to reach the shift key the

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answer is yes I hate short shift keys I can't reach them next if I do something

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over here can I capitalize yes I can nice long shift Keys both sides

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excellent finally I made a mistake can I reach the backspace key the answer is

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yes I hate short backspace keys they irk

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me I wish they all died in a fire okay

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next let's look at the overall layout of the other stuff here as well so we've

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got our function keys up here mute volume down volume up play stop forward

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and back brightness and keyboard button

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okay I'm not 100% sure what that one does go ahead and leave a comment on the video if you know and then everything

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else is a fairly standard layout actually everything here is pretty

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normal they haven't gone in like you know changed these and made this like a

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long delete or anything like that it's all pretty normal we've got LEDs here

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for our number lock caps lock and scroll lock number pad and you know what I'm

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just going to have a quick look at what I think of the oo that's actually really

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nice I wonder if the keys come off easily that's something I've noticed

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about mechanical keyboards in the past is I've actually been in the middle of

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gaming and I've gone like like this and the control key pops off but it looks

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like these are a little bit more difficult to remove than that overall it

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has a a very matte finish to it so you're not going to have too much

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trouble with like it looking like a greasy fingerprint Cheeto covered mess

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um in time the keys are fairly quiet actually

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for a mechanical keyboard as well so if that's a consideration you know when

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you're in a late night gaming session and you're typing away on the keyboard

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here I'll let you guys evaluate for yourselves

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actually so it's not very very quiet it's not like a laptop keyboard by any

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stretch of the imagination but for a mechanical keyboard that's actually

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pretty darn good and I think that's pretty much all there

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is to say but why don't we plug it in and find out what it looks like in the

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dark okay so we figured out what the keyboard button up here on the F12 does

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so if you hold the mionix button and press it it actually toggles the

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different uh lighting modes so you can see it's either WD nothing there's WD

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right now or the full keyboard is backlit that looks amazing I hope I hope

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you guys can see how good this looks all of the keys are very evenly lit which is

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very impressive that's uh that's really cool because a lot of the time you see

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these backlit keyboards where it's kind of like it's bright over here and dim

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here and there's like another hot spot over on this side no looks really good

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and let's see what we've got in terms of brightness control so it looks like we

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have three different levels so there's the dimmest there's the next and there's

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the brightest personally I'd have this on brightest all the time cuz I think it

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looks outstanding so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the zal 60

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