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We all know OnePlus, they make phones, earbuds, and now keyboards?

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Keyboard 81 Pro specifically, they teamed up with Keychron to make this.

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Ooh, I love this, never settle. Sometimes you should settle, but you know what?

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Not with keyboards, that's what you shouldn't settle for. Connect Bluetooth, remapping keys, backlight,

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connect cable, adjusting whatever, switchable keycaps for OS.

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This does have Linux, Mac, Windows support,

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Android support, oh, and then we got a little user manual as well, if the card wasn't good enough for you.

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My only complaint from just looking at the specs is that it's wireless, but it doesn't do 2.4 gigahertz,

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it's just Bluetooth and USB-C.

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Keyboards in here, I can keep that a little secret for all of us right now.

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I'm gonna open these other boxes. This guy comes in two colors,

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there's a dark gray and a light gray. The light gray is the one that's supposed to come

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with their MarbleMallow keycaps, which is a first.

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I've never tried them before in my life, and I'm very intrigued.

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It's supposed to be like a softer plastic, one that's specifically used in cables and bracelets,

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which seems odd. These don't feel like, well, this feels like PBT,

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this one not so much. Why is the D the only one that feels different?

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Maybe I'm crazy. Listen, I haven't felt a lot of Ds, but this does feel a little different.

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Yeah, okay, okay. Also coming with a bunch of what looks like foam gaskets,

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this is gasket mounted, double gasket mounted. If one's not good enough for you, they got two.

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And they come with extras, which is always a plus. A one plus, ah, that's a terrible joke.

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Oh, I actually really like their key cap and switch puller that they're including

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because it's got these cool covers for it. Ooh, cable.

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And for anyone who wants to take apart their keyboard

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and modify it and do whatever they want to it, they come with a little Allen key, which is great.

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The cable is notably in their one plus red that they use for everything.

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Yeah, it doesn't seem that bad, but yeah, it's about two meters probably. USB-C on one side, USB-A on the other.

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Oh, we got some screws. This is actually a huge deal to me.

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I have bought a lot of expensive custom keyboards and you'd be surprised by how many of them

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don't come with extra hardware. All right, now for the big reveal, the actual keyboard.

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Ooh, it's pretty hefty. The whole thing is CNC aluminum.

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I actually really like whatever they've done here on this edge for the knob and the, what's, I mean,

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they've got the arrow keys on here, it's traditional. Oh, page up, page down.

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And home, probably. Yeah, these just feel like PBT, that's a bummer.

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One kind of disappointing thing off the bat here is that they're supposed to have

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this really cool new marble mallow keycap that I've never tried before.

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The D key that came with this might be the material because it does feel different than PBT, but I'm not sure.

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And the way that you can tell that this isn't marble mallow, aside from the obvious PBT feel here,

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is that these are dark gray keycaps. This comes in two color schemes,

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but the color scheme only is reflecting on the keycaps themselves.

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So if you get the light gray, then the alphanumeric and center keycaps

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would all be light gray. Instead, we've got the dark gray version,

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where it's dark gray on the alphanumerics and light gray on the outside.

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That doesn't mean the keyboard's bad. I'm actually still pretty excited about it.

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It's just, that was a really cool feature that I was hoping to experience today,

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but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. I really love this knob.

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Not only does the tactile feel actually feel great, but I love the clear, like kind of fake crystal

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or fake glass appearance it's got. It's just plastic, but it looks pretty good.

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And then we've got the typical traditional one plus logo

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in one plus red on the escape key and on the enter key.

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This is hotswap, which is great. I just don't like it if anyone's not hotswap these days

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because there's not much point for it, especially in the more like mass marketed keyboards.

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It's a red switch, but it's definitely tactile. So I'm gonna take it out.

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Oh, which makes sense. I'm pretty sure the linear switches.

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So that's the other thing that's kind of a weird design choice that they've made.

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The color is also tied to the switches as well.

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If you get the light gray, you get linears. And if you get the dark gray, you get these tactiles.

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So it's kind of tough if you like linears,

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but you don't want the new marble mallow key caps

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as cool as they may be. Tough break, you're stuck choosing one. Same thing if you like tactiles,

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but you really wanted the marble mallow key caps, like I do, I can't get that right now.

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So unfortunately we're stuck with these guys. They feel okay.

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They sound all right, it could sound better. I'm not sure if they're pre-lubed,

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but they don't sound or feel too bad. So it wouldn't surprise me if there's a really small

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light application of factory pre-lube on these. We've got south facing RGB on our keyboard.

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There's per key illumination for anyone who cares about that. Another thing that I even neglected to mention

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is that it's got this cool bar on the back. And this is for adjusting your typing angle,

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but it's also meant to let you stand the keyboard up.

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The logo on the back, if you were to take your keyboard and flip it over,

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that's upside down. But as soon as you stand it up like this,

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how's that? I think it's kind of a weird way to display your keyboard.

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Most of the time I would actually prefer the bar to be on the bottom, and then I would like put it up like this.

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I'm not against the bar. I think it's a pretty cool way to have adjustable typing angles,

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especially it's pretty stiff. So I don't think unless you like really sit here

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and crank it and wear it out, it's not gonna just wear out on you and suddenly your keyboard's gonna like droop.

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Like I've gotta press, I'm pressing pretty hard. Oh, geez, actually I almost pinched my fingers there.

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But I've gotta press pretty hard to get this bar to like go down.

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So I'm not worried about that at all. And then on the rest of the keyboard,

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physically we've got a on off switch. And it looks like it might choose as well

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between Bluetooth and wired. And then we've got a Mac or Windows and a USB-C port.

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Ours comes with this neat little stamped ShortCircuit title here. That's pretty cool.

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That's probably just a personal thing for us. Sorry. Other than that, it's got four little rubber feet here,

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which probably do the job. Yeah, like they could be better,

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but I've definitely had worse rubber feet on a keyboard. And realistically, you're not pushing on it that hard

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when you're gaming or typing anyway. And it's pretty hefty. Like this thing, yeah, it's all aluminum.

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As for weight, yo, 1.8 kilos.

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Yeah, it's definitely pretty hefty, about five pounds or so. It's got a 4,000 milliamp hour battery,

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which is respectable in this space, but I want to use wired because I'm a wired kind of guy.

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Oh, this is cool. I only just noticed this now. It actually comes with a USB-C to a dongle,

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but it's also just a USB-C to C cable. So if you have just a spare USB-C port that you want to use,

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feel free to do that. And if you don't, boom, OnePlus has got you covered.

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I got to say, I really like the RGB and it makes me appreciate the red keycaps

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and the red cable even more. I think that the red and the gray and the metallic kind of look of the aluminum

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all goes together really nicely. I'm not a red kind of person.

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I'm a more of a blue or green or orange kind of boy.

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Wow, 1.29, 100%. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with that.

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Honestly, they're working with Keychron to make this product and it feels and looks a lot

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like a Keychron, which I'm relatively fond of.

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They're not perfect out of the box, but I think for the price, you get something pretty reasonable

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that you can then upgrade yourself with foams or mods, whatever you want to do.

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But yeah, I actually really like the typing experience on this and while it's more of a thick than a thawk,

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I actually really like the sound right out of the box. It's like a tick, right?

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How's the spacebar? It's not super rattle-y, but it's a little bit hollow

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and a little just a tiny bit rattle-y. So you could fix all this up yourself

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and especially with it being hot swap, if you don't like the switches, you don't like the keycaps,

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you can change basically whatever you want. One other thing I kind of noticed

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while just looking at it is I really like the overall construction designs.

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I love how the screws aren't in the bottom of the case. So they're not using these super long screws,

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like you see on some more premium keyboards. They're using these little short guys

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and they're just right in here on the edges. If I were to disassemble this,

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it looks like basically the top part of the case just kind of lifts off and you're left with a really thick body.

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Instead of it being kind of centered, how some keyboards are basically split in half,

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like the top case is just as big as the bottom case. But yeah, it looks very clean

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and it doesn't look like you have to get rid of any feet or anything to get in there, which is fantastic.

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So I like it. One thing I wasn't sure of while talking about this

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and reading their descriptions and whatnot,

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they say double gasket, but I don't exactly know what that means.

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A lot of gasket systems I've seen that are like burger mount and stuff,

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they have gaskets on both side anyway.

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Okay, there's a few too many ribbon cables so I don't really want to fully disconnect it.

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But as you can see, we've got these really thick gaskets and there's one on either side of the plate,

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which appears to just be plastic. It might be polycarb, but I'm not a hundred percent sure.

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They are extra thick and there are two of them. So it is technically double gasketed,

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but I don't think that's anything that's crazy.

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A lot of stuff that's gasket mounted is gonna have gaskets on both sides of the plate.

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A lot of the time it even comes with little socks that you put on the edges on like these guys here.

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So there's contact on both sides of the plate. It feels pretty good.

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And it's definitely gasket mounted with layers of foam and whatnot, like it's good.

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I'm not saying it's bad. I just, it's not a big deal calling it double gasket.

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I don't know, that's a bit of a stretch here. All right, one moment please as I put it back together.

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Luckily that was really easy. One thing that's nice that I didn't mention

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that is pretty typical for Keychron is this does support open source firmware.

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So it's QMK and it's via compatible. And you can do just about whatever you want with it.

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Change the RGB to however you like. Adjust any macros you want or adjust keys to something else.

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And now we gotta talk the price, which is something we actually don't have.

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They never sent us any details. We can't find it on the website anywhere.

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And I'm gonna go ahead and say that I think personally,

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if this thing is like on par with Keychron pricing.

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So for an all aluminum chassis, you get a cool knob.

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I think if this is about $250 coming with keycaps and switches,

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I think anything more than that, if you start getting into the $300 territory,

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if you wanna pay that much, then start just looking for custom keyboards

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that are gonna come out in a year. That's the only kind of problem with that route

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is you find something on Met Group Buys that you like. You get in on the pre-order or on the Group Buy

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and then you wait. So that's kind of why I recommend Keychron so much

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is you can just buy it. Which I'm hoping you can do with this. If you can just buy it and it's like $250, cool.

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It's pretty good. Let us know in the comments, like, subscribe,

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all that good stuff and see you later.