1 00:00:00,130 --> 00:00:04,900 - NZXT sponsored this video to cover, I don't even know what, look at all this stuff. 2 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:08,571 Good God. Okay. Let's start with the function keyboard. 3 00:00:08,571 --> 00:00:11,840 Okay. We got a black one. Oh, wait, we got a white one. 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:17,520 There's multiple colors, guys. This is kind of sweet. It's not cushy, but it's super rubberized 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,730 and it's got this cool circular pattern on it. Wow. Sure got enough rubberized feet on the bottom. 6 00:00:22,730 --> 00:00:26,150 That ain't going no place. A branded purple keycap puller. 7 00:00:26,150 --> 00:00:31,150 Okay. This is a removable USB type C to A braided cable. 8 00:00:32,300 --> 00:00:35,850 And finally the piece de resistance. 9 00:00:37,420 --> 00:00:39,050 It's 926 grams 10 00:00:40,470 --> 00:00:45,670 and it's low profile. It's got an aluminum face plate. 11 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:48,732 It has this much deck flex. Mmm. 12 00:00:48,732 --> 00:00:52,140 But look at this. You got some feet on the back. They have rubberized feet on them as well. 13 00:00:52,140 --> 00:00:56,623 And then a second level of feet. This clips onto here, it's magnetic. 14 00:00:56,623 --> 00:01:00,180 - [Jono] It's magic. - Do not recommend holding it up. 15 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:03,700 (keyboard keys clicking) Now they come with Gateron keycaps. 16 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:07,437 So the whole thing with this, I guess what they're trying to do is say, 17 00:01:07,437 --> 00:01:12,377 "Look the customizability you get "with the mechanical keyboard space, 18 00:01:12,377 --> 00:01:17,897 "as an enthusiast, is amazing, "but what can we do to bring new people into that space? 19 00:01:17,897 --> 00:01:21,590 "And how can we be a player in that space "without limiting customizability?" 20 00:01:21,590 --> 00:01:26,990 That's what I gathered from reading their thing, anyway. This keyboard has fully removable keycaps. 21 00:01:26,990 --> 00:01:32,950 Fully removable key switches. And from their site you can buy various key switches, 22 00:01:32,950 --> 00:01:38,680 all Gateron types. So they have like two different configurators. There's like the normal kind of cart page 23 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,680 where you're like, "Hey, look, two colors. Here it is." And then there's the keyboard builder page, 24 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,690 where there's different colors, different keycaps and more different key switches. 25 00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:53,160 And you'll even be able to get this as just a chassis with no keycaps, no key switches, 26 00:01:53,160 --> 00:02:00,520 just empty, which is sweet, because if it turns out that it is the best chassis for X customer, 27 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,200 like if there's a subset of the community who just really like the chassis, 28 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,830 they may become known as like a staple or like that's a great chassis use for this use case. 29 00:02:08,830 --> 00:02:13,630 So then in that way, they're in the community without kind of ruining it. 30 00:02:13,630 --> 00:02:19,350 You know what I mean? Now, this particular one, the base spec is the Gateron red switch, 31 00:02:19,350 --> 00:02:22,690 which is a linear switch, 'cause gaming. 32 00:02:22,690 --> 00:02:26,500 And you get this key switches that are ABS 33 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:30,270 the RGBs gonna shine through. I haven't even plugged this in but, there's lighting, I'll tell ya. 34 00:02:30,270 --> 00:02:33,960 I'll tell ya, there's lighting. But if you order it in the configurator, 35 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,280 you can get ABS keycaps and you can get, again, 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,770 different colors of keycaps. I read in their materials that they were talking about 37 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:45,640 this volume knob over here. That they said was like a gamer's volume knob, 38 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:50,410 because gamers love adjusting their volume. But actually this is a sweet little knob. 39 00:02:50,410 --> 00:02:54,513 Okay, here we go. This is like kinda an icy blue. 40 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,060 Oh, it's NZXT colors. I see what they did there. 41 00:03:00,215 --> 00:03:03,320 This is what it sounds like y'all. (keyboard keys clicking) 42 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:09,300 Why don't we pull out a switch. This is not really a switch puller, but we'll try it. 43 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:13,460 Do you have a key switch puller somewhere? Oh no, Jono, you went all that way, 44 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:17,020 I just looked in the box. - [Jono] Oh you son of a (beeping) (both laughing) 45 00:03:17,020 --> 00:03:21,720 - I just looked in the box and there it was. Oh, it's actually kind of sweet. 46 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,693 I've never seen one like this before. It's like a giant pair of tweezers. Oh, think I can get my unibrow with this thing? 47 00:03:27,550 --> 00:03:31,005 Oh, I've got it. Oh yeah. 48 00:03:31,005 --> 00:03:34,060 (upbeat music) - Oops. You see the RGB light there. 49 00:03:34,060 --> 00:03:37,760 These are per key, addressable RGB lights. You can also assign macros to all the different keys. 50 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,860 All that happens in the CAM software, which we're gonna check out in a bit. 51 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:44,150 It's a completely standard key switch. Cross pattern in the middle. 52 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:50,190 It's a five post switch. And another thing they did to make this compatible 53 00:03:50,190 --> 00:03:55,180 with most of the keycaps out there you're gonna get is that they made the bottom row, all standard, 54 00:03:55,180 --> 00:03:58,850 all standard widths and everything. That even is true on their compact keyboards 55 00:03:58,850 --> 00:04:04,220 which we haven't out, like this one. Yeah. This is their MiniTKL. 56 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:08,350 So it has all the keys of a Ten keyless, which I have here. 57 00:04:08,350 --> 00:04:12,334 Except it takes out all the unnecessary space 58 00:04:12,334 --> 00:04:16,630 and just compacts the crap out of it. And look how tiny that puppy is. 59 00:04:16,630 --> 00:04:20,170 That is cool. You still have a full size enter key. You still have all your arrow keys. 60 00:04:20,170 --> 00:04:23,990 You have, everything is normal in the bottom row. I love this top row where the F keys 61 00:04:23,990 --> 00:04:28,250 are just completely ortholinear with the number keys below them. 62 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:31,690 It looks sweet. Oh, this is a different switch in here too. 63 00:04:31,690 --> 00:04:37,260 Yeah, these are linear. All right, I will tell you what these Gateron on silent blacks sound like. 64 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:41,400 (keyboard keys clicking) You know what the longest word you can type with just your left hand is? 65 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,410 In the English language. Stewardess. 66 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:49,633 Why do I know that? I think I know that from a fact book I read in grade eight. 67 00:04:50,550 --> 00:04:54,450 This is a cool little keyboard. All right, let's talk pricing. For the retail models. 68 00:04:54,450 --> 00:04:58,440 The different sizes are 130, 110, $100. 69 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:03,130 But then if you buy them as the bare bones kits, 90, 80, and $70. 70 00:05:03,130 --> 00:05:06,637 But I don't just have keyboards today. I also have mouses. 71 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:14,225 Oh my, oh my God. Excuse me. (groaning) 72 00:05:14,225 --> 00:05:17,810 So they come in black and white. NZXT actually calls these ambidextrous. 73 00:05:17,810 --> 00:05:21,970 Although these buttons kind of have something to say for that, 74 00:05:21,970 --> 00:05:25,757 unless you're really good with the ring finger. But strictly speaking they're, 75 00:05:25,757 --> 00:05:29,950 it's not like it's bent one way or another. They got omicron switches. 76 00:05:29,950 --> 00:05:35,840 Ooh. Yeah. Very tactile and pretty light force to click those down. 77 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,923 They have these low friction paracord cables. They got five buttons. 78 00:05:41,701 --> 00:05:46,458 Ratcheted mouse wheel. You can, of course, click the mouse wheel. 79 00:05:46,458 --> 00:05:49,743 (mouse clicking) I like the sound of the click. Oh yeah. 80 00:05:49,743 --> 00:05:53,480 They slip around pretty good. The mouse is 50 bucks, 81 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,210 but you can also customize these on the website and get different accent colors. 82 00:05:57,210 --> 00:06:04,590 I have another stack of boxes. These are are different accent cables for the keyboards. 83 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,363 Okay. I like what you've done here. 84 00:06:10,355 --> 00:06:15,310 Purple, blue, more blue. That's a good match for that keycap right there. 85 00:06:15,310 --> 00:06:20,240 Now what if I had the white one? Gotta go purple. Especially with that lighting scheme that they had default. 86 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,750 That'd be cool. Ooh. All right why don't we take a look at the CAM software? 87 00:06:24,750 --> 00:06:28,640 Wow. This is very minimalist and postmodern software you have here. 88 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,520 Oh, there's different tabs base being the blue color that I have now. 89 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,673 And let's say, I'll switch that to red. 90 00:06:36,611 --> 00:06:40,040 And then reactive is after I hit a key 91 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,880 and the color does whatever pattern based on that input. 92 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,103 What is that color gonna be? Let's make that white. 93 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,000 Interesting. There's actually some buttons. 94 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,900 I didn't show you, guys before, those are on the side really cool and tactile. 95 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:01,610 This one is the brightness button. That's off. 1, 2, 3, 4. 96 00:07:01,610 --> 00:07:05,630 4 steps. This one over here in game mode 97 00:07:05,630 --> 00:07:09,437 so the Windows key doesn't do anything. And this third button here is the mute button. 98 00:07:09,437 --> 00:07:12,438 But look how, it's only red when I hold it down. 99 00:07:12,438 --> 00:07:15,623 Is it not a toggle? I wanna check it out. No it toggles. 100 00:07:17,474 --> 00:07:20,563 I like to check out the sensitivity of volume knobs. 101 00:07:20,563 --> 00:07:23,740 You gotta do a fair few flicks to get this up and down. 102 00:07:23,740 --> 00:07:28,220 It's pretty insensitive. I actually prefer, there's something about like when a good song is on, 103 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:32,480 you wanna just be able to crank a knob like that. And it hits just the perfect loudness 104 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,838 but this doesn't really do it. Kind of gotta give it a couple flicks. 105 00:07:36,838 --> 00:07:40,200 (upbeat music) What else can you do in this CAM software? 106 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,563 You can change the pattern. You got ripple. We got line. What is line? 107 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:46,962 Oh, weird. I don't think I've actually seen that on a keyboard before, 108 00:07:46,962 --> 00:07:53,505 just like a solid line horizontally. And off, so now I only have my base layer. 109 00:07:53,505 --> 00:07:56,363 How to make a bit of small ripple, a little tiny. 110 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,590 Whoa, this is like super powerful, actually 'cause you can make the base a gradient, 111 00:08:01,590 --> 00:08:07,140 and then you still have the pattern. Now that's kind of cool. And it looks like you have a limited set 112 00:08:07,140 --> 00:08:10,900 of default gradients, but then you can also customize them. And you can change the direction: 113 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:14,180 top, bottom, left, right, radial. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. 114 00:08:14,180 --> 00:08:18,734 They're kind of an aesthetics focused company. They have designers there 115 00:08:18,734 --> 00:08:22,250 who I would say have some pretty good taste. So kind of a hip, I would say. 116 00:08:22,250 --> 00:08:24,273 And then, okay, now we got some macros. 117 00:08:25,650 --> 00:08:33,170 Create a new macro group. The name is James. Create a new macro, add, activation key? D. 118 00:08:33,370 --> 00:08:37,530 Start recording new macro. James, whoa, 119 00:08:37,530 --> 00:08:43,060 D, a James, a James. (laughing) 120 00:08:43,060 --> 00:08:47,107 My wife! And then on the mouse side of things, what have we got? 121 00:08:47,107 --> 00:08:53,370 These are the mouse profiles. There's DPI settings up to 16,000 DPI. 122 00:08:53,370 --> 00:08:57,530 So when you switch to the DPI levels you can see it flashes the color you've set to it. 123 00:08:57,530 --> 00:09:02,360 Just to tell you what you're doing. You can change the polling rate from 500 to a 1000. 124 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,510 Lift off height from two millimeters to three millimeters. 125 00:09:05,510 --> 00:09:09,350 You can do macros for the mouse. Mouse button remapping. 126 00:09:09,350 --> 00:09:15,020 Mouse forward, mouse back, middle click and the DPI button you can all remap. 127 00:09:15,020 --> 00:09:18,310 So it looks like you can assign different media functions 128 00:09:18,310 --> 00:09:21,950 like volume and mute, play and pause. 129 00:09:21,950 --> 00:09:26,350 You can do print screen on your mouse, if you really want to. Actually, I kinda do have that on my mouse at my desk. 130 00:09:26,350 --> 00:09:31,683 I use the snipping tool, tied to one of the clicks. Base and reactive again, same kind of deal. 131 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:36,753 I like this underglow. So wait, the ripples like if I click? 132 00:09:37,710 --> 00:09:42,160 Yeah, it is. Huh? So that's the Lift mouse and the function keyboard. 133 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,850 Super cool, what they're doing. I really hope it brings more people into the custom peripheral space. 134 00:09:46,850 --> 00:09:51,260 For more information, obviously go to NZXT's website and play around with the configurator. 135 00:09:51,260 --> 00:09:55,180 Pretty cool, all the different options they give you. And consider getting a custom cable. 136 00:09:55,180 --> 00:10:00,362 Check all the stuff out at the link below guys. Thanks for watching sort shirt, (sputtering) 137 00:10:00,362 --> 00:10:03,753 okay, Sort Shircuit. It's a machine that sorts shirts.