this is a 65 keyboard and this is a 65
less I have no idea exactly what that
means we're going to open the box and find out as you can see it is top secret
we've got an early bird model uh it's from Angry meow so while I'm not sure
what the pricing is I bet you it's a lot um we've got two versions we've got the
laser and the 8-Bit I've heard that these come in I think seven different
colorways uh these ones are the two more unique versions so it's cool that they
sent them I know that the laser is definitely inspired by the Cyber truck
and I think it's got some lights on the front of it which should look pretty cool and the 8-Bit is probably the
famicom design you know kind of like a classic console let's open this guy up
first and take a quick look ah
they got a nice cloth with the angry
meow logo sounds pretty good for the cloth take
that out we got a little guide right here some pretty hefty foam there's a
box here what's in the box packaging content oh this is like a foam too is
this just extra foam oh right okay so
this is another leaf spring adjustable keyboard This is a two-way adjustable
not three-way adjustable like we saw on the am Alpha as you can see we've got
some extra leaf springs for if we want to do any adjustments we've already
looked at that in previous keyboards I kind of get the gist of it we're not
going to adjust it here today but they give you all the tools to both open it
up and change out whatever you want what else do we got more of those ribbon
cables this is some foam I don't know
why they've included an extra little piece here I'm sure that this is already
inside the keyboard as well uh it's weird that they've included this but not
any replacements for any of the other Foams or anything that would go in here so I'm not sure why it's outside of any
other packaging another complaint that
is very valid with these keyboards is that I don't seem to have a cable if
you're spending what I'm guessing is hundreds of dollars on one of these it
should come with a cable oh my God this
thing is super cool that's got this little cool uh less is more stamped in
there it's also got wireless charging if you've got a cyber mat from Angry meow
we don't have a cyber mat with us today but you know what I want to check out the Cyber truck I want to check out the
laser you ever listen to crocodile I think
it's crocodiles are baby alligators they sound like lasers
no climb all over me if you could
it just kind of smells like perfumed
Electronics I don't know it's like a new car smell smell this box
you notice it's got like a new car smell to it I don't know how else to describe
it um otherwise yeah it's the same contents on the inside what I really want to see
is the colorway and if this one has the extra features I'm thinking of oh okay I
don't like these clear keycaps they had them in the AM Alpha as well and I just
I'm not a fan that's fine that's entirely personal preference they don't
feel bad it's just I don't know I don't like the see-through look at least on
keycaps see this is a 65 keyboard but
it's not 65 percent and that's because if you look at this one it's clearly
missing a few keys right so we don't have our arrow keys first of all it
doesn't look like there's a page up delete page down or end those are all
missing we just got function right here and then I'm not sure what this B is
probably control and then we're also missing a extra button over here so
there's either this is either control or Windows but we're missing a third key
and then I mean the knob is you don't need an OP to make it 65 that's fine but
yeah so it's missing a few things and the cool thing is though this little guy
right here that's on both of them any of these no matter what the colorway you
choose you're going to get this cool feature this is a touch bar and you can
use it for arrow keys so you can use it to go like you know just left left right
right up down whatever and you can actually use a couple other commands too
as long as you have their software installed you can go think a long press
is it'll start scrubbing through a video or it'll turn the volume down or you can
like double tap or you can swipe up and stuff it's really cool and I'm actually
very curious to see how user friendly it is this one also has the wireless
charging on the bottom that you can use with a cyber mat and we've got another not for sale stamp version 0.1 so yeah
this is super early if anything doesn't work it's probably just because of a
lack of support for at the moment just in terms of quality and feel and all of
that good stuff uh it's a CNC aluminum chassis so it's heavy actually let's
weigh it uh seven pounds that's my guess seven seven pounds wow I was way off
it's only 3.5 this one the same yeah 3.4
3.5 pounds so yeah you get a pretty hefty board but yeah as you can see it's
a relatively seamless case design um it looks like everything actually
houses over top here and I'm not sure how to take it apart I guess that's my
one complaint is I don't see any obvious
screw holes right away although that's kind of a nice thing to be honest it's
probably easy probably just take all the keycaps off and open it up no problem it
takes them six hours to see and see all of this aluminum so I don't know the
price I'm I'm keeping myself in the dark so I can kind of Judge this on its own
and then figure out the price after but it's it's gonna be probably a lot and
then you've got some really cool features with the touch bar this one
also these should be LEDs that will light up kind of like the Cyber truck
headlights as you can see we don't have the same feature on the 8-Bit version
the other one that we don't have unfortunately I thought the 8-Bit was
the one that comes with the cool extra couple of little lights here but that's
actually the mech love version which is a take on and love death and robots so
if you like that series I think it's got a couple of their symbols on either side
and those light up and you can adjust the lighting and stuff for those which
is pretty cool but we want to use the cool cyber truck one with the sweet front LEDs so while I absolutely adore
this keycap set I gotta put it away it's so nice it's got like kanji or something
on it I don't know I'm gonna take one of these keycaps off I'm gonna pull a
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silver switches in these guys let's take one out oh that came right with the
keycap sure why not it's a three pin switch white housing with a clear top
south facing RGB take that as you will my one complaint actually is that this
doesn't look like it can even use five pin switches yeah it looks like you
might be kind of limited when it comes to which switches you're gonna put in here whether that's a smaller one like
otemu I don't think so I bet this is like a cherry switch but it could also
just be the five pin holding you back because I personally have a lot of five
pin switches and I don't think they'd fit in here unfortunately
I can't tell if they're Factory lubed
even if they're not they actually sound okay they could definitely use a bit more but
that's fine you can really see how flexy it is and that's thanks to that leaf
spring mounting system God kind of wild actually I'm not sold entirely on a
super gaskety or super Leaf springy a mounting system I'm like I don't need
all this Flex when I go to type down I actually kind of like a hard surface but
that's just me that's personal preference and the reality is you can these leaf springs have two stages so if
this is too loose well if it's on stage one you're pooped it's too loose but if
it's on stage two you can tighten it up a little bit so maybe it's better then as much as I don't like the look of the
clear keycaps both just kind of in front of me with RGB on and off I do love how
colorful this becomes with the RGB turned on I'm not going to be able to
say the same for the brown one let me just plug it in real quick just to
verify yeah you can hardly see the lights at all all the wireless is
working it's not bad you still get some shine through in between each of the
keys if you don't have shine through caps I get that out of here we're gonna
get the cyber truck version which as you can see has cool lights
on the side I wish they were brighter the images that they showed in the
little uh media guide they gave us actually had the light like splashed out
on the table and stuff and it probably does that in pitch black but it's definitely not going to do it here with
Studio lighting uh I don't even think you can see that on camera to be
perfectly honest
in person no way
it's very it's very minor I think it's
at Max brightness right now to be honest FN plus swipe left or right on the touch
panel is what adjusts the in-switch brightness
function key there we go what
okay so that's Max brightness for the switches that's so cool I already like
the touch I already like the swipe part it's so dumb but I like it oh yeah it is
making a difference okay no we were pretty much at Max brightness before
it's maxed out right now that's why there was no change I was already at Max
brightness um so you can use that fan and z and slowly cycle through the different
colors as you can see we're down to we're out of blue now
um and if you cycle through them now it's purple
it goes basically a shade at a time um but yeah it's definitely not as bright
and lasery as I was hoping for some of
the marketing stuff that we got definitely leads us to believe differently
yeah as for sound and feel it sounds and feels pretty good oh that does sound and
feel good I'm not gonna lie as much as I don't like Angry meows pricing they do a
lot of unique stuff and so it's really hard to argue against it when not only
is the keyboard definitely high quality but it has a cool Niche feature that no
one else is doing or not many other people are doing so at that point you can charge whatever you want as long as
it sells it's the right price at least for some people away we go
oh all right this is already best I'm going to Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan okay
116 97 that's not bad uh I messed up a
couple times early on it just sounds and feels good I've been
getting more used to using a 65 recently
um especially at work when I'm mostly just typing I don't do a lot of like alt
f4 or F5 even to refresh stuff like I
would at home I almost never need a numpad for anything because I'm a writer
I'm just writing scripts usually so for me the layout is actually pretty good
the touch bar I gotta try this on like a video player it works
what this is so cool
okay I hit I hit some extra key and that like stopped to the window from being
full screen right right right right okay so that's the whole thing is you're
supposed to be able to keep your fingers on the home row so that you can just
like the swipe should become a part of your typing basically it should feel as
natural to you after using this thing for a while of course it should feel as
natural to you as hitting the space bar with your thumb and honestly that didn't
take too long to get used to wow like I know this is not the most riveting thing
to watch because it's just snake but it works like this is such a proof of
concept right now oh my God no foreign
this is so dumb it's so good though
I don't know what the hell it is with these guys they seem to be able to find
these little quirks that just like really tickle me somehow okay okay so we
should be able to like hold this down and it should fast forward the video I
don't know if that's only NVIDIA players swipe swipe worked okay
that's so cool what about up up is volume up and down
is volume so you can like swipe up and down for volume if I hold
no I fight what if I could like swipe up and then hold no
no download some software for it and then you can tweak all of this stuff
however much you want I think you can do different function layers and stuff like
that it already feels pretty natural to just scrub through videos like this and
then I mean I've never used the arrow keys to do that though in the first
place but something about this feels right I don't know what to tell you one
thing that a lot of you might be wondering is ah but I can't use a wrist
rest now because it's gonna block the bar true however a lot of keyboards that
are around this height like this doesn't feel like it needs a wrist rest for me
personally and I get it they're fixing their own problem but angry meow does
sell these like hover wrist pads that you can put on either side so this would
still be open to you if you're using those guys maybe they made this to sell
more of those wrist pads I don't know but it honestly does Feel Pretty Natural
like I actually want you to come try this really quick
all right let's see
wow oh the hole did work you're just swiping hold oh swipe and hold okay well
it works one way I don't know the down was a harder than going very easy to go
right can I go left oh the up and down is hard to hold up and down yeah it's an
idea you don't have a ton of space yeah but it doesn't work yeah it went to 100.
yeah that's cool and yeah it does like if I were like
oh I just need to fix something it doesn't feel unnatural right like your
thumb is actually kind of right there like I I'm actually totally okay with it that feels pretty good yeah I'm not I'll
give him that cool okay so it's gonna type great it's gonna feel pretty good
and if 65 is good enough for you then this is probably enough of a keyboard
that you can deal with missing a few Keys how much is a doll so the standard
MSRP starts at 398 US dollars but it
goes up to 550 US Dollars okay so you're
paying similar prices to the Cyber board maybe a hundred bucks less you don't get
the cool screen on the front with the LEDs that you get but you do get the
really sick touch bar I can't justify spending that much on a niche feature
especially when you can get really good 65 in the same quality range as this for
half the price a little less than half the price in some cases but honestly if
you want like something that is like really cool and kind of just stands out
on your desk maybe it's for you I'm not gonna buy it do I want one yes will I
buy one no like I said before the Embargo for this
is the day we're filming but it's going up on Indiegogo on February 2nd so if
you do want one if you are interested if you're okay with paying that like at
least a hundred dollars extra luxury tax for a little cool feature hopefully you
can snag one for yourself because the stuff from Angry meow you know as much
as it's priced High it tends to sell out pretty quickly thanks for watching short
circuit if you want to check another one out maybe check out the Cyber board that
was one of the first keyboards I looked at on this channel and I was a little love struck