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It's been a while since I looked at a keyboard with enough RGB to fill my soul with goodness

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and light and Angry Meow is kind of promising to do that today with their AM Neon 8 because it's a

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synthwave reminiscent keyboard that is supposed to be filled with holes. That's right, holes.

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They've drilled over 3,000 holes into this thing and I'm really excited about it because

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about three years ago to the very day I opened the Cyberboard R3 and I love it. I don't care what

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you guys say, I love that keyboard and so we're gonna look at this one today. Just out of the box

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we've got our keyboard here. I'll unveil it in a moment and then we've got some leaf springs because

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in true AM fashion they've kind of moved to using leaf springs as their main mounting system and

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while I'm not crazy about it because I don't tinker too much once I've got my keyboard finished

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this lets you do that. It's got apparently 12 total different stages that you could set it to.

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Cable. I don't normally comment on how smooth and soft the cable feels. People are complaining

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because it's an expensive keyboard. We'll talk about price later and at the price point you

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don't get the nice coiled cable. That's a fair complaint. I'll be honest though this is it's

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just really so soft and smooth and feels good to touch. It's not super long. This is probably like

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a three foot cable so that's a little disappointing. I would have liked to see a longer one but it's

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usb-c to see. One really nice thing though is it is labeled as a 100 watt cable. Love to see it

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because people often don't label their usb-c cables and then you get the cable and you plug it in

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and it's not charging right because it's not sorry and something else I just found out it's magnetic

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and in true angry meow fashion this whole thing comes in this beautiful case that is a little

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overbuilt but you know what the keyboard is very expensive so I get why they put it in such a nice

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case. What's really cool is that on the bottom of the briefcase esk box we've got a bunch of specs

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and stats for our keyboard. It's mostly our model number, voltage, stuff like that. It's wired only

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for reasons we'll get to in a moment but this thing can allegedly draw up to 12 watts because of

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all the leds that are installed and then we've also got in this little bag here it looks like it's

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just a spare piece of foam for one of the many foam layers that I am sure are inside this keyboard

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today that we're going to check out. I'm going to keep this handy in case I need it because you

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never know. The unveiling oh it's heavy oh my gosh it's been a while since I've had

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one of these thick boys on the desk. This is absolutely stunning it is just a giant

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thick sheet of aluminum and oh my gosh I love it. On the bottom we've got what looks to be

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oh my god it's three peels two three we've got the classic angry meow cat paw logo there's a

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ton of holes in this bad boy so if you got tripophobia I would just turn away right now

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because you're gonna get eaked out but I love it and apparently there's a bunch of RGB they've got

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over 300 leds below the surface here to light up this whole keyboard on the top on the front

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on the sides and on the switches hence the clear keycaps they're calling it four dimensional

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because there's four dimensions of lighting I don't know about that but you know what sure

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it's great I really like the type feel these are icy silver pro v2 switches they look and sound

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pretty good that is creamy not much rattle if any in the space bar oh same with the shift

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and it's all good don't get me wrong you might be paying a lot of money but the quality is there

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is it worth that much I don't know that's for you to judge but I will say it feels solid you're

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not gonna get this thing and then feel completely ripped off it's so hard to lift up partly because

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you can't really get your fingers underneath it because the rubber feet are very thin and then

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on the back here we've got this indentation it looks like they're wireless charging stuff but

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there's no battery in here so I don't know if the plan was to fit a couple of 5000 milliamp hour

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batteries and then they just said nope it doesn't have enough juice because apparently it doesn't

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it's just too much light too much RGB it's 14.56 inches long and a tkl style with this big extra

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width to it from the top strip for leds I mean I keep wanting to say that it's a big led strip

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it's not they there is a matrix in here so you can adjust it however you want kind of like

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the cyberboard but instead of you know putting individual leds and then like a screen they're

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like nah I just put holes just put holes in it easy peasy three thousand of them it's actually

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really difficult to machine them out but they've done it those mad lads usbc in the middle some

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of you care some of you care about the left side or the right side I'm a middle kind of guy

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personally so this actually suits me pretty well it comes in three different colors cyber gray

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space silver and cloud white looks like we've got our cyber silver it's so shiny

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do you think it's apple okay yeah it does look like the finish on your macbook bring your macbook

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over here this one's darker it's better I like mine more and one of the best parts is if you don't

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like these switches for whatever reason actually really like them so far I do believe this is hot

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swap even though I didn't see it mentioned like anywhere I found one review yep no problem easy

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peasy oh these are so pretty just crystal clear it does also come in a little bit cheaper diy version

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that you'll have to put together yourself so if you want to buy that one go ahead I want to plug

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this thing in though I gotta see the RGB it's so shiny like I can't wait to see the just explosion

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of color apparently uh you need a motherboard with a usb 3 port and I guess USB-C like it's

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it's giving you a c to c cable instead of the typical c to a cable and I mean it's delivering

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100 watts because this thing is gonna eat through that power and they actually have a little bit

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of warning on about how you need a good enough power supply for it 12 watts it's fine you're not

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gonna you know you could probably run this on whatever but you are going to need a motherboard

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with usb 3 but before I turn it on you know let's take a minute to talk about our sponsor

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all right now we've got everything set up let's plug it in

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you can customize it of course so we put ShortCircuit on there and oh my gosh it's so pretty

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and then let me see what else we can do f10 turns it on or off that's pretty cool f9 turns my RGB

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on or off for my keys that's why you got them sweet sweet clear uh keycaps oh and then you've

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got a bunch of modes so you can just change like full colors all the modes oh oh oh let's hit the

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lights let's hit the lights wow I don't want to pay for it but I want this thing oh and I haven't

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even looked at the side yet oh my god or the front wow I man I love this thing but how does it how

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does it type I say it feels good but you know oh wow they got their am neon 80 software just

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ready to go here it supports qmk vile and their own software layer one layer two layer three

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layer four that's pretty cool seems easy enough to do oh lighting effects library oh that's cool

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you got a bunch of presets that you can change it to and yeah like uh kind of like the uh cyber

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board you can change this matrix to whatever you want um so you can make your own custom patterns

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and like you like I mean you saw the ShortCircuit logo and the LTT logo um you can do whatever you

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want and if this isn't enough for you you can download other jason files that other people

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have uploaded for their own lighting effects uh so you can share if you want you know so you make

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something really cool you want to give to your friend or just the community you can do that

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I'm not going to do that the angle is a little less steep and I kind of like it it's it's much

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flatter and uh it's a bit more pleasant to type on some people like a really high angle I'm like

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okay with it I don't hate it but this is preferable to me let's go sounds so good

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11298 you know what oh it feels and sounds just so good that space bar is just that

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nice little extra kind of deep sound to it as you just jump through the words

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that's man can I just take this back with me I have three other keyboards on my desk I will

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swap all of them for this guy and the cool thing is as well is it's really easy to take apart

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came with these little hex wrenches for you so if you do want to tinker you can just go ahead and

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pop those out one two three four five six seven eight screws that's not too bad my real complaint

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is only the cable I I know it's 100 watts and the more bandwidth or power you try to push

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through cables the shorter they've got to be before they start losing signal strength and

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I get it I just really wish that it was a bit longer because uh it's really short honestly

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otherwise I think the only thing to complain about is the price if you want the base kit because

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you already have a bunch of other stuff you've got switches key caps stabilizers whatever

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516 us dollars that's a lot if you want more if you want it to come fully decked out kind of

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like we got right here you're looking at six hundred and fifty six dollars it's a hard pill

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to swallow uh I personally I I can't say I would buy it it's so tough like I want to uh but I can't

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and it's so disappointing because it's it's incredibly beautiful but what do you think

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you think it's worth it you think it's not let us know in the comments below and

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shout at me and tell me why I don't need the am neon 80 this synthwave awesome keyboard that I

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so desperately want to steal thanks for watching ShortCircuit this is a big keyboard goodbye