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guys that's it Corsair listened to everything that

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pretty much well everything that I thought was wrong with the original k60

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this my friends is the k70 in one of its

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configurations so we're going to start with the things that carried over from

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the k60 which this is sort of uh you can

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tell it in is inspired by the k60 because you've got the replacement key

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caps that have the Contour so you can find them more easily when you're not

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looking at it it still has that aluminum

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back plane that really makes Corsair's keyboards not only feel extremely rigid

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but also be built extremely solidly and

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look extremely cool and all that good stuff and sort of here's those uh here's

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those key caps that come with it there we go it also has a wrist rest but it's

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missing the little sort of you know Nostromo thing that goes with the WD

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keys that I'm not really convinced that too many people would have used anyway

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and it still has here we go anyway this

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one in particular has Cherry MX red switches aough more on that in a

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moment there we go it has built-in media

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keys which I think are among the best dedicated media keys out there just

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because I love volume wheels so much and

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this one has like a nice just textured metal finish to it mute as well as stop

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back play pause and forward it has a Windows lock button and oh okay more on

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this in a moment that is a backlight control button and it still has a USB

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pass through now okay all of oh yeah right so it still has 100% anti-

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ghosting and I think that's pretty much sh so what has Corsair improved on the

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k70 number one all mechanical Keys F1 to

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F12 and these Keys over here no longer

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have any rubber Dome key switches so the keyboard is fully mechanical now also

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check this out guys it is available with a backlight so we've got

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a red backet one right over here there we go that has a black finish oh yeah

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did I mention it's available with different finishes on the aluminum back

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plane now which I personally think the red and black looks absolutely gorgeous

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although the classic blue and silver Corsair mechanical keyboard thing is not

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a bad thing either not only that but it is available with a variety of key

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switches now so you are no longer limited to Cherry MX red now the ones

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that I have here in front of me you can always tell the key switches in use by

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simply popping them off if they're Cherry Keys then they are going to be

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colorcoded the type of key switch that they happen to be I'm just going to go

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ahead and show you guys the Blue version here let see if I can find that USB plug

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there we go so you can always tell like that but there will be versions of the

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keyboards available that use other key switches so blue and brown which we're

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going to call the Slick Edition and the Linus Edition will also be available and

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this is really exciting to me because Corsair's build quality on their keyboards is outstanding there's almost

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no flex to the things whatsoever making them well yeah outstanding but the only

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thing holding me back in the past was the fact that they use cherion x Reds

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they have a very unique look because the

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keys are significantly higher above the first visible part of the keyboard than

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you'll see on most other keyboards and what this does is it gives the backlight

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more of an of an underglow effect that I personally think looks absolutely

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outstanding on their keyboards whether it's in blue or red now on the back of

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the keyboard you can see that we've got a couple more options in terms of

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elating it so you can elevate it here can drop that down there's rubber feet

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here you can elevate it at the back just like that and you can attach or remove

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the wrist rest at will they've got a bit of a different system for this it's

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plastic now instead of metal but it still does feel quite strong so I'm not

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too worried about it and then also at the back you've got different bio

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switches so this should improve the compatibility of the keyboard which I

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personally think is a very positive thing and that was one of the issues

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that people had with the original k90 and the k60 and the reason for that is

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is that in order to do things like um

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100% anti- ghosting or multi-key rollover over USB you have to place some

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you have to play around with the way the keyboard Works a little bit and sometimes this decreased compatibility

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now with the k70 Corsair has manage to enable 100% anti- ghosting and N key

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rollover meaning you can roll over as many keys as you want which is very very

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cool but they've implemented that bio switch in order to improve compatibility

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they've also changed ched some textur so you can see the space bar has a bit of a

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of a textured feel to it now that looks quite different from the older one and

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they have added of course new replacement key caps so I'm going to

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switch over to our red one here let show you guys that one instead I'm just going

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to swap that USB plug there we go and I'm going to show you how I have swapped

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out the WD keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 six

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Keys up at the top here the idea behind these is if you can see the Contour see

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this uh this curved shape here between these keys I hope you can see that

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um if you see the Contour the idea is you should be able to find your way back

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to WD and to the 1 2 3 4 5 six keys

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without looking more easily now the ones on the k60 had a very rubber feel to

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them a rubber finish to them that I personally didn't find that appealing

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but these are more of a hard plastic there you

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go and they're much more similar feeling to the rest of the keys on the keyboard

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so you can still rely on the shape to find them but you don't have to deal

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with the fact that they have a bit of a different texture to them which I personally found a little bit obnoxious

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and I I didn't I didn't really want to use that feature now last but not least

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this is the kudrass of this particular keyboard it has off low medium and high

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backlight

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levels okay so you're not that impressed yet but it also has this feature which I

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personally think is pretty fraking cool check that out so we have set up this

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keyboard already to only have the arrow keys Windows Keys okay not that one WD

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keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 six Keys illuminated but you can illuminate any

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combination of keys that you so desire I

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say I want my Escape key and I want all of these on all I have to do is hold

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down this button set it up the way I like it so you know I want like a cross

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here then I hold it down again and

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voila it is now set and it will remember those settings so you can have whatever

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combination of lighting that you want and you can switch between completely

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back lit and only back lit where you want it to be very very cool thank you

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the k70 has Corsair hit the nail on the

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head this time you let us know but I think that they they actually did very

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very cool stuff