when I first started working with Linus in 2011 that dates this whole thing a
little bit I'm a little old I was a major keyboard fan boy if you check out
this video Linus shows off my old mineral oil rig a big part of the reason
I got the job I'm literally working right now in that
video he shows off a customized keyboard that I had loved actually I still love
it and it's still my daily driver I recently made a video fixing it which
can be found up here as well since then however the whole computer hardware
industry has gone absolutely insane over
keyboards the number of new keyboards on the market is nuts and it's more than a
little bit confusing and overwhelming for instance newegg.com
has twelve hundred and twenty products
listed under gaming keyboards oh my god
and there's only so many times you can make a video on a keyboard that has
willed yes Cherry MX switches most likely in the brown or red variety and
some form of backlighting but just in
case you do happen to miss those I've got two of them here today the G 610
Orion with Cherry MX brown switches and the G 610 Orion with cherry MX red
switches or if your tastes are a little more Japanese than German we have the G
810 Oh Ryan spectrum a fully RGB keyboard that features Romer G switches
and its little spunky brother the ten keyless g4 ten Atlas spectrum featuring
full RGB and romaji switches with all of
that out of the way let's check out some keyboards shall we
let's start with the most interesting keyboard that would probably be the g8
ten Oh Ryan spectrum back in 2014 lioness made a video about the G 910 and
had a lot to say about the Romer G switches a lot of his messaging which I
actually completely agree with as him
pointing out things like the shorter more gaming oriented actuation distance
and the raw performance of the switch itself both of which are absolutely
awesome he also points out that the feeling may not quite be as satisfying
as a Cherry MX which due to the mushy compression feeling of bottoming them
out that last point is something I would like to address while I completely agree
that they feel mushy to bottom out and I'm definitely someone who bottoms out
his keys if you force yourself to not
bottom the switches out and just press them to slightly beyond the actuation
point which is technically as far as you need to go and is technically the best
way to do it they actually feel pretty great super responsive sweeper fast
wonderful switches not for me personally because I slam my fingers down and
bottom out keys like a dummy but if you can control your key presses better and
half press this may be great for you
the biggest complaint Linus had and one of the biggest complaints the community
as a whole had was their key caps they
did some super weird stuff with those but as the problem is solved on the g
810 i won't focus on it anymore i'll just leave it with the problem is solved
how did they do this well they use standard style key caps that's it
thanks for being humble logitech that was exactly what people wanted and you
delivered that's all there is to say besides all that it features 26 key
rollover which should be more than enough for anyone other than that one
dude who finds it really entertaining to see how many inputs he can have when he
tries to attempt typing on the keyboard with his entire butt but it's probably
fine it also features three step angle adjustment for your varying keyboard
angle and height needs five large rubber feet on the bottom to keep it from
sliding around some rather controversial media
roll buttons because they're circles not squares I personally don't really care
but have seen a number of comments about them so just be aware of that
my biggest remark on the media Keys is that they feel actually pretty great to
press their super tactile and responsive making them feel kind of like the keys
you expect to feel on a receiver which is kind of cool considering their media
functions the build quality is great with what must be some form of metal
plate running through the body making it feel very sturdy and solid and it comes
with the Logitech Gaming software that you were probably expecting for me to
bring up like right now which allows you to intricately macro bind different keys
on your keyboard mainly the F keys a lovely light control which I must say it
looks awesome on these keyboards because of the romaji light stem it looks very
nice and diffused and whatnot customizable gaming mode button and a
key press heat map which is actually super cool I like that kind of stuff the
only thing really lacking from this keyboard in my opinion is an included
wrist rest most of its competitors have one it feels a bit lacking in that
department I know the previous wrist rest wasn't winning a ton of awards
people didn't like the gaming only half of it really being their style but they
could have included something the G 410 atlas spectrum despite its name is in a
smaller ten keyless package but other than that is is much of the same it
doesn't seem to contain a metal plate and feels kind of flimsy and light which
I wasn't a fan of largely again because I bought him out keys like a dummy so I
don't know if that means much to you the awesome lighting the romaji switches the
more standardized key caps all of those were there and it does include a wrist
rest but it's the gaming wrist rest that the G 9/10 had so you may not be super
interested in that or you will that's fine too the other two keyboards both bearing the
name g6 10 Orion are basically the g8 10
but with only backlighting for white colors cherry brown and cherry red MX
switches respectively and that's about all there is to say about them which
isn't necessarily a bad thing it's fine it just kind of feels like eating a taco
versus nachos and seven-layer dip lots of the same ingredients but
oriented in a slightly different way creating a different
so there that's the current state of logitech keyboards hopefully knowledge
on these four gives you a better grasp on the apparently twelve hundred and
twenty currently available keyboards
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