1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,120 - I actually wouldn't be surprised if this was the way the industry is heading. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:09,170 This is the ROG Claymore 2. "It's from ASUS who sponsored this video to see, 3 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:12,870 for me to unbox it for you people, to show the world what's inside this box. 4 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:15,500 Apparently it's a wireless optical mechanical gaming keyboard. 5 00:00:18,790 --> 00:00:22,820 Whoa. Okay. First thing I see, there's two sections to this box. 6 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:26,450 This appears to be a shortened like 10 keyless. 7 00:00:26,450 --> 00:00:30,660 Yes. Keyboard. And this? Is it a mouse? 8 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:37,190 No, it's the num pad and it doesn't look like it has any way to attach to this keyboard, but it does. 9 00:00:37,190 --> 00:00:40,310 I'll try that in a second. First let's look at what else is in the box. 10 00:00:40,310 --> 00:00:43,450 Oh no, it's a bunch of stickers. Cool. Some literature. 11 00:00:43,450 --> 00:00:47,240 Okay. Then there is a wrist rest. 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,000 It's kind of embossed on this side with the ROD logo. And that is how cushy it is. 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,760 This is the charging cable. It is USB-C to shining C. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,630 Okay. There's a couple of little doohickey's in the box. This one is a USB A to C adapter, 15 00:01:01,630 --> 00:01:07,020 so the C to C cable is going to go into your PC and you don't have a spare USB-C port, 16 00:01:07,020 --> 00:01:10,900 plug that into your spare USB A port. And the other one is an extender, 17 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:15,350 so if you are finding that you're getting intermittent issues with connectivity, 18 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:21,310 if your peripherals are glitching, it's nice to be able to pull your dongle 19 00:01:21,310 --> 00:01:25,920 out and off your PC tower and somewhere closer. 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,253 I actually have mine behind my monitor and I have no issues then. 21 00:01:30,112 --> 00:01:33,870 Look at that, it's magnetic. First of all, it's nice that it just has it at all. 22 00:01:33,870 --> 00:01:40,210 I'll accept just like a piece of tape on the back. Like anything, any place for this to live I appreciate, 23 00:01:40,210 --> 00:01:45,840 but this is one of the nicest I've seen. So it's a wireless keyboard that is 10 keyless, or not, 24 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,243 and you can actually put this num pad on either side. 25 00:01:50,850 --> 00:01:55,260 This. So it is on a track, stays on there. 26 00:01:55,260 --> 00:01:57,783 Is this magnetic? It is. 27 00:01:59,941 --> 00:02:04,870 This looks like your standard 104 key and num pad and I'm ready to type kind of thing. 28 00:02:04,870 --> 00:02:08,203 Or you can put it on this side 29 00:02:08,203 --> 00:02:14,300 and then this is your kind of gamer layout. So, you have more mouse room and less fatigue when 30 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,093 you're stretching your ARM way over there. So that's cool. 31 00:02:18,030 --> 00:02:21,400 One setting for the feet. Ah, look at this. Even this guy has a big foot. 32 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,913 And each of the feet have little rubber sub feet. 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,880 This is stiff. The build quality, this is pretty stiff. 34 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,500 I like that. It looks like it has an aluminum front plate, 35 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:36,940 glossy plastic back. And then as you can see, it has USB pass-through. 36 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:41,440 So you can plug in your USB-C cable for pass-through where you can also plug 37 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,050 in like your headphones or whatever, or you can switch, instead of pass-through, 38 00:02:46,050 --> 00:02:51,750 you hit F, you hit function F12, and it switches to fast charging mode. 39 00:02:51,750 --> 00:02:54,820 So this is wireless. Okay. That's the full setup. 40 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:58,640 Obviously, I can move this to whatever side I want or I not use it at all, 41 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,240 but now that it's set up, let's touch it. The whole reason this thing exists is 42 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,900 because it is an optical keyboard, and you can see they even have their own STEM design 43 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:09,910 but more on that in a second. First I kind of just want to touch it. 44 00:03:11,230 --> 00:03:14,710 Yeah and this is definitely giving me a faster activation 45 00:03:14,710 --> 00:03:19,500 than I'm used to with less activation force than I'm used to. I am used to using clicky switches 46 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,770 and you can get this keyboard with blue clicky switches 47 00:03:22,770 --> 00:03:27,319 or linear ones like they have on here. These are the kind of red type. 48 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:30,630 They recommend you use this for a few days 49 00:03:30,630 --> 00:03:36,350 even before you do an unboxing, like I am right now, but I can see why, because they don't want you to write it 50 00:03:36,350 --> 00:03:39,700 off because you're getting misclicks because they're more sensitive than you're used to. 51 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:43,760 I don't think I would be less accurate off the bat, but I at the same time, I can feel that 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,110 I think I might be faster with this eventually. 53 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,830 There's just something about it that makes you wanna type faster. Okay, so optical switches are sweet, mostly 54 00:03:51,830 --> 00:03:56,060 because they're going to last longer. They're going to be consistent. 55 00:03:56,060 --> 00:03:59,090 And even though a normal mechanical switch will last 56 00:03:59,090 --> 00:04:03,920 for 50 million presses, these will last longer because, believe it or not, 57 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,580 you can hit a switch 50 million times in actually just a matter of months, 58 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:12,490 especially if you're talking about your WASD or your arrow keys or something like a spacebar. 59 00:04:12,490 --> 00:04:15,530 So reliability is good because there's just fewer moving parts. 60 00:04:15,530 --> 00:04:19,320 There's just, you're hitting the switch down and it's interrupting a laser beam. 61 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,490 And so that means that there's no history resets (?) or like reset when you're 62 00:04:23,490 --> 00:04:28,360 when you D bounce off of that switch it's going to actuate faster and more consistently. 63 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,210 So that's why I kind of, I wouldn't be surprised if the opticals kind of takeover over time. 64 00:04:33,210 --> 00:04:37,630 Oh and by the way, ASUS wants you to know that when the switch was first announced 65 00:04:37,630 --> 00:04:42,470 a lot of people compared it to the Romer-G's from Logitech, which ASUS respects but these are completely different 66 00:04:42,470 --> 00:04:46,073 with a quite different design, they say. There you go. 67 00:04:46,073 --> 00:04:50,305 This switch, you can tell from the STEM it's different, it's kind of like a box design, 68 00:04:50,305 --> 00:04:54,200 totally open in the middle. So once I get this turned on you're going to see 69 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,394 a lot of RGP shining through that, I'm sure. 70 00:04:57,394 --> 00:05:01,330 It seems like a flashlight is coming through there. And then you can see they have these four corner 71 00:05:01,330 --> 00:05:04,960 latches to give it more stability. I've wobbled a lot of key switches 72 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,960 and that's pretty minimal actually. 73 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:12,430 You can see the key switch design has these four posts. It's a little different. With these reds 74 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:17,180 it takes an initial force of 40 grams to go one 75 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:21,630 and a half millimeters before it actuates. And then at 55 grams for the whole, 76 00:05:21,630 --> 00:05:25,760 the whole stroke to deep bounce back up. (typing sounds) 77 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,913 I don't think you're going to have too many accidental strokes on these. 78 00:05:32,010 --> 00:05:34,723 Oh my gosh. 79 00:05:35,820 --> 00:05:37,793 I'm just unreal at typing. 80 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,770 I did have a couple of miss-strikes where, you know, you get used to a certain tolerance level where like, well 81 00:05:45,770 --> 00:05:49,173 my fingers can just flail around the board, it's fine. 82 00:05:49,173 --> 00:05:52,033 But on this, you might have to be a little more disciplined. 83 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:57,680 I think I'd get used to this pretty quickly. There's like little indicator lights up in here. 84 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,440 Let's go function. Yeah. Okay. A single white LED for Windows lock. 85 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,680 Sure. There's your caps lock. Let's talk about this little key pad for a bit. 86 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,020 On the one hand you might be like, oh cool, there's like super tactile macro keys here, 87 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:13,200 listen to this click. But on the other hand you might think, well 88 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,640 it kind of sucks that my macro keys are way over there. 89 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,020 Maybe you want them closer on your board. Well, you're in luck because on this board 90 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:24,060 almost every single key can record a macro and it's really easy to do. 91 00:06:24,060 --> 00:06:28,850 I believe you just go function alt and then you record whatever macro you want it to be, 92 00:06:28,850 --> 00:06:32,550 or key, and then you hit function alt again. 93 00:06:32,550 --> 00:06:36,166 And then I think you have to assign the key to it. 94 00:06:36,166 --> 00:06:36,999 Let's say one. 95 00:06:39,380 --> 00:06:43,470 Whoa, it worked. You can see on the alt button it says macro. 96 00:06:43,470 --> 00:06:46,830 So alt one, there you go. QWERTY. Nice. 97 00:06:46,830 --> 00:06:50,800 What I do like about the keypad on the side is that it is symmetrical. 98 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,050 So whether you have it on the left or right it doesn't really matter 99 00:06:54,050 --> 00:06:57,290 because the macro keys are on the top, not on the side of it. You imagine if 100 00:06:57,290 --> 00:07:00,360 those macro keys were on the left, when it's over here 101 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,713 they're not at the end of the keyboard, or when it's over here, they are. That would suck. 102 00:07:03,713 --> 00:07:07,770 For other lights you've got the breathing ROG logo, and then there's actually a battery indicator 103 00:07:07,770 --> 00:07:12,800 light up here. Only two are illuminated right now but there's actually four bars and they light 104 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,600 up according to how much battery you have left. It'll look different if you're full 105 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,180 and it'll actually be blinking red if you have less than 25%. 106 00:07:20,180 --> 00:07:23,400 So this puppy actually has a 4,000 millionth hour power battery inside, which 107 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,370 of course is rechargeable by USB type C. And then they say that you can get 144 hours 108 00:07:28,370 --> 00:07:33,550 out of it with the lights off and 43 hours with the lights on and blasting 100%. 109 00:07:33,550 --> 00:07:36,920 You get 61 hours if you have it at 50% brightness. 110 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,740 And because it's USB type C fast charging, 30 minutes of charge gets you eight hours 111 00:07:41,740 --> 00:07:45,990 with the lights on and 18 hours with the lights off in 30 minutes. 112 00:07:45,990 --> 00:07:50,170 That's pretty dang good. You can pretty much be set for the weekend just by half an hour of charge. 113 00:07:50,170 --> 00:07:53,220 All right. So you saw me record macros for the normal keys. 114 00:07:53,220 --> 00:07:57,130 You didn't see me record a macro for these ones. And that's because to do that 115 00:07:57,130 --> 00:08:01,430 you actually have to use the armory create software which looks like a pretty robust software. 116 00:08:01,430 --> 00:08:05,760 This is what's used for more than just this keyboard, it's used for lots of ROG products. 117 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:12,930 You can auto sync all your different RGV peripherals together. And I guess some PC parts as well, but 118 00:08:12,930 --> 00:08:16,510 but you can see, you can click on individual keys and change their functions. 119 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:20,260 And then these are my macro keys up here. 120 00:08:20,260 --> 00:08:23,630 So that's the key tab. Then there's the RGB indicator tab. 121 00:08:23,630 --> 00:08:27,520 Oh, cool. So what I thought was the battery indicator doesn't actually have to be the battery indicator. 122 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:32,540 You can make it just breathe with the rest of the RGB. Then you've got all these effects for RGB. 123 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:36,510 Man, you could spend a lot of time in here. And this is a really clean looking software. Then on the power tab 124 00:08:36,510 --> 00:08:40,780 it tells you your current battery life. You can set when you're get an alert, 125 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:47,630 you can actually choose when it goes to sleep mode after being idle. This is the RG Claymore 2 keyboard. 126 00:08:47,630 --> 00:08:52,080 I would love to try this with their clicky optical keys, which I don't have. 127 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,500 This is 269, nice, 99. 128 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:59,420 Check it out at the link below. And thanks ASUS for sponsoring this unboxing. 129 00:08:59,420 --> 00:09:02,830 So thanks for watching guys. If you liked this video, maybe you'll like to watch me check 130 00:09:02,830 --> 00:09:08,950 out other keyboards like that crazy, really heavy, pink, candy bar one we did a while back. 131 00:09:08,950 --> 00:09:09,953 Check it out.