1 00:00:00,179 --> 00:00:05,460 as a PC Gamer it can be pretty hard to choose do you play with a mouse and 2 00:00:03,780 --> 00:00:11,519 keyboard or do you pick up a controller well today we've got the Megalodon 3 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:14,400 console 64 from Duo 4 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:19,080 how do you pronounce that doy and d-o-i-o 5 00:00:16,220 --> 00:00:25,400 you can find it on drop.com and they're currently doing a pre-release sale it's 6 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:25,400 going for well we'll tell you later but 7 00:00:25,619 --> 00:00:31,080 pretty cool it does not come with keycaps and switches just so you're 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,780 aware we actually put this together beforehand or rather Bell did uh what 9 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:38,360 else do we get though cable is okay a to 10 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:42,780 c ertainly what's the ARM span thing your 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:49,140 arms is like how tall you are yeah I'm like five six five seven on a 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,539 good day the it's think it's crazy sorry 13 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:57,180 I lost my train of thought it's so weird having an actual keyboard that you can 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:01,020 hold like a controller I've been looking at a lot of handhelds recently like the 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,860 steam deck and the Rog Ally they're definitely not this big but they're also 16 00:01:03,180 --> 00:01:09,060 not that much smaller to be perfectly honest and I'll be frank I don't think 17 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,799 you're actually supposed to hold this keyboard like this you're the the 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:17,100 joystick is joy to Mouse and you can map everything through via which is great 19 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:21,659 but I'm pretty sure this is not the intended use the right side is also not 20 00:01:19,380 --> 00:01:25,320 a thumbstick it's just a knob for anyone who is hoping for an actual controller 21 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:30,540 that you could use but you do also get four little mini buttons down here they 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:34,860 feel terrible to press I don't like those at all actually they don't even 23 00:01:33,060 --> 00:01:39,119 feel like really good face buttons it's kind of just like a little pogo stick 24 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:42,320 that's uh sitting up and you can press it down so I'm not a fan 25 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:50,100 I'm not comfortable uh does not feel good to press but you know you're not 26 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:54,840 using this like an actual controller so whatever it's not the end of the world 27 00:01:51,479 --> 00:01:56,460 this is apparently a little screen that 28 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:00,119 we'll see once it's plugged in it just displays a bit of information you can 29 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:03,620 change it yourself which is pretty cool like 30 00:02:02,399 --> 00:02:06,699 laughs 31 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:14,700 we got the red and blue one which looks a lot like a switch if that wasn't super 32 00:02:13,140 --> 00:02:19,860 obvious to basically everyone watching it comes in a bunch of other colorways 33 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:22,020 white yellow soy and pink those are all 34 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:25,800 sold out right now apparently I don't know if they're gonna change stock at 35 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:30,480 some point it's currently a pre-order and ships July 7th so maybe you'll get 36 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:34,500 lucky and they'll restock if you're not a big switch fan uh but for everyone 37 00:02:32,459 --> 00:02:39,540 else yeah should be fine if you like red and blue then this is maybe for you if 38 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:42,840 you haven't already noticed this is a 60 39 00:02:39,540 --> 00:02:43,920 keyboard but it's got 64 keys and part 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:49,260 of the problem is they've really squished it in here and you've got a 2u 41 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:53,160 shift and then a 1u shift on this side and as you can see from our keycap set 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:57,120 that is not included it doesn't match we've got our enter Keys sideways that's 43 00:02:55,379 --> 00:03:01,080 not supposed to be there at all and then we're using a Windows key for the 1u the 44 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:04,920 nice thing but the one you is that's basically any other keycap you can put 45 00:03:02,819 --> 00:03:10,680 literally whatever you want there but to you is kind of a weird size that you 46 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:12,720 don't see super often and you might need 47 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:16,260 to buy a more expensive keycap set if you want to make sure everything fits 48 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:20,640 perfectly on here gmk sets for example tend to ship with basically every option 49 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:25,620 Under the Sun your options from Amazon that are like 30 40 bucks they might not 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:28,739 quite fit so be careful it might be a 60 51 00:03:25,620 --> 00:03:31,260 keyboard but it's definitely longer than 52 00:03:28,739 --> 00:03:36,239 average this is honestly almost a full-size board in terms of length at 53 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:41,700 least in ways they advertise about 1300 grams let's see how accurate that is 54 00:03:40,019 --> 00:03:46,560 1500 wow this is a heavy board oh it's 55 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:49,319 probably 1300 without the keycaps and switches and everything but then you add 56 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,760 switches keycaps and it'll add probably a couple hundred grams so that actually 57 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:56,040 sounds about right it normally has a 5.5 58 00:03:53,760 --> 00:04:00,239 degree typing angle which is pretty okay for most people you might want to wrist 59 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:04,379 rest just because of how tall the whole keyboard is actually 60 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:09,599 um I don't know why it's this tall the case is a little excessive it's acrylic 61 00:04:06,659 --> 00:04:14,519 and aluminum mostly acrylic and plastic though I actually don't know where the 62 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:18,600 aluminum is in here and I can't take it apart to find it so that's all we're 63 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:23,040 gonna get it's got a pretty cool see-through bottom for anyone who's been 64 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:26,699 a fan of that craze kind of returning I'm going to plug it in and turn it on 65 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,479 and see if it actually feels any good to type on but not before it worked from 66 00:04:28,380 --> 00:04:34,440 our sponsor dbrand although you can't skin this they do have real skins for 67 00:04:32,699 --> 00:04:38,639 your Nintendo switch they're made from high quality 3M vinyl that is true 68 00:04:36,540 --> 00:04:42,419 texture the patented adhesive is guaranteed to leave no residue on your 69 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,620 device if you want to change them they also have grip cases for your phone or 70 00:04:44,699 --> 00:04:51,000 air pods that fit snug and are super durable with thousands of grippy contact 71 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:54,479 points go to shortlines.com and buy your overpriced stickers today if you're 72 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:58,979 spending a good amount of money on a mechanical keyboard already it's not 73 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:02,520 going to kill you to just buy a slightly nicer cable that's going to look a bit 74 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:06,180 better feel a bit better and match your desk and accessories a lot better too I 75 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:11,400 don't really fault them for not including a nicer cable it's a Bare Bones kit and it's fine the cable is 76 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,419 going to work it's going to do exactly what you want it to do and honestly it 77 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:18,780 kind of matches with the black um but you know it's just it's not 78 00:05:16,919 --> 00:05:22,800 sleeved just leave it make it make it just that little touch better uh this is 79 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:26,280 really cool the screen's got a one on it we're going to type on it first and then 80 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:31,680 I'm going to check out all of those sweet sweet extra buttons that it's got 81 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:33,000 I didn't install these switches and I am 82 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:37,199 just finding out now that a couple of them don't actually work I'm assuming 83 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:41,340 that whoever did install them just kind of bent some pins and it's a quick and 84 00:05:38,820 --> 00:05:45,060 easy fix but you know what you know it's a lot better than that watching me make 85 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,780 a ton of mistakes on monkey type oh control doesn't work one nice thing that 86 00:05:46,979 --> 00:05:53,100 we can actually show off I guess while I fix these switches is the fact that this 87 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:58,979 is indeed a hot swap board oh my Lord yep bent pin that's pretty 88 00:05:56,460 --> 00:06:02,759 cool and it's five pins so any switch is gonna fit into this board without issues 89 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:06,539 uh except for maybe otemu because they're thinner pins but that's okay if 90 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,979 you also didn't notice it's got RGB which is pretty great south facing and 91 00:06:09,479 --> 00:06:16,020 it looks like you can set it to a bunch of different customizations 92 00:06:13,139 --> 00:06:20,820 um it's qmk firmware so you can use via to map it however you want including the 93 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:24,660 RGB the nice thing about south facing RGB is it's super compatible with 94 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:27,300 whatever switch you want to use the nice thing about North facing though is it 95 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:31,199 tends to shine through shine through keycaps a little bit better so take your 96 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:35,100 pick pick your poison whatever you want to use I personally prefer North facing 97 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:40,800 just because I like the shine through on keycaps but it honestly doesn't matter all that much I really do like this 98 00:06:39,180 --> 00:06:43,919 little screen with the one on it because on player one I don't know how to 99 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:47,400 customize that but that's apparently also customizable so you can just put 100 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:50,759 whatever you want on that teeny tiny little screen there one thing I want to 101 00:06:49,139 --> 00:06:55,199 mention before we do the typing test is that the switches in here aren't my 102 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:59,039 purse personal preference and so I might not like the feel of the actual switches 103 00:06:57,180 --> 00:07:03,720 however I want to point out that the gaskets in this thing it is gasket 104 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:07,560 mounted they're very squishy there's a ton of flex so if you like a soft bottom 105 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:12,720 out feel then you shouldn't be disappointed gasket mounting just means 106 00:07:10,020 --> 00:07:16,319 that the board and the plate are basically sandwiched in between these 107 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:19,979 little rubber gaskets so that when you press it down it has some give to it 108 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:23,639 into the rubber there's a ton of different mounting Styles you can have 109 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,699 top mount plate Mount gasket Mount gasket Mount actually comes in a bunch 110 00:07:25,020 --> 00:07:30,840 of different forms too there's socks there's bowls now one thing I'll mention 111 00:07:28,860 --> 00:07:35,819 actually is that it looks like it's pretty easy to take apart with all of 112 00:07:32,940 --> 00:07:39,599 the bolts being on the bottom however there's quite a few of them most of the 113 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,919 time you're only going to have maybe six or eight case screws maybe 10 but this 114 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:48,840 has got two three four five six seven eight thirteen fourteen fourteen case 115 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:51,660 screws uh it's quite a few it's not the end of the world it's 116 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:56,880 probably because of all of their little extra electronics like for the 117 00:07:53,819 --> 00:07:58,259 thumbstick and the extra knobs on the 118 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:04,080 bottom oh they work so this knob on the bottom left acts as 119 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:08,880 an up and down scroll wheel the bottom right acts as a volume knob cool what's 120 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:15,240 this guy do because it's usually a volume this is not doing anything 121 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:17,340 the really cool thing is that the 122 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:22,139 thumbstick while it doesn't do a great job this is this is not a good 123 00:08:19,740 --> 00:08:27,479 experience at all uh navigating with the thumbstick but it is doable 124 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:31,379 so you could hold this thing and use it as your mouse if you so desire I don't 125 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,959 recommend anyone does that I think it's honestly just a really cool kind of 126 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:38,760 fidget toy I've been sitting here playing with it constantly because there's just so many little dials and 127 00:08:36,719 --> 00:08:44,779 buttons and knobs to press you could map the thumbstick to wasde and then use it 128 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:48,839 as your you know single thumb 129 00:08:44,779 --> 00:08:51,380 navigation tool instead of using wozni 130 00:08:48,839 --> 00:08:51,380 like a keyboard 131 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,940 this just feels wrong it's one of the only keyboards that I'd 132 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:04,500 actually suggest that you pick up and handle constantly instead of just finding the heaviest thing you can and 133 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:08,420 plonking it on your desk and leaving it there let's open a keyboard tester and 134 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:14,940 see what they're actually triggering launch the tester sorry this is actually 135 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:17,100 registering as a dash or hyphen when you 136 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:21,600 press it this one doesn't seem to be activating anything this guy's also not 137 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:26,640 set to click oh page up page down oh yeah that makes sense because it Scrolls 138 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:30,839 and then the thumbstick is just just joy to Mouse and then what's the click 139 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:34,380 click is not mapped to any buttons you could probably map it to your mouse 140 00:09:32,220 --> 00:09:37,920 theoretically I don't know if I'd want to and then 141 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:42,360 these face buttons don't seem to be anything either so if you want to make 142 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:44,399 use of these out of the box you're not really going to be able to do that 143 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:49,140 you're going to have to actually go and map it oh they're doing their RGB oh 144 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:53,700 that's what I get for pressing buttons while not looking at the keyboard one 145 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:57,839 seems to just turn RGB on or off that's like your a button 146 00:09:55,620 --> 00:10:03,060 but X and B aren't changing anything y seems to also 147 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:07,500 be changing the RGB in terms of like solid color whether you want uh flashing 148 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,459 colors whether you want it to like pulse when it presses a certain key oh that's 149 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,660 a mute button oh clicking off so clicking on this guy is a mute button 150 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:20,519 overall you know I think all the extra buttons are pretty cool it's kind of 151 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:23,220 like a macro person's dream I'm not 152 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:27,720 really that person I tend to just use my keyboard as is maybe I use a function 153 00:10:24,959 --> 00:10:33,000 button for a couple of keys like F5 if I'm using uh 65 or 60 but otherwise I 154 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:38,519 tend to just leave it as is I'm not even a big via user but it does support that 155 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,980 and you can use it if you'd like to monkey 156 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:44,540 you know what's cool though I'm not going to use the trackpad on the laptop 157 00:10:44,579 --> 00:10:51,019 well I don't have a mouse click so I am going 158 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,019 to use the trackpad on the laptop 159 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,660 oh my C button doesn't work 160 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:05,519 uh that's definitely the worst I've ever done both here and I think in general I 161 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:09,500 got 60 words per minute 82 accuracy only part of that is because of our c-switch 162 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:15,000 not being properly working here otherwise it's mostly the layout it's 163 00:11:12,660 --> 00:11:20,579 really condensed and I have a bit of a problem going for some keys especially 164 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:23,399 my shift key when it's this small so if 165 00:11:20,579 --> 00:11:27,480 you're new to 60 or 65 keyboards it might take quite a bit of learning to 166 00:11:25,019 --> 00:11:31,500 get used to typing on this smaller layout 167 00:11:29,220 --> 00:11:36,120 otherwise it's not bad though we've only got some pretty stock switches and uh 168 00:11:33,899 --> 00:11:40,200 not the greatest keycaps to be perfectly honest but the sound isn't bad it does 169 00:11:38,579 --> 00:11:45,420 come with a number of sound dampening pads I don't know what kind of foam or 170 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:49,260 padding they are but it is included and I can hear it at work it's okay not 171 00:11:47,820 --> 00:11:53,160 great you could probably mod this to make it 172 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:55,760 sound quite a bit better though and the stabilizers 173 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,140 are not terrible actually not a ton of rattle at all and 174 00:12:01,860 --> 00:12:07,860 they're pretty evenly spaced so yeah oh one thing I didn't notice about the 175 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:13,800 bottom as well is that this uh DUI logo is actually machined in so it's not just 176 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:15,240 you know overlaid or or painted on or 177 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:20,100 anything like that it's a pretty deep machine so you can actually feel it 178 00:12:17,839 --> 00:12:23,820 yeah yeah that's a good point actually if you are using it as a controller then 179 00:12:21,779 --> 00:12:28,920 maybe you are going to care about having a nice machine back like this overall I 180 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:33,060 think it's not bad I think it's pretty cool in a number of ways and it's 181 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:36,600 definitely for a very specific audience if you're a big switch fan or if you're 182 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:42,420 looking for something that's just unconventional I know a lot of people that buy keyboards only because they're 183 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:46,620 different and the reality is this is incredibly unique I've never seen 184 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:52,139 something quite like this before the only problem is that they do charge a 185 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:57,120 bit of a premium it's 219 dollars right now down from 228 big sale probably 186 00:12:55,260 --> 00:13:02,399 because there's only the one color left it's hard to swallow that pill when you 187 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:05,880 also got to buy switches and keycaps on top of that and it's a little harder to 188 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:10,380 swallow when the keycaps that you're going to want are going to have to be 189 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:13,920 very specific to fit this very specific layout 190 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:19,620 that being said you know the build quality is not awful either way at 220 191 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:25,079 bucks once you add in switches you know another 40 at least probably more like 192 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:28,920 60 dollars depending on what you buy and then throwing on a keycap set especially 193 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:33,120 something that's probably a bit more premium you're looking at an extra 80 194 00:13:30,839 --> 00:13:37,260 100 bucks if not more the price for this quickly adds up and I think that if 195 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:41,700 you're looking for just a regular mechanical keyboard one that's a little 196 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:46,440 funky that looks like a switch it's probably not worth your money 197 00:13:43,260 --> 00:13:48,120 however if you want a really really cool 198 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:53,279 macro pad that's got a bunch of different functions that you can map to 199 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:56,220 whatever your hearts desire uh maybe it is for you thanks for watching short 200 00:13:54,899 --> 00:14:00,360 circuit if you want to look at another keyboard ShortCircuit we did that was 201 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:04,620 at a similar price point that I liked a lot more check out the key boom it's 202 00:14:02,459 --> 00:14:07,220 also clear but it's just a bit more premium feeling