WEBVTT 00:00:00.090 --> 00:00:04.670 - This is nicer than the keyboard I have at home and I'm not just saying that because ASUS sponsored us, 00:00:04.670 --> 00:00:09.630 covered this video on their new ROG Strix Flare II Animate. 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:14.130 Let's check it out, inside the box you have a nice kind of one pager 00:00:14.130 --> 00:00:17.900 on how to attach the wrist rest, looks like it's a three step process 00:00:17.900 --> 00:00:24.320 more on that in a minute. In this cloth bag, which is really wanting to slip off, is the keyboard. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.150 Okay. It's a full size keyboard, got a nice 00:00:28.150 --> 00:00:31.650 thick yeah braided cable here, 00:00:31.650 --> 00:00:35.063 got two plugs, that's because there's a USB pass through on this puppy. 00:00:35.063 --> 00:00:38.540 Here's the wrist rest we were talking about something special about this puppy. 00:00:38.540 --> 00:00:41.179 Everything's a puppy today. (puppy barks) What else we got in here? 00:00:43.100 --> 00:00:49.000 Literature, get outta here. Oh cool. We have a pretty funky design of a key cap puller 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.280 and a key switch cooler. 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.730 So that means it's got hot-swappable key switches. Sometimes these things design can suck 00:00:56.730 --> 00:01:00.063 so I haven't seen this design myself before. Oh, look at that 00:01:00.063 --> 00:01:04.117 it even has like this little stem shaped notch on the top. Ga ga ga gamers. 00:01:05.450 --> 00:01:08.773 You take this stuff out. It's an ROG bag. Wow! 00:01:08.773 --> 00:01:12.050 My Robert De Niro face, by the way. Anyone can do it. You just raise your eyebrow, squint your eyes 00:01:12.050 --> 00:01:15.700 and then do this. Stickers for your hard hat or your case. 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:19.350 Your car? - [Andy] Extra 690 horse power. 00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:23.340 - Extra frame for second on your car. Here's the board. It's a full size keyboard. 00:01:23.340 --> 00:01:26.930 Here's your number pad over here. You can tell this puppy wants to be RGB. 00:01:26.930 --> 00:01:32.760 I'm gonna plug it in already. There we go. As you can see it's RGB on all the keys. 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:37.410 There's a diffuser down here and this is where this three step guide comes in. 00:01:37.410 --> 00:01:41.160 You actually take this off in order to 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:45.230 put the wrist rest on. Oh, this is blinding now, look at it, it's all exposed. 00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:49.280 Nude. Does this just pass through? It almost looks like there's like this 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.960 diffuser acrylic here. And then on the side that faces you as well. 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:58.220 So I'm wondering if they just shine right through. You can see it like getting brighter. 00:01:58.220 --> 00:02:01.270 It really, it just passes through. They could have made it 00:02:01.270 --> 00:02:05.010 so that they only gave you one of these and the wrist rest didn't have it. 00:02:05.010 --> 00:02:09.030 You have to take it off here and plug it into here, but they didn't do that. You can just have a spare. 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:11.880 And I think this would be really good in the locker room. 00:02:13.290 --> 00:02:16.603 Ha! Can you screw this up? Oh God. 00:02:16.603 --> 00:02:20.090 (chuckles) See the angle? This is cut that way. 00:02:20.090 --> 00:02:23.283 That's cut that way. It is meant to go this way. This one way. 00:02:23.283 --> 00:02:26.333 Yeah, that's better. Let's see if it falls down now. It does. 00:02:26.333 --> 00:02:29.350 That's a lot of force. The thing is pretty heavy. Can I get a scale? 00:02:29.350 --> 00:02:33.570 Two pounds, six ounces. What does that mean? 00:02:33.570 --> 00:02:37.470 Mode. Wow, it's over a kilogram. That's a, that's where you want to be at least. 00:02:37.470 --> 00:02:41.030 It doesn't shift. You're bodying me out into like bedrock. 00:02:41.030 --> 00:02:45.270 When it, the heavier it is, it just feels better. Cool. We have an aluminum face plate. 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:49.670 Like this thing doesn't flex almost at all. It's got this cool LE thing. 00:02:49.670 --> 00:02:54.120 Did it just flicker? Yeah, it did. Apparently you can load this up with different designs. 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.930 It can even be an audio equalizer. It can even give you a CPU, I think status, 00:02:59.930 --> 00:03:04.290 another computer stats. There's also some feet. I actually have a nice click in. 00:03:04.290 --> 00:03:09.490 Lots of rubber pads for non skid. And it's got that wash board, hillbilly instrument 00:03:09.490 --> 00:03:13.950 kind of quality intuitive if you want to join the band, then you got some 00:03:13.950 --> 00:03:19.430 media buttons up here that are pretty intuitive on the side. You probably didn't see this coming, Andy 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:22.950 but you can actually click this side. Let's play and pause. 00:03:22.950 --> 00:03:27.720 This is forward and back on your media. And then this that's a ratcheted volume knob 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:31.130 or I think you can assign that to other stuff. We're gonna try that later. 00:03:31.130 --> 00:03:34.840 And then there's these puppies, what do these do? Oh, it's brightness. Look at the steps here, this off 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.580 and then there's 1, 2, 3, 4 steps of brightness. 00:03:38.580 --> 00:03:43.880 You can also do macro recording right on the fly. All you do is function alt. 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:48.940 Now I'm in the macro recording sequence and I can go James function alt again, 00:03:48.940 --> 00:03:52.520 and now I choose the letter or the key that makes that macro happen. 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:56.010 I'm gonna choose this plus button, but that's that's pretty easy. 00:03:56.010 --> 00:03:59.080 What else, about how about the switches? So these are not Cherry MX brown scissor. 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.700 The ASUS NX browns. The N stands for new. 00:04:02.700 --> 00:04:07.210 They also have available blues and reds. Although we thought we had reds on here 00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:10.357 the red ones are speedy. They're linear they're for gamers. 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:14.850 Unfortunately we don't have any here today but I can test with the browns for you. 00:04:17.750 --> 00:04:22.430 Sometimes you hear at the end, if you listen close so you can hear like the decay of a keystroke 00:04:22.430 --> 00:04:25.530 and it'll be like a springy bounce around in your ear, 00:04:25.530 --> 00:04:29.500 kinda like bang. And this doesn't have that really at all. 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:32.550 According to the marketing materials it's because they have this foam underneath 00:04:32.550 --> 00:04:35.873 that is supposed to be absorbing those higher frequencies. So that's pretty cool 00:04:35.873 --> 00:04:41.450 that you can actually see it in this cutaway here. It's a nice sound. You're not gonna get in trouble at work for this sound wise. 00:04:41.450 --> 00:04:44.570 This still is satisfying. Man that's fast. 00:04:44.570 --> 00:04:48.640 Look at that thing. You can pay respects fast. 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:52.500 There's actually a stabilizer under here. Do these click in on either side of that. 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:55.700 It really doesn't rock very much. Like I feel like I'm actuating it 00:04:55.700 --> 00:05:00.700 just as well there as here. That's right in, that came out with very little force. 00:05:00.700 --> 00:05:03.940 Some key keyboards, man I remember I did this key switch challenge 00:05:03.940 --> 00:05:07.500 for LTT where we did so many keyboards. I was like getting bruises, 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:11.000 like pulling, went through multiple of these. That just came out real nice and easy. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.690 So, okay, even though this is a proprietary ASUS switch 00:05:14.690 --> 00:05:18.610 this board is compatible with third party switches but there you have it. 00:05:18.610 --> 00:05:23.250 You can just swap out whatever, they have blues, reds and brown equivalence 00:05:23.250 --> 00:05:27.160 from their own NX line. And you can see all the different actuation forces. 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:30.653 They put a lot of effort into them to make them feel very uniform. 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:34.778 I think they did a good job. I do have the blues. 00:05:34.778 --> 00:05:39.190 This would actually be my preference. I do use browns that work just so they're not as loud 00:05:39.190 --> 00:05:43.920 but these are a nice light blue. (clicking) 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.400 That's the difference right there bringing blue and brown. (clicking) 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:52.160 Now, these are compatible, again with any key caps you get as well. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.963 Oh, let's try this puppy while we're at. 00:05:55.494 --> 00:05:58.530 It can actually remap all of the keys except for function and shift. 00:05:58.530 --> 00:06:02.570 Every other key you can remap. The legend is kind of a standard ROG legend. 00:06:02.570 --> 00:06:07.510 It's pretty straight ahead. Doesn't look too gamery except for I would say maybe the D and the eight. 00:06:07.510 --> 00:06:11.670 They look, maybe the six have a little more sci-fi edge to them. 00:06:11.670 --> 00:06:15.380 I don't think it's like gamery looking to a off putting degree. 00:06:15.380 --> 00:06:18.950 Like if I bought this for my non gamer wife she still think it was cool. 00:06:18.950 --> 00:06:22.260 In fact, maybe I should, because the one I have at home is obnoxious. 00:06:22.260 --> 00:06:25.290 (laughing) It's an earlier RGB one. 00:06:25.290 --> 00:06:31.573 It doesn't have a diffused light like this and I wanna see the different, oh, what is this telling me? 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:39.680 It just looks a little more subtle than the one that I got going at home. This a pretty plushy wrist breast. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.850 Unless you got real heavy arms, I don't think you're gonna be bodying out on it. 00:06:43.850 --> 00:06:46.483 That's cool. We'll do a quick typing test here. 00:06:47.610 --> 00:06:51.150 Couple of mistakes, but I actually type with a Don standard 00:06:51.150 --> 00:06:55.540 on Cordy keyboard, a keyboard on my desk. So I'm gonna make some mistakes regardless. 00:06:55.540 --> 00:06:59.670 I feel like I could get up to speed on this pretty quickly. It's pretty intuitive. 00:06:59.670 --> 00:07:02.870 All right, here we go. We're in armory create, this is the keyboard section. 00:07:02.870 --> 00:07:07.090 There's actually a bunch of subsections. You've got, I guess the general keyboard settings, 00:07:07.090 --> 00:07:10.560 then the anime, 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.830 anime matrix, which is just this led dot thing up here. 00:07:14.830 --> 00:07:18.950 And there's a macro section. So let's start with just the general, oh, you must update. 00:07:18.950 --> 00:07:22.814 Raise your glasses, whip your a. All right, here we are. 00:07:22.814 --> 00:07:28.260 Ooh! I'm gonna select the F key. Oh man, I can change the function of it and everything. 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:31.510 Geez. You can also, it looks like remap all of these media keys. 00:07:31.510 --> 00:07:35.260 So let's see what kinda options we get for this play and pause button on the side. 00:07:35.260 --> 00:07:38.980 Oh wow, it's, it's full on. You can make it launch a website or an application. 00:07:38.980 --> 00:07:42.130 You can make it be the right click if you want it. 00:07:42.130 --> 00:07:47.980 And I think that applies to everything. The direction of this toggle button up 00:07:47.980 --> 00:07:51.330 can be a thing, which is separate from it being down. 00:07:51.330 --> 00:07:54.620 And that also applies to scrolling this wheel up and down. 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:57.800 And what is this? Is this a, you, it's a button. 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.050 You can click this. And right now that's set to mute by default. 00:08:01.050 --> 00:08:06.050 You could launch like a bunch of programs with these for some stupid reason if you wanted to. 00:08:06.050 --> 00:08:11.250 I had my secret puppy hub button. (barking) Now what? These hot key keys though. 00:08:11.250 --> 00:08:14.433 Game mode, preference, disable alt and tab. Whoa! 00:08:14.433 --> 00:08:18.340 Disable alt F 4? Come on. And then there's some tabs up here. 00:08:18.340 --> 00:08:22.810 Lighting, here we go. You can see all the different effects that we recycling through on the keyboard. 00:08:22.810 --> 00:08:27.680 This is aura sync compatible obviously, it's ASUS. So you can have this synced up with your motherboard lights, 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:33.910 your GPU, whatever other, or a sync compatible product you may have in your ecosystem. 00:08:33.910 --> 00:08:37.650 What's on the performance tab? You can actually specify the polling rate 00:08:37.650 --> 00:08:41.060 of the keyboard from 1000 up to 8000 Hertz. 00:08:41.060 --> 00:08:45.130 And they say that the input lag of it is 0.125 millisecond, 00:08:45.130 --> 00:08:48.690 just over a 10th of a millisecond. Good enough for me and my gamer chops. 00:08:48.690 --> 00:08:52.030 Okay, here's the animatrix. This is what I'm calling it. 00:08:52.030 --> 00:08:56.390 You can just turn it off if you hate it. And then there's a content library. 00:08:56.390 --> 00:08:59.536 I got a meteorite thing. If I apply that. 00:08:59.536 --> 00:09:02.550 (gunshots mimics) I see you. 00:09:02.550 --> 00:09:06.240 I'm feeling loverly today. (heartbeat mimics) 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:09.300 Oh, and you can actually change the brightness of it. Let's put this down to 25%. 00:09:09.300 --> 00:09:14.090 I'm really glad they included that. That's sweet, 'cause in a really dark room, it could be overwhelming. 00:09:14.090 --> 00:09:18.160 Can I edit, edit effect? Yeah, we've gotta be able to put the Linus face on here, 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:21.200 right? (laughter) Drag an image from your content library, 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:26.030 library or press insert image to begin. This is Halloween. 00:09:26.030 --> 00:09:29.833 Okay, you can change the scale of it. Can I drag it around? Oh my God. 00:09:29.833 --> 00:09:33.000 They made it so useful. The interface is really quite good. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.053 I'm just gonna apply it and see what happens. Oh my God! (laughing) 00:09:38.053 --> 00:09:42.190 That's so sweet. This is like a meme Lord's keyboard. Man imagine you were a streamer 00:09:42.190 --> 00:09:47.450 and you had a camera on your mouse but then also this little meme face was in the shot. 00:09:47.450 --> 00:09:51.880 That'd be awesome. Oh, there's like slots. I can add a second meme and then make them loop. 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:56.280 You can make like a video happen through this. This is gonna be like one of those things 20 years from now 00:09:56.280 --> 00:09:59.650 there's like an enthusiast retro community about tweaking with these. 00:09:59.650 --> 00:10:03.610 That's awesome. We've gotten to the point now where the big brands are really closing in 00:10:03.610 --> 00:10:07.233 even on what the enthusiast market has been doing for a few years. 00:10:07.233 --> 00:10:12.030 Like now that you have the hot swappable key switches you can, you can put any enthusiast switch you want on it. 00:10:12.030 --> 00:10:15.420 If you don't like what it comes with, you've got features 00:10:15.420 --> 00:10:20.260 that you just can't even get anywhere else. These are getting good. Now it's 219.99. 00:10:20.260 --> 00:10:27.370 You get what you pay for. I like it. This is not a review but I've told you the features seems 100% not bad. 00:10:27.370 --> 00:10:31.730 So thanks for watching "ShortCircuit" today. If you like this keyboard check with the link below where you can 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:35.940 check it out more and then just keep checking it out until your hands are checking it out.