WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.240 are you a big Corsair fan use IQ to get all of your RGB synced up real nice and 00:00:04.860 --> 00:00:11.639 tight well if you like keyboards the K100 air 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.160 Wireless might just be for you for those 00:00:11.639 --> 00:00:19.260 of you who move around a lot it's an ultra low profile keyboard if that 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.180 wasn't clear by just how thin it looks on the packaging here 00:00:21.119 --> 00:00:25.740 wow it's only 17 millimeters thick at 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:30.359 its thickest point and about 11 millimeters thin at its thinnest point 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:34.260 I'm not super opposed to low profile switches I'm also not against like a 00:00:32.279 --> 00:00:38.399 chiclet style keyboard I personally find them totally okay to type on and while 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:42.239 I'm not the kind of guy to take my keyboard on the go I can appreciate a 00:00:40.260 --> 00:00:46.200 really good Wireless connectivity system you know as much as I'm not always the 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:50.940 biggest fan of some of course there's other products Wireless connectivity and 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:57.300 RGB are kind of their strong suits oh it's got that big plastic shell 00:00:53.460 --> 00:01:00.000 on top in the Box wow that is thin 00:00:57.300 --> 00:01:03.780 BG's I've had some pretty thin keyboards on the channel but I think this might 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:07.140 take the cake I mean yeah look at that this is like a razor before I you know 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:12.360 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 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:16.860 or sleeved yeah it's about a five foot cable or so we got a warranty guide we 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:19.380 got a safety information guide uh that's it though that's in the box that's 00:01:18.119 --> 00:01:22.439 that's that's all you're getting so it's just a keyboard I was about to say that 00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:27.000 I'm a little disappointed you don't get a keycap or switch puller in the box but 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:32.280 I don't think you're really gonna need one with this uh the switches aren't hot 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:34.080 Swap and honestly these keycaps are 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:38.340 probably not going to be very interchangeable let's see can I even 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:42.299 remove them okay they do pop off pretty easily actually but take a look at this 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.100 as you can see they're pretty different from your regular 00:01:43.880 --> 00:01:49.439 non-ultra low profile switch it looks 00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:54.000 like they attach to the keycaps mostly the Central Point here this might be 00:01:51.899 --> 00:01:57.299 super hard to see it looks like that Central plastic Channel just kind of 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.320 clips into this bar here in the middle as you can see the whole thing kind of 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:05.159 butterflies down I don't know if it's exactly like a butterfly switch but it 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:10.500 looks a little similar to me personally and as for how it feels you know 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:14.099 it's okay I think if I'm gonna go chicklet I don't actually need 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.540 mechanical in the first place it's kind of crazy to say but it's one of the only 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:21.840 areas where I'm perfectly fine with using a membrane keyboard as for the 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:26.280 rest of the keyboard you know you got some flip up feet multi-stage which is 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:30.959 always appreciated to give you extra typing angles for whatever you'd prefer 00:02:28.379 --> 00:02:34.260 that's PCN Mac compatible which is most keyboards to be honest and you can 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:37.980 connect it to a ton of different devices simultaneously which is always pretty 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.120 cool one nice thing about buying from a company like Corsair or Logitech is that 00:02:40.140 --> 00:02:46.440 you actually get a ton of very dedicated media Keys like these don't appear to be 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:50.519 on switches but that's okay because it's just like you know a back forward play 00:02:48.300 --> 00:02:54.180 pause mute and then you get this nice little roller bar here which I'm 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:58.680 actually getting uh to be kind of fond of we also get a lock key lighting this 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:03.300 looks like a profile switch this can actually hold up to 50 custom profiles 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.599 for anyone who takes their keyboard between multiple systems you don't have 00:03:05.099 --> 00:03:11.040 to reset anything you just keep all your Macros and hotkeys and your RGB just the 00:03:09.060 --> 00:03:15.239 way you like it speaking of macros you also get four dedicated macro Keys based 00:03:13.980 --> 00:03:18.959 on the legend it looks like they control stuff like Wi-Fi and then the three 00:03:17.459 --> 00:03:22.440 different Bluetooth modes right out of the box but these are programmable and 00:03:20.940 --> 00:03:26.040 then aside from that it's just a full keyboard we got a numpad we got our home 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:31.680 Keys we got our delete and insert and all that it's got a dongle so you have really 00:03:29.220 --> 00:03:36.720 dedicated connectivity they're using their slipstream technology for sub one 00:03:33.959 --> 00:03:41.280 millisecond latency it's pretty good we did test it and the wired mode goes up 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:45.900 to eight kilohertz which is blazing fast the slipstream does support two 00:03:43.980 --> 00:03:50.040 kilohertz apparently but we were only able to test it at a thousand Hertz when 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:54.000 Wireless so that's probably solvable through a firmware update or just a 00:03:51.959 --> 00:03:59.340 software update in IQ but we weren't able to get it done for this unboxing 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.440 here as for the battery it's not bad 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:05.220 without RGB this thing will do up to about 200 hours and then with RGB turned 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:10.379 on probably at a lower brightness setting it'll do up to 50 hours so it's 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:13.799 okay that's a pretty similar battery life that you'll see in like Wireless 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:18.180 keycrons and whatnot they'll do more like 240 but you know 40 hours whatever 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:23.580 this thing is super rigid and it's got this nice brushed aluminum look as much 00:04:21.180 --> 00:04:26.820 as I'm not crazy about Corsair's designs in terms of like layout and the whole 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:31.380 structure of the board and everything I do really like that brushed aluminum 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:34.979 look especially on a darker finish like you get with the K100 air and then on 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:40.380 the back along with our adjustable feet we also get this really cool patterning 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:41.880 as well as just a nice solid line of a 00:04:40.380 --> 00:04:45.479 nice rubber feet here to make sure that this thing isn't slipping all over the 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:51.120 place it's super light though so don't expect you know that Ultra Premium it's 00:04:49.020 --> 00:04:55.259 heavy kind of experience that you get from a lot of other keyboards I want to 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:59.040 plug it in and take a look at if there's any kind of RGB or information lighting 00:04:57.540 --> 00:05:03.060 up on this little what looks like it could be a screen here we're going to 00:05:00.900 --> 00:05:06.720 connect it to our computer and fire it up and take a look but not before a word 00:05:04.919 --> 00:05:10.800 from our sponsor for today's video we got a really cool 00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:15.240 opportunity to collaborate with Paradox interactive and Stellaris the hit Forex 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:19.560 strategy 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so just for reference what they're trying 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:04.740 to get with this is about as thin as a laptop keyboard they have had these 00:06:02.460 --> 00:06:08.699 ultra low profile switches in some laptops I think that this is the first 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.180 keyboard to actually have them though so if you've used them in other laptops and 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:15.060 you liked the experience already then you know maybe this is actually the 00:06:13.860 --> 00:06:18.259 exact keyboard that you want to buy let's just type it out 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:28.440 123.99 that's one of the I think that's one of the best ones I've had so far I 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:32.460 have to admit I absolutely love typing on Chiclet keyboards there's something 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:36.000 about having just that really incredibly tiny actuation force needed to press a 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:40.319 key you know when you have to push really far down on your keyboard and 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:43.919 then all of a sudden to go over to the next key you have to raise your finger 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:47.520 up a little bit because there's just that much actual travel distance between 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:51.180 the key being pressed and not being pressed the nice thing about Chiclets is 00:06:49.500 --> 00:06:56.580 your hands just kind of float right over top of the whole thing super easily like 00:06:53.400 --> 00:07:00.360 123 words per minute 99 out of the gate 00:06:56.580 --> 00:07:02.699 I'm super tired today you know not at my 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.759 best at all and that's pretty good I do love the typing experience that you get 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:12.240 from something like this and then if you already like Chiclet but you want a mechanical feel uh this is it honestly 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:16.560 now that being said you can get pretty close to this in a regular low profile 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:20.940 switch so I don't know if you need necessarily the ultra low profile that 00:07:19.020 --> 00:07:24.060 Corsair is offering here it does has come at a bit of a premium price and 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:28.620 we'll get to that in a little bit but you know as for the RGB and the screen 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:32.639 and everything it looks pretty nifty keycaps are double shot they're just ABS 00:07:30.840 --> 00:07:36.180 so I guess that's one of the real problems is you can probably expect them 00:07:34.620 --> 00:07:40.560 to wear out a little bit faster than usual I don't know how easy it's going 00:07:38.039 --> 00:07:45.840 to be for you to find a matching keycap set for this board when they do actually 00:07:42.599 --> 00:07:48.120 wear out so beware of that I suppose man 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:52.020 if you like the way that Chiclets feel and sound and you want something 00:07:50.039 --> 00:07:56.039 mechanical this really kind of is it let's check out IQ you know I hate IQ 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:00.539 but it's actually a really good program I hit it because it's a resource hog and 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:04.919 I just don't like the Walled Garden that Corsair creates where it's like hey you 00:08:02.880 --> 00:08:09.000 want to use one of our products well I hope I hope you're ready to use all of 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:13.380 our products because they all sync up really well in IQ and you can sync up so 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:18.120 many lighting profiles this thing can do 20 simultaneously which is pretty wild 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:23.699 and yeah it just it just works frankly like I've tried using signal RGB and 00:08:21.060 --> 00:08:28.680 open RGB they work pretty well but it's never perfect whereas if you're using 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.800 all Corsair fan IQ just works let's see if our media Keys work let's just like 00:08:30.419 --> 00:08:36.539 put on a YouTube video or something connectivity was a breeze admittedly I'm 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:39.599 using the dongle which just always kind of works at least for me personally if 00:08:38.520 --> 00:08:43.919 you're trying to connect this through regular Bluetooth you might have issues 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:47.820 I don't know I would highly recommend using the dongle anyway I would only use 00:08:45.959 --> 00:08:50.940 Bluetooth if you want to keep the dongle in like a dedicated device and then you 00:08:49.800 --> 00:08:57.200 want to switch it over to say your laptop without removing that other 00:08:52.860 --> 00:08:57.200 really rock solid connection for sure 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:10.019 that there we go actually look homeless mute boom it works the 00:09:07.560 --> 00:09:13.740 system works yeah play pause that works so let's see what uh this one is is this 00:09:11.940 --> 00:09:18.779 just brightness or is this like RGB modes that's kind of the one thing that 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:23.100 is a little Annoying actually they just strictly want you to use IQ and if you 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:26.820 don't want to use IQ there was no quick start guide that says hey yeah use like 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:31.080 function and this button to cycle through RGB modes or change brightness 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:34.920 on the Fly uh one of these might do that but I don't know what it is so I'd have 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:38.339 to look it up now I have to use IQ specifically you don't always want to do 00:09:36.839 --> 00:09:43.320 that it does look like this just kind of Cycles through and eventually turns RGB 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:46.500 off I never use locks on my keyboard and then it looks like our screen is just 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:50.100 displaying some extra information like how it's wireless right now I don't know 00:09:48.300 --> 00:09:53.580 what the shield means and then for the lock you need a little lock symbol there 00:09:51.660 --> 00:09:57.540 I'm not sure what else populates on here looks like we've got a little battery 00:09:55.380 --> 00:10:02.339 and a power uh it's actually really hard to see though it would be super cool if 00:10:00.180 --> 00:10:05.580 this was instead of just lighting up a few symbols if you could turn this whole 00:10:03.779 --> 00:10:08.700 screen into whatever you want you put like a gif or something on there uh I 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:13.080 think this is the profile button but I'm not 100 sure let's keep IQ open and take 00:10:10.740 --> 00:10:19.019 a look uh detected it right away it knows it's a K100 air which is super 00:10:14.760 --> 00:10:21.899 cool oh IQ oh you know what 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:26.040 I can't find a quick start guide but I think they included a QR code for me to 00:10:23.820 --> 00:10:30.240 scan so let's try that really quick it took me to the store page I don't want 00:10:28.260 --> 00:10:33.360 to add to cart I already own this maybe it is a quick start guide and I 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:38.640 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 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:42.899 probably download a little manual or something from the website slipstream 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:48.899 connected lighting effects Hardware lighting 00:10:45.860 --> 00:10:52.380 performance oh indicators on brightness 00:10:48.899 --> 00:10:53.940 as much as I like IQ I also since I 00:10:52.380 --> 00:10:58.260 never use it I'm not very good with it so I'm not going to be able to show you 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:01.860 a ton of IQ stuff so when we were doing our testing uh we 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:05.640 didn't have the latest updates I just downloaded all the latest updates and 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:09.779 Bam we've actually got eight kilohertz on the wireless receiver that's pretty 00:11:07.560 --> 00:11:14.519 sweet I don't think I've seen eight kilohertz Wireless yet I'm I could be 00:11:12.540 --> 00:11:17.459 wrong Razer has been putting out some pretty fast keyboards recently and 00:11:16.079 --> 00:11:21.959 there's a ton of other vendors as well so that's only for oh okay no no no 00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:26.339 that's weird wireless receiver polling rate eight kilohertz okay and then 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:30.480 slipstream Wireless polling rate two kilohertz so I'm not sure which value 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:35.399 this is the speed of the point-to-point communication over slipstream Wireless which may be affected by power saving 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.700 mode and Multi-Device connections I'm not entirely sure how to get the actual 00:11:37.079 --> 00:11:43.620 full eight kilohertz through the wireless receiver but there's a setting 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:47.459 for it so that's pretty cool oh it's got PlayStation mode built in boom 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:51.120 PlayStation mode you can change a bunch of keys to be whatever you want there's 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:56.880 a ton of customizability it's great there's perky RGB uh so you can assign 00:11:54.060 --> 00:12:00.779 whatever you want and create as many custom layers as you want wow as many as 00:11:58.860 --> 00:12:04.920 you want you can do up to 20 which is a lot of layers to be perfectly honest 00:12:02.760 --> 00:12:09.959 so you do kind of get a lot of keyboard in this package it's wireless it's got a 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:13.620 decent battery it's got a ton of RGB it's got a ton of customizability as 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:18.360 long as you're you know an IQ fan but it's expensive you know it's razor thin 00:12:16.380 --> 00:12:23.579 I will hand it to them there but you're paying 280 US dollars I think 00:12:22.019 --> 00:12:28.560 that if you want to buy your own keyboard and you don't need it to be a 00:12:25.980 --> 00:12:32.519 super low profile super thin super lightweight super like travel ready then 00:12:31.140 --> 00:12:35.880 I don't think that you should probably buy this that's a lot of money to be 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:40.620 frank especially for something that you can't change the switches on if you find out you don't like these ultra low 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:44.760 profile switches you can't really change the keycaps all that much more options 00:12:42.779 --> 00:12:48.060 might come out in the future but right now you're definitely not going to find 00:12:46.079 --> 00:12:53.040 quite as many Universal sets that just easily swap out I think though if you 00:12:50.880 --> 00:12:57.720 are in the Corsair family already and you do go from laptop to computer to 00:12:55.800 --> 00:13:02.160 maybe a console or you take it on the road with you then yeah this this could 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:06.180 be the right the right choice I think the only real problem I have with it is 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:10.620 that it's crazy thin it's good that they've got this K100 air but they need 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:14.820 to make like a K100 air mini because like yeah it's thin but it's huge still 00:13:12.779 --> 00:13:19.560 right it's still a full keyboard plus media Keys plus a screen right here so 00:13:17.579 --> 00:13:24.480 if they could just like make not even a tkl but like a 60 with the exact same 00:13:21.779 --> 00:13:28.440 technology and the exact same chassis and all that honestly I would be a lot 00:13:26.339 --> 00:13:32.040 more enticed uh especially if they could cut like even 50 off the price point but 00:13:30.779 --> 00:13:36.420 you know what you really are paying quite a bit to get certain features that 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:40.680 are pretty Rock Solid like IQ just kind of works so there you have it that's the 00:13:38.040 --> 00:13:45.899 K100 air Wireless from Corsair it's a pretty good keyboard it's travel ready 00:13:42.660 --> 00:13:47.700 but it is a little expensive so if 00:13:45.899 --> 00:13:51.019 that's for you pick it up if not uh you know I'll just completely ignore it