It's been a while since I looked at a keyboard with enough RGB to fill my soul with goodness
and light and Angry Meow is kind of promising to do that today with their AM Neon 8 because it's a
synthwave reminiscent keyboard that is supposed to be filled with holes. That's right, holes.
They've drilled over 3,000 holes into this thing and I'm really excited about it because
about three years ago to the very day I opened the Cyberboard R3 and I love it. I don't care what
you guys say, I love that keyboard and so we're gonna look at this one today. Just out of the box
we've got our keyboard here. I'll unveil it in a moment and then we've got some leaf springs because
in true AM fashion they've kind of moved to using leaf springs as their main mounting system and
while I'm not crazy about it because I don't tinker too much once I've got my keyboard finished
this lets you do that. It's got apparently 12 total different stages that you could set it to.
Cable. I don't normally comment on how smooth and soft the cable feels. People are complaining
because it's an expensive keyboard. We'll talk about price later and at the price point you
don't get the nice coiled cable. That's a fair complaint. I'll be honest though this is it's
just really so soft and smooth and feels good to touch. It's not super long. This is probably like
a three foot cable so that's a little disappointing. I would have liked to see a longer one but it's
usb-c to see. One really nice thing though is it is labeled as a 100 watt cable. Love to see it
because people often don't label their usb-c cables and then you get the cable and you plug it in
and it's not charging right because it's not sorry and something else I just found out it's magnetic
and in true angry meow fashion this whole thing comes in this beautiful case that is a little
overbuilt but you know what the keyboard is very expensive so I get why they put it in such a nice
case. What's really cool is that on the bottom of the briefcase esk box we've got a bunch of specs
and stats for our keyboard. It's mostly our model number, voltage, stuff like that. It's wired only
for reasons we'll get to in a moment but this thing can allegedly draw up to 12 watts because of
all the leds that are installed and then we've also got in this little bag here it looks like it's
just a spare piece of foam for one of the many foam layers that I am sure are inside this keyboard
today that we're going to check out. I'm going to keep this handy in case I need it because you
never know. The unveiling oh it's heavy oh my gosh it's been a while since I've had
one of these thick boys on the desk. This is absolutely stunning it is just a giant
thick sheet of aluminum and oh my gosh I love it. On the bottom we've got what looks to be
oh my god it's three peels two three we've got the classic angry meow cat paw logo there's a
ton of holes in this bad boy so if you got tripophobia I would just turn away right now
because you're gonna get eaked out but I love it and apparently there's a bunch of RGB they've got
over 300 leds below the surface here to light up this whole keyboard on the top on the front
on the sides and on the switches hence the clear keycaps they're calling it four dimensional
because there's four dimensions of lighting I don't know about that but you know what sure
it's great I really like the type feel these are icy silver pro v2 switches they look and sound
pretty good that is creamy not much rattle if any in the space bar oh same with the shift
and it's all good don't get me wrong you might be paying a lot of money but the quality is there
is it worth that much I don't know that's for you to judge but I will say it feels solid you're
not gonna get this thing and then feel completely ripped off it's so hard to lift up partly because
you can't really get your fingers underneath it because the rubber feet are very thin and then
on the back here we've got this indentation it looks like they're wireless charging stuff but
there's no battery in here so I don't know if the plan was to fit a couple of 5000 milliamp hour
batteries and then they just said nope it doesn't have enough juice because apparently it doesn't
it's just too much light too much RGB it's 14.56 inches long and a tkl style with this big extra
width to it from the top strip for leds I mean I keep wanting to say that it's a big led strip
it's not they there is a matrix in here so you can adjust it however you want kind of like
the cyberboard but instead of you know putting individual leds and then like a screen they're
like nah I just put holes just put holes in it easy peasy three thousand of them it's actually
really difficult to machine them out but they've done it those mad lads usbc in the middle some
of you care some of you care about the left side or the right side I'm a middle kind of guy
personally so this actually suits me pretty well it comes in three different colors cyber gray
space silver and cloud white looks like we've got our cyber silver it's so shiny
do you think it's apple okay yeah it does look like the finish on your macbook bring your macbook
over here this one's darker it's better I like mine more and one of the best parts is if you don't
like these switches for whatever reason actually really like them so far I do believe this is hot
swap even though I didn't see it mentioned like anywhere I found one review yep no problem easy
peasy oh these are so pretty just crystal clear it does also come in a little bit cheaper diy version
that you'll have to put together yourself so if you want to buy that one go ahead I want to plug
this thing in though I gotta see the RGB it's so shiny like I can't wait to see the just explosion
of color apparently uh you need a motherboard with a usb 3 port and I guess USB-C like it's
it's giving you a c to c cable instead of the typical c to a cable and I mean it's delivering
100 watts because this thing is gonna eat through that power and they actually have a little bit
of warning on about how you need a good enough power supply for it 12 watts it's fine you're not
gonna you know you could probably run this on whatever but you are going to need a motherboard
with usb 3 but before I turn it on you know let's take a minute to talk about our sponsor
all right now we've got everything set up let's plug it in
you can customize it of course so we put ShortCircuit on there and oh my gosh it's so pretty
and then let me see what else we can do f10 turns it on or off that's pretty cool f9 turns my RGB
on or off for my keys that's why you got them sweet sweet clear uh keycaps oh and then you've
got a bunch of modes so you can just change like full colors all the modes oh oh oh let's hit the
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
even looked at the side yet oh my god or the front wow I man I love this thing but how does it how
does it type I say it feels good but you know oh wow they got their am neon 80 software just
ready to go here it supports qmk vile and their own software layer one layer two layer three
layer four that's pretty cool seems easy enough to do oh lighting effects library oh that's cool
you got a bunch of presets that you can change it to and yeah like uh kind of like the uh cyber
board you can change this matrix to whatever you want um so you can make your own custom patterns
and like you like I mean you saw the ShortCircuit logo and the LTT logo um you can do whatever you
want and if this isn't enough for you you can download other jason files that other people
have uploaded for their own lighting effects uh so you can share if you want you know so you make
something really cool you want to give to your friend or just the community you can do that
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
flatter and uh it's a bit more pleasant to type on some people like a really high angle I'm like
okay with it I don't hate it but this is preferable to me let's go sounds so good
11298 you know what oh it feels and sounds just so good that space bar is just that
nice little extra kind of deep sound to it as you just jump through the words
that's man can I just take this back with me I have three other keyboards on my desk I will
swap all of them for this guy and the cool thing is as well is it's really easy to take apart
came with these little hex wrenches for you so if you do want to tinker you can just go ahead and
pop those out one two three four five six seven eight screws that's not too bad my real complaint
is only the cable I I know it's 100 watts and the more bandwidth or power you try to push
through cables the shorter they've got to be before they start losing signal strength and
I get it I just really wish that it was a bit longer because uh it's really short honestly
otherwise I think the only thing to complain about is the price if you want the base kit because
you already have a bunch of other stuff you've got switches key caps stabilizers whatever
516 us dollars that's a lot if you want more if you want it to come fully decked out kind of
like we got right here you're looking at six hundred and fifty six dollars it's a hard pill
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
and it's so disappointing because it's it's incredibly beautiful but what do you think
you think it's worth it you think it's not let us know in the comments below and
shout at me and tell me why I don't need the am neon 80 this synthwave awesome keyboard that I
so desperately want to steal thanks for watching ShortCircuit this is a big keyboard goodbye