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guys that's it Corsair listened to everything that
pretty much well everything that I thought was wrong with the original k60
this my friends is the k70 in one of its
configurations so we're going to start with the things that carried over from
the k60 which this is sort of uh you can
tell it in is inspired by the k60 because you've got the replacement key
caps that have the Contour so you can find them more easily when you're not
looking at it it still has that aluminum
back plane that really makes Corsair's keyboards not only feel extremely rigid
but also be built extremely solidly and
look extremely cool and all that good stuff and sort of here's those uh here's
those key caps that come with it there we go it also has a wrist rest but it's
missing the little sort of you know Nostromo thing that goes with the WD
keys that I'm not really convinced that too many people would have used anyway
and it still has here we go anyway this
one in particular has Cherry MX red switches aough more on that in a
moment there we go it has built-in media
keys which I think are among the best dedicated media keys out there just
because I love volume wheels so much and
this one has like a nice just textured metal finish to it mute as well as stop
back play pause and forward it has a Windows lock button and oh okay more on
this in a moment that is a backlight control button and it still has a USB
pass through now okay all of oh yeah right so it still has 100% anti-
ghosting and I think that's pretty much sh so what has Corsair improved on the
k70 number one all mechanical Keys F1 to
F12 and these Keys over here no longer
have any rubber Dome key switches so the keyboard is fully mechanical now also
check this out guys it is available with a backlight so we've got
a red backet one right over here there we go that has a black finish oh yeah
did I mention it's available with different finishes on the aluminum back
plane now which I personally think the red and black looks absolutely gorgeous
although the classic blue and silver Corsair mechanical keyboard thing is not
a bad thing either not only that but it is available with a variety of key
switches now so you are no longer limited to Cherry MX red now the ones
that I have here in front of me you can always tell the key switches in use by
simply popping them off if they're Cherry Keys then they are going to be
colorcoded the type of key switch that they happen to be I'm just going to go
ahead and show you guys the Blue version here let see if I can find that USB plug
there we go so you can always tell like that but there will be versions of the
keyboards available that use other key switches so blue and brown which we're
going to call the Slick Edition and the Linus Edition will also be available and
this is really exciting to me because Corsair's build quality on their keyboards is outstanding there's almost
no flex to the things whatsoever making them well yeah outstanding but the only
thing holding me back in the past was the fact that they use cherion x Reds
they have a very unique look because the
keys are significantly higher above the first visible part of the keyboard than
you'll see on most other keyboards and what this does is it gives the backlight
more of an of an underglow effect that I personally think looks absolutely
outstanding on their keyboards whether it's in blue or red now on the back of
the keyboard you can see that we've got a couple more options in terms of
elating it so you can elevate it here can drop that down there's rubber feet
here you can elevate it at the back just like that and you can attach or remove
the wrist rest at will they've got a bit of a different system for this it's
plastic now instead of metal but it still does feel quite strong so I'm not
too worried about it and then also at the back you've got different bio
switches so this should improve the compatibility of the keyboard which I
personally think is a very positive thing and that was one of the issues
that people had with the original k90 and the k60 and the reason for that is
is that in order to do things like um
100% anti- ghosting or multi-key rollover over USB you have to place some
you have to play around with the way the keyboard Works a little bit and sometimes this decreased compatibility
now with the k70 Corsair has manage to enable 100% anti- ghosting and N key
rollover meaning you can roll over as many keys as you want which is very very
cool but they've implemented that bio switch in order to improve compatibility
they've also changed ched some textur so you can see the space bar has a bit of a
of a textured feel to it now that looks quite different from the older one and
they have added of course new replacement key caps so I'm going to
switch over to our red one here let show you guys that one instead I'm just going
to swap that USB plug there we go and I'm going to show you how I have swapped
out the WD keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 six
Keys up at the top here the idea behind these is if you can see the Contour see
this uh this curved shape here between these keys I hope you can see that
um if you see the Contour the idea is you should be able to find your way back
to WD and to the 1 2 3 4 5 six keys
without looking more easily now the ones on the k60 had a very rubber feel to
them a rubber finish to them that I personally didn't find that appealing
but these are more of a hard plastic there you
go and they're much more similar feeling to the rest of the keys on the keyboard
so you can still rely on the shape to find them but you don't have to deal
with the fact that they have a bit of a different texture to them which I personally found a little bit obnoxious
and I I didn't I didn't really want to use that feature now last but not least
this is the kudrass of this particular keyboard it has off low medium and high
backlight
levels okay so you're not that impressed yet but it also has this feature which I
personally think is pretty fraking cool check that out so we have set up this
keyboard already to only have the arrow keys Windows Keys okay not that one WD
keys and the 1 2 3 4 5 six Keys illuminated but you can illuminate any
combination of keys that you so desire I
say I want my Escape key and I want all of these on all I have to do is hold
down this button set it up the way I like it so you know I want like a cross
here then I hold it down again and
voila it is now set and it will remember those settings so you can have whatever
combination of lighting that you want and you can switch between completely
back lit and only back lit where you want it to be very very cool thank you
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very cool stuff