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this is a 65 keyboard and this is a 65

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less I have no idea exactly what that

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means we're going to open the box and find out as you can see it is top secret

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we've got an early bird model uh it's from Angry meow so while I'm not sure

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what the pricing is I bet you it's a lot um we've got two versions we've got the

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laser and the 8-Bit I've heard that these come in I think seven different

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colorways uh these ones are the two more unique versions so it's cool that they

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sent them I know that the laser is definitely inspired by the Cyber truck

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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

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famicom design you know kind of like a classic console let's open this guy up

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first and take a quick look ah

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they got a nice cloth with the angry

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meow logo sounds pretty good for the cloth take

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that out we got a little guide right here some pretty hefty foam there's a

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box here what's in the box packaging content oh this is like a foam too is

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this just extra foam oh right okay so

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this is another leaf spring adjustable keyboard This is a two-way adjustable

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not three-way adjustable like we saw on the am Alpha as you can see we've got

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some extra leaf springs for if we want to do any adjustments we've already

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looked at that in previous keyboards I kind of get the gist of it we're not

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going to adjust it here today but they give you all the tools to both open it

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up and change out whatever you want what else do we got more of those ribbon

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cables this is some foam I don't know

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why they've included an extra little piece here I'm sure that this is already

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inside the keyboard as well uh it's weird that they've included this but not

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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

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other packaging another complaint that

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is very valid with these keyboards is that I don't seem to have a cable if

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you're spending what I'm guessing is hundreds of dollars on one of these it

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should come with a cable oh my God this

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thing is super cool that's got this little cool uh less is more stamped in

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there it's also got wireless charging if you've got a cyber mat from Angry meow

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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

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laser you ever listen to crocodile I think

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it's crocodiles are baby alligators they sound like lasers

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no climb all over me if you could

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it just kind of smells like perfumed

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Electronics I don't know it's like a new car smell smell this box

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you notice it's got like a new car smell to it I don't know how else to describe

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it um otherwise yeah it's the same contents on the inside what I really want to see

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is the colorway and if this one has the extra features I'm thinking of oh okay I

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don't like these clear keycaps they had them in the AM Alpha as well and I just

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I'm not a fan that's fine that's entirely personal preference they don't

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feel bad it's just I don't know I don't like the see-through look at least on

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keycaps see this is a 65 keyboard but

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it's not 65 percent and that's because if you look at this one it's clearly

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missing a few keys right so we don't have our arrow keys first of all it

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doesn't look like there's a page up delete page down or end those are all

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missing we just got function right here and then I'm not sure what this B is

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probably control and then we're also missing a extra button over here so

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there's either this is either control or Windows but we're missing a third key

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and then I mean the knob is you don't need an OP to make it 65 that's fine but

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yeah so it's missing a few things and the cool thing is though this little guy

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right here that's on both of them any of these no matter what the colorway you

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choose you're going to get this cool feature this is a touch bar and you can

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use it for arrow keys so you can use it to go like you know just left left right

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right up down whatever and you can actually use a couple other commands too

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as long as you have their software installed you can go think a long press

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is it'll start scrubbing through a video or it'll turn the volume down or you can

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like double tap or you can swipe up and stuff it's really cool and I'm actually

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very curious to see how user friendly it is this one also has the wireless

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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

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this is super early if anything doesn't work it's probably just because of a

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lack of support for at the moment just in terms of quality and feel and all of

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that good stuff uh it's a CNC aluminum chassis so it's heavy actually let's

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weigh it uh seven pounds that's my guess seven seven pounds wow I was way off

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it's only 3.5 this one the same yeah 3.4

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3.5 pounds so yeah you get a pretty hefty board but yeah as you can see it's

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a relatively seamless case design um it looks like everything actually

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houses over top here and I'm not sure how to take it apart I guess that's my

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one complaint is I don't see any obvious

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screw holes right away although that's kind of a nice thing to be honest it's

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probably easy probably just take all the keycaps off and open it up no problem it

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takes them six hours to see and see all of this aluminum so I don't know the

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price I'm I'm keeping myself in the dark so I can kind of Judge this on its own

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and then figure out the price after but it's it's gonna be probably a lot and

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then you've got some really cool features with the touch bar this one

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also these should be LEDs that will light up kind of like the Cyber truck

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headlights as you can see we don't have the same feature on the 8-Bit version

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the other one that we don't have unfortunately I thought the 8-Bit was

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the one that comes with the cool extra couple of little lights here but that's

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actually the mech love version which is a take on and love death and robots so

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if you like that series I think it's got a couple of their symbols on either side

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and those light up and you can adjust the lighting and stuff for those which

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is pretty cool but we want to use the cool cyber truck one with the sweet front LEDs so while I absolutely adore

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this keycap set I gotta put it away it's so nice it's got like kanji or something

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on it I don't know I'm gonna take one of these keycaps off I'm gonna pull a

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switch out because it should be hot swappable I'm gonna plug it in turn it on but not before a word from our

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keycap sure why not it's a three pin switch white housing with a clear top

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south facing RGB take that as you will my one complaint actually is that this

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doesn't look like it can even use five pin switches yeah it looks like you

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might be kind of limited when it comes to which switches you're gonna put in here whether that's a smaller one like

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otemu I don't think so I bet this is like a cherry switch but it could also

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just be the five pin holding you back because I personally have a lot of five

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pin switches and I don't think they'd fit in here unfortunately

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I can't tell if they're Factory lubed

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even if they're not they actually sound okay they could definitely use a bit more but

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that's fine you can really see how flexy it is and that's thanks to that leaf

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spring mounting system God kind of wild actually I'm not sold entirely on a

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super gaskety or super Leaf springy a mounting system I'm like I don't need

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all this Flex when I go to type down I actually kind of like a hard surface but

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that's just me that's personal preference and the reality is you can these leaf springs have two stages so if

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this is too loose well if it's on stage one you're pooped it's too loose but if

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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

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clear keycaps both just kind of in front of me with RGB on and off I do love how

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colorful this becomes with the RGB turned on I'm not going to be able to

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say the same for the brown one let me just plug it in real quick just to

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verify yeah you can hardly see the lights at all all the wireless is

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working it's not bad you still get some shine through in between each of the

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keys if you don't have shine through caps I get that out of here we're gonna

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get the cyber truck version which as you can see has cool lights

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on the side I wish they were brighter the images that they showed in the

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little uh media guide they gave us actually had the light like splashed out

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on the table and stuff and it probably does that in pitch black but it's definitely not going to do it here with

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Studio lighting uh I don't even think you can see that on camera to be

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perfectly honest

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in person no way

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it's very it's very minor I think it's

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at Max brightness right now to be honest FN plus swipe left or right on the touch

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panel is what adjusts the in-switch brightness

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function key there we go what

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okay so that's Max brightness for the switches that's so cool I already like

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the touch I already like the swipe part it's so dumb but I like it oh yeah it is

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making a difference okay no we were pretty much at Max brightness before

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it's maxed out right now that's why there was no change I was already at Max

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brightness um so you can use that fan and z and slowly cycle through the different

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colors as you can see we're down to we're out of blue now

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um and if you cycle through them now it's purple

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it goes basically a shade at a time um but yeah it's definitely not as bright

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and lasery as I was hoping for some of

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the marketing stuff that we got definitely leads us to believe differently

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yeah as for sound and feel it sounds and feels pretty good oh that does sound and

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feel good I'm not gonna lie as much as I don't like Angry meows pricing they do a

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lot of unique stuff and so it's really hard to argue against it when not only

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is the keyboard definitely high quality but it has a cool Niche feature that no

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one else is doing or not many other people are doing so at that point you can charge whatever you want as long as

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it sells it's the right price at least for some people away we go

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oh all right this is already best I'm going to Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan Mulligan okay

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116 97 that's not bad uh I messed up a

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couple times early on it just sounds and feels good I've been

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getting more used to using a 65 recently

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um especially at work when I'm mostly just typing I don't do a lot of like alt

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f4 or F5 even to refresh stuff like I

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would at home I almost never need a numpad for anything because I'm a writer

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I'm just writing scripts usually so for me the layout is actually pretty good

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the touch bar I gotta try this on like a video player it works

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what this is so cool

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okay I hit I hit some extra key and that like stopped to the window from being

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full screen right right right right okay so that's the whole thing is you're

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supposed to be able to keep your fingers on the home row so that you can just

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like the swipe should become a part of your typing basically it should feel as

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natural to you after using this thing for a while of course it should feel as

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natural to you as hitting the space bar with your thumb and honestly that didn't

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take too long to get used to wow like I know this is not the most riveting thing

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to watch because it's just snake but it works like this is such a proof of

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concept right now oh my God no foreign

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this is so dumb it's so good though

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I don't know what the hell it is with these guys they seem to be able to find

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these little quirks that just like really tickle me somehow okay okay so we

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should be able to like hold this down and it should fast forward the video I

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don't know if that's only NVIDIA players swipe swipe worked okay

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that's so cool what about up up is volume up and down

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is volume so you can like swipe up and down for volume if I hold

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no I fight what if I could like swipe up and then hold no

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no download some software for it and then you can tweak all of this stuff

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however much you want I think you can do different function layers and stuff like

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that it already feels pretty natural to just scrub through videos like this and

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then I mean I've never used the arrow keys to do that though in the first

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place but something about this feels right I don't know what to tell you one

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thing that a lot of you might be wondering is ah but I can't use a wrist

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rest now because it's gonna block the bar true however a lot of keyboards that

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are around this height like this doesn't feel like it needs a wrist rest for me

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personally and I get it they're fixing their own problem but angry meow does

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sell these like hover wrist pads that you can put on either side so this would

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still be open to you if you're using those guys maybe they made this to sell

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more of those wrist pads I don't know but it honestly does Feel Pretty Natural

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like I actually want you to come try this really quick

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all right let's see

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wow oh the hole did work you're just swiping hold oh swipe and hold okay well

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it works one way I don't know the down was a harder than going very easy to go

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right can I go left oh the up and down is hard to hold up and down yeah it's an

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idea you don't have a ton of space yeah but it doesn't work yeah it went to 100.

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yeah that's cool and yeah it does like if I were like

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oh I just need to fix something it doesn't feel unnatural right like your

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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

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give him that cool okay so it's gonna type great it's gonna feel pretty good

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and if 65 is good enough for you then this is probably enough of a keyboard

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that you can deal with missing a few Keys how much is a doll so the standard

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MSRP starts at 398 US dollars but it

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goes up to 550 US Dollars okay so you're

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paying similar prices to the Cyber board maybe a hundred bucks less you don't get

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the cool screen on the front with the LEDs that you get but you do get the

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really sick touch bar I can't justify spending that much on a niche feature

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especially when you can get really good 65 in the same quality range as this for

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half the price a little less than half the price in some cases but honestly if

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you want like something that is like really cool and kind of just stands out

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on your desk maybe it's for you I'm not gonna buy it do I want one yes will I

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buy one no like I said before the Embargo for this

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is the day we're filming but it's going up on Indiegogo on February 2nd so if

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you do want one if you are interested if you're okay with paying that like at

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least a hundred dollars extra luxury tax for a little cool feature hopefully you

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can snag one for yourself because the stuff from Angry meow you know as much

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as it's priced High it tends to sell out pretty quickly thanks for watching short

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circuit if you want to check another one out maybe check out the Cyber board that

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was one of the first keyboards I looked at on this channel and I was a little love struck