WEBVTT 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. 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:08.571 Good God. Okay. Let's start with the function keyboard. 00:00:08.571 --> 00:00:11.840 Okay. We got a black one. Oh, wait, we got a white one. 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 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. 00:00:22.730 --> 00:00:26.150 That ain't going no place. A branded purple keycap puller. 00:00:26.150 --> 00:00:31.150 Okay. This is a removable USB type C to A braided cable. 00:00:32.300 --> 00:00:35.850 And finally the piece de resistance. 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:39.050 It's 926 grams 00:00:40.470 --> 00:00:45.670 and it's low profile. It's got an aluminum face plate. 00:00:45.670 --> 00:00:48.732 It has this much deck flex. Mmm. 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. 00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:56.623 And then a second level of feet. This clips onto here, it's magnetic. 00:00:56.623 --> 00:01:00.180 - [Jono] It's magic. - Do not recommend holding it up. 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:03.700 (keyboard keys clicking) Now they come with Gateron keycaps. 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:07.437 So the whole thing with this, I guess what they're trying to do is say, 00:01:07.437 --> 00:01:12.377 "Look the customizability you get "with the mechanical keyboard space, 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? 00:01:17.897 --> 00:01:21.590 "And how can we be a player in that space "without limiting customizability?" 00:01:21.590 --> 00:01:26.990 That's what I gathered from reading their thing, anyway. This keyboard has fully removable keycaps. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:32.950 Fully removable key switches. And from their site you can buy various key switches, 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 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, 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.690 where there's different colors, different keycaps and more different key switches. 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, 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, 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:04.200 like if there's a subset of the community who just really like the chassis, 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. 00:02:08.830 --> 00:02:13.630 So then in that way, they're in the community without kind of ruining it. 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, 00:02:19.350 --> 00:02:22.690 which is a linear switch, 'cause gaming. 00:02:22.690 --> 00:02:26.500 And you get this key switches that are ABS 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. 00:02:30.270 --> 00:02:33.960 I'll tell ya, there's lighting. But if you order it in the configurator, 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.280 you can get ABS keycaps and you can get, again, 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.770 different colors of keycaps. I read in their materials that they were talking about 00:02:41.770 --> 00:02:45.640 this volume knob over here. That they said was like a gamer's volume knob, 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:50.410 because gamers love adjusting their volume. But actually this is a sweet little knob. 00:02:50.410 --> 00:02:54.513 Okay, here we go. This is like kinda an icy blue. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.060 Oh, it's NZXT colors. I see what they did there. 00:03:00.215 --> 00:03:03.320 This is what it sounds like y'all. (keyboard keys clicking) 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. 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:13.460 Do you have a key switch puller somewhere? Oh no, Jono, you went all that way, 00:03:13.460 --> 00:03:17.020 I just looked in the box. - [Jono] Oh you son of a (beeping) (both laughing) 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. 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? 00:03:27.550 --> 00:03:31.005 Oh, I've got it. Oh yeah. 00:03:31.005 --> 00:03:34.060 (upbeat music) - Oops. You see the RGB light there. 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. 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:40.860 All that happens in the CAM software, which we're gonna check out in a bit. 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:44.150 It's a completely standard key switch. Cross pattern in the middle. 00:03:44.150 --> 00:03:50.190 It's a five post switch. And another thing they did to make this compatible 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, 00:03:55.180 --> 00:03:58.850 all standard widths and everything. That even is true on their compact keyboards 00:03:58.850 --> 00:04:04.220 which we haven't out, like this one. Yeah. This is their MiniTKL. 00:04:04.220 --> 00:04:08.350 So it has all the keys of a Ten keyless, which I have here. 00:04:08.350 --> 00:04:12.334 Except it takes out all the unnecessary space 00:04:12.334 --> 00:04:16.630 and just compacts the crap out of it. And look how tiny that puppy is. 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. 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 00:04:23.990 --> 00:04:28.250 are just completely ortholinear with the number keys below them. 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:31.690 It looks sweet. Oh, this is a different switch in here too. 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. 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? 00:04:41.400 --> 00:04:45.410 In the English language. Stewardess. 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. 00:04:50.550 --> 00:04:54.450 This is a cool little keyboard. All right, let's talk pricing. For the retail models. 00:04:54.450 --> 00:04:58.440 The different sizes are 130, 110, $100. 00:04:58.440 --> 00:05:03.130 But then if you buy them as the bare bones kits, 90, 80, and $70. 00:05:03.130 --> 00:05:06.637 But I don't just have keyboards today. I also have mouses. 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:14.225 Oh my, oh my God. Excuse me. (groaning) 00:05:14.225 --> 00:05:17.810 So they come in black and white. NZXT actually calls these ambidextrous. 00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:21.970 Although these buttons kind of have something to say for that, 00:05:21.970 --> 00:05:25.757 unless you're really good with the ring finger. But strictly speaking they're, 00:05:25.757 --> 00:05:29.950 it's not like it's bent one way or another. They got omicron switches. 00:05:29.950 --> 00:05:35.840 Ooh. Yeah. Very tactile and pretty light force to click those down. 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:39.923 They have these low friction paracord cables. They got five buttons. 00:05:41.701 --> 00:05:46.458 Ratcheted mouse wheel. You can, of course, click the mouse wheel. 00:05:46.458 --> 00:05:49.743 (mouse clicking) I like the sound of the click. Oh yeah. 00:05:49.743 --> 00:05:53.480 They slip around pretty good. The mouse is 50 bucks, 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.210 but you can also customize these on the website and get different accent colors. 00:05:57.210 --> 00:06:04.590 I have another stack of boxes. These are are different accent cables for the keyboards. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.363 Okay. I like what you've done here. 00:06:10.355 --> 00:06:15.310 Purple, blue, more blue. That's a good match for that keycap right there. 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. 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? 00:06:24.750 --> 00:06:28.640 Wow. This is very minimalist and postmodern software you have here. 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:33.520 Oh, there's different tabs base being the blue color that I have now. 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:35.673 And let's say, I'll switch that to red. 00:06:36.611 --> 00:06:40.040 And then reactive is after I hit a key 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.880 and the color does whatever pattern based on that input. 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:48.103 What is that color gonna be? Let's make that white. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:53.000 Interesting. There's actually some buttons. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.900 I didn't show you, guys before, those are on the side really cool and tactile. 00:06:56.900 --> 00:07:01.610 This one is the brightness button. That's off. 1, 2, 3, 4. 00:07:01.610 --> 00:07:05.630 4 steps. This one over here in game mode 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. 00:07:09.437 --> 00:07:12.438 But look how, it's only red when I hold it down. 00:07:12.438 --> 00:07:15.623 Is it not a toggle? I wanna check it out. No it toggles. 00:07:17.474 --> 00:07:20.563 I like to check out the sensitivity of volume knobs. 00:07:20.563 --> 00:07:23.740 You gotta do a fair few flicks to get this up and down. 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, 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 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.838 but this doesn't really do it. Kind of gotta give it a couple flicks. 00:07:36.838 --> 00:07:40.200 (upbeat music) What else can you do in this CAM software? 00:07:40.200 --> 00:07:43.563 You can change the pattern. You got ripple. We got line. What is line? 00:07:43.563 --> 00:07:46.962 Oh, weird. I don't think I've actually seen that on a keyboard before, 00:07:46.962 --> 00:07:53.505 just like a solid line horizontally. And off, so now I only have my base layer. 00:07:53.505 --> 00:07:56.363 How to make a bit of small ripple, a little tiny. 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.590 Whoa, this is like super powerful, actually 'cause you can make the base a gradient, 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 00:08:07.140 --> 00:08:10.900 of default gradients, but then you can also customize them. And you can change the direction: 00:08:10.900 --> 00:08:14.180 top, bottom, left, right, radial. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. 00:08:14.180 --> 00:08:18.734 They're kind of an aesthetics focused company. They have designers there 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. 00:08:22.250 --> 00:08:24.273 And then, okay, now we got some macros. 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. 00:08:33.370 --> 00:08:37.530 Start recording new macro. James, whoa, 00:08:37.530 --> 00:08:43.060 D, a James, a James. (laughing) 00:08:43.060 --> 00:08:47.107 My wife! And then on the mouse side of things, what have we got? 00:08:47.107 --> 00:08:53.370 These are the mouse profiles. There's DPI settings up to 16,000 DPI. 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. 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. 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.510 Lift off height from two millimeters to three millimeters. 00:09:05.510 --> 00:09:09.350 You can do macros for the mouse. Mouse button remapping. 00:09:09.350 --> 00:09:15.020 Mouse forward, mouse back, middle click and the DPI button you can all remap. 00:09:15.020 --> 00:09:18.310 So it looks like you can assign different media functions 00:09:18.310 --> 00:09:21.950 like volume and mute, play and pause. 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. 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. 00:09:32.940 --> 00:09:36.753 I like this underglow. So wait, the ripples like if I click? 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:42.160 Yeah, it is. Huh? So that's the Lift mouse and the function keyboard. 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. 00:09:46.850 --> 00:09:51.260 For more information, obviously go to NZXT's website and play around with the configurator. 00:09:51.260 --> 00:09:55.180 Pretty cool, all the different options they give you. And consider getting a custom cable. 00:09:55.180 --> 00:10:00.362 Check all the stuff out at the link below guys. Thanks for watching sort shirt, (sputtering) 00:10:00.362 --> 00:10:03.753 okay, Sort Shircuit. It's a machine that sorts shirts.