almost a year ago we asked iconics if we
could check out a few of their keyboards and you know what it took a while but at
long last they have arrived the iconics zx75 is here we got two of them uh I
also don't know if I'm pronouncing iconic's right kind of sounds like Articuno to me take that as you will
this one says dark side on it so it's probably black or dark blue and it is
indeed the Black Version as you can see here uh it's a TTC Ace key switch I am
not familiar with them uh but it looks nice and it's got RGB and this one is uh
oh it's green very cool this one's also got a TTC gold pink looks very pretty
I'm actually really excited for this um it's a plastic board and it's got a
bit of a hefty price tag that we'll get into later but I think the design is
really cool and also it's wireless so if you need a wireless keyboard you're just
gonna end up paying more money zx75 what's in here a little envelope
with some quick start stuff it's mostly
in what looks like simplified Chinese
but I am not sure oh the back is English okay that's cool uh yeah cool it's just
got a bunch of like indicator light status Stuff how to do with the wireless
things you can do 2.4 gigahertz or Bluetooth which is very handy uh if
you're doing the 2.4 gigahertz it stays at the 1000 Hertz polling rate that
you'll get if you plug it in directly but if you do Bluetooth it's down to
125. totally fine for like typing but
you probably don't want a game on this thing if it's in Bluetooth let's take a
look at it it's got some cool keycaps on it that I can see through this little
plastic case this is a really tight fit though they
could have gone with a slightly larger
slightly larger plastic sleeve oh underneath actually yeah sorry I mean
you guys can see this here but I'm going to check out what's underneath we got a cable like other keyboards we've checked
out it doesn't have a sleeve cable it's just a regular old USBC to a could be a
little nicer I know that this guy is more expensive than some of the other
boards we've looked at so you know higher expectations but
that's all right we've also got a bunch of extra keycaps a little option oh it's
the Mac stuff okay so this one is also another Mac uh easily adjusted to Mac
keyboard I don't use Apple products it's not for me but I like that there's an
option for people we've also got a switch puller and a keycap puller we've
also got the USB dongle ah get out of there dongle
as if you want to do Bluetooth it's USB a to c uh so if you only have C ports
which is great for a lot of laptops you can still use this and then on top of
that we've got this little oh it's a brush what okay I have not had a
keyboard come with a brush yet they get extra points for this this is awesome I
would love a little brush to just like wipe the cat hair and stuff off of my
keyboard and out from the keycaps I want to keep this I don't care we've got two
of these I'm putting this one in my pocket before I leave now the keyboard
this thing is actually surprisingly Hefty for a plastic case uh let's give
it away actually before I do anything else
1.15 kilograms so that's not super Hefty
uh about not quite three pounds it's pretty cool though and actually really
do like it it's really grippy on the bottom here it's a textured plastic and
it's all see-through as well oh it's just super cool uh I think my only
complaint so far I haven't even typed on this or anything so I don't know how it
feels but my only complaint is that especially with it being see-through it
would have been really nice to have like a silicone layer or something on the
bottom or some foam I've got for reference I've got a portico 75 and that
one is a similar plastic case like this but it comes with a big silicone pad on
the very bottom that really helps deaden the sound so we'll see how this one is
I'm going to open the black one and take a look at that just to take a quick look
see I'm so excited I've actually been waiting for these for like a pretty long
time they caught my eye on their website and you know I just thought they look
neat they've got this really kind of retro design I don't know if this is an
actual speaker or not but it looks like a little speaker Port that it's got a
plastic knob on it nice and tactile I like the sound of it too
oh these switches feel good too
these are just linear
spacebar could sound a little better it's a little Hollow
but overall I actually really like how it sounds and you're getting 81 Keys
it's basically it's a 75 so you're getting your fro still which is really
nice for a lot of people and then like delete insert home end and then some
arrow keys let's check out the green one though because what I'm really excited about is these keycaps they've got this
really cool Camp life keycap set it's got Camp life there you know it's like a
moon it's all green there's a little Camp symbol up there west east north and
south directional buttons that's great and then they've got really cute
um optional keycaps for the side here for like delete and insert and and
whatnot they got a little campfire and a backpack and a tent and then I guess a
compass or something I don't know I just think it's a cute keycap set I kind of
want this too I oh
I like these switches more the spacebar could be improved on this
one as well I don't know anything about the stabilizers in here they're I'm not
sure if they're clip-on or screw in and I can't quite see them
so they might be clip on if I'm wrong I'm sorry it's just really
hard to see through this board either way
they sound pretty good these are definitely better than a lot of like
manufacturers that you get like Corsair or Logitech or something and the
spacebar can be improved it's not rattly it's just a little Hollow so you can put
some foam in there or something and it would really bump it up oh one other really
interesting thing to talk about is that these are KDA profile keycaps which I'm
really not familiar with at all I've never typed on KDA I like sa I like SDA
I like XDA but yeah I've never tried KDA and I'm not sure just kind of looks like
a slightly lower version of sa I'm not
I'm not sure don't quote me on that but it looks cool and you know what
yeah it feels okay to type on kind of digging it one pretty cool thing that I
just noticed is the knob is like
this is Beefy I don't the push down is
just crazy I've never had this tactile of a push down on a knob before and I'm
kind of digging it I like how it's really hollowed out in the center too like you're not gonna miss that
bam I'm doing it then on the back of the board we've got adjustable feet whoa
those are just magnets okay so do you like reverse these or something how do
these work okay so they're just like magnets that go in like this normally to
store it away or whatever or to have it flat and then if you want a little bit
more of an angle you flip them backwards and they've got the feet there how well
does it stay actually stays okay it's not great because it's plastic on
plastic and it's mostly using the magnet to hold it in place there's definitely
like some slippage on the right here and it's not the keyboard slipping on the
mat it's the feet slipping in the receptacle that they've got so I don't
know beware of that if you want a higher typing angle then this might not be for
you what else it's got a 6 000 milliamp
hour battery for all the wireless charging that you want looks like
there's two of them one here one here and then it's got an on off switch right
here between cabled and wireless other than that it looks pretty standard
really easy to take apart it looks like you just take apart a bunch of screws here and here and here lift the top off
maybe take a few more off of the PCB and plate and whatnot and then it'll come up
right apart yeah I guess that's my only complaint so far is that I really wish
they'd done anything on the bottom just like a silicone layer or I mean you
could tape it yourself and it would probably fix it but that's okay I'm
gonna plug this guy in I'm gonna test it out I really wish this thing came with a
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oh yeah I didn't use the brush yo that's
it that's all you need it for you just got to get in those cracks and crevices
brush off your keyboard you know I'll be
anyone's probably laughing at this right now but honestly for any pet owners
um or someone working in like a Dusty environment I don't know why it would be dusty but maybe it is this is great I
would absolutely just brush my keyboard down once a week or something if I had
something like this I was not kidding when I said I'm gonna try to steal it
wow look at that it's see-through and you can just barely see the RGB lights
on the back of this thing cool uh on the front it actually looks pretty
good I like the shine through on the sides and in between these are not uh
double shot PBT but uh they are using like a hundred percent PBT so they feel
pretty good oh it doesn't say double shot on them the keycaps that we've got
on the black one are double shot PBT these are dye sublimated and it still
looks pretty good I actually really like the feeling of it both the quality of
the keycap material as well as the uh KDA oh I just realized KDA is like kill
death's assist and cool all right sweet that doesn't really matter but just neat
um I got type on it now you know as I like to do
I like I do like this board I don't know if I'd pay the price for it but I like
it a lot especially the camping Motif and like the whole like green aesthetic
that it's going for I really dig it okay let's go
oh I screwed this up already okay I'm keeping this one
I get one Mulligan oh no this is bad
99 95 I screw it up a bunch of times
it's not the keyboard's fault I actually really like it I am a big fan honestly I
still don't know what's up with this little area here I'm not sure
it just looks it's just aesthetic I think it looks neat even if it's not
actually a speaker I think it really fits this whole thing I don't know if I
want see-through to be perfectly honest I actually really do like the whole
see-through thing and I'm kind of upset that it doesn't happen more frequently
but I I think with the solid green on the
keycaps I would actually prefer a solid green plastic shell for this thing
otherwise though it's great I I like the look of it I like the feel I like the
typing experience it's pretty stiff and sturdy for plastic so obviously you know
you're not getting a CNC aluminum shell which can contribute to a lot of the
cost of a board we're going to take a look at the black one too just to see if
you know it's just the green that kind of has me turned off on the transparency
or not actually yeah I I honestly it's just the fact that it's green I which is
crazy because I like colored like old Gaming stuff too
um it's just the RGB is
train I absolutely do like the black one
as transparent maybe because it's a darker transparency so you can still see
through but like especially on the back here with all these lights lit up that
looks pretty cool I don't know the green I just I wish it was solid I can't even
really explain why I just that's what I would prefer in this scenario yeah the
black one see-through looks great feels great super pretty I'm going back to the
green one though because that's the one I want it comes down to price
if you're not paying for CNC aluminum
then how much is molded plastic worth to
you this guy is 215 dollars for the RGB
version and then if you want the unlit non-RGB one it's 195. so you can save a
bit of money but I mean honestly I think 20 bucks is worth the RGB it's it's good
and I like it and I've paid about two hundred dollars for plastic boards I'm
pretty torn I think that if you don't have anything yet and you need something
Wireless like that's the big thing is I I don't need Wireless I will almost
never need Wireless that's just not me I try to plug stuff in and there's a big
value in this board in the fact that it has a big battery and it's got Wireless
capabilities both both Bluetooth and uh 2.4 gig so I don't know I don't think
it's worth it to me personally but I think if you're looking for a really
cool looking board something that looks kind of retro uh maybe something with
the cool camping uh keycaps like these are sick if you're really want KDA then
maybe you're going to have to get one of these if they had a cheaper version that
was only wired I would probably jump on this thing honestly just to have it in
my collection that's the iconics zx75 if
you want one I mean I hope they're still in stock we're going to have them linked below took forever for us to get ours
unfortunately this is a ShortCircuit if you want to watch another ShortCircuit
maybe check out The Cooler Master Video we got a Cooler Master board it's got
hot swap in it how cool is that that's pretty cool