as a PC Gamer it can be pretty hard to choose do you play with a mouse and
keyboard or do you pick up a controller well today we've got the Megalodon
console 64 from Duo
how do you pronounce that doy and d-o-i-o
you can find it on drop.com and they're currently doing a pre-release sale it's
going for well we'll tell you later but
pretty cool it does not come with keycaps and switches just so you're
aware we actually put this together beforehand or rather Bell did uh what
else do we get though cable is okay a to
c ertainly what's the ARM span thing your
arms is like how tall you are yeah I'm like five six five seven on a
good day the it's think it's crazy sorry
I lost my train of thought it's so weird having an actual keyboard that you can
hold like a controller I've been looking at a lot of handhelds recently like the
steam deck and the Rog Ally they're definitely not this big but they're also
not that much smaller to be perfectly honest and I'll be frank I don't think
you're actually supposed to hold this keyboard like this you're the the
joystick is joy to Mouse and you can map everything through via which is great
but I'm pretty sure this is not the intended use the right side is also not
a thumbstick it's just a knob for anyone who is hoping for an actual controller
that you could use but you do also get four little mini buttons down here they
feel terrible to press I don't like those at all actually they don't even
feel like really good face buttons it's kind of just like a little pogo stick
that's uh sitting up and you can press it down so I'm not a fan
I'm not comfortable uh does not feel good to press but you know you're not
using this like an actual controller so whatever it's not the end of the world
this is apparently a little screen that
we'll see once it's plugged in it just displays a bit of information you can
change it yourself which is pretty cool like
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we got the red and blue one which looks a lot like a switch if that wasn't super
obvious to basically everyone watching it comes in a bunch of other colorways
white yellow soy and pink those are all
sold out right now apparently I don't know if they're gonna change stock at
some point it's currently a pre-order and ships July 7th so maybe you'll get
lucky and they'll restock if you're not a big switch fan uh but for everyone
else yeah should be fine if you like red and blue then this is maybe for you if
you haven't already noticed this is a 60
keyboard but it's got 64 keys and part
of the problem is they've really squished it in here and you've got a 2u
shift and then a 1u shift on this side and as you can see from our keycap set
that is not included it doesn't match we've got our enter Keys sideways that's
not supposed to be there at all and then we're using a Windows key for the 1u the
nice thing but the one you is that's basically any other keycap you can put
literally whatever you want there but to you is kind of a weird size that you
don't see super often and you might need
to buy a more expensive keycap set if you want to make sure everything fits
perfectly on here gmk sets for example tend to ship with basically every option
Under the Sun your options from Amazon that are like 30 40 bucks they might not
quite fit so be careful it might be a 60
keyboard but it's definitely longer than
average this is honestly almost a full-size board in terms of length at
least in ways they advertise about 1300 grams let's see how accurate that is
1500 wow this is a heavy board oh it's
probably 1300 without the keycaps and switches and everything but then you add
switches keycaps and it'll add probably a couple hundred grams so that actually
sounds about right it normally has a 5.5
degree typing angle which is pretty okay for most people you might want to wrist
rest just because of how tall the whole keyboard is actually
um I don't know why it's this tall the case is a little excessive it's acrylic
and aluminum mostly acrylic and plastic though I actually don't know where the
aluminum is in here and I can't take it apart to find it so that's all we're
gonna get it's got a pretty cool see-through bottom for anyone who's been
a fan of that craze kind of returning I'm going to plug it in and turn it on
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spending a good amount of money on a mechanical keyboard already it's not
going to kill you to just buy a slightly nicer cable that's going to look a bit
better feel a bit better and match your desk and accessories a lot better too I
don't really fault them for not including a nicer cable it's a Bare Bones kit and it's fine the cable is
going to work it's going to do exactly what you want it to do and honestly it
kind of matches with the black um but you know it's just it's not
sleeved just leave it make it make it just that little touch better uh this is
really cool the screen's got a one on it we're going to type on it first and then
I'm going to check out all of those sweet sweet extra buttons that it's got
I didn't install these switches and I am
just finding out now that a couple of them don't actually work I'm assuming
that whoever did install them just kind of bent some pins and it's a quick and
easy fix but you know what you know it's a lot better than that watching me make
a ton of mistakes on monkey type oh control doesn't work one nice thing that
we can actually show off I guess while I fix these switches is the fact that this
is indeed a hot swap board oh my Lord yep bent pin that's pretty
cool and it's five pins so any switch is gonna fit into this board without issues
uh except for maybe otemu because they're thinner pins but that's okay if
you also didn't notice it's got RGB which is pretty great south facing and
it looks like you can set it to a bunch of different customizations
um it's qmk firmware so you can use via to map it however you want including the
RGB the nice thing about south facing RGB is it's super compatible with
whatever switch you want to use the nice thing about North facing though is it
tends to shine through shine through keycaps a little bit better so take your
pick pick your poison whatever you want to use I personally prefer North facing
just because I like the shine through on keycaps but it honestly doesn't matter all that much I really do like this
little screen with the one on it because on player one I don't know how to
customize that but that's apparently also customizable so you can just put
whatever you want on that teeny tiny little screen there one thing I want to
mention before we do the typing test is that the switches in here aren't my
purse personal preference and so I might not like the feel of the actual switches
however I want to point out that the gaskets in this thing it is gasket
mounted they're very squishy there's a ton of flex so if you like a soft bottom
out feel then you shouldn't be disappointed gasket mounting just means
that the board and the plate are basically sandwiched in between these
little rubber gaskets so that when you press it down it has some give to it
into the rubber there's a ton of different mounting Styles you can have
top mount plate Mount gasket Mount gasket Mount actually comes in a bunch
of different forms too there's socks there's bowls now one thing I'll mention
actually is that it looks like it's pretty easy to take apart with all of
the bolts being on the bottom however there's quite a few of them most of the
time you're only going to have maybe six or eight case screws maybe 10 but this
has got two three four five six seven eight thirteen fourteen fourteen case
screws uh it's quite a few it's not the end of the world it's
probably because of all of their little extra electronics like for the
thumbstick and the extra knobs on the
bottom oh they work so this knob on the bottom left acts as
an up and down scroll wheel the bottom right acts as a volume knob cool what's
this guy do because it's usually a volume this is not doing anything
the really cool thing is that the
thumbstick while it doesn't do a great job this is this is not a good
experience at all uh navigating with the thumbstick but it is doable
so you could hold this thing and use it as your mouse if you so desire I don't
recommend anyone does that I think it's honestly just a really cool kind of
fidget toy I've been sitting here playing with it constantly because there's just so many little dials and
buttons and knobs to press you could map the thumbstick to wasde and then use it
as your you know single thumb
navigation tool instead of using wozni
like a keyboard
this just feels wrong it's one of the only keyboards that I'd
actually suggest that you pick up and handle constantly instead of just finding the heaviest thing you can and
plonking it on your desk and leaving it there let's open a keyboard tester and
see what they're actually triggering launch the tester sorry this is actually
registering as a dash or hyphen when you
press it this one doesn't seem to be activating anything this guy's also not
set to click oh page up page down oh yeah that makes sense because it Scrolls
and then the thumbstick is just just joy to Mouse and then what's the click
click is not mapped to any buttons you could probably map it to your mouse
theoretically I don't know if I'd want to and then
these face buttons don't seem to be anything either so if you want to make
use of these out of the box you're not really going to be able to do that
you're going to have to actually go and map it oh they're doing their RGB oh
that's what I get for pressing buttons while not looking at the keyboard one
seems to just turn RGB on or off that's like your a button
but X and B aren't changing anything y seems to also
be changing the RGB in terms of like solid color whether you want uh flashing
colors whether you want it to like pulse when it presses a certain key oh that's
a mute button oh clicking off so clicking on this guy is a mute button
overall you know I think all the extra buttons are pretty cool it's kind of
like a macro person's dream I'm not
really that person I tend to just use my keyboard as is maybe I use a function
button for a couple of keys like F5 if I'm using uh 65 or 60 but otherwise I
tend to just leave it as is I'm not even a big via user but it does support that
and you can use it if you'd like to monkey
you know what's cool though I'm not going to use the trackpad on the laptop
well I don't have a mouse click so I am going
to use the trackpad on the laptop
oh my C button doesn't work
uh that's definitely the worst I've ever done both here and I think in general I
got 60 words per minute 82 accuracy only part of that is because of our c-switch
not being properly working here otherwise it's mostly the layout it's
really condensed and I have a bit of a problem going for some keys especially
my shift key when it's this small so if
you're new to 60 or 65 keyboards it might take quite a bit of learning to
get used to typing on this smaller layout
otherwise it's not bad though we've only got some pretty stock switches and uh
not the greatest keycaps to be perfectly honest but the sound isn't bad it does
come with a number of sound dampening pads I don't know what kind of foam or
padding they are but it is included and I can hear it at work it's okay not
great you could probably mod this to make it
sound quite a bit better though and the stabilizers
are not terrible actually not a ton of rattle at all and
they're pretty evenly spaced so yeah oh one thing I didn't notice about the
bottom as well is that this uh DUI logo is actually machined in so it's not just
you know overlaid or or painted on or
anything like that it's a pretty deep machine so you can actually feel it
yeah yeah that's a good point actually if you are using it as a controller then
maybe you are going to care about having a nice machine back like this overall I
think it's not bad I think it's pretty cool in a number of ways and it's
definitely for a very specific audience if you're a big switch fan or if you're
looking for something that's just unconventional I know a lot of people that buy keyboards only because they're
different and the reality is this is incredibly unique I've never seen
something quite like this before the only problem is that they do charge a
bit of a premium it's 219 dollars right now down from 228 big sale probably
because there's only the one color left it's hard to swallow that pill when you
also got to buy switches and keycaps on top of that and it's a little harder to
swallow when the keycaps that you're going to want are going to have to be
very specific to fit this very specific layout
that being said you know the build quality is not awful either way at 220
bucks once you add in switches you know another 40 at least probably more like
60 dollars depending on what you buy and then throwing on a keycap set especially
something that's probably a bit more premium you're looking at an extra 80
100 bucks if not more the price for this quickly adds up and I think that if
you're looking for just a regular mechanical keyboard one that's a little
funky that looks like a switch it's probably not worth your money
however if you want a really really cool
macro pad that's got a bunch of different functions that you can map to
whatever your hearts desire uh maybe it is for you thanks for watching short
circuit if you want to look at another keyboard ShortCircuit we did that was
at a similar price point that I liked a lot more check out the key boom it's
also clear but it's just a bit more premium feeling