Who's the captain? I am the captain and I've got the field 75 from Newfie. This is captain on
the bridge right here. It's pretty cool. I got my waifu back. I'm pretty excited. I wanted to do
a number of Newfie keyboards but there just hasn't been anything super neat about the ones that have
come out. But this guy not only looks super cool but it's got the ghost bar on it. One thing that
I have been very interested in but haven't had the opportunity to try myself. We got a actually
pretty sick quick guide. This is really cool. I've never seen a quick guide so nicely packed. We
got our gorgeous keyboard that we're going to also take a look in a sec. Anything else in here? We
got a Q&A pamphlet. What's in the box? Accessory kit. I like how well, oh it's actually labeled here.
Four extra keycaps, four extra switches, one keycap switch puller and one 1.5 meter cable.
I do want to say the box is pretty cool. It shows the keyboard on top here and then what's actually
even better is the little shell that it comes in because you've got my Newfie waifu. I love this
girl. She's great. I love how it says captain on the bridge. I don't know why. Why captain of all
things? Other than that it's pretty nondescript. It's just Newfie and Akira 40k. It's got all
the specs on the side. That's actually really nice. I'm a big fan of this. It's got like 75%
layout. Ultra low, oh it says latency connection. I think that's a typo. I think that's supposed
to be latency or lag. I'm not sure. Maybe latency is a new word. Before I check out the keyboard,
they also sent a few other things that you can buy along with the keyboard if you order it through
their website. We've got their Newfie studio shine through keycaps for Newfie keyboards.
They're for any keyboard really but you know for Newfie specifically. Compatibility, field 75.
That's actually really cool. A lot of the time you'll buy a keyboard and you'll just buy a random
keycap set online and it won't fit properly. It'll be really close but you might have some issues
like there's a little bit of a gap on some keys or whatever and I do like how it tells you like
no this one will work exactly with your keyboard. So that's great. The other thing I'm really excited
for is this two tone wrist rest. It lists these as aluminum acrylic and rubber for the feet.
I mostly see the acrylic. I'm guessing this part's the aluminum but honestly it's a pretty nice little
wrist rest. I'll use it with the keyboard in a sec to give a much better impression on how I
you know feel about using it but so far it looks cool. I want to check out this this field guide
though. This quick guide. I don't know how much of this footage we're going to use but this is
probably the nicest little quick start guide I've ever received. Oh my god the whole thing. Oh my
god it's the poster! Let's go! Oh this is mine. You know I'm keeping this. Focus on the fun in
function Akira 40k 2023. Only fun products are worth creating. That's awesome. This is great. On the
back you know in all seriousness it's got a whole bunch of quick start information and all that.
Really cool. Really really well done too. I love how big everything is. It's super easy to read. The
layout is very clear. It's just a white cable. 1.5 meters long. Yeah that's about right. It comes
in a variety of colors and I don't know if you get a different color cable depending on which
keyboard you buy. So that might be an issue depending on you know how they ship it. I'm not sure
because we only got the one. Let's take a look. It comes with a handle. Pretty sick. I don't know
if I would ever use the handle for literally anything aside from maybe like defending your
place from an attack or something. Throw it at someone. Wow that actually held on. I was actually
really worried it was gonna just come off and the whole keyboard would fly all over the concrete
there. What's really cool especially here let me get the wrist rest. Okay so one minor issue
I really wish that they had magnets on the front and back of the wrist rest and the keyboard.
While it's probably not going to go anywhere I'm a big fan of how a lot of the other keyboard
companies will just like magnet attach to each other. It feels good. Acrylic doesn't get too
hot or too cool and it's comfortable to sit here and type on it so yeah and then if you don't like
the angle you know you just don't use the wrist rest. These do cost extra. It's another 34 dollars
if you want a wrist rest but they also come in a variety of colors so you can mix and match it
with whatever keyboard you buy. I really like this white aesthetic they got here with these like
blue purple kind of keycaps. It's a hot swappable keyboard there are a bunch of foam layers in here
and the one thing I'm really curious about is apparently this is the ghost bar that I've really
been trying to get my hands on. I just haven't personally bought a keyboard with one yet. Aside
from all of your normal keys that you'd find in a similar layout you've got up to eight little macro
keys G1 through G8 and they're all along the side here the first four and then the second four.
I don't know how to feel about these I mean they don't interrupt anything they're not in the way
in any way um so honestly why not. Oh this roller knob also feels really good and sounds really good.
I was worried to be plastic but it feels heavy enough to be aluminum and they've got another one
this is a knob too what this tiny little gear here is like totally a selector knob or something
probably I don't know what each one is set to right now that's a button this all this does
have a button as well aside from that we've also got a little toggle switch here for whether you
want to have it in USB wired mode 2.4 g or bluetooth in bluetooth it's only going to do 125
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
also a thousand hertz which is pretty standard there are faster keyboards but the reality is that
like a thousand hertz polling rate is totally fine for the majority of people unless you're like
esports level of gamer it's it's totally okay honestly while the g switches aren't switches
they seem to just be buttons I don't know if there's like a tiny little switch in there somewhere
it's a very satisfying click I don't know if you heard him it's fence said it sounds like a bumper
on an xbox 360 controller and I absolutely agree and it feels just like that too like that tight
little click uh that they've got and you know I kind of like them as for the typing experience
it's pretty good just out of the box this thing comes with a number of switches which is great
if you like options Polaris fleeting gold cherry speed silver and cherry ergo clear you get a lot
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
at the ghost bar I really want to see this and then at that point we'll see what switches are
actually in the board oh wow it looks like we've got Polaris and ours these are nice I like them
so now I'm especially excited about this ghost bar though so here's the difference right normally
you would just have this center post and then the side posts on your space bar so this is doing
differently is it's got these two middle posts right here and they've got this insert that's made
a polycarb and it just goes on top like this and I guess that's supposed to help with sound I'm not
100% sure we'll find out more in the typing test below that though they've also got these two little
pieces of silicone I actually really like this that is definitely dead end at the very least
you can go a couple steps further probably and you can foam the inside of your space bar but
I don't think you need it this thing is like really nice now I do want to honestly I wanted
this thing as soon as I saw it I there's something about this crazy chunky layout that I'm just a
big fan of they've got a hub so you can do a usb hub on the top otherwise it just connects through
usb-c at the top you can turn it on turn it off my only problem with this thing so far is that if
you don't get it with this keycap set I don't know if you can ever change out the g switches so if
you've got like I don't know all black keycaps or something this might still look good but there's
that blue purple and white color scheme on here and it might not match with everything this isn't
the kind of keyboard that I think you're gonna want to change the keycaps on too much but that's
okay before we plug it in I want to take a look at the bottom here we've got adjustable feet
always a plus and not something that you tend to find in more premium mechanical keyboards
we've also got a little plate here says new fee and akira 40k now we're gonna plug it in type on it
remember when I said there were other colors we got the green and black one as well we also got
the wrist rest and we got the super cool desk pad that they're also selling the white one did not
work we don't know why I promise you that you can just send it back for warranty if that ever happens
and they'll reimburse you or or rma the product and send you back a new one it doesn't happen
frequently but with electronics sometimes you just get a dud you know I don't know what else to tell
you but the good news is the black one works here's my only problem I really don't like the
tactile switches that are in the green one I don't know which ones they are I haven't opened it up
we literally just reset everything and started shooting again I really prefer those linears
that were in the white keyboard but it'll still make for a perfectly fine typing experience so let's
try it out 112 98% you know it's not great I started making some mistakes I kind of got
in my head and slowed down but I do really like it I definitely prefer the other switches that's
for sure I do love the RGB and one other thing to note is that now I can tell you for sure you do
get a different colored cable depending on which keyboard you buy I can't guarantee they do anything
other than black and white but you know the black definitely matches this guy a lot better I want to
find out what all of the different knobs do the roller knob by default is just a volume adjustment
I've never had audio on while doing the test tones this seems to be the brightness
for the RGB I'll crank it all the way down and then I'll crank it all the way up
yep I'm not sure if it does anything else but that's what it's doing right now
oh f5 on the g5
love the little test tones that's great I've never had audio on while using
wow incredible oh one thing I'm noticing now for the first time though is that they've kind of
separated their effero a little interestingly here there is a clear break in between escape and f1
and then there's a clear break in between f4 and f5 which makes a lot of sense alt f4 and f5
are two very common keys to press whether you're trying to close a program or refresh something
but then there's no break after f8 they've got a different color configuration on the keycap so
that you can quickly tell visually but you're not going to have that same like feel tell where
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
something that you might want to take into consideration as for the rest of the layout
it's pretty bog standard you know you've got like a print screen up here this is probably
delete yep delete home and page up page down those all work fine arrow keys navigation cluster
does caps lock light up in any way no that would be nice I do like uh visual indications for caps
lock even if it's just a little RGB light might be there but it doesn't shine through on these
keycaps super well so it's hard to tell I'm not sure what these indicator lights are up here
do these change when I change modes yeah okay so red must mean that it's on usb wired mode and
then green probably just indicates that it's on it's really hard to see I actually don't know if
you'll get to pick this up on camera but you can barely see the lights so it is ever so slightly
transparent on the bottom here it's a little more noticeable in person but only if I'm looking at it
like directly um then I can kind of see the shine I would like if this was more transparent like if
you're already going this far why not go a little further but that's a pretty minor thing and you
know teach their own maybe it's like you look at the back of a keyboard that often anyway so it's
totally okay it's supposed to be 1276 grams that's probably just for the boards we'll see how much it
is with keycaps and switches and everything yeah 1300 grams for our entire keyboard here actually
right on the dot which I mean don't get me wrong scale could be off by a few grams but that's pretty
cool it's pretty chunky when we did the last new fee keyboard it was the air 75 and that thing was
like razor thin it was really light it was you know meant for portability this is definitely while
it's wireless don't keep that in while this one's wireless and it has a 4200 milliamp hour battery in
it it's not really also meant for portability like the air 75 is like it's got some heft it is a plastic
shell that's kind of my only complaint so far if this came with an aluminum case even if it cost me
an extra 100 bucks I'd be a lot more sold on it you wouldn't be able to do the transparent back as
easily but you know you could do like a top case aluminum and then do the bottom and plastic and
that would probably be okay but how much does it cost because you know a Corsair or a logitech is
going to cost you like 150 to 250 dollars or something like that this guy runs anywhere from 159
to 169 which isn't too bad at all that depends on the switches you choose so you're probably paying
a little bit more what's the more expensive switch really the cherry switches are the more
expensive ones I don't know why but the cherry switches are the more expensive ones you pay an
extra 10 bucks for cherry if you want them I just like the other ones more I think they look better
I think they feel better unfortunately I can't tell you what material the switch plate is made out of
they just say metal on the website and considering how heavy this is it wouldn't surprise me if it's
steel instead of aluminum it's a little less premium in that regard but the reality is it looks
pretty cool it's hot swappable still so if you don't like the switches you buy you can swap them out
the keycaps aren't bad definitely not the best I've ever touched but they're double shot PBT
and you know honestly I really like this thing especially because it's got the USB hub that's
not a super common feature that you see on more premium mechanical keyboards I think that if you're
looking for something that's a little different uh something that looks cool something that has
a bunch of macro keys on it still because you just can't get rid of your old logitech keyboard
then this is probably the one for you I mean it's got a battery if you want to go wireless
it can do uh Windows or mac no problem it just looks sick like I can't get over how cool this
thing is I will be frank everyone as soon as we broke to try the new keyboard because the other
one wasn't working everyone came over and tried the knob everyone loves this knob I think the only
thing I'm not crazy about is the handle they could have probably just ditched the handle I think it's
just plastic too like it's not even anything crazy good it's what I buy this thing what I buy the
Newfie Field 75 you know just for the keyboard maybe not but I'm telling you when you're getting
the poster it's a lot more appealing otherwise you know if you want to check out other short
circuits maybe look at the first time I looked at the Newfie keyboard the Newfie Air 75 it was pretty cool