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performance welcome to my unboxing and first look at the tte sports by thermal
take Mecha G1 so Mecca is short for
membrane because that is the kind of key switches that no I'm just kidding Mecca
is short for as you guys might imagine Mecca anical so this is a fully
mechanical gaming keyboard from tte Sports optimized for as you may or may
not have figured out by this point in time gaming so there's a few things on
the packaging here that I do want to go through so multimedia keys to control
audio function at Instant without going to control panel very handy so you use a
function button which is down there and you use some other buttons which are
over here I do like audio scroll Wheels
but in a pinch I will definitely settle for these in fact my own keyboard does
use these USB for installation of other
USB gaming device so it has two buil-in USB ports that are in a hub as well as
audio jacks for microphone in and speaker out function excellent military
grade cable tough and reliable goldplated USB connector PS2 adapter for
n key rollover awesome I still do like to see PS2 compatibility black cherry
switches so 50 million keystrokes and finally a th000 polling 1,000 HZ pulling
rate is supported by this keyboard now
okay normal takes marketing for that
particular feature I personally took exception to because they are okay torts
rather not thermal take because they are different even though they are very very
closely related because right here on the front of the box it says gaming
speed eight times quicker which I think is a pretty broad statement but does
have some truth to it so what they mean is because the keyboard supports a 1,00
htz polling rate that is to say that the keyboard is reporting to the computer
1,000 times every second versus a standard 125 HZ pulling rate the the
computer itself can receive the signal in up to 1/8 of the time or or as little
as 1/8 of the time so that's what they mean it is more responsive assuming you
set it up that way which you can do because it does support it but it will
not make your gaming eight times faster any anything like that so the keyboard
itself has a fairly standard layout on the bottom you find four nice big rubber
pads that don't look like they're going to slide anywhere I also see this looks
oh this looks really nice actually I haven't seen thermal Tes system for
attaching a wrist rest before but it looks like there's very little risk of
these accidentally coming out and very little risk of accidentally breaking
them when you pull them out because they use a like a like a breakaway a
breakaway system here so when they when the prongs come out the side there's a
very good chance they're going to rip off but I actually quite like this we've
also got adjustable seat right here on the bottom so you can change the angle
to suit your personal gaming or typing requirements and then we're going to go
ahead and flip the keyboard around where you are going to see the military grade
cable and this thing is truly redonkulous so for context I'm going to
go grab a k70 here so this is a Corsair keyboard which doesn't contain all the
same functionality mind you but you can see the actual difference thickness
between these two cables is kind of funny so the Corsair keyboard doesn't
carry audio through the same cable as the uh as the thermal take one does or
the tte sports one does tte Sports got to got to remember that so speaking of
the all the things that are carried by it so there's USB for the Hub it's
clearly labeled Hub thank you for that tte Sports can you see that cool then
we've got the keyboard itself which has a picture of a keyboard as well as a PS2
adapter attached to it finally the pass through for mic phone and the pass
through for headphones which are clearly labeled here wouldn't mind seeing these
ones green and these ones pink I do find that particularly helpful for myself but
having the picture on it is definitely an acceptable alternative so next up
here actually I'm going to borrow something from that other
keyboard again we have a key cap remover so let's find out what Cherry MX
switches we have down there remember guys genuine Cherry MX switches always
say cherry on the key switch itself here and they will have color code Ed switch
colors that will actually correspond to how they feel so because this uses black
switches it's going to have a linear feel to the Press much like a Cherry MX
red but with a bit of a heavier keystroke so all Cherry MX switches are
rated for 50 million key strokes they all bottom out at 4 mm and actuate at 2
mm so actually at half of the bottoming out and many gamers prefer the linear
keystrokes so that is to say the red and black switch keystrokes because there is
no double tap issue like you get sometimes with Cherry MX Blues where the
actuation point is actually slightly different from the tactile feedback
point so okay so what these ones will do is they tend to be potentially able to
rebound a little bit faster and be more suitable for gaming whereas many typists
prefer blues and Browns so there you go
black switches linear a bit heavier than Reds personally I like black switches
but they aren't my favorite my personal favorites are Browns cuz they have a bit
more of that tactic feedback whereas if you want something that's quite
quiet you might like Cherry MX Reds or Cherry MX blacks in terms of the layout
of the keyboard itself this is not the illuminated version although there is an
illuminated version you've got your standard shift backspace enter and of
course other shift key over here other than that what is this thing well it's a
solidly built mechanical keyboard on the back you've got that two Port USB hub
remember guys this is is not a powered Hub so you won't be plugging in
something like a USB to 2 and 1/2 in external hard drive and another one or
something like that cuz you will run out of power um it's got their microphone
and headphone jack it's got a TT Esports
logo here as well as their battle dragon down here on the bottom and let's do our
traditional Flex test not bad at all now a lot of people
say they don't need a mechanical keyboard they don't want a mechanical keyboard they don't want to spend
particularly the money on a mechanical keyboard they expensive but I would say
let's make this week a challenge week to try new things you don't have to buy one
to try one you can go to a store where they happen to have them on display or
you can find a friend who happens to have one who's willing to let you come
try it out give yourself five or 10 minutes in front of it and see if you
like it now speaking of trying new things audible.com this isn't new I've
talked about it before on this channel they have audiobooks which you can
download you can either get a membership or you can download one at a time listen
to it on your Android device or PC or in your car whatever else the case may be
and I took all of your comments last time about which Audi book I should try
by the way if you want to get a free audiobook go to audible.com Linus and go
ahead and use that link because that makes me look good so I took all of your
suggestions for which book to try and I threw them all on a fire and what I
decided to try was if I'm going to challenge you guys to try a different
keyboard experience I'm going to try a different book experience I am going to
download the first Twilight book and or audio book and I am going to
listen to it it is going to take 12 hours um I'm going to listen to it
before I go to bed which is what I typically do with with uh audio books
nowadays and it will either put me to sleep which will be good or it won't put
me to sleep and it'll be surprisingly good I am prepared to be surprised and
you should too about mechanical keyboard so remember guys that's audible.com
Linus if you want to try Twilight with me or if you have um sort of
a different thing in mind then you could also get a different book as well so I'm going to go subject myself to that now
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