WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.040 I'm a big heavy metal fan. So I'm always looking for the heaviest 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:08.760 and most metal keyboards imaginable. And when Keychron made the Q1HE Copper Edition, 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.280 I had to open it and take a look. This is the first time that it's actually 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:22.440 been kind of hard to unbox the product because while it might be only about four kilos, 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:27.400 it's in this really small form factor. Oh my God. 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:30.920 Sometimes when the suction happens, the keyboard comes off the table. That didn't happen at all. 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:34.120 Little quick start guide with some Switch DuToggle Bluetooth. 00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:37.480 This is wireless. I think it's got a 4,000 milliamp hour battery. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:41.120 But realistically, this thing's staying on your desk and it's never moving. 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:44.640 We've got a little combo switch key cap puller. We've got a little screwdriver. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.480 What looks like maybe some extra gasket material or something and probably the feet right here 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:56.960 as well as an Allen key. And then we've got an actually nicely matching cable. 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:00.200 That's beautiful. Kind of coppery in color. 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.720 Comes with a USB-C to A adapter attached. 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:07.280 We've got our dongle along with another C to A adapter. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.880 They really want to load you up with C to A adapters. And some copper colored key caps. 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:17.680 It's too bad these aren't copper. If the key caps were copper, admittedly this board would probably 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.720 not be the exorbitant price that it already is. It'd be several hundred dollars more. 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:29.560 Holy s**t. It's like actually kind of hard to lift with one hand. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.160 Oh my God. Hold on, I'm gonna drop it from like an inch. 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:38.960 If you've used the Q1HE from Keekron before, it's basically the same thing, 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:42.120 except it's got a instead of aluminum case. 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.160 We've got a copper top and bottom case. 00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:48.600 Now my one major complaint is this is the all copper 00:01:48.600 --> 00:01:52.760 keyboard and they're using an aluminum plate in here. They could have at least used brass. 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.560 They chose not to probably for good reason. I don't think anyone even really prefers brass these days, 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.800 but you gotta stick to the bit. Otherwise, yeah, it's a Q1HE. 00:02:01.800 --> 00:02:05.040 You've got TMR switches in here. Now with their dual rail design. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.680 They've also got another double in here. They've got a double gasket mount system in play. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:14.280 And along with that double gasket system, you're getting a ton of different foam layers. 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:19.040 So this thing should mute that sound as much as you desire. 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:23.320 And if you don't like it, it's a little too muted. You open it up and you take one of those layers out. 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:27.440 It'll still work. There's just less foam inside. This thing is mesmerizing. 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:35.160 It's really nice that the keycaps match the rest of the kit, but I really would prefer if these were metal. 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:39.360 So I highly recommend any enthusiast. If you do want to get this thing, 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.560 treat yourself to some nice metal keycaps. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.000 We've got a tri-mode switch at the top, wired dongle and Bluetooth, 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.160 as well as a Windows and Mac toggle. 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:53.520 Right next to our USB-C port. The feet are already attached, 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.520 so I don't need the extra feet. They don't give you spares, which is nice. 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.800 Otherwise, these are all just cherry-profile keycaps, 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:03.440 PBT, die-sublimated, so you're not gonna get any shine-through or anything, 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:08.440 but it does have RGB, which we'll get to in a second. And I believe it's hot-swappable. 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:11.920 Look, let me take a look at these dual rail magnet design. 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.040 Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. Well, yeah, that was nice and easy. 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:21.720 Very cool. All-effect switches, linear as per usual with all-effect. 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:25.240 These come pre-lib from the factory. Nice sound and feel okay. 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:32.960 And it looks like they've got south-facing RGB for anyone who wants south-facing instead of north. 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.560 Yeah, let me lift this up, too. I don't know if you can see the light. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:37.920 Yeah, you can kind of see it. 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:42.920 Oh, it is. It really is. 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:46.800 Let's see how heavy it actually is. Wow, yep, four kilos, like I said. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.440 Now imagine if you had metal keycaps on here. I know I've already said that, but I'm gonna say it again 00:03:50.440 --> 00:03:54.040 because I bet you it would be even heavier. One feature I hadn't mentioned yet 00:03:54.040 --> 00:03:57.920 is the rotary encoder knob. This is QMK via compatible. 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:01.920 Like, I think everything from keychron, if not everything, then basically everything. 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:06.480 And overall, it's just, it's gonna be, we're gonna get to the price later. 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:10.200 But it's a little hard to justify. 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:16.200 But you know, I can't really make up my mind until I type on it. And I can't type on it until I tell you about our sponsor. 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:21.160 One thing Bell mentioned actually is that it looks a bit more gold or yellow-y than real copper. 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.880 Like when you think of a copper, you think of kind of a penny, like more of a brown color. 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:27.880 And I agree, but in that case, you know, 00:04:27.880 --> 00:04:31.440 maybe if you want an all gold keyboard, but you can't afford one 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:34.760 because that would be astronomically expensive. This is the one for you. 00:04:34.760 --> 00:04:37.760 Another thing we researched quickly is the price of copper. 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:43.760 And it's only about $11 a kilo. So I get that a lot of the price goes into the molding 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:48.360 and machining all the metal and I'm surprised three times now, we'll get to it. 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:52.040 I promise it's just, it's not a low number. It's really not. 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:57.000 But we've got to do our typing test because that's what I do around here. All right, so it's a pretty typical Q1 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.480 with a chair style keycaps. So away we go. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.160 Oh, I already, I'm restarting, I'm restarting, I'm restarting. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.440 No, no, stop distracting me. 00:05:09.640 --> 00:05:12.920 I want to say, I want to say sounds good, but I'm so close. 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.720 Woo, 1,200%, not a single mistake. 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.000 I did start over, I screwed up at the beginning, but that was a bad start. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.640 So, you know, we get them all again sometimes. Honestly, it types pretty good. 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:27.880 It sounds great. The typing experience is pretty solid 00:05:27.880 --> 00:05:33.040 and it even tested quite well also. Our wired latency is solid, same as with the dongle, 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.320 if you're gonna use 2.4 gigahertz. And then if you want Bluetooth, it actually tested pretty well. 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:42.240 You're obviously gonna have a lot more latency. We tested closer to 15 milliseconds or so with Bluetooth, 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.480 but I think that we normally measure like 20 plus. 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.920 So this is actually pretty solid, whether you want to use a wired or wirelessly. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.680 And I mean, sure, it's not an eight kilohertz gaming keyboard, 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.080 but 1,000 Hertz is plenty fast enough. And all of the switches are TMR sensors, 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:02.080 so you can use their dynamic rapid trigger if you want to, 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:05.440 or any other similar like snap tap or whatever features 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:10.400 that you can dream of, it's gonna do it. I almost forgot to talk to you guys about the RGB. 00:06:10.400 --> 00:06:14.200 Also the software, this thing does use Keychron software, 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:19.960 but like I said before, it's a VIA and QMK compatible. So pretty much whatever you want to do with it, you can do. 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:26.480 As for the RGB, mine's currently set to this green color that I think doesn't really go with this too much, 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:31.280 but it looks okay. It's south facing, it's a little dimmed, can I turn it up? 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:34.960 We're just using Keychron launcher, it's the web app. Hey, look at that. 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:39.880 It's actually pretty handy if you don't want to download anything. Brightness zero, that's why it looks so dim. 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:43.520 Oh, this is so much better. Now I actually really like the green. Green and gold looks pretty good. 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:47.000 Unlike previous keyboards with North facing RGB, you're not gonna be able to see it 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.240 through the top down very well. It might be a little hard to make out on camera, 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.720 but I swear, this is actually pretty bright now that I've turned the brightness up. 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:57.720 They've actually got a ton of different options for you 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:02.200 in their software. Yeah, once again, I'm actually really happy to see that this is just on the webpage, 00:07:02.200 --> 00:07:06.000 instead of something you have to download and install. We've had trouble in the past 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:10.200 with other softwares from other companies, and they've got all the actuation distance options 00:07:10.200 --> 00:07:13.320 that you can dream of. Oh, the default is set to default. 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:16.360 I'm setting it to gaming. You know I gotta do it to them. 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.760 One other thing that I didn't personally notice when I was looking at it is the screws are all visible. 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:24.760 I don't mind that. I think it's easy to get at them. And the reality is it's gonna be down like this 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:28.640 and you're never gonna see them anyway. What you will see is a hole in your wallet 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:33.240 because this thing costs $500. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.600 I'm gonna let that sink in for a second. How much was a ceramic one? 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.240 Like 400? Regular price 230. Okay, that's not terrible. 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:44.360 It's really tough trying to decide 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.680 whether I think it's worth it or not. This one in particular at $500, no. 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.760 I mean, I just, I think that's kind of crazy. 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:57.280 Maybe if it also came with metal keycaps, maybe if there was gold in the board, 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:02.600 maybe if the knob was gold, I could see a value there. But as it is currently, I think the only people 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.840 that should probably buy this thing are people who are like massive enthusiasts 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:10.520 who need to own one of every like niche keyboard. 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:17.000 But as for the average person, I just, I can't say that I can justify spending 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.280 that much money on this. I don't honestly, I think I'd rather have the ceramic. 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:25.200 That one is at least like half the price roughly. So while you're spending more 00:08:25.200 --> 00:08:31.080 on a niche material or feature, you're not spending like two times as much 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.480 as what the Q1HE normally costs. That keyboard, the base Q1HE, 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.320 I can recommend that all day long, no problem. Keychron makes a decent keyboard. 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.920 But the copper edition, oh, oh, it's so heavy though. 00:08:42.920 --> 00:08:46.640 Man, the sheer weight of this keyboard. 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:50.440 When you like pick it up and you hold it with one hand 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.760 and you look at it on the desk, it's definitely something to behold. 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:57.060 And if you just want like a massive statement piece 00:08:57.060 --> 00:09:01.120 and you've got the extra money to blow, okay, sure, maybe it's worth it to you. 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.360 But it's not worth it to me, ploof. But you know what is worth it? 00:09:04.400 --> 00:09:08.040 Subscribing to ShortCircuit, look, it's easy. You just click the button. That's all you gotta do. 00:09:08.040 --> 00:09:11.400 Just like I'm clicking this button. Enter key. 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:13.480 Enter key.