welcome to my unboxing of a product that you probably will not be able to figure
out what it is at all if i don't uh show
you this this text right here so like on the front there's like
okay we're gonna try and figure out what all this stuff is so there's a sword
handcuffs sigh like a hammer warhammer
another sword another more different sword like a fighter plane a tank a
bazooka a sniper rifle a rocket launcher
a um bullpup uh three grenades a stealth fighter or
bomber bomber sorry sorry uh helicopter like friggin like missiles like on a
boat or something like they're on a boat a boat a submarine another more
different boat a different tank a different fighter a sort of sword an axe
a grenade acai and another sword it is a gaming
keyboard intended for all these different purposes i mean handcuffs what game
involves handcuffs um
so let's have a look at all the different things that we have on the box
two ways cored out so you can actually manage your cables durable braided
cotton corn corn cord cotton corn cotton candy candy corn
gold plated usb connector led backlight illumination with on off switch twin usb
2.0 ports on the two sides you know what let's actually get the keyboard open
because that way i can show you all these features on the keyboard itself as
we go which is a sensible way to do unboxings sometimes on boxers on the
youtube they like oh this is the black version
it's available in red and yellow sometimes unboxers on the youtube they
just like take forever to actually get the product out of the out of the box
and i know i'm guilty of that at times at times i'm the worst about that
but uh whatever
you make an unboxing channel bam okay key remover tool these are
really handy if you have to remove your keys then you'll have one
replacement wasd keys
okay i'm sure we'll find out why when we look closer at the box
ah there's the braided cord looks very nice
gold plating in there which is valuable gold plating out here which doesn't do a
whole lot remember gold plating is good for uh good for connectivity not necessarily
conductivity silver plating would actually be better for conductivity
incidentally so would copper i believe but
gold is malleable and is also very resistant to
corrosion so no matter how long a gold plated connector sits around it will never
corrode and it will always make good contact
also makes it able to do more plugs and unplugs look at that i haven't seen a
keyboard cover in a while there's a uh
dvd that you should probably ignore get the latest from Gigabyte
in terms of software here we go so i haven't seen a
keyboard cover like a dust cover like this in a long time check that out
very nice once again
use protection very good in fact oh look at that you
can even leave it on i remember these the ones that you just like left on and use the keyboard so you don't get like
uh you know like like cheesy uh cheese in between the keys which is
really hard to get out you know like cheetos when you use when you eat
cheetos and then you use your keyboard right away you can get like the bit the crumbs like stuck around your fingers
and then you type and it knocks it into the keyboard and it's really hard to get it out so this is i mean this is a
problem many gamers face so i'm glad that Gigabyte has engineered a solution
to this excellent okay what do we got
g keys programmable keys with an indentation on there not an indentation
a bump on this one so you can easily feel which is which that's very nice
three modes for the g keys we've also got uh mute
and yeah we're gonna have to figure out what those are
ham touch and slide volume control sweet
interruption free volume control device during engaged gaming activity computer
stays in current mode without going in and out of games keep the sensor on the far left or the far right volume will
increase or decrease linearly very cool
very cool indeed ghost macro engine five macro keys per mode to make up to 25
sets of macros with a total of five modes change modes easily with mode button on the keyboard we already saw
that one four megabit onboard memory enables up to 100 programmable macro sets
predefined key button to switch between easily software features ease drag and
drop function as you guys know gaming keyboards often come down to the
software now this is unique this i actually want to like sort of see see
what i think of
okay you know what i can't
i can't actually feel that much of a difference when typing but Gigabyte has
specifically engineered the keyboard to have different
force required for different keys on the keyboard so the lightest keys are your
shifts your
z and x all these ones that you have to hit with your pinky while you're gaming
your heaviest keys are your space your control your wasd and your top four
number keys which you're usually mashing with a ring finger or middle finger or
an index finger whichever the case may be your medium keys are sort of mostly your
typing stuff so whether this makes that much of a
difference for gaming hard to say but there you go at least they're thinking about it 20 anti-ghosting keys so i
press up to 20 of these at a time without any ghosting so if you guys know
what ghosting means ghosting occurs when you press two keys and then
it registers of like a third random keystroke it usually happens with more
than two though it's more like five or six at a time
so most people don't have more than like six
keys matched at a given time unless they use their face to type
but hey there it is gift
silicone keyboard protector and additional wasd alternatives
so i guess these are like um
oh nice they have like a soft touch feel like um oh that's kind of neat so they
feel a little bit different so i guess you can find them more easily so let's
have a look at the rest so there's your num lock light caps lock light scroll lock light there's your mute
more buttons it's a membrane keyboard so the key
switches aren't really anything to write home about although what they've done
with the different elastic force is going to be sort of i people will either love it or hate it i think
kind of feature there you go membrane keys
put that back on cover up the membranes um the wrist rest
on this is actually fairly unique i've only seen one other keyboard and like a
gaming keyboard that has a wrist rest like this and that's the steelseries 7g
and my wife actually uses the 7g and refuses to use any other keyboard not
because she particularly likes the feel of the keys and the typing experience
because but because she loves the big wrist rest and
yeah it's it's actually it's one of those things once again you love it or you hate it but if you love it then
well love it it's good here we have the cable management stuff
so you can either come out in the middle or on the side we also have
flip stands with rubber grips on this side so you can add rubber grips on this
side so it's not going to move anywhere you've got actually lots of little rubber grippy-ness all over the keypad
or all over the keyboard this is awesome look at this this is actually screwed on
instead of using cheesy plastic clips okay how many of you out there own a g15
how many of you out there broke the wrist rest off your g15 i did
i didn't even know this but slick just put up his hand because it was cheesy
and it used little horrible plastic clips this is amazing this is
engineering a solution to a problem that people have
very good job Gigabyte um so i think that pretty much covers it
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the avia from Gigabyte
oh yeah incidentally there's a couple more usb ports here they have rubber plugs in them there's sort of oh no
sorry that here and here
so you can plug in your mouse or like usb drive nothing oh there's your light
on and off switch for the backlight and i'm just i'm heading this way so that i
can plug in the keyboard slick doesn't have to follow me you can just look at the
keyboard um so that we can see the backlight
come on let me just make sure it's done
oh it's on yeah okay give me a sec give me a sec we've got a lot of lights on
here select you want to have a look at the light actually no nevermind we'll see our horrible studio
uh so i'm just going to turn the lights down so you guys can see the red
backlight on this black keyboard so thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look at the in this Gigabyte gaming keyboard
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