1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,760 Who's the captain? I am the captain and I've got the field 75 from Newfie. This is captain on 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,560 the bridge right here. It's pretty cool. I got my waifu back. I'm pretty excited. I wanted to do 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,920 a number of Newfie keyboards but there just hasn't been anything super neat about the ones that have 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:21,840 come out. But this guy not only looks super cool but it's got the ghost bar on it. One thing that 5 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:27,200 I have been very interested in but haven't had the opportunity to try myself. We got a actually 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:33,920 pretty sick quick guide. This is really cool. I've never seen a quick guide so nicely packed. We 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,480 got our gorgeous keyboard that we're going to also take a look in a sec. Anything else in here? We 8 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:45,120 got a Q&A pamphlet. What's in the box? Accessory kit. I like how well, oh it's actually labeled here. 9 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:52,160 Four extra keycaps, four extra switches, one keycap switch puller and one 1.5 meter cable. 10 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,880 I do want to say the box is pretty cool. It shows the keyboard on top here and then what's actually 11 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,640 even better is the little shell that it comes in because you've got my Newfie waifu. I love this 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:09,040 girl. She's great. I love how it says captain on the bridge. I don't know why. Why captain of all 13 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,280 things? Other than that it's pretty nondescript. It's just Newfie and Akira 40k. It's got all 14 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,600 the specs on the side. That's actually really nice. I'm a big fan of this. It's got like 75% 15 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,960 layout. Ultra low, oh it says latency connection. I think that's a typo. I think that's supposed 16 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:30,320 to be latency or lag. I'm not sure. Maybe latency is a new word. Before I check out the keyboard, 17 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:33,920 they also sent a few other things that you can buy along with the keyboard if you order it through 18 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,560 their website. We've got their Newfie studio shine through keycaps for Newfie keyboards. 19 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:43,360 They're for any keyboard really but you know for Newfie specifically. Compatibility, field 75. 20 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,680 That's actually really cool. A lot of the time you'll buy a keyboard and you'll just buy a random 21 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,560 keycap set online and it won't fit properly. It'll be really close but you might have some issues 22 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,280 like there's a little bit of a gap on some keys or whatever and I do like how it tells you like 23 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,160 no this one will work exactly with your keyboard. So that's great. The other thing I'm really excited 24 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,760 for is this two tone wrist rest. It lists these as aluminum acrylic and rubber for the feet. 25 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,000 I mostly see the acrylic. I'm guessing this part's the aluminum but honestly it's a pretty nice little 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,600 wrist rest. I'll use it with the keyboard in a sec to give a much better impression on how I 27 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,160 you know feel about using it but so far it looks cool. I want to check out this this field guide 28 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,640 though. This quick guide. I don't know how much of this footage we're going to use but this is 29 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:31,280 probably the nicest little quick start guide I've ever received. Oh my god the whole thing. Oh my 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:42,400 god it's the poster! Let's go! Oh this is mine. You know I'm keeping this. Focus on the fun in 31 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:49,040 function Akira 40k 2023. Only fun products are worth creating. That's awesome. This is great. On the 32 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,280 back you know in all seriousness it's got a whole bunch of quick start information and all that. 33 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,400 Really cool. Really really well done too. I love how big everything is. It's super easy to read. The 34 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,760 layout is very clear. It's just a white cable. 1.5 meters long. Yeah that's about right. It comes 35 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:09,200 in a variety of colors and I don't know if you get a different color cable depending on which 36 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,000 keyboard you buy. So that might be an issue depending on you know how they ship it. I'm not sure 37 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,640 because we only got the one. Let's take a look. It comes with a handle. Pretty sick. I don't know 38 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:25,520 if I would ever use the handle for literally anything aside from maybe like defending your 39 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,520 place from an attack or something. Throw it at someone. Wow that actually held on. I was actually 40 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,280 really worried it was gonna just come off and the whole keyboard would fly all over the concrete 41 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,400 there. What's really cool especially here let me get the wrist rest. Okay so one minor issue 42 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,920 I really wish that they had magnets on the front and back of the wrist rest and the keyboard. 43 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,360 While it's probably not going to go anywhere I'm a big fan of how a lot of the other keyboard 44 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,240 companies will just like magnet attach to each other. It feels good. Acrylic doesn't get too 45 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:57,280 hot or too cool and it's comfortable to sit here and type on it so yeah and then if you don't like 46 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,840 the angle you know you just don't use the wrist rest. These do cost extra. It's another 34 dollars 47 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,840 if you want a wrist rest but they also come in a variety of colors so you can mix and match it 48 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,680 with whatever keyboard you buy. I really like this white aesthetic they got here with these like 49 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,920 blue purple kind of keycaps. It's a hot swappable keyboard there are a bunch of foam layers in here 50 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,080 and the one thing I'm really curious about is apparently this is the ghost bar that I've really 51 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,600 been trying to get my hands on. I just haven't personally bought a keyboard with one yet. Aside 52 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,200 from all of your normal keys that you'd find in a similar layout you've got up to eight little macro 53 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,080 keys G1 through G8 and they're all along the side here the first four and then the second four. 54 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,400 I don't know how to feel about these I mean they don't interrupt anything they're not in the way 55 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:50,240 in any way um so honestly why not. Oh this roller knob also feels really good and sounds really good. 56 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,640 I was worried to be plastic but it feels heavy enough to be aluminum and they've got another one 57 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,520 this is a knob too what this tiny little gear here is like totally a selector knob or something 58 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,600 probably I don't know what each one is set to right now that's a button this all this does 59 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,360 have a button as well aside from that we've also got a little toggle switch here for whether you 60 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:13,040 want to have it in USB wired mode 2.4 g or bluetooth in bluetooth it's only going to do 125 61 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:18,720 hertz polling rate so I'd kind of avoid that if you can wired it's a thousand hertz and 2.4 g it's 62 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:23,680 also a thousand hertz which is pretty standard there are faster keyboards but the reality is that 63 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,360 like a thousand hertz polling rate is totally fine for the majority of people unless you're like 64 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:33,120 esports level of gamer it's it's totally okay honestly while the g switches aren't switches 65 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,520 they seem to just be buttons I don't know if there's like a tiny little switch in there somewhere 66 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:43,440 it's a very satisfying click I don't know if you heard him it's fence said it sounds like a bumper 67 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,560 on an xbox 360 controller and I absolutely agree and it feels just like that too like that tight 68 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,600 little click uh that they've got and you know I kind of like them as for the typing experience 69 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:59,760 it's pretty good just out of the box this thing comes with a number of switches which is great 70 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:05,680 if you like options Polaris fleeting gold cherry speed silver and cherry ergo clear you get a lot 71 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,880 of options so pick wisely but since it's hot swap if you don't like them that's okay let's take a look 72 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,400 at the ghost bar I really want to see this and then at that point we'll see what switches are 73 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:20,800 actually in the board oh wow it looks like we've got Polaris and ours these are nice I like them 74 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,680 so now I'm especially excited about this ghost bar though so here's the difference right normally 75 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,800 you would just have this center post and then the side posts on your space bar so this is doing 76 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:36,160 differently is it's got these two middle posts right here and they've got this insert that's made 77 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:43,520 a polycarb and it just goes on top like this and I guess that's supposed to help with sound I'm not 78 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,560 100% sure we'll find out more in the typing test below that though they've also got these two little 79 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:55,680 pieces of silicone I actually really like this that is definitely dead end at the very least 80 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,000 you can go a couple steps further probably and you can foam the inside of your space bar but 81 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,360 I don't think you need it this thing is like really nice now I do want to honestly I wanted 82 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,520 this thing as soon as I saw it I there's something about this crazy chunky layout that I'm just a 83 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,800 big fan of they've got a hub so you can do a usb hub on the top otherwise it just connects through 84 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,080 usb-c at the top you can turn it on turn it off my only problem with this thing so far is that if 85 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:25,120 you don't get it with this keycap set I don't know if you can ever change out the g switches so if 86 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,120 you've got like I don't know all black keycaps or something this might still look good but there's 87 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,600 that blue purple and white color scheme on here and it might not match with everything this isn't 88 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,040 the kind of keyboard that I think you're gonna want to change the keycaps on too much but that's 89 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,760 okay before we plug it in I want to take a look at the bottom here we've got adjustable feet 90 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,720 always a plus and not something that you tend to find in more premium mechanical keyboards 91 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:55,200 we've also got a little plate here says new fee and akira 40k now we're gonna plug it in type on it 92 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,200 remember when I said there were other colors we got the green and black one as well we also got 93 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,160 the wrist rest and we got the super cool desk pad that they're also selling the white one did not 94 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:10,080 work we don't know why I promise you that you can just send it back for warranty if that ever happens 95 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,240 and they'll reimburse you or or rma the product and send you back a new one it doesn't happen 96 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,920 frequently but with electronics sometimes you just get a dud you know I don't know what else to tell 97 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:24,160 you but the good news is the black one works here's my only problem I really don't like the 98 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,400 tactile switches that are in the green one I don't know which ones they are I haven't opened it up 99 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,720 we literally just reset everything and started shooting again I really prefer those linears 100 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,520 that were in the white keyboard but it'll still make for a perfectly fine typing experience so let's 101 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:44,240 try it out 112 98% you know it's not great I started making some mistakes I kind of got 102 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:50,080 in my head and slowed down but I do really like it I definitely prefer the other switches that's 103 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:56,080 for sure I do love the RGB and one other thing to note is that now I can tell you for sure you do 104 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,240 get a different colored cable depending on which keyboard you buy I can't guarantee they do anything 105 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,560 other than black and white but you know the black definitely matches this guy a lot better I want to 106 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:09,360 find out what all of the different knobs do the roller knob by default is just a volume adjustment 107 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:18,000 I've never had audio on while doing the test tones this seems to be the brightness 108 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,560 for the RGB I'll crank it all the way down and then I'll crank it all the way up 109 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,080 yep I'm not sure if it does anything else but that's what it's doing right now 110 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,120 oh f5 on the g5 111 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,920 love the little test tones that's great I've never had audio on while using 112 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,640 wow incredible oh one thing I'm noticing now for the first time though is that they've kind of 113 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:50,720 separated their effero a little interestingly here there is a clear break in between escape and f1 114 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,840 and then there's a clear break in between f4 and f5 which makes a lot of sense alt f4 and f5 115 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,880 are two very common keys to press whether you're trying to close a program or refresh something 116 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:07,040 but then there's no break after f8 they've got a different color configuration on the keycap so 117 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,040 that you can quickly tell visually but you're not going to have that same like feel tell where 118 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,960 you're like oh there's a break k there's f9 or there's f8 so it's a pretty minor thing but it's 119 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,480 something that you might want to take into consideration as for the rest of the layout 120 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,920 it's pretty bog standard you know you've got like a print screen up here this is probably 121 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:27,920 delete yep delete home and page up page down those all work fine arrow keys navigation cluster 122 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,800 does caps lock light up in any way no that would be nice I do like uh visual indications for caps 123 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,880 lock even if it's just a little RGB light might be there but it doesn't shine through on these 124 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,600 keycaps super well so it's hard to tell I'm not sure what these indicator lights are up here 125 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:47,360 do these change when I change modes yeah okay so red must mean that it's on usb wired mode and 126 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,200 then green probably just indicates that it's on it's really hard to see I actually don't know if 127 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:57,520 you'll get to pick this up on camera but you can barely see the lights so it is ever so slightly 128 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,080 transparent on the bottom here it's a little more noticeable in person but only if I'm looking at it 129 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:08,400 like directly um then I can kind of see the shine I would like if this was more transparent like if 130 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,800 you're already going this far why not go a little further but that's a pretty minor thing and you 131 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,440 know teach their own maybe it's like you look at the back of a keyboard that often anyway so it's 132 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:22,960 totally okay it's supposed to be 1276 grams that's probably just for the boards we'll see how much it 133 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,560 is with keycaps and switches and everything yeah 1300 grams for our entire keyboard here actually 134 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:33,040 right on the dot which I mean don't get me wrong scale could be off by a few grams but that's pretty 135 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,600 cool it's pretty chunky when we did the last new fee keyboard it was the air 75 and that thing was 136 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,960 like razor thin it was really light it was you know meant for portability this is definitely while 137 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:48,720 it's wireless don't keep that in while this one's wireless and it has a 4200 milliamp hour battery in 138 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:56,000 it it's not really also meant for portability like the air 75 is like it's got some heft it is a plastic 139 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:02,160 shell that's kind of my only complaint so far if this came with an aluminum case even if it cost me 140 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:08,720 an extra 100 bucks I'd be a lot more sold on it you wouldn't be able to do the transparent back as 141 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,200 easily but you know you could do like a top case aluminum and then do the bottom and plastic and 142 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,760 that would probably be okay but how much does it cost because you know a Corsair or a logitech is 143 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:25,840 going to cost you like 150 to 250 dollars or something like that this guy runs anywhere from 159 144 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:32,320 to 169 which isn't too bad at all that depends on the switches you choose so you're probably paying 145 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:38,640 a little bit more what's the more expensive switch really the cherry switches are the more 146 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,520 expensive ones I don't know why but the cherry switches are the more expensive ones you pay an 147 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,440 extra 10 bucks for cherry if you want them I just like the other ones more I think they look better 148 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,720 I think they feel better unfortunately I can't tell you what material the switch plate is made out of 149 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:57,600 they just say metal on the website and considering how heavy this is it wouldn't surprise me if it's 150 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,480 steel instead of aluminum it's a little less premium in that regard but the reality is it looks 151 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,440 pretty cool it's hot swappable still so if you don't like the switches you buy you can swap them out 152 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:12,320 the keycaps aren't bad definitely not the best I've ever touched but they're double shot PBT 153 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,400 and you know honestly I really like this thing especially because it's got the USB hub that's 154 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:22,240 not a super common feature that you see on more premium mechanical keyboards I think that if you're 155 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,600 looking for something that's a little different uh something that looks cool something that has 156 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,160 a bunch of macro keys on it still because you just can't get rid of your old logitech keyboard 157 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,640 then this is probably the one for you I mean it's got a battery if you want to go wireless 158 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:42,800 it can do uh Windows or mac no problem it just looks sick like I can't get over how cool this 159 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:48,160 thing is I will be frank everyone as soon as we broke to try the new keyboard because the other 160 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,040 one wasn't working everyone came over and tried the knob everyone loves this knob I think the only 161 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,880 thing I'm not crazy about is the handle they could have probably just ditched the handle I think it's 162 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,840 just plastic too like it's not even anything crazy good it's what I buy this thing what I buy the 163 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:08,800 Newfie Field 75 you know just for the keyboard maybe not but I'm telling you when you're getting 164 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:14,880 the poster it's a lot more appealing otherwise you know if you want to check out other short 165 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:20,240 circuits maybe look at the first time I looked at the Newfie keyboard the Newfie Air 75 it was pretty cool