Now, I always liked the concept of the Zboard or the Zedboard, but honestly,
the build quality always felt a little well suspect to me. Now, what Steeler
did in their acquisition of ideas on is they took some of the products,
particularly the Zboard, and just made
them better, beefier, stronger, faster,
just better in sort of every way. So, that's where the shift comes from. It
actually accepts the same key sets as the Zboard. So, if you have an old
Zboard key set, you can throw it right onto a shift keyboard. And vice versa,
you can buy a shift key set for your old Zboard, no problem. But they've just
really improved the base station of it
um a great deal. So, I've actually done an unboxing of the Shift already, so you
can check that one out on my channel if you want to. This is specifically going
to be about the World of Warcraft Cataclysm key set for the Zboard. So, I
have a Zboard. Well, it is for the Zboard, but it's mostly for the shift.
Okay. So, here we go. This box includes
Well, here. Why don't we start opening it, and then we'll talk about what it
includes. So, let's see if there's any features on the back that stand out. Um,
no. Doesn't really look like there's anything there that I don't already
know. So, I guess I'll just go ahead and
start getting this thing opened up. So, you can see it comes with the default
key set installed. There we are. And I'm
just going to show you guys as part of this unboxing. So, we got a sticker,
product guide, uh, yep, little baggie of
stuff there. We've got a Steel Series Shift keyboard here, which is taped
closed. So, go ahead and remove that tape. Take out the
keyboard. There we
are. All right,
then. Sorry, guys. been having a fair bit of trouble with this here.
Okay, so shift keyboard. Let's go over this really quick, even though we've
kind of already done it. Okay, media keys here. Very nice keyboard layout
that I like a lot. Full size backspace, full size shift keys, all of that good
stuff. You got your F keys. You got your programmable keys up here, including a
record button and three different profiles. Okay, you've got u all of your
other sort of normal stuff over here. Number pad, print screen, scroll lock.
Okay. So, well, that's normal except bam. Whoa. It's all gone. So, if you
haven't seen a Zboard or a Shift before, then there you are. That's the concept
of the Shift removable key sets. Okay.
So, it includes a wrist rest, and I'm
not going to get too far into that. You can check out my uh my other Shift
unboxing if you want to see the wrist rest. And it includes a Cataclysm key
set. Here we are. So, the Cataclysm key set comes wrapped
in plastic. And the first thing we're going to do is show you how easy it is to
install a key set on the shift. You just slide it in like that. Lay the whole
thing down and clip it in on the side. There we are. Now it's in. That
was easy. So, all of this stuff over here that is not for gaming. I mean,
maybe some people bind things to insert
like gaming functions, although most people probably don't. Okay, so not for
gaming replaces all that stuff with for gaming. Okay, so here everything over
here is fairly normal except they've changed a lot of the labels. So check
this out. So tab is now the Oh, really?
It's not going to focus for me. All right, let's see if we can get it to
focus. Please focus. I'll have to read
it for you. Tab is the target nearest enemy button, for example. Okay, so
there's a lot of stuff here. There's enemy plates and then with the shift,
friendly plates, there's backpack. Shift is all bags, talent, map, skills, quest,
social, spell book, action 10, action nine, all kinds of stuff here. So the
F1s, okay, emote bar one, emote bar two. So thank you, cheer, welcome, charge,
congrats, incoming, all good stuff here.
Pet pet one, pet two, pet three, pet four. All right. And then over here,
this is the gaming area of the keyboard.
gaming terrain. All right. So, we've got
a complete replacement for
WD. Okay. So, if you want to run using this over here, then you can totally do
that. We've
got Huh. Okay. Well, you I guess the way this is set up, you would not use
this with your left hand the way you
would for FPS games. Okay. So, you're going to use this with your right hand
and then this with your left hand. Okay, I don't quite understand how this works.
Give me a moment. See, this is the problem with doing these videos like
completely off the top of my head. Okay, so this this is pretty clearly not not a
replacement for WD. So, WD are your
movement keys. Over here is a whole bunch of supplementary stuff. So, we got
screenshot, exit vehicle, inspect, invite, trade, raid. Okay, here's all
your raid functions. So raid chat, ready check, raid warning, raid browser. Okay,
chat functions. So you got party chat, guild chat, region chat, BG chat, say,
whisper, yell, emote. So these are all useful things to have automatically
bound. Okay, and most of these are keys
that you would already normally find on a keyboard. So check this out. Okay, so
right here, delete also has a delete key
over here. Now it looks like it's
changed the actual location of it. So what would have normally been print
screen right here actually corresponds
to insert. So they they've changed the layout slightly, but the the uh here the
circuitry in the key set itself is going
to remap that for you without you having to worry too much about it. So pretty
much that's it. The point of the shift keyboard is this. Okay, it's basically like a Zboard
except just generally built better. And
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Shift Wow Cataclysm edition.
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