WEBVTT 00:00:00.267 --> 00:00:04.890 - "Good keyboards are expensive comma man." So this keyboard is named after a sword 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:08.909 and even though this video is sponsored by a ASUS ROG, 00:00:08.909 --> 00:00:14.420 I just have to read you this because, well, you'll see, 00:00:14.420 --> 00:00:17.600 it's called the ROG Falchion. And this is verbatim. 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.840 The name Falchion is originated from French. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:26.320 Given to a rare one handed single edged sword found in Europe around 400 to 700 years ago. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.740 The length and weight allow faster strikes and superior maneuverability for advanced sword play. 00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:36.750 Now, here's the part where it gets really good. "When in the hands of a true minimalist, 00:00:36.750 --> 00:00:40.126 ROG Falchion is equally deadly on the virtual battlefield. 00:00:40.126 --> 00:00:44.140 Everything you need to claim swift victories, wherever you roam 00:00:44.140 --> 00:00:47.650 is in a compact package without compromise," 00:00:47.650 --> 00:00:51.550 God damn it, I gotta have it. I'm not a true minimalist, but we'll try. 00:00:51.550 --> 00:00:55.013 See if I can wheedle this thing on the virtual battlefield. 00:00:56.070 --> 00:01:01.460 I got three in front of me. This one is the Brown switch type, which, you think that'll be the most popular? 00:01:01.460 --> 00:01:07.170 They also have a reds and blues, but these are not cherry these are ROG switches, more with that in a moment, 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:11.910 let's just get through the unboxing. It's pretty small, it's a 65% keyboard, 00:01:11.910 --> 00:01:18.130 but it's actually smaller than what ACU says is the typical 65 percenter. 00:01:18.130 --> 00:01:24.210 I've added about 33 centimeters. This thing is 30.6 centimeters, which is actually closer to a 60% keyboard. 00:01:24.210 --> 00:01:30.080 They say the way they did that was by actually shortening some of the keys, but more on that in a moment too. 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:34.000 A, to C cable for charging, this is a wireless keyboard 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.531 so you don't need this all the time, but if you want wired play, you can do it. 00:01:37.531 --> 00:01:40.281 (paper rustling) 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:45.230 Let's get to the actual keyboard. (paper rustling) 00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:51.763 There she blows, and there's an extra, there's just an extra for the peel. 00:01:52.670 --> 00:01:55.940 It is compact, and it has a dongle for a 2.4 gigahertz 00:01:55.940 --> 00:02:00.620 connection, zero latency, they say. 00:02:00.620 --> 00:02:04.240 But of course you can play wire too. I liked that there's a spot to hold the dongle 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.120 and it actually appears to be magnetic. That is like a no scope, freaking gamers. 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.070 This thing is a tight package, man it doesn't flex it really at all. And well, why would it, and have the size of this? 00:02:15.070 --> 00:02:18.057 And that is. (keyboard keys clicking) There's so much to think about (chuckling), 00:02:19.050 --> 00:02:23.208 Some height-adjust, those also are rubberized. Now I got the browns working right now. 00:02:23.208 --> 00:02:27.595 (keyboard keys clicking) It's tactile, what's that you're holding over there? 00:02:27.595 --> 00:02:32.180 - [Jono] Oh, are you gonna eat it? - Oh, yeah, I would say this is probably 00:02:32.180 --> 00:02:37.791 about one and a third bananas and it's about as thick as the tip, yeah, that's cool. 00:02:37.791 --> 00:02:41.700 (keyboard keys clicking) This is what it sounds like with the browns y'all (keyboard keys clicking) 00:02:41.700 --> 00:02:45.810 but I'll get them all out and we'll do a sound comparison later. Per key RGB lighting. 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:49.500 This is the first wireless keyboard from ASUS 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:55.170 that supports Aura sync actually. Cool, these key caps are PVT, double shot injected. 00:02:55.170 --> 00:02:59.350 They have a cool kind of tactile sandblasty look 00:02:59.350 --> 00:03:05.800 on the top of them you can see the double shot injector right there. It's white on the inside with the black around it, 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.180 that's so the light can shine through the legend as you see here. 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:13.982 The stems are a little shorter than a typical key cap. That's how they were able to get this shorter 00:03:13.982 --> 00:03:19.870 than even a normal 65 percenter. There's a trade off with that, which is that replacement key cap may not be compatible 00:03:19.870 --> 00:03:23.600 with this board. They specifically say that the page up and page down keys, 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:28.050 which I never use personally are a non-standard height. 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:31.380 I don't know what the rest of the keys, they might fit, 00:03:31.380 --> 00:03:35.790 but these look like pretty good key caps anyway. I like the legend, it's not too gamery 00:03:35.790 --> 00:03:40.610 but it's interesting looking, it's kind of sci-fi. Now another thing that's nice about this 65 percenter 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:45.090 is it has arrow keys and they're totally normal they're not in a weird configuration or anything like that 00:03:45.090 --> 00:03:49.360 and when you're typing, what, we have a Shift, right where I'd expected to be on the pinky 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:54.240 North American style enter key. I would probably remap the Delete and Insert 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.988 because this is a non-standard configuration 00:03:57.988 --> 00:04:01.444 with these nav keys. It's nice that they have nav keys, but since you're gonna have to learn the position 00:04:01.444 --> 00:04:04.630 to use anyway, I would learn right off the bat 00:04:04.630 --> 00:04:08.130 having Delete right beside Backspace since they're kinda like, 00:04:08.130 --> 00:04:11.310 Backspace and Delete they kinda work together. Oh man, I just touched this touch bar thing 00:04:11.310 --> 00:04:17.190 and my computer did stuff. So this is a re-mappable capacitive touch bar 00:04:17.190 --> 00:04:20.620 and you can use the software, which we're gonna look at it in a second to change it 00:04:20.620 --> 00:04:27.900 from being your volume slider, to a battery indicator, to zoom in and out on maps and all sorts of stuff 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:31.830 so, that is pretty cool. You can also, if you're afraid of hitting it, 00:04:31.830 --> 00:04:35.260 I believe you can do Function + Tab and lock it. 00:04:35.260 --> 00:04:38.280 Yeah, speaking of Function, there's a bunch of function keys on here 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:43.660 you can do all the F keys you can see them printed on the bottom side of the key caps there, they're on the number row. 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:49.410 There's also a bunch of media control keys in there and if you don't want to hit Function to hit, 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:53.960 for each one of those strokes, you can actually do a function lock. You're just in function land, 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:58.450 and you don't have to hold anything down. And finally, with the Function key you can do 00:04:58.450 --> 00:05:03.163 on the fly macros, and they made it super easy you do Function + left Alt. 00:05:04.140 --> 00:05:08.980 Now I'm in macro recording mode. (keyboard keys clicking) I type my macro and then that's the same thing to get out, 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:13.240 Function + left Alt again, and my macro is recorded. And if you don't wanna do that, 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.483 there's a way to do it in the software too. What about this case cover thing? 00:05:18.500 --> 00:05:22.690 Does it just friction fit on there? Oh, it's nice, it's snug. 00:05:22.690 --> 00:05:27.057 There's a bit of play because it actually hits the keys. Oh God, Oh my God (laughs). 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:32.616 Maybe turn it off before you put this thing on. Here's what's a little different, you can, oh God, 00:05:32.616 --> 00:05:37.100 you can see that there's rubberized triangular skates 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:41.400 on here as well so you actually meant to put it this way. 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:45.680 And when you do that, they say that it will like defuse the RGB, 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.883 I guess the side view of the RGB. 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:52.930 And yes, you can still use the touch bar when it's in there. There's a little cutaway. - [David] Nice. 00:05:52.930 --> 00:05:58.060 They thought of everything. Now, battery life, they are claiming 450 hours of battery life 00:05:58.060 --> 00:06:01.630 on a single charge of this puppy. Of course, with RGB off. 00:06:01.630 --> 00:06:04.980 With RGB on 56 hours, 30 minutes a charge 00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:08.813 gets you 30 hours of gameplay. And it's all thanks to a 00:06:08.813 --> 00:06:16.253 4,000 million power lithium ion battery inside. Now how, oh God, let's do a switch comparison. 00:06:17.396 --> 00:06:21.129 (paper rustling) How many? - [Jono] They could be with anyone. 00:06:21.129 --> 00:06:24.920 (keyboard keys clicking) There you go, guys 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:29.110 These are the clickiest. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:06:29.110 --> 00:06:33.285 I like the space bar sound for some reason, it is different than the rest of the keys. 00:06:33.285 --> 00:06:37.190 (keyboard keys clicking) That's not atypical. This will probably give you a competitive edge 00:06:37.190 --> 00:06:41.510 in a lamp party because people around you will be annoyed. (Jono laughs loudly) 00:06:41.510 --> 00:06:46.083 These are gonna be a little harder to press than the Reds we'll check in a second, 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:50.761 but you can definitely feel that tactile click. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:06:50.761 --> 00:06:54.230 And then your brain is like, "Oh, I should go to the next letter, 'cause I've got it." 00:06:54.230 --> 00:06:58.950 All right, let's go onto the Reds. The linears, the gaming configuration. 00:06:58.950 --> 00:07:03.540 You wanna be able to press quickly. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:03.540 --> 00:07:08.280 That is pretty smooth. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:12.260 Not a bad sound, either. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:12.260 --> 00:07:16.883 Not a bad sound. (keyboard keys clicking) - [Jono] I could use that. (keyboard keys clicking) Picture this in your life. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:22.322 I'm just writing it like a novel. And you guys don't know, but in my mind, it's very... 00:07:22.322 --> 00:07:25.640 (keyboard keys clicking) These are just so, because they're so small, 00:07:25.640 --> 00:07:31.000 like it was just so rock solid on the base. Like wanting me out is just dope. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.500 I'm gonna go back to the Browns. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:38.695 Oh, the happy medium. (laughs) The goldilocks zone. 00:07:38.695 --> 00:07:42.760 (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:42.760 --> 00:07:44.360 I think the Red one is the best. 00:07:46.150 --> 00:07:50.070 The Blue one sounds almost rattling compared to that. (keyboard keys clicking) 00:07:50.070 --> 00:07:54.200 Great, well, I like them a lot. Now let's hook them up to the software 00:07:54.200 --> 00:07:58.650 and see what it's like to really use this touch bar. So here, this is almost like when you're configuring 00:07:58.650 --> 00:08:03.310 wireless earphones for like what the different inputs do. So the inputs we get are a swipe up, 00:08:03.310 --> 00:08:07.570 which is you could call that swipe away, swipe up, 00:08:07.570 --> 00:08:10.543 swipe down, top section Tab, 00:08:12.740 --> 00:08:17.148 middle section Tab, and bottom section Tab. I don't know how that's demarcated. 00:08:17.148 --> 00:08:21.540 I don't know if it's like in thirds, I guess, 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:25.260 you can make it display battery level, which is what I've got right now. 00:08:25.260 --> 00:08:29.190 I guess it's kind of like a health bar 00:08:29.190 --> 00:08:33.273 I'm down to kinda in the middle there, or you can make it sync with your keyboard lighting. 00:08:34.580 --> 00:08:37.620 That's pretty sweet. It's just basically like breathing RGB. 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:44.200 It is possible to change just using your keyboard, the brightness and the pattern of the lights, 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:48.310 but then there's lighting controls in here too. Okay, this is a lot more my speed, 00:08:48.310 --> 00:08:52.490 I like having a GUI instead. You can do the brightness, the speed of the pattern, 00:08:52.490 --> 00:08:58.043 the direction of the patterns, sick. How about outward ripple, sick. 00:08:59.860 --> 00:09:01.793 Oh, I like a chonky ripple. 00:09:03.090 --> 00:09:07.390 How about a slim ripple? Rain drops, sweet. Okay, I digress. 00:09:07.390 --> 00:09:12.883 I was tryna look at the touch thing. So swipe up, that can be volume, zoom. 00:09:14.370 --> 00:09:17.540 Okay, wait, if I go into zoom, I can make it zoom in or out. 00:09:17.540 --> 00:09:23.443 You can play inverted guys, select a key. Oh, I can just, I can pay respects with a swipe? 00:09:24.950 --> 00:09:29.850 That's dope, man hold on, there, oh, I made it R by accident. 00:09:29.850 --> 00:09:34.683 Oops, but look at that, you can actually go slow or you can go, you can rip, 00:09:36.750 --> 00:09:39.363 just like volume, I guess. Swipe down, 00:09:43.900 --> 00:09:47.260 okay, my body's ready. It's really cool how you can have different, 00:09:47.260 --> 00:09:50.390 like I can do volume with taps and then zooming in with swipes. 00:09:50.390 --> 00:09:55.390 This is powerful, robust. 00:09:55.650 --> 00:10:01.210 Okay guys, I think that is a pretty good overview of this beast, this puppy. 00:10:01.210 --> 00:10:05.170 I touched a lot of these keyboards. A lot of them, the cheap ones from Amazon, 00:10:05.170 --> 00:10:09.320 which aren't even that cheap or not this good. This is cool, I'm trying not to shill, 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.580 but I'm not shilling. It's sponsored, but it's actually, 00:10:13.580 --> 00:10:18.032 it seems okay at first glance, I'll say that. Yeah, how much does it cost Jono? 00:10:18.032 --> 00:10:23.180 - [Jono] $159.99. - 160 hey, $160. 00:10:23.180 --> 00:10:27.292 I mean like the cheapest no-name brand Amazon basics, 00:10:27.292 --> 00:10:30.623 ones of these are gonna be like 30, 40 bucks, 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.103 which is, a quarter. 00:10:35.010 --> 00:10:38.040 But hey, Chinese new years coming on, 00:10:38.040 --> 00:10:42.350 get those red envelopes. Yeah, good keyboards are expensive, What can I say? 00:10:45.570 --> 00:10:47.461 See you later. (all laughing)