meic light years ahead of the game that is their slogan this is the zal 60 high
performance gaming keyboard and this keyboard seems to have everybody very
very excited about it so there's a bunch of different things that meic is going
to call out on the back here and I will go ahead and run you through them it has
media and illumination function Keys up here it has a heavy duty braided cable
it has a fulls speed USB 2.0 Hub that's actually a really good feature to see so
many keyboards still include USB 1.1
hubs which is infuriating if you go and plug a flash drive in you go oh why is
it going so slow well that's why okay it has green backlit key illumination which
I love I love green lighting whether
it's in the case or on your components or whatever the case may be love it I
think it looks great it has a mionix action key instead of a Windows key over
on this side so you're not going to accidentally bump that while you're gaming a detachable wrist rest is also
featured on the bottom which I'll show you when I open it up and oh my I can't
believe they put this on the box okay we'll get to that in a minute hold on
okay Black Cherry MX mechanical key switches that is critical why is this
expensive because it uses proper mechanical key switches Cherry blacks so
if you use any keyboard that has cherry black switches then you will know
approximately what it's going to feel like detachable wrist r screen backlit
multi-level brightness control meic action key to access light/ media
controls okay six key rollover and I'm going to skip this next one because it's
hilarious I'm saving it for last okay you can connect through Port connect
through ports for audio and mic full speed USB 2.0 Hub plug-and play and
check look at this rage proof
durability yeah I know right rage proof durability so we're
going to I mean we're going to have to have a look at this thing okay neonx zyo
60 uh star has been born model overview
so they have to say for themselves the zel 60 is a fusion of the best keyboard
components together with great gaming features that give you the edge to your
game engineered with non-tactile interesting mechanical Black Cherry MX
switches that deliver the best feel to every keystroke I'm going to have to see what they mean by non-tactile
okay uh with a six key rollover that
allows you to perform up to six simultaneous keystrokes with any key on
the keyboard remember that is a limitation of USB not of the keyboard
itself otherwise I'm sure it could do more than six in addition to the
performance features it offers smart functions like two Port USB 2.0 Hub
audio and mic extensions and media control keys for full integration with your desktop setup NEOS Nito nit nit NE
okay responsiveness is 2 mm 4 mm to the
bottom of the key look at this look at all these technical specifications
switch Mount is 18 karat goldplated back
Cherry MX black linear mechanical switch actuation force of 60 G so if you care
about any of this stuff you can read it here and finally we have installation
which should be fairly straightforward for a keyboard and that's about it now
let's look at the zal
keyboard itself oo okay okay you know what I had
said I had or I had glossed over the
thick braided cable but I did not know how thick a braided
cable could be this is a heavy duty
cable I will give them that check this out you guys this is like the thickness
of a of my pinky finger almost it's huge it's huge look
look thickness compared to an iPhone that is a that is a heavy duty cable if
I have ever seen one that's the first thing that stands out to me about this
particular keyboard right as I open it up here so I'm creeping towards the
camera assistant which I actually this is a new camera assistant who I don't
really have a nickname for yet we'll have to work on something you know maybe
if you guys want to leave suggestions in the comments of this video for what you
think my new assistant's nickname should be this is not crazy Russian and this is
not the cameraman this is somebody else all right at the end we're going to find
two USB ports one of them is for the keyboard and you can see it has a
picture of what looks like a keyboard on it one of them is for the Hub which has
the word Hub on it and finally we have passrs for our headphones as well as
microphone so that instead of plugging them around to the back of the computer
we can plug them around to the back of the keyboard where we will also find the
USB hub so there's your mouse there's a USB key boom there you go all right uh
let's attach the wrist rest after we have a look at the bottom of the
keyboard so we've got a couple of these guys in case you want it to lean up a
little bit more we've got four rubber pads on the bottom so it's wo yeah those
are grippy it's not going to slip around once it's put
down F oh rage see we're finding out if it's rage
proof already all right we have four more rubber pads on the bottom of the
wrist rest so let's go ahead and latch those
on and there is the keyboard as it's intended to be used so the first thing
I'm going to do is I'm going to evaluate the layout because I'm pretty particular
about keyboard layout and it's going to get major points off if they've done
anything outlandish so first things first if I need to capitalize something
that I'm typing with my right hand will I be able to reach the shift key the
answer is yes I hate short shift keys I can't reach them next if I do something
over here can I capitalize yes I can nice long shift Keys both sides
excellent finally I made a mistake can I reach the backspace key the answer is
yes I hate short backspace keys they irk
me I wish they all died in a fire okay
next let's look at the overall layout of the other stuff here as well so we've
got our function keys up here mute volume down volume up play stop forward
and back brightness and keyboard button
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
else is a fairly standard layout actually everything here is pretty
normal they haven't gone in like you know changed these and made this like a
long delete or anything like that it's all pretty normal we've got LEDs here
for our number lock caps lock and scroll lock number pad and you know what I'm
just going to have a quick look at what I think of the oo that's actually really
nice I wonder if the keys come off easily that's something I've noticed
about mechanical keyboards in the past is I've actually been in the middle of
gaming and I've gone like like this and the control key pops off but it looks
like these are a little bit more difficult to remove than that overall it
has a a very matte finish to it so you're not going to have too much
trouble with like it looking like a greasy fingerprint Cheeto covered mess
um in time the keys are fairly quiet actually
for a mechanical keyboard as well so if that's a consideration you know when
you're in a late night gaming session and you're typing away on the keyboard
here I'll let you guys evaluate for yourselves
actually so it's not very very quiet it's not like a laptop keyboard by any
stretch of the imagination but for a mechanical keyboard that's actually
pretty darn good and I think that's pretty much all there
is to say but why don't we plug it in and find out what it looks like in the
dark okay so we figured out what the keyboard button up here on the F12 does
so if you hold the mionix button and press it it actually toggles the
different uh lighting modes so you can see it's either WD nothing there's WD
right now or the full keyboard is backlit that looks amazing I hope I hope
you guys can see how good this looks all of the keys are very evenly lit which is
very impressive that's uh that's really cool because a lot of the time you see
these backlit keyboards where it's kind of like it's bright over here and dim
here and there's like another hot spot over on this side no looks really good
and let's see what we've got in terms of brightness control so it looks like we
have three different levels so there's the dimmest there's the next and there's
the brightest personally I'd have this on brightest all the time cuz I think it
looks outstanding so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the zal 60
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