WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.560 This coverage of CES 2017 is brought to you by FreshBooks, the number one cloud 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:10.880 accounting software for freelancers that lets you save time, get paid faster, and 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:14.639 get more organized. Check it out at the link in the video 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:20.400 description. We're here in the Corsair booth and they're showing off the 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:24.560 K95 RGB. Wait, both of those products already exist. No, this is the K95 RGB 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:31.279 Platinum, which is totally different from the other K95 and K95 RGB. This 00:00:28.599 --> 00:00:34.399 one has a piece of plastic inside it from when I dropped it before we 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.239 started, but don't tell anybody. It's a It'll be our little secret. There are 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:45.200 also some other differences. So now, in addition to individually RGB backlit 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:47.200 keys, the keyboard now has a logo and a 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:52.719 strip at the top that are, as the kids say, lit, but in RGB. They have also 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:58.000 altered the macro keys on the left, reducing them from 18 to a mere six, 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:02.719 which will disappoint Terran from my team and according to Corsair's market 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:07.200 research, pretty much nobody else. Macro keys. Macro key. Keyboard. Keyboard. 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:10.479 Keyboard. Because most people can't reach any further than the rightmost 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.320 column of macro keys while they're gaming. But let me know in the comments 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:19.119 if you guys disagree with that. They've altered the spacebar, putting a textured 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:23.200 finish on it that I personally am really not a huge fan of. But some of the 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:27.759 staples of Corsair's keyboards do remain, including their dedicated media 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:32.479 keys and that nice kind of knurled metal scroll wheel. One big change I am a fan 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:38.079 of that has to do with texture is the wrist rest. It now has either kind of a 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:42.000 dimpled texture on the one side or a more coarse texture on the other side. 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.079 It's got a really nice rubberized finish and the whole thing mounts with magnets. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.840 Whichever way you choose to put it on, it feels and looks really premium. You 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:53.920 can't even tell it's reversible until you reverse it and you're like, "Oh, I like this one better." Or, "Oh, I hate 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:57.040 this one. I'm going to put it back." That's not to say that I like everything 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:02.560 about the wrist rest. So, on the bottom, you find a cable management cross for 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.079 your uh headphones so that they can run under your keyboard if you like having 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:09.920 your headphone wire come up between your hands while you're gaming. But 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.200 unfortunately, the implementation on the bottom of the wrist rest is not as good 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:17.280 as on the rest of the bottom of the keyboard with no clips to hold the wire 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:21.120 in place, meaning that you'll either be constantly fidgeting with it or it might 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:24.480 end up under the rubber stoppers at the bottom causing the wrist rest to move 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.599 around a little bit. Another thing I'm not a huge fan of down here is the fact 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:31.920 that they've gone with the cheapo plastic clips for the wrist rest that 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:36.239 inevitably get broken. And given that this is such a nice wrist rest that I'd 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:40.080 love to use forever, I find that a little disappointing. Other than that, 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:44.480 it's got a USB pass through, and there's not really a whole lot else to say 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:49.120 except it's not entirely reliant on software for the RGB lighting anymore. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.959 You got to set it up with Q. But once you do that, it can store up to three 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:56.959 profiles for all your macro settings as well as your lighting effects that you 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:01.280 can switch between with a configurable macro within Q that you can save on the 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:05.360 keyboard. So, the onboard memory has been beefed up 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:09.760 significantly. It'll be available in two different colors, black worldwide and 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:15.120 black and gunmetal in the US. 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