WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:03.120 - I actually wouldn't be surprised if this was the way the industry is heading. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:09.170 This is the ROG Claymore 2. "It's from ASUS who sponsored this video to see, 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. 00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:15.500 Apparently it's a wireless optical mechanical gaming keyboard. 00:00:18.790 --> 00:00:22.820 Whoa. Okay. First thing I see, there's two sections to this box. 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:26.450 This appears to be a shortened like 10 keyless. 00:00:26.450 --> 00:00:30.660 Yes. Keyboard. And this? Is it a mouse? 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. 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. 00:00:40.310 --> 00:00:43.450 Oh no, it's a bunch of stickers. Cool. Some literature. 00:00:43.450 --> 00:00:47.240 Okay. Then there is a wrist rest. 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. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.760 This is the charging cable. It is USB-C to shining C. 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, 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, 00:01:07.020 --> 00:01:10.900 plug that into your spare USB A port. And the other one is an extender, 00:01:10.900 --> 00:01:15.350 so if you are finding that you're getting intermittent issues with connectivity, 00:01:15.350 --> 00:01:21.310 if your peripherals are glitching, it's nice to be able to pull your dongle 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:25.920 out and off your PC tower and somewhere closer. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.253 I actually have mine behind my monitor and I have no issues then. 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. 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, 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, 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.243 and you can actually put this num pad on either side. 00:01:50.850 --> 00:01:55.260 This. So it is on a track, stays on there. 00:01:55.260 --> 00:01:57.783 Is this magnetic? It is. 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. 00:02:04.870 --> 00:02:08.203 Or you can put it on this side 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 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:17.093 you're stretching your ARM way over there. So that's cool. 00:02:18.030 --> 00:02:21.400 One setting for the feet. Ah, look at this. Even this guy has a big foot. 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.913 And each of the feet have little rubber sub feet. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.880 This is stiff. The build quality, this is pretty stiff. 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:32.500 I like that. It looks like it has an aluminum front plate, 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:36.940 glossy plastic back. And then as you can see, it has USB pass-through. 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 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:46.050 in like your headphones or whatever, or you can switch, instead of pass-through, 00:02:46.050 --> 00:02:51.750 you hit F, you hit function F12, and it switches to fast charging mode. 00:02:51.750 --> 00:02:54.820 So this is wireless. Okay. That's the full setup. 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, 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 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 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:09.910 but more on that in a second. First I kind of just want to touch it. 00:03:11.230 --> 00:03:14.710 Yeah and this is definitely giving me a faster activation 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 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:22.770 and you can get this keyboard with blue clicky switches 00:03:22.770 --> 00:03:27.319 or linear ones like they have on here. These are the kind of red type. 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.630 They recommend you use this for a few days 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 00:03:36.350 --> 00:03:39.700 off because you're getting misclicks because they're more sensitive than you're used to. 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 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:46.110 I think I might be faster with this eventually. 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 00:03:51.830 --> 00:03:56.060 because they're going to last longer. They're going to be consistent. 00:03:56.060 --> 00:03:59.090 And even though a normal mechanical switch will last 00:03:59.090 --> 00:04:03.920 for 50 million presses, these will last longer because, believe it or not, 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:07.580 you can hit a switch 50 million times in actually just a matter of months, 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. 00:04:12.490 --> 00:04:15.530 So reliability is good because there's just fewer moving parts. 00:04:15.530 --> 00:04:19.320 There's just, you're hitting the switch down and it's interrupting a laser beam. 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:23.490 And so that means that there's no history resets (?) or like reset when you're 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. 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. 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 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 00:04:42.470 --> 00:04:46.073 with a quite different design, they say. There you go. 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, 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 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:57.394 a lot of RGP shining through that, I'm sure. 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 00:05:01.330 --> 00:05:04.960 latches to give it more stability. I've wobbled a lot of key switches 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:07.960 and that's pretty minimal actually. 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 00:05:12.430 --> 00:05:17.180 it takes an initial force of 40 grams to go one 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:21.630 and a half millimeters before it actuates. And then at 55 grams for the whole, 00:05:21.630 --> 00:05:25.760 the whole stroke to deep bounce back up. (typing sounds) 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:28.913 I don't think you're going to have too many accidental strokes on these. 00:05:32.010 --> 00:05:34.723 Oh my gosh. 00:05:35.820 --> 00:05:37.793 I'm just unreal at typing. 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 00:05:45.770 --> 00:05:49.173 my fingers can just flail around the board, it's fine. 00:05:49.173 --> 00:05:52.033 But on this, you might have to be a little more disciplined. 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. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.440 Let's go function. Yeah. Okay. A single white LED for Windows lock. 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. 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, 00:06:10.020 --> 00:06:13.200 listen to this click. But on the other hand you might think, well 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:16.640 it kind of sucks that my macro keys are way over there. 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 00:06:20.020 --> 00:06:24.060 almost every single key can record a macro and it's really easy to do. 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, 00:06:28.850 --> 00:06:32.550 or key, and then you hit function alt again. 00:06:32.550 --> 00:06:36.166 And then I think you have to assign the key to it. 00:06:36.166 --> 00:06:36.999 Let's say one. 00:06:39.380 --> 00:06:43.470 Whoa, it worked. You can see on the alt button it says macro. 00:06:43.470 --> 00:06:46.830 So alt one, there you go. QWERTY. Nice. 00:06:46.830 --> 00:06:50.800 What I do like about the keypad on the side is that it is symmetrical. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.050 So whether you have it on the left or right it doesn't really matter 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 00:06:57.290 --> 00:07:00.360 those macro keys were on the left, when it's over here 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. 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 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 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 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.180 and it'll actually be blinking red if you have less than 25%. 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:23.400 So this puppy actually has a 4,000 millionth hour power battery inside, which 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 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%. 00:07:33.550 --> 00:07:36.920 You get 61 hours if you have it at 50% brightness. 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 00:07:41.740 --> 00:07:45.990 with the lights on and 18 hours with the lights off in 30 minutes. 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. 00:07:50.170 --> 00:07:53.220 All right. So you saw me record macros for the normal keys. 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 00:07:57.130 --> 00:08:01.430 you actually have to use the armory create software which looks like a pretty robust software. 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. 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 00:08:12.930 --> 00:08:16.510 but you can see, you can click on individual keys and change their functions. 00:08:16.510 --> 00:08:20.260 And then these are my macro keys up here. 00:08:20.260 --> 00:08:23.630 So that's the key tab. Then there's the RGB indicator tab. 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. 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. 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 00:08:36.510 --> 00:08:40.780 it tells you your current battery life. You can set when you're get an alert, 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. 00:08:47.630 --> 00:08:52.080 I would love to try this with their clicky optical keys, which I don't have. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.500 This is 269, nice, 99. 00:08:55.500 --> 00:08:59.420 Check it out at the link below. And thanks ASUS for sponsoring this unboxing. 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 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. 00:09:08.950 --> 00:09:09.953 Check it out.