welcome to my unboxing of the filco magist stouch 2 this is a mechanical
keyboard and you can see here filco has
so many different configurations of their keyboards they let you have pretty
much whatever you could possibly want in
terms of the layout so you can have you can have different layouts different
sizes different switches under them you can have different color schemes of the
keyboards we've unboxed a cam one before which is pretty cool uh this particular
one has a black body cover with a 104 key Arrangement so it doesn't have the
missing number pad it has Cherry MX red
switches which are basically like a softer version of the black switch so
that is to say that it's very linear in terms of the travel there isn't like a
resistance and then a click and then a release uh it's very linear and it
requires less Force to depress than a
black switch which isn't to say that it has like a neurological disorder that
causes it to be sad that is to just say
that um it is being pressed down
depressed not like you
know like it needs you know help from
somebody to become undepressed although actually no because it doesn't need help
to be I'm the one making it depressed and then if I would just stop putting so
much pressure on it then it would be
undepressed I don't know where I was going with any of this okay so let's
have a look at the keyboard itself filco is a world-renowned brand they're a
Japanese brand pretty much if you're into keyboards and more people are into
keyboards than you would think you have heard of filco you are familiar with
filco and you probably want a filco keyboard in some shape or form so they
are known for their build quality very
very solid keyboards it's not quite a model M but then again nothing is uh
what can I say right however as far as modern keyboards go you aren't going to
do any better than this there's absolutely no flex to the deck itself
there is that weight to it like it's not you know once again it's not a model M
like you probably couldn't kill a man with it but you could stun him you know
like if someone broke into your like your gaming den and you all like oh I
have you know no like axes nearby you can pick up keyboard and be like pow and
then hopefully you wouldn't wck the USB port because this keyboard does plug
into your computer by USB or PS2 with the adapter it features n key rollover
which means you can press as many keys as you want without running into any
difficulty with you know random ghosting and you know if you learn to type with
your face then you could type with your face and that would be really weird
looking but like probably effective uh in terms of the layout I love it because
as I'm one of those guys who wants to see long shifts enters and backspace
keys because I have small hands and I can't reach a backspace key over here
without moving my index finger off of the J which means that I'll get lost
when I go back and then it'll be a total disaster and I won't know what to do um
no tall delete key thumbs up again no function key on this one that's
kind of interesting so two Windows keys this is I guess not a more gaming
oriented model whereas on the last gaming oriented one we had a function
key here with media Keys up here and just over Windows key on this side we've
also got a full number pad and honestly
in terms of the mechanical keyboard typing experience the number pad to me
is very important because in my particular job I do a lot of typing on a
number pad I can actually touch type faster on a number pad than I can
actually touch type in terms of written
like words and stuff because I enter a lot of numbers into my computer and
mechanical Keys make everything faster everyone that I have put a mechanical
keyboard in front of types faster and is more comfortable than they are on a
membrane key switch because they do provide more responsiveness more
feedback and just like they're they're
better they become depressed more EAS uh undepressed more easily as well so
that's a good thing too uh again build quality huge rubber pads quality rubber
pads these are incredibly non-slip four of them on the bottom you can also flip
up these guys right here and they have folding rubber pads that aren aren't
going anywhere if you want to Incline the keyboard a little bit and what it
comes down to with FCO yes they're expensive yes they're a much better
typing experience and yes you can get pretty much whatever you want in terms
of the layout the color scheme the switches that you prefer try keyboards
find out what you prefer personally I'm not an MX red guy it's just not my thing
however that doesn't mean that I couldn't get this keyboard with different switches cuz feel cool rolls
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