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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom glass visit

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store. phantom.in screen protectors out there

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as well as hyperx all right guys welcome to the steel series Suite we're checking

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out the m800 keyboard This is similar to their last Apex and the idea that it has

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the replaceable rubber plug feed on the bottom and a lower and higher profile

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setting it has dual USB hub ports on the back which aren't powered but you'll be

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able to do some minor stuff with them and then other than that there's some

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changes the layout is changed a little bit there's slightly less macro keys but

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that's probably fine cuz you probably weren't using all of them anyways and

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there's individual Lighting on each one of the keys instead of Zone lighting

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like they had before I think there was about five zones before now it's individual lighting everywhere which is

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going to be a lot better they've switched to their own key switch which

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now has 3 mm of total travel distance and a 1.5 mm actuation Point compared to

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cherri's which is 4 mm of total travel distance and a 2mm actuation Point these

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key switches are also rated for 60 million presses and have a fairly

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interesting design as you can probably see on the screen right now one thing

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that you do need to note is that the stem is not a Cherry MX compatible stem

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so you cannot put on Cherry MX key switches custom but it does come with a

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few swappable things so if you want to use it on an Apple computer you can swap

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out for command keys or whatever you want to do in that realm this key switch

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is a linear key switch and the waiting is probably going to be somewhere

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between a red and a black that's what they're telling me right now although I

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don't know the exact waiting specification for that key switch quite

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yet like I said before there's individual key switch lighting there's

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an LED in the middle of the switch which is able to do 16.8 million colors which

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is customizable in their software another thing to note is that the key

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caps themselves are also a lot shorter just like the travel distance so you'll

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notice quite a big difference typing on this keyboard compared to a full-size

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key cap and a cherry travel distance keyboard not necessarily a bad thing

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just a difference thank you for watching this video if you want to see all the rest of our CES content be sure to

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phones and bringing us here this year we have a cool video with them coming fairly soon also thank you to hyperx for

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supporting us this year and you should check out their YouTube channel at youtube.com/ hyperx they release a whole

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bunch of cool gaming content and have almost 100,000 subscribers thanks for

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watching I'll see you next time