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are you a big Corsair fan use IQ to get all of your RGB synced up real nice and

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tight well if you like keyboards the K100 air

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Wireless might just be for you for those

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of you who move around a lot it's an ultra low profile keyboard if that

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wasn't clear by just how thin it looks on the packaging here

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wow it's only 17 millimeters thick at

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its thickest point and about 11 millimeters thin at its thinnest point

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I'm not super opposed to low profile switches I'm also not against like a

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chiclet style keyboard I personally find them totally okay to type on and while

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I'm not the kind of guy to take my keyboard on the go I can appreciate a

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really good Wireless connectivity system you know as much as I'm not always the

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biggest fan of some of course there's other products Wireless connectivity and

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RGB are kind of their strong suits oh it's got that big plastic shell

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on top in the Box wow that is thin

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BG's I've had some pretty thin keyboards on the channel but I think this might

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take the cake I mean yeah look at that this is like a razor before I you know

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talk a bit more about this keyboard let's take a look at what else comes in the Box we got a cable nice and braided

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or sleeved yeah it's about a five foot cable or so we got a warranty guide we

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got a safety information guide uh that's it though that's in the box that's

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that's that's all you're getting so it's just a keyboard I was about to say that

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I'm a little disappointed you don't get a keycap or switch puller in the box but

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I don't think you're really gonna need one with this uh the switches aren't hot

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Swap and honestly these keycaps are

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probably not going to be very interchangeable let's see can I even

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remove them okay they do pop off pretty easily actually but take a look at this

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as you can see they're pretty different from your regular

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non-ultra low profile switch it looks

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like they attach to the keycaps mostly the Central Point here this might be

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super hard to see it looks like that Central plastic Channel just kind of

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clips into this bar here in the middle as you can see the whole thing kind of

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butterflies down I don't know if it's exactly like a butterfly switch but it

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looks a little similar to me personally and as for how it feels you know

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it's okay I think if I'm gonna go chicklet I don't actually need

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mechanical in the first place it's kind of crazy to say but it's one of the only

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areas where I'm perfectly fine with using a membrane keyboard as for the

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rest of the keyboard you know you got some flip up feet multi-stage which is

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always appreciated to give you extra typing angles for whatever you'd prefer

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that's PCN Mac compatible which is most keyboards to be honest and you can

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connect it to a ton of different devices simultaneously which is always pretty

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cool one nice thing about buying from a company like Corsair or Logitech is that

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you actually get a ton of very dedicated media Keys like these don't appear to be

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on switches but that's okay because it's just like you know a back forward play

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pause mute and then you get this nice little roller bar here which I'm

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actually getting uh to be kind of fond of we also get a lock key lighting this

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looks like a profile switch this can actually hold up to 50 custom profiles

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for anyone who takes their keyboard between multiple systems you don't have

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to reset anything you just keep all your Macros and hotkeys and your RGB just the

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way you like it speaking of macros you also get four dedicated macro Keys based

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on the legend it looks like they control stuff like Wi-Fi and then the three

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different Bluetooth modes right out of the box but these are programmable and

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then aside from that it's just a full keyboard we got a numpad we got our home

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Keys we got our delete and insert and all that it's got a dongle so you have really

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dedicated connectivity they're using their slipstream technology for sub one

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millisecond latency it's pretty good we did test it and the wired mode goes up

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to eight kilohertz which is blazing fast the slipstream does support two

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kilohertz apparently but we were only able to test it at a thousand Hertz when

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Wireless so that's probably solvable through a firmware update or just a

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software update in IQ but we weren't able to get it done for this unboxing

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here as for the battery it's not bad

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without RGB this thing will do up to about 200 hours and then with RGB turned

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on probably at a lower brightness setting it'll do up to 50 hours so it's

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okay that's a pretty similar battery life that you'll see in like Wireless

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keycrons and whatnot they'll do more like 240 but you know 40 hours whatever

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this thing is super rigid and it's got this nice brushed aluminum look as much

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as I'm not crazy about Corsair's designs in terms of like layout and the whole

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structure of the board and everything I do really like that brushed aluminum

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look especially on a darker finish like you get with the K100 air and then on

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the back along with our adjustable feet we also get this really cool patterning

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as well as just a nice solid line of a

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nice rubber feet here to make sure that this thing isn't slipping all over the

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place it's super light though so don't expect you know that Ultra Premium it's

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heavy kind of experience that you get from a lot of other keyboards I want to

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plug it in and take a look at if there's any kind of RGB or information lighting

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up on this little what looks like it could be a screen here we're going to

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connect it to our computer and fire it up and take a look but not before a word

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okay how do I turn this on where's the on button oh it's right here that was

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actually super easy to find and it's lit up and is it detecting it looks like it

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is because the roller bar already worked except you can't see that because I

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didn't start recording on OBS yet so just for reference what they're trying

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to get with this is about as thin as a laptop keyboard they have had these

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ultra low profile switches in some laptops I think that this is the first

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keyboard to actually have them though so if you've used them in other laptops and

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you liked the experience already then you know maybe this is actually the

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exact keyboard that you want to buy let's just type it out

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123.99 that's one of the I think that's one of the best ones I've had so far I

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have to admit I absolutely love typing on Chiclet keyboards there's something

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about having just that really incredibly tiny actuation force needed to press a

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key you know when you have to push really far down on your keyboard and

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then all of a sudden to go over to the next key you have to raise your finger

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up a little bit because there's just that much actual travel distance between

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the key being pressed and not being pressed the nice thing about Chiclets is

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your hands just kind of float right over top of the whole thing super easily like

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123 words per minute 99 out of the gate

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I'm super tired today you know not at my

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best at all and that's pretty good I do love the typing experience that you get

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from something like this and then if you already like Chiclet but you want a mechanical feel uh this is it honestly

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now that being said you can get pretty close to this in a regular low profile

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switch so I don't know if you need necessarily the ultra low profile that

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Corsair is offering here it does has come at a bit of a premium price and

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we'll get to that in a little bit but you know as for the RGB and the screen

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and everything it looks pretty nifty keycaps are double shot they're just ABS

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so I guess that's one of the real problems is you can probably expect them

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to wear out a little bit faster than usual I don't know how easy it's going

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to be for you to find a matching keycap set for this board when they do actually

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wear out so beware of that I suppose man

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if you like the way that Chiclets feel and sound and you want something

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mechanical this really kind of is it let's check out IQ you know I hate IQ

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but it's actually a really good program I hit it because it's a resource hog and

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I just don't like the Walled Garden that Corsair creates where it's like hey you

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want to use one of our products well I hope I hope you're ready to use all of

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our products because they all sync up really well in IQ and you can sync up so

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many lighting profiles this thing can do 20 simultaneously which is pretty wild

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and yeah it just it just works frankly like I've tried using signal RGB and

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open RGB they work pretty well but it's never perfect whereas if you're using

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all Corsair fan IQ just works let's see if our media Keys work let's just like

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put on a YouTube video or something connectivity was a breeze admittedly I'm

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using the dongle which just always kind of works at least for me personally if

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you're trying to connect this through regular Bluetooth you might have issues

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I don't know I would highly recommend using the dongle anyway I would only use

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Bluetooth if you want to keep the dongle in like a dedicated device and then you

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want to switch it over to say your laptop without removing that other

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really rock solid connection for sure

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that there we go actually look homeless mute boom it works the

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system works yeah play pause that works so let's see what uh this one is is this

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just brightness or is this like RGB modes that's kind of the one thing that

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is a little Annoying actually they just strictly want you to use IQ and if you

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don't want to use IQ there was no quick start guide that says hey yeah use like

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function and this button to cycle through RGB modes or change brightness

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on the Fly uh one of these might do that but I don't know what it is so I'd have

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to look it up now I have to use IQ specifically you don't always want to do

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that it does look like this just kind of Cycles through and eventually turns RGB

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off I never use locks on my keyboard and then it looks like our screen is just

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displaying some extra information like how it's wireless right now I don't know

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what the shield means and then for the lock you need a little lock symbol there

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I'm not sure what else populates on here looks like we've got a little battery

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and a power uh it's actually really hard to see though it would be super cool if

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this was instead of just lighting up a few symbols if you could turn this whole

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screen into whatever you want you put like a gif or something on there uh I

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think this is the profile button but I'm not 100 sure let's keep IQ open and take

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a look uh detected it right away it knows it's a K100 air which is super

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cool oh IQ oh you know what

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I can't find a quick start guide but I think they included a QR code for me to

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scan so let's try that really quick it took me to the store page I don't want

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to add to cart I already own this maybe it is a quick start guide and I

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hit the wrong thing I'm not sure I don't think it is it looks like it just took me to the store Page uh where you can

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probably download a little manual or something from the website slipstream

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connected lighting effects Hardware lighting

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performance oh indicators on brightness

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as much as I like IQ I also since I

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never use it I'm not very good with it so I'm not going to be able to show you

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a ton of IQ stuff so when we were doing our testing uh we

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didn't have the latest updates I just downloaded all the latest updates and

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Bam we've actually got eight kilohertz on the wireless receiver that's pretty

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sweet I don't think I've seen eight kilohertz Wireless yet I'm I could be

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wrong Razer has been putting out some pretty fast keyboards recently and

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there's a ton of other vendors as well so that's only for oh okay no no no

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that's weird wireless receiver polling rate eight kilohertz okay and then

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slipstream Wireless polling rate two kilohertz so I'm not sure which value

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this is the speed of the point-to-point communication over slipstream Wireless which may be affected by power saving

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mode and Multi-Device connections I'm not entirely sure how to get the actual

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full eight kilohertz through the wireless receiver but there's a setting

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for it so that's pretty cool oh it's got PlayStation mode built in boom

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PlayStation mode you can change a bunch of keys to be whatever you want there's

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a ton of customizability it's great there's perky RGB uh so you can assign

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whatever you want and create as many custom layers as you want wow as many as

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you want you can do up to 20 which is a lot of layers to be perfectly honest

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so you do kind of get a lot of keyboard in this package it's wireless it's got a

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decent battery it's got a ton of RGB it's got a ton of customizability as

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long as you're you know an IQ fan but it's expensive you know it's razor thin

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I will hand it to them there but you're paying 280 US dollars I think

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that if you want to buy your own keyboard and you don't need it to be a

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super low profile super thin super lightweight super like travel ready then

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I don't think that you should probably buy this that's a lot of money to be

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frank especially for something that you can't change the switches on if you find out you don't like these ultra low

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profile switches you can't really change the keycaps all that much more options

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might come out in the future but right now you're definitely not going to find

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quite as many Universal sets that just easily swap out I think though if you

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are in the Corsair family already and you do go from laptop to computer to

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maybe a console or you take it on the road with you then yeah this this could

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be the right the right choice I think the only real problem I have with it is

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that it's crazy thin it's good that they've got this K100 air but they need

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to make like a K100 air mini because like yeah it's thin but it's huge still

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right it's still a full keyboard plus media Keys plus a screen right here so

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if they could just like make not even a tkl but like a 60 with the exact same

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technology and the exact same chassis and all that honestly I would be a lot

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more enticed uh especially if they could cut like even 50 off the price point but

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you know what you really are paying quite a bit to get certain features that

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are pretty Rock Solid like IQ just kind of works so there you have it that's the

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K100 air Wireless from Corsair it's a pretty good keyboard it's travel ready

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but it is a little expensive so if

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that's for you pick it up if not uh you know I'll just completely ignore it