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What's up, guys? I've got not one keyboard, but two keyboards because Kron

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put out a K3 both in an H variant and

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the Ultra 8K. This one's got magnetic

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switches, and that's pretty cool. This one's got an 8 kHz pulling rate.

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Otherwise, they're very, very similar. So, let's check them out. Starting with

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the 8K. So, that's what we need, right? We need more K's in our life. Okay, let

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me look at the box first, though. Support all systems. Hell yeah. It does

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Linux, macOS, and I was read it says

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WinOSS instead of just Windows, but you know, whatever. Each key is customizable

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online. That's correct. 8 kHz, precise and fast. It's a 75% keyboard. It's a

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low profile design. Um, and they've got these cool wood accents on the edges for

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both of them. So, I'm actually really uh excited to look at those because wood

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just looks great. Stickers that I'm going to steal. Make sure switch pins

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are straight before putting them in. That's very important. Otherwise, your switch isn't going to work. And then

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we've got our little quick start guide. And then

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we've got our right angle USBC cable

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with dongle. I'll never get over saying the word dongle. Such a dumb word.

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Nicely sleeved. It's got a fite bead.

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And it's a decent length. 6 feet. I

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don't know. I I'm a big sucker for right angle connectors as well. They just make

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it look so sleek. We've also got some accessories. is this is a USB A to C

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adapter. Uh, and then we've got our dongle. We've got a screwdriver. Oh, you

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know, it's a really minor thing. And people probably have screwdrivers, but

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you don't always have like a little uh jewelry or glasses screwdriver. And

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they've got these really small uh tip sizes. I know all about that. And then

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we've also got, love to see it. It's a switch and keycat puller.

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And then some extra keys if you want to

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do like change your alt key or like Windows like what's is this covered with

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Mac stuff? Let's find out. An ultra slim

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wireless mechanical keyboard. I you know I can attest to that. Oh, this is nice.

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Two-stage adjustable feet. They've also got some nice rubber feet on the bottom

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here. I like the bars myself. And they've got a couple on the top, too.

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So, if you're not using the adjustable feet, that's okay. You've still got some

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stickiness that's not going to let the keyboard slide around as you're typing. I'm going to put a bit of an angle on

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this bad boy. And uh I've just got to say the wood accents are very pretty. As

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for the construction of the keyboard itself, it's the K series. So K from

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Keyron is typically their plastic models. Um which is fine, you know,

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especially when you're doing a slim, you want something to be light. I'm totally

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okay with using plastic instead of uh aluminum at that point. And there's not

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like it. I mean, it's flexy, but you know, realistically, you're just putting

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this in a bag, taking it out, popping it down, typing some stuff up, and putting

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it back in. I like the white case. I love the wood accents with the lighter

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wood. I think it's a darker wood on the

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H, so I'm excited to check that out as well. But yeah, I love the lowprofile

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switches. I really like the really slim

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key caps and the sound is different for sure because it's a little more

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like hollow, but I kind of like it. It's definitely not going to sound as good as

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like a full fat keyboard, but I think if you're using this just on the go,

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it has a pretty unique sound that

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yeah, I'm not crazy about it, but I don't hate it. If I heard someone typing on this thing, I'd be like, that sounds

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okay. Not much rattle in the stabilizers.

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That's good. These are all prelude switches as well. Let me take one out

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here. Beautiful. These are banana tactile

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palms. The bump is like all the way at

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the top, too, which makes sense for a low profile keyboard. I had to find some

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like that for switches on my own keyboard. And I'm actually quite fond of

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tactile with the bump all the way at the top. Call me crazy. I don't care. It's

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what I like. And you guys can hate me all you want for it. Is this hot swap? I

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think it is. Let's find out. Yep, it's hot swap. Okay, sick. Uh, be careful

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when you're taking these out of your keyboard. Um, the little white diffuser

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light that I'm is guessing is for the RGB cuz the LED is north facing here.

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Mine popped out as I tried to get it out of there. Let's just Yeah, let's just

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pop that back in. We're good to go. As for the rest of the keyboard, all your

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switches and stuff are on the side here. And this actually makes a lot of sense why they did the right angle connector

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because the USBC is on the side here. And so that's going to pop in and then

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not like be this big protruding cable out the side of your keyboard, which is

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great. We've got a couple switches, Windows or Mac. And then uh the bottom

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one is Bluetooth wired or 2.4 GHz. The

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problem sometimes with looking at RGB keyboards here is we've got all these

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studio lights and it's a little hard to see. Uh I can see it here and it looks

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good. The only unfortunate thing is you've got that nice diffusion on the

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switch itself. Let me take a look at that. Yeah, that looks great. But you're

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not going to see that on these because they're not shine through. If you want to actually take advantage of what looks

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like pretty solid RGB both in the keyboard and in the switches itself with

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that diffusion, you might want to change the key caps, which is too bad cuz I

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actually really like these key caps. I just wish they were either shine through or translucent in some other way. But

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that's okay. Overall, so far I'm pretty impressed. My only issue is I'm not a

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big believer in 8 kHz. Not when it comes to keyboard and mice. I think a thousand

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Hz polling rate is more than enough.

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It's the one factor of latency where I just don't I don't see it making that

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much of a difference. I think you're better off finding a faster display or a

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better graphics card. But, you know, if you really want 8K,

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do it. So, let's check out the other keyboard that we've got right here, and

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then I'll do a typing test on both of them. This is the Kerron K3H. The

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branding worked. Let's open this bad boy. I love the little holographic the

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foil symbol. That's great. Basically the

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same contents as we had in the other box. You've got your quick start guide.

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You've got your screwdriver. You've got your key caps now in black. You've got

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your cable now in black. Love that the cables match the keyboards. That's a

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minor touch. Same with the dongles and the uh extensions actually, too. And

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then the keyboard itself. I love how

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light these are. I really do. Man, it's more of like a walnut. I honestly wasn't

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sure if this was real wood or if these were just plastic just because the way they're finished, but it looks like this

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is chipped away and that does look more like wood than plastic underneath. But

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regardless, I think they're pretty and I very much enjoy them. Um otherwise, it's

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basically the same. You're getting the same kind of chassis with the

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multi-stage feet and the bar feet.

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You're getting um the 75% layout with your F row up top and some arrow keys

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here and a page up, page down. This one's got their linear magnetic

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switches, the ultra fast limes.

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I think I like the sound of this one more, but the switch resistance is a

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little too heavy for me. Like, it's not bad. I can type on this just fine. I just wish they were a little lighter.

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Yeah, I prefer this one. The sound I think what I am hearing is I'm hearing

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the tactile bump. That's pretty good.

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Test the stabilizers.

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Also solid. These are all prelubed as well. And these ones are magnetic. So

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the big difference with these ones are if you've seen like the Wooting H or

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other Hall effect or TMR keyboards, um you know that they're analog and so that

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you can like let's say you're holding W for WASD for walking around. You can

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push it down a little bit and that's why these are linear instead of tactile so

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that they have that full um range of motion. But you can push it down like a

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little bit and your guy's going to walk forward. And then you press it down all the way and he's going to run. It's kind

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of like if you had a thumb stick and you're pushing it forward a little bit versus all the way. I personally

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don't really need these things or want

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these things in my keyboards. I think they're a really cool, not even gimmick.

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I think they're a genuine feature that a lot of people actually utilize and use

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to the full extent, but for me, like I've been gaming on regular keyboards

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for my whole life. And so the thought of like only slightly pressing a key to

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walk forward a little bit just feels weird to me. And so I don't know, it's it's not for me, but I do appreciate the

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technology behind it and what it's allowing uh new gamers or even old

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gamers that can learn new tricks, just what it's giving them in this modern day and age. So I think that's pretty cool.

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Okay, let's take the P for POF key cap

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off. Ah, nice and green.

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Wow, there we go. That took a little force, a little effort, but uh we're

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there. And as you can see, there's no pins because they're not using contact

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pins to see if you're making contact with anything. It's all magnetic. Just

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for reference, this one's got the pins cuz it's the regular keyboard. And then

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this one does not. It is in fact

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pinless. But let's see just how good the actual type feel is when I've got to,

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you know, actually type a message or word instead of randomly mashing keys

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to warm up. I'm just going to give it a go on the Hall effect version first with

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the linear switches and that'll be my warm-up for that guy. And hopefully

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these both go okay. And away we go.

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Oh, 118 99%. That's not bad. That's not bad.

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Let's see if the other one does any better. That one had the feet at the same height, so we're not going to blame

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anything about a height angle kind of thing. All right. And away we go.

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No, ever so slightly better. 120 99%. I made

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a small mistake at the beginning and kind of at the end. I do think I still

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prefer the sound on the H with those switches, but I really I'm I'm a big

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tactile guy as long as the bump is at the top. That's weird. I don't care.

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Like it or hate it, that's what I do. And uh I actually really enjoy it on a

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keyboard like this. These do have various like PET film and case foam and

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whatnot for some extra sound absorbing, but you know, when it's a thin keyboard,

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you're not going to be able to fit quite as much of that in as you could something else. Overall, I mean, you

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could customize it a little bit. You can maybe tape mod it. I'm not sure. It's

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pretty slim already, but I'm sure you can, you know, painters tape is pretty

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thin, too. If I had to pick one like that, I strongly prefer. I'm quite torn.

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I think they're both beautiful. One thing to note, these both have the same

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2600 milliamp battery. However, the 8K

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gets like 500 plus hours of battery life. The H

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gets closer to 55. We're not sure if it's just because, you know, um the

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switches require more power because they're always checking like what

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position they're at and whatnot versus these are just kind of like onoff switches basically. If you're going to

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be running these on battery, which in all fairness, they're lowprofile slim

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keyboards. These are travel keyboards. Like you will be running them on battery

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probably if you want to buy them, unless you're just looking for some super minimal desk piece or whatever. And so

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in that case, I actually really do care that the battery lasts for like hundreds

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of hours on this one and tens of hours on this one. That's a massive

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difference. And uh especially because like I said earlier, I'm not I'm not too

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into the whole um Hallacctor TMR analog

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switch craze. I'd go for the 8K1 and then I just wouldn't run it at 8 kHz.

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I'd probably just run it at 1,000 hertz and it would still do just fine. The

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best part is if you're also having trouble deciding between the two and

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you're leaving it to price, well, good luck because it's only about a $10

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difference. And that's why I'm such a big fan of these, even if they're not

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really the keyboard for me. The 8 kHz one is $110.

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The H one is $120.

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I think that's pretty reasonable. Like, yeah, they're plastic and they're not

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metal. They're not aluminum frames, but like realistically, you know, if you're

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traveling, I would prefer something light anyway. You can find a similar

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wireless mechanical keyboard for about $100, maybe 110. And so I'm just happy

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to see those prices come down because several years ago we would not be

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talking about $110 for a keyboard like this. Overall, I'm quite pleased. I

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think one of the only improvements they could make is maybe try to hide the

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screws on the ends that seem to be securing the wooden accents on, but I

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don't know how else they'd really get those on there without them. Uh especially without it being something

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that you could easily take apart and tinker with. But uh overall, I think I

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like them quite a bit. I'm not going to buy either of them. They're not for me.

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I don't travel very much, at least not with a keyboard. The only other thing

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that you should maybe consider when looking at buying either of these

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keyboards is there is a little bit more latency with the H. When we measured it,

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that's what we got. Both on the Bluetooth and on the wireless.

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Ultimately, the H is just going to be a little more latency for you, but we're

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not talking about a lot here. So, take that for what you will. Make up your own

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minds and uh maybe check out the Kickstarter if this video goes up fast

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enough. If it doesn't, maybe you can buy them from Kron's website directly. I'm

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not 100% sure. The only thing I do know for sure is that this is ShortCircuit.

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My name's PLO. These are keyboards

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from Kron. If you want to watch another video like this, check out the NYX

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Hesper 64. That was weird. It's got these

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dualaction keys. It was another like Kickstarter kind of group by thing and

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uh it's not for me but it's an interesting