Okay, so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Microsoft Reclusa
keyboard. Now, you can see here based on the cameraman zooming in on nothing but
this, that it is powered by Razer and it has Razer hyper response gaming key
action with customizable gaming controls and profile management. So, what
Microsoft is saying about this keyboard is that it contains an enhanced English
104 key layout and it is engineered for
gaming, which basically means yeah, that's the powered by Razer part because
Razer makes gaming peripherals and Microsoft makes office peripherals as
far as I can tell. Mind you, Microsoft has some newer stuff that's pretty cool
for like gaming products, too. So, here we go. Hyper response key action reduces
key latency, maximizing response. You got profile management, so you can
create and store key mapping and macros for each game profile. Blue back lit
keys for low light conditions. Great. And then two goldplated USB ports. Two.
Huh. Okay. Great. All right. And then over here we have customizable gaming
controls with two 360° jog dials, one on each side for
quick access during heated game play. Then you have four bumper keys, two on
either side of the keyboard with an easy reach of the standard gaming keys. Now,
I have to question how these are within reach of any sort of standard gaming key
because as far as I know, most standard gamers are using these. So, these are in
reach. Oh, my battery's low. This is going to fail. Okay, so we have six
hotkeys. One touch of a customized hotkey executes multiple keystrokes in
place. So, basically, these are macro keys. And I'm not going to open the box
yet because I can see that the battery is low and I'm going to have to just
like do a transition here or something. And we're back. So, now we're going to
actually open the box. There we go. This
is the unboxing part of the unboxing now that we've already had the product
overview part of the unboxing. So, there goes the box. And here comes the second
box. Yeah. Okay. So, the first thing we
find inside is ah CDs, which we get out
by doing this. There we go. So, we have
a Microsoft gaming keyboard with software. Reclus I don't even know what
this is. Oh, it's a manual. So, you should plug it into the USB port. Uh,
install the software, configure the keyboard,
and awesome. Okay. Next, we have the
contents. The getting Oh, the getting started guide. So, to reduce the risk of
injury, something about compliance with EU something. Okay. Reclusive gaming
keyboard driver disc. Do not use this. Download the latest drivers from
www.razerzone.com. razorone.com. I guess Microsoft would
probably have the drivers hosted somewhere like on their site too.
I not sure to be perfectly honest. That's the thing about these hybrid
products where it's like one company's branding but powered by some other
company who did probably most of the design work. It's like well like who
supports it at that point? I guess Microsoft. Ooh, this is nice. It's all
like it's all leathery and like rubbery
leathery. You can see I can actually like press it down. That's kind of
comfy. I'm going to have to try that out before the video is over. It's It's kind
of a nice wrist rest. Okay. Well, that was fun. Okay. Now, let's get to the
reclusa keyboard itself. So, this cord
has to somehow come out of here. And as soon as I get that figured out, I will
lift the keyboard out of the brown box.
And then I will take special note of the
no choke. Do not let your baby take this bag, put it over its head, and then
throw throw throw away the baby or the Oh, no. They're telling you throw away
the bag so that the baby doesn't get it. Okay. Awesome. So, we can peel off this.
So, that's very shiny. Okay. You can see we have the usual shine shot. So, you
can see how shiny the top of the keyboard is. It's a very weird shape,
this keyboard. Actually, maybe it'll look a little bit better once we put the
uh the wrist rest on. But it's like a very like it's seems very oval compared
to a normal keyboard, which would seem more square. And another thing that I
notic about it is that it's really heavy compared to most new keyboards, which is
kind of it's kind of nice because it has that quality feel. Oh, here's a feature
that I didn't know it had. Check this out. You have cable routing, like cable
management uh ports all along the bottom of the keyboard. So, you can route a
bunch of different cables anywhere you want them to go. You looks like you can even take out these little routing
brackets here, but that prevents the keyboard from being propped up on the
cable when you flip it over. That's kind of nice. Okay, so we've attached the
wrist rest and oh, this is stupid. Okay,
so this wrist rest, you see how it's symmetrical? It would be perfect if my
hand sat here when I was typing. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this
picture? No good. Okay. Well, I mean, this is okay, but you can see clearly
here that my left wrist comes off of the off of the wrist rest, which is too bad
because it's very comfortable. So, here are all the basic features. We have the
what appears to be a volume dial here. No, that's not a volume dial. I don't
know what it is, but it's plus minus there. You can spin the dial. Okay. Then, we have some hot keys here. Then,
we have those other keys here. And then we have WD. This is all blue back lit
when you plug it in. It's a fairly standard layout and the keys um there's
a fair bit of travel and they're a little bit stiff, but I'd say overall they're quite comfortable to type on.
Not too loud, too, which is nice if you're a late night gamer and there are other people in your house who don't
like to hear your late night gaming. So, we've got a few more keys over here.
These look like media eject. They've got a few pre-programmed stuff here. Things
here. These are your back and forward buttons, which are apparently supposedly
easily accessible while you're gaming. Now, I'm sure there was something else I
was going to say about this. Maybe the cameraman can prompt me. Or maybe
there's nothing. Maybe that was all I had to say about it. Thank you for
checking out my unboxing and product overview of the Microsoft Reclusive
keyboard powered by Razer. I finally remember the thing I
wanted to do. I had mentioned before this keyboard is so heavy, but I pulled
out my benchmark, my benchmark golden standard for heaviest keyboard ever,
this like fossilized Model M. And I'm still giving the nod to the Model M,
both in terms of key switch quality, of course, because it's the best. Oh, don't
get too close to that. This is This isn't mine. I just received this as a
handme-down from someone. I'm going to run it through the dishwasher first. I don't even know if I want to admit to
owning this keyboard, but the point is that it is still heavier than the
Reclusa.