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linkis the quickfire is already cooler Master's most popular mechanical
keyboard but that doesn't mean they're going to stop changing things about it
and I don't mean changing things like randomly changing things that aren't
necessarily good things I meaning changes that have been asked for so you
see this is an older version this has sort of CM Storm branding here it has CM
Storm branding sort of over here on the right by the arrow keys it's got some CM
Storm branding on the top of the keyboard the feedback from Gamers that
Cooler Master received was look we like these premium mechanical keyboards
they're awesome we love the quickfire but what we don't like is having branding all over it we want a cleaner
look so they introduced sort of the newer revision which has a very very a
very very plain very clean look as well
as just a small CM Storm logo up here at the top now this is an existing product
so this is this is nothing that new the quickfire stealth on the other hand
changes the quickfire making it again even cleaner so moving the writing to
the side of the key like this does a couple of things number one is it makes
the keyboard look extremely stealthy and very cool from the top and number two is
it actually increases the durability of the keys themselves so even though
they're laser etched there is is still the the eventual chance that the writing
can wear down or it can become less visible but because of the way that
they've done this it is AB actually absolutely impossible so no matter how
greasy or oily or Cheeto stained your fingers are you are not going to be able
to affect the way the typing appears on the keyboard now this guy over here is
new this is basically a longer version
of the quickfire this is the XT which stands for extension or extended or
extreme tactile or whatever you want it to stand for basically this is full 104
key layout so you get the number pad in addition to everything you already like
about the quickfire one thing that's missing from the quickfire is the cable
routing here at the bottom so the reason for that is that they've actually
decreased there you go they've decreased the profile of keyboard it is 28 millim
at its thickest and 18 mm at its thinnest making it the thinnest
mechanical keyboard using Cherry MX switches on the market they've also
added and I believe oh shoot I think I missed something over here
ah yes okay I missed something on both of these so they've added an 8X pulling
rate option to both the stealth and the XT that makes it the fastest input
available for a mechanical keyboard which is uh if you're looking for every
little Competitive Edge obviously a factor for you so right instead of the
cable routing on the bottom they've just gone with a full-size USB port although
they are going to implement it a little bit differently I think on the final
model where it'll be kind of coming out at an angle so it's a little bit easier
to route while the four types of cherrymx
switches that we're most familiar with are Blues Browns Reds and blacks there
are actually other kinds of switches from Cherry now some of the reasons that
we haven't seen these as often is maybe they aren't as ideal so you know maybe
people don't like them as much or maybe they're more expensive and companies
haven't wanted to implement them now Cooler Master is taking almost every model they have and throwing a whole
bunch of different switch types had it because their idea is that look we're
not going to say okay you're a typist you want Blues you're a gamer you want
Reds we're going to say you're a whoever you are and you want whatever you want and go for it so this is the trigger
green this is the first fully MX green
keyboard that I have ever encountered and both slick and I are in perfect
agreement that it is without a doubt
pretty much as good as it gets it feels like a heavier blue so it has an 80 g
spring in it and what that means is as you push down two things it eliminates a
bit of the double tap issue that you have with Blues where the actuation point is actually a little bit before
the click so you don't have that that audible feedback for the actuation point
on a blue here they line up much more closely and it also gives you more well
more resistance and more push back so it feels more like a buckling spring if
you've ever used a model M this is as close as it gets with a Cherry MX key
switch um without you having to sort of find an old model M on eBay or something
along those lines now it's got some of the customizability that we've seen with
other Cooler Master keyboards so you can change the mode of the keys you got
breathing you've got a gaming mode that lights up your arrow keys you can adjust
the brightness you can turn the LEDs off out right but what I think is the
coolest feature about it is the fact that you can fully program any key so if
you decide okay I want a Windows key over here I don't want a storm key you
reprogram that to a Windows key it has a few macro profiles as well profile keys
and if you decide okay I want my delete key here then you can do that the only
key on the keyboard that cannot be reprogrammed is the one right here I
also really like the implementation of the wrist rest here I know that large
wrist rests sometimes don't look as sexy as a very small compact wrist rest but I
can tell you guys right now that for some people my wife being one of them
she refuses to type on anything that doesn't have a wrist rest a belt this
big so the only keyboard out there for her is a steel series 7g as soon as I
get my hands on one of these I'm going to get her to try and see what she thinks because she's a much faster type
of than me she does about 145 words per minute and uh she's kind of one of my
one of my go-to people but slick is the only one I have here you'll you'll have
to do for today's slick and he says sounds great I love it too these
products don't actually exist yet there code name Lux or something like that and
they're sort of referred to as The Cooler Master CM Storm aluminum series
or something what they are is they're kind of a concept that they're working
on right now for customizable keyboards now you might have seen back in the day
uh I think there was I forget who it was but they were custom painting Logitech
G50 I can tell you guys right now the Finish you're going to get painting something
like made of plastic is never going to be as good as you can do with something
metal also the fact that you can't take them apart makes it much more difficult
to do you have to have more specialized equipment and it's just it's never going
to look as good so what they've done is they've integrated aluminum metal
aspects into a full range of gaming Pur here so we've got a headset that has two
removable plates one on each side that allow you to take it off you can paint
it you can color it you can take it off completely if you want it to look kind
of goofy but that's totally up to you is sort of the point there's also a
keyboard that has the entire top plate
removable so you want to put your favorite game graphic let's say you're
let's say you're a partner of cooler Masters you want to release uh you know
a game branded keyboard or even you want to do like a cool giveaway so you grab a
few of these you send them to a sweet paint shop you get some really cool airbrushing done on them boom you're
done so it's the pretty much the meant to be a template for the easiest to
customize peripherals there's also a mouse and a mouse pad so you can see
here's the aluminum plate on this guy this is full aluminum and while I
probably don't think I'd recommend painting a mouse pad I guess you'd have
the option if you really want to the last thing I missed here before was the
control RX and what's cool about this guy is it's uh sorry polyurethane back
correct polyurethane back and it's very very thick so this is great for land
parties where you don't always get your own table and sometimes you're stuck on
sort of the butt crack between the tables so what you could do is you take
this and at least as long as you don't have a huge lip you're going to have a
reasonably smooth surface bridging that Gap because it's so thick and because
the back is so stiff it's also extremely sticky probably the most grippy back
I've ever felt on a mouse pad and I think that pretty much wraps it up for
CM Storm so they've got a lot of exciting stuff going on don't miss any
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content to just make PC cases anymore Cooler Master has on display at CES a
fairly wide range of Apple accessories so I want to start with the rock
basically it's a sort of No Frills nice
heavy I mean the name is appropriate cuz it feels and looks about like a rock
except like a more of a glossy elegant Rock and the idea is you take your iPad
or I don't know presumably you could even check an iPhone there if you felt
like it there you go you could do that or you take your MacBook you put it in
there it slides in pretty nicely it's got a nice rubberized finish on the
inside so it's not going to slip out or go anywhere you put that next to your
computer if you use an external display and it's sort of a stand it's just a
stand speaking of just a stand this is the Jazz Pro which does not stand for
just a stand Pro but what this guy does is it allows you to put your Mac next to
an external display it's probably not that practical from a sitting there
using the computer perspective and I just hit the power button I'm very sorry about that but if you're going to put it
next to a display then and use actually an external keyboard and mouse then
something something like that could work very well for you moving right along
over here we have the ren so this guy is
an iPad iPad Mini holder and I actually
didn't get briefed on how it oh look there's a button there you go I didn't
get briefed on how it works but what it does is it locks into several different
positions depending on whether you want to be in portrait mode with a full-size
iPad landscape mode with a fullsize iPad or in portrait mode with an iPad Mini it
rotates like this so it allows you to kind of take your tablet and prop it up
like this take your tablet prop it up like this it also comes with a couple of
accessories so this guy allows you to hang it off of sort of a horizontal
surface this is a very thick table so that's not going to work for me but if you're going to hang it off a bookshelf
or something like that then you just slot this into the back
here there you go hang it off something sort of rotate it wherever you want it
to go and then it also comes with another optional one right here which
allows you to clip it to a vertical surface so then you could sort of rotate
it out and around this way and sort of I I figured my my pitch to them was you
should can you should sell them as a 10 pack so that the customers can actually
put them all over their house and then just carry the tablet around with them
and have it kind of you know like hanging up here above the shower and
sort of in the kitchen and wherever else it happens to be this right here is not
actually available yet this is The Cooler Master MacBook Air they are going
directly up against apple with this no I'm just kidding um it's actually the
stand underneath of it so this is an evolutionary step forward from the Jazz
Pro where not only can you adjust the height but you can actually also adjust
the angle so I don't know you're a DJ you're someone who wants to use their
computer and have it sit on a nice solid aluminum stand with a rubberized base
and rubberized grips it has a very very nice feel to it I mean look how thick
the aluminum is here this most of this stuff is available on the Apple Store so
it's all Apple approved Apple authorized accessories so if you're into Apple then
you might care about that sort of thing last but not least we have the duo so
this guy right here slides together like this so you can use it as an iPad Mini
stand or presumably a full-size iPad stand although I haven't tested that
personally on the bottom you see a couple of different things so you have a
pass through for headphones you have a pass through for I don't know what the
difference between battery and battery is here I guess they allow you to run two cables into it um either way when
you pop it out here you can see you can
there we go you can actually plug because of the iPhone 5 has the
headphone jack on the bottom you can plug your audio cable in there and you
can just kind of have it sitting in the dock next to this one you can kind of
hide it a little bit inside this one you can put it completely inside this one
and it's got like a nice rubberized feel to it and this is a solid piece of
aluminum all down here so that pretty much wraps up the Apple accessories
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Tech tips there are bucket loads of new desktop products at The Cooler Master
Suite we're going to start with the Centurion 6 this brings back sort of the
uh the metal accent and the that that that feel of sort of metal quality that
I think has been missing a little bit from the $ 69.99 price point because
that's where they're going to be positioned this strip down here on both
the silver accented version and the black accented version is aluminum and
check this out guys these are not plastic meshes we are done with plastic
meshes on $70 cases these are actually metal meshes which gives I I hope you
can see this in the video but in person it gives it a better look and it gives
it a better overall feel to the chassis other than that it's a pretty something
we're pretty used to seeing on the inside so it has support for dual 120 mm
RADS in the top and it has a removable cage here so you can put in as long a
graphics card as you could possibly want to have this guy right here is a little
bit unique this is the elite 241 it's a very very small chassis and the idea is
it fits an ATX motherboard and it's at a very very low cost and it's small and
narrow so there you go next up here this is kind of a
concept ch right now this actually repositions the water cooling radiator
to the side so check this out dual 120
mm rat on the side what this allows you to do is save on the height of the case
so if you had for example a little all clove you wanted to chuck your water
cooled system into this would allow you to save at least a couple inches on the
top of the case in order to make that fit so the radiator is it's slipping the
radiator is right here which gives you not as ideal of an air flow situation as
if you had it in the top of the case but it allows this case to come in at a
lower price point because it has a top power supply and it doesn't have to have
that extra height last but not least we've got the n200 and this is sort of
Representative of what will be a bit of a new look for some Cooler Master cases
so it's got this is a plastic mesh again but it's just sort of a a cleaner look
so the half line has been has done really well and that aesthetic has been
great and it's going to continue but they're also experimenting with a few
different things as well so the idea behind this guy
is that you can have check this out a a dual 120 mm rad and up to another 120 mm
rad in the back can throw a couple hard drives in there and there's lots of
space so it's an idea the idea is it's an matx chassis that gives you options
so you're not going to be able to put in a ton of hard drives and a long graphics
card and a bunch of water cooling but you can do kind of any two of the three
without sacrificing very much at all
this is the Scout 2 ghost white so they've got a couple different colors on
display you can check out the inside it's just basically showcasing all the
really cool stuff that Cooler Master has going on in terms of their technology so
they've got their Iceberg cooler in there you got your removable cages
you've got your support for liquid cooling I really love the handles on the
top of this case they're extremely robust they're extremely strong this is
the case that I actually took in my video where I unboxed it lifted it up by
the by the handle alone on the top over my head shook it around and it didn't
have any Flex to it whatsoever thank you for checking out
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