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Who's the captain? I am the captain and I've got the field 75 from Newfie. This is captain on

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the bridge right here. It's pretty cool. I got my waifu back. I'm pretty excited. I wanted to do

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a number of Newfie keyboards but there just hasn't been anything super neat about the ones that have

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come out. But this guy not only looks super cool but it's got the ghost bar on it. One thing that

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I have been very interested in but haven't had the opportunity to try myself. We got a actually

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pretty sick quick guide. This is really cool. I've never seen a quick guide so nicely packed. We

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got our gorgeous keyboard that we're going to also take a look in a sec. Anything else in here? We

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got a Q&A pamphlet. What's in the box? Accessory kit. I like how well, oh it's actually labeled here.

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Four extra keycaps, four extra switches, one keycap switch puller and one 1.5 meter cable.

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I do want to say the box is pretty cool. It shows the keyboard on top here and then what's actually

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even better is the little shell that it comes in because you've got my Newfie waifu. I love this

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girl. She's great. I love how it says captain on the bridge. I don't know why. Why captain of all

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things? Other than that it's pretty nondescript. It's just Newfie and Akira 40k. It's got all

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the specs on the side. That's actually really nice. I'm a big fan of this. It's got like 75%

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layout. Ultra low, oh it says latency connection. I think that's a typo. I think that's supposed

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to be latency or lag. I'm not sure. Maybe latency is a new word. Before I check out the keyboard,

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they also sent a few other things that you can buy along with the keyboard if you order it through

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their website. We've got their Newfie studio shine through keycaps for Newfie keyboards.

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They're for any keyboard really but you know for Newfie specifically. Compatibility, field 75.

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That's actually really cool. A lot of the time you'll buy a keyboard and you'll just buy a random

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keycap set online and it won't fit properly. It'll be really close but you might have some issues

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like there's a little bit of a gap on some keys or whatever and I do like how it tells you like

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no this one will work exactly with your keyboard. So that's great. The other thing I'm really excited

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for is this two tone wrist rest. It lists these as aluminum acrylic and rubber for the feet.

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I mostly see the acrylic. I'm guessing this part's the aluminum but honestly it's a pretty nice little

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wrist rest. I'll use it with the keyboard in a sec to give a much better impression on how I

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you know feel about using it but so far it looks cool. I want to check out this this field guide

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though. This quick guide. I don't know how much of this footage we're going to use but this is

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probably the nicest little quick start guide I've ever received. Oh my god the whole thing. Oh my

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god it's the poster! Let's go! Oh this is mine. You know I'm keeping this. Focus on the fun in

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function Akira 40k 2023. Only fun products are worth creating. That's awesome. This is great. On the

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back you know in all seriousness it's got a whole bunch of quick start information and all that.

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Really cool. Really really well done too. I love how big everything is. It's super easy to read. The

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layout is very clear. It's just a white cable. 1.5 meters long. Yeah that's about right. It comes

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in a variety of colors and I don't know if you get a different color cable depending on which

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keyboard you buy. So that might be an issue depending on you know how they ship it. I'm not sure

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because we only got the one. Let's take a look. It comes with a handle. Pretty sick. I don't know

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if I would ever use the handle for literally anything aside from maybe like defending your

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place from an attack or something. Throw it at someone. Wow that actually held on. I was actually

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really worried it was gonna just come off and the whole keyboard would fly all over the concrete

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there. What's really cool especially here let me get the wrist rest. Okay so one minor issue

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I really wish that they had magnets on the front and back of the wrist rest and the keyboard.

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While it's probably not going to go anywhere I'm a big fan of how a lot of the other keyboard

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companies will just like magnet attach to each other. It feels good. Acrylic doesn't get too

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hot or too cool and it's comfortable to sit here and type on it so yeah and then if you don't like

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the angle you know you just don't use the wrist rest. These do cost extra. It's another 34 dollars

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if you want a wrist rest but they also come in a variety of colors so you can mix and match it

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with whatever keyboard you buy. I really like this white aesthetic they got here with these like

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blue purple kind of keycaps. It's a hot swappable keyboard there are a bunch of foam layers in here

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and the one thing I'm really curious about is apparently this is the ghost bar that I've really

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been trying to get my hands on. I just haven't personally bought a keyboard with one yet. Aside

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from all of your normal keys that you'd find in a similar layout you've got up to eight little macro

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keys G1 through G8 and they're all along the side here the first four and then the second four.

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I don't know how to feel about these I mean they don't interrupt anything they're not in the way

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in any way um so honestly why not. Oh this roller knob also feels really good and sounds really good.

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I was worried to be plastic but it feels heavy enough to be aluminum and they've got another one

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this is a knob too what this tiny little gear here is like totally a selector knob or something

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probably I don't know what each one is set to right now that's a button this all this does

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have a button as well aside from that we've also got a little toggle switch here for whether you

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want to have it in USB wired mode 2.4 g or bluetooth in bluetooth it's only going to do 125

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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

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also a thousand hertz which is pretty standard there are faster keyboards but the reality is that

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like a thousand hertz polling rate is totally fine for the majority of people unless you're like

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esports level of gamer it's it's totally okay honestly while the g switches aren't switches

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they seem to just be buttons I don't know if there's like a tiny little switch in there somewhere

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it's a very satisfying click I don't know if you heard him it's fence said it sounds like a bumper

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on an xbox 360 controller and I absolutely agree and it feels just like that too like that tight

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little click uh that they've got and you know I kind of like them as for the typing experience

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it's pretty good just out of the box this thing comes with a number of switches which is great

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if you like options Polaris fleeting gold cherry speed silver and cherry ergo clear you get a lot

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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

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at the ghost bar I really want to see this and then at that point we'll see what switches are

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actually in the board oh wow it looks like we've got Polaris and ours these are nice I like them

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so now I'm especially excited about this ghost bar though so here's the difference right normally

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you would just have this center post and then the side posts on your space bar so this is doing

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differently is it's got these two middle posts right here and they've got this insert that's made

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a polycarb and it just goes on top like this and I guess that's supposed to help with sound I'm not

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100% sure we'll find out more in the typing test below that though they've also got these two little

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pieces of silicone I actually really like this that is definitely dead end at the very least

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you can go a couple steps further probably and you can foam the inside of your space bar but

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I don't think you need it this thing is like really nice now I do want to honestly I wanted

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this thing as soon as I saw it I there's something about this crazy chunky layout that I'm just a

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big fan of they've got a hub so you can do a usb hub on the top otherwise it just connects through

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usb-c at the top you can turn it on turn it off my only problem with this thing so far is that if

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you don't get it with this keycap set I don't know if you can ever change out the g switches so if

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you've got like I don't know all black keycaps or something this might still look good but there's

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that blue purple and white color scheme on here and it might not match with everything this isn't

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the kind of keyboard that I think you're gonna want to change the keycaps on too much but that's

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okay before we plug it in I want to take a look at the bottom here we've got adjustable feet

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always a plus and not something that you tend to find in more premium mechanical keyboards

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we've also got a little plate here says new fee and akira 40k now we're gonna plug it in type on it

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remember when I said there were other colors we got the green and black one as well we also got

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the wrist rest and we got the super cool desk pad that they're also selling the white one did not

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work we don't know why I promise you that you can just send it back for warranty if that ever happens

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and they'll reimburse you or or rma the product and send you back a new one it doesn't happen

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frequently but with electronics sometimes you just get a dud you know I don't know what else to tell

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you but the good news is the black one works here's my only problem I really don't like the

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tactile switches that are in the green one I don't know which ones they are I haven't opened it up

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we literally just reset everything and started shooting again I really prefer those linears

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that were in the white keyboard but it'll still make for a perfectly fine typing experience so let's

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try it out 112 98% you know it's not great I started making some mistakes I kind of got

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in my head and slowed down but I do really like it I definitely prefer the other switches that's

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for sure I do love the RGB and one other thing to note is that now I can tell you for sure you do

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get a different colored cable depending on which keyboard you buy I can't guarantee they do anything

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other than black and white but you know the black definitely matches this guy a lot better I want to

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find out what all of the different knobs do the roller knob by default is just a volume adjustment

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I've never had audio on while doing the test tones this seems to be the brightness

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for the RGB I'll crank it all the way down and then I'll crank it all the way up

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yep I'm not sure if it does anything else but that's what it's doing right now

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oh f5 on the g5

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love the little test tones that's great I've never had audio on while using

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wow incredible oh one thing I'm noticing now for the first time though is that they've kind of

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separated their effero a little interestingly here there is a clear break in between escape and f1

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and then there's a clear break in between f4 and f5 which makes a lot of sense alt f4 and f5

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are two very common keys to press whether you're trying to close a program or refresh something

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but then there's no break after f8 they've got a different color configuration on the keycap so

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that you can quickly tell visually but you're not going to have that same like feel tell where

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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

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something that you might want to take into consideration as for the rest of the layout

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it's pretty bog standard you know you've got like a print screen up here this is probably

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delete yep delete home and page up page down those all work fine arrow keys navigation cluster

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does caps lock light up in any way no that would be nice I do like uh visual indications for caps

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lock even if it's just a little RGB light might be there but it doesn't shine through on these

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keycaps super well so it's hard to tell I'm not sure what these indicator lights are up here

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do these change when I change modes yeah okay so red must mean that it's on usb wired mode and

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then green probably just indicates that it's on it's really hard to see I actually don't know if

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you'll get to pick this up on camera but you can barely see the lights so it is ever so slightly

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transparent on the bottom here it's a little more noticeable in person but only if I'm looking at it

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like directly um then I can kind of see the shine I would like if this was more transparent like if

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you're already going this far why not go a little further but that's a pretty minor thing and you

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know teach their own maybe it's like you look at the back of a keyboard that often anyway so it's

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totally okay it's supposed to be 1276 grams that's probably just for the boards we'll see how much it

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is with keycaps and switches and everything yeah 1300 grams for our entire keyboard here actually

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right on the dot which I mean don't get me wrong scale could be off by a few grams but that's pretty

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cool it's pretty chunky when we did the last new fee keyboard it was the air 75 and that thing was

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like razor thin it was really light it was you know meant for portability this is definitely while

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it's wireless don't keep that in while this one's wireless and it has a 4200 milliamp hour battery in

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it it's not really also meant for portability like the air 75 is like it's got some heft it is a plastic

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shell that's kind of my only complaint so far if this came with an aluminum case even if it cost me

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an extra 100 bucks I'd be a lot more sold on it you wouldn't be able to do the transparent back as

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easily but you know you could do like a top case aluminum and then do the bottom and plastic and

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that would probably be okay but how much does it cost because you know a Corsair or a logitech is

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going to cost you like 150 to 250 dollars or something like that this guy runs anywhere from 159

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to 169 which isn't too bad at all that depends on the switches you choose so you're probably paying

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a little bit more what's the more expensive switch really the cherry switches are the more

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expensive ones I don't know why but the cherry switches are the more expensive ones you pay an

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extra 10 bucks for cherry if you want them I just like the other ones more I think they look better

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I think they feel better unfortunately I can't tell you what material the switch plate is made out of

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they just say metal on the website and considering how heavy this is it wouldn't surprise me if it's

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steel instead of aluminum it's a little less premium in that regard but the reality is it looks

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pretty cool it's hot swappable still so if you don't like the switches you buy you can swap them out

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the keycaps aren't bad definitely not the best I've ever touched but they're double shot PBT

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and you know honestly I really like this thing especially because it's got the USB hub that's

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not a super common feature that you see on more premium mechanical keyboards I think that if you're

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looking for something that's a little different uh something that looks cool something that has

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a bunch of macro keys on it still because you just can't get rid of your old logitech keyboard

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then this is probably the one for you I mean it's got a battery if you want to go wireless

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it can do uh Windows or mac no problem it just looks sick like I can't get over how cool this

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thing is I will be frank everyone as soon as we broke to try the new keyboard because the other

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one wasn't working everyone came over and tried the knob everyone loves this knob I think the only

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thing I'm not crazy about is the handle they could have probably just ditched the handle I think it's

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just plastic too like it's not even anything crazy good it's what I buy this thing what I buy the

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Newfie Field 75 you know just for the keyboard maybe not but I'm telling you when you're getting

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the poster it's a lot more appealing otherwise you know if you want to check out other short

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circuits maybe look at the first time I looked at the Newfie keyboard the Newfie Air 75 it was pretty cool