welcome to a re-unboxing something we don't do that often this my friends is
the cooler master cm storm quickfire tk
fully backlit mechanical keyboard it has an extremely clever layout so it
delivers pretty close to a 10 keyless size so so for those of you who aren't
already sort of familiar with the terminology that goes along with
mechanical keyboard shopping 10 keyless refers to keyboards that don't have a
number pad but this one does have a number pad so what they've done is
they've used the number lock to either enable number pad functionality or
arrows num law or rather well print screen scroll lock pause insert home
page up delete end page down all that functionality you can choose whether you
have a number lock or those things which is actually kind of cool it's available
with a variety of cherry mx switches including the very reason that we are
redoing this particular unboxing because there is a new option for the quickfire
tk cherry mx green switches so the
keyboard includes a removable braided cable as well as a keycap puller and
we're going to use this as an opportunity to show you guys just
exactly what a cherry mx green switch looks like ah yes it looks like pretty
much any other cherry mx switch except for the fact that it is indeed green but
before we get into the typing impressions from both me and slick let's
do a quick recap of the overall features here so it has function keys which give
you your media playback play pause stop backwards forwards mute volume up and
volume down you've also got a Windows key lock which can be enabled by holding
function and clicking on that one you can see ah yes it has a backlight so you
can use the function key to control various types of backlightness so you
can turn it on and off you can adjust the brightness between five different
levels and it actually gets extremely bright at
the brightest level looks very very very vibrant looks quite nice and you can
choose three different modes for it so you can have it in breathing mode you
can have it in fully backlit mode and you can have it in just illuminate the
wasd keys mode the other thing to watch out for is when you press the number
lock those arrow keys illuminate that indicates that you are not number locked
which is a little bit counterintuitive i wish the num lock illuminated or
something like that when you pressed num lock and when you're in numb lock mode
it has a removable cord as well as a nice set of ergonomic options back here
so you've got nice little rubber feet on the top and bottom of the keyboard as
well as rubber tipped feet that can flip
up in order to elevate the keyboard a touch it does not come with a wrist rest
unfortunately and that is something that i would have liked to see included
however it is a fairly value conscious option in terms of pricing so you got to
just kind of remember that that comes with the territory last thing is with
function held you can press the escape key and either six or n to choose
between six key rollover which is compatible with macs and all pcs so
compatibility mode or n key rollover which allows you to press
all the keys and have them all register even over usb but not compatible with
mac and can cause some pcs to fail to boot so you can just change that mode
back if that's not working for you the last thing to cover before we get into
the typing experience is the cable management on the bottom so the
detachable cable can be routed either straight out the top or to either the
right or left side this is great for keeping your desk tidy now typing
experience let's start with the big thing about cherry mx greens i mean why
are they so rare well because they require a lot of force
to press at 80 grams of actuation force
at the actuation point that is nearly double what is required for cherry mx
browns which are a light tactile switch and cherry mx reds which are a light
linear switch so both of those are around 45 grams and it is a full 60
percent higher than the 50 grams required for cherry mx blues which are
considered to be a relatively heavy cherry switch so
with that said how does it feel for typing well for me it was too heavy just
right out of the gate i'm gonna give it a shot in the longer
term here and uh you guys can stay tuned on twitter or on the forum or whatever
else and i'll let you know if i change my mind but i found that it was just
flat out too heavy for anything but my index finger and my middle finger so for
my ring finger and pinky finger it was very unnatural for me to type on it now
i am not a great typist i rarely use my
pinky so it wouldn't have even mattered if it wasn't too difficult for me to
press with my ring finger without it feeling a little bit weird so i'm not
necessarily the best person to go okay well he had trouble typing on it so therefore it is difficult to type on
because slick tried it too and while he
didn't find it as fast as cherry mx blue switches not even by a long shot he
didn't find the typing experience physically difficult because he just has
plain old heavier stronger fingers to start with so right now we're kind of
going okay results are a mixed bag it is a different experience and it is
certainly very unique i mean it's probably the
closest we can get with a cherry mx switch to something like a buckling
spring or even more like a typewriter feel where it really feels like there's
a long sort of resisting
press before you reach that actuation point but we didn't find it to be dramatically
better than some of the other more available and less expensive switches
that are out there now i have seen reports of people saying that they
bought cherry mx green keyboards and got used to it over time but i think that'll
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