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welcome to a re-unboxing something we don't do that often this my friends is

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the cooler master cm storm quickfire tk

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fully backlit mechanical keyboard it has an extremely clever layout so it

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delivers pretty close to a 10 keyless size so so for those of you who aren't

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already sort of familiar with the terminology that goes along with

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mechanical keyboard shopping 10 keyless refers to keyboards that don't have a

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number pad but this one does have a number pad so what they've done is

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they've used the number lock to either enable number pad functionality or

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arrows num law or rather well print screen scroll lock pause insert home

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page up delete end page down all that functionality you can choose whether you

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have a number lock or those things which is actually kind of cool it's available

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with a variety of cherry mx switches including the very reason that we are

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redoing this particular unboxing because there is a new option for the quickfire

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tk cherry mx green switches so the

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keyboard includes a removable braided cable as well as a keycap puller and

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we're going to use this as an opportunity to show you guys just

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exactly what a cherry mx green switch looks like ah yes it looks like pretty

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much any other cherry mx switch except for the fact that it is indeed green but

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before we get into the typing impressions from both me and slick let's

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do a quick recap of the overall features here so it has function keys which give

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you your media playback play pause stop backwards forwards mute volume up and

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volume down you've also got a Windows key lock which can be enabled by holding

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function and clicking on that one you can see ah yes it has a backlight so you

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can use the function key to control various types of backlightness so you

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can turn it on and off you can adjust the brightness between five different

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levels and it actually gets extremely bright at

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the brightest level looks very very very vibrant looks quite nice and you can

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choose three different modes for it so you can have it in breathing mode you

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can have it in fully backlit mode and you can have it in just illuminate the

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wasd keys mode the other thing to watch out for is when you press the number

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lock those arrow keys illuminate that indicates that you are not number locked

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which is a little bit counterintuitive i wish the num lock illuminated or

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something like that when you pressed num lock and when you're in numb lock mode

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it has a removable cord as well as a nice set of ergonomic options back here

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so you've got nice little rubber feet on the top and bottom of the keyboard as

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well as rubber tipped feet that can flip

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up in order to elevate the keyboard a touch it does not come with a wrist rest

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unfortunately and that is something that i would have liked to see included

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however it is a fairly value conscious option in terms of pricing so you got to

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just kind of remember that that comes with the territory last thing is with

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function held you can press the escape key and either six or n to choose

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between six key rollover which is compatible with macs and all pcs so

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compatibility mode or n key rollover which allows you to press

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all the keys and have them all register even over usb but not compatible with

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mac and can cause some pcs to fail to boot so you can just change that mode

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back if that's not working for you the last thing to cover before we get into

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the typing experience is the cable management on the bottom so the

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detachable cable can be routed either straight out the top or to either the

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right or left side this is great for keeping your desk tidy now typing

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experience let's start with the big thing about cherry mx greens i mean why

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are they so rare well because they require a lot of force

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to press at 80 grams of actuation force

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at the actuation point that is nearly double what is required for cherry mx

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browns which are a light tactile switch and cherry mx reds which are a light

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linear switch so both of those are around 45 grams and it is a full 60

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percent higher than the 50 grams required for cherry mx blues which are

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considered to be a relatively heavy cherry switch so

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with that said how does it feel for typing well for me it was too heavy just

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right out of the gate i'm gonna give it a shot in the longer

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term here and uh you guys can stay tuned on twitter or on the forum or whatever

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else and i'll let you know if i change my mind but i found that it was just

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flat out too heavy for anything but my index finger and my middle finger so for

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my ring finger and pinky finger it was very unnatural for me to type on it now

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i am not a great typist i rarely use my

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pinky so it wouldn't have even mattered if it wasn't too difficult for me to

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press with my ring finger without it feeling a little bit weird so i'm not

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necessarily the best person to go okay well he had trouble typing on it so therefore it is difficult to type on

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because slick tried it too and while he

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didn't find it as fast as cherry mx blue switches not even by a long shot he

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didn't find the typing experience physically difficult because he just has

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plain old heavier stronger fingers to start with so right now we're kind of

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going okay results are a mixed bag it is a different experience and it is

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certainly very unique i mean it's probably the

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closest we can get with a cherry mx switch to something like a buckling

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spring or even more like a typewriter feel where it really feels like there's

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a long sort of resisting

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press before you reach that actuation point but we didn't find it to be dramatically

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better than some of the other more available and less expensive switches

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that are out there now i have seen reports of people saying that they

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bought cherry mx green keyboards and got used to it over time but i think that'll

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depend on a little bit of a long-term testing session now speaking of getting

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