within my first six months here at LTT i worked on a roundup of the cheapest
mechanical keyboards on amazon where we actually identified a couple of really
good value boards however there was one thing that all
those cheap keyboards had in common
none of them had cherry mx key switches arguably the industry's gold standard
when it comes to reliability feel and sound but hold on to your keycaps
because g-skill has announced what they say is the most affordable
cherry mx keyboard on the market at just 49.99
so today we're gonna do an actual real test to see if this is the last keyboard
that you ever need to buy or if no one can even tell the
difference between true cherries and their cheaper chinese clones anyway
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okay so here under this cloth i have three different keyboards we have our
new gskill km360 with cherry mx red switches then there's a Corsair k65 also
with cherry mx reds and then there's a viper 770 with red equivalent kale
switches now admittedly this isn't the most scientific test because we're not
controlling variables pretty well because we're not using the same keyboard all the time but with different
switches they are different keyboards so they will feel a little bit different
but we are going to do a future video where we pit all the different kale and
cherry and zelio switches all against each other in a more scientific
comprehensive and controlled manner so subscribe if you're looking forward to
that video for now we're just going to get all the weird tech enthusiasts and
gamers we have in the office to come here try these keyboards and see if they
can spot the knot
okay let's do it
at home i use rumor g's and so i don't think
i have the best
indicator i'd say three and one
feel the most similar to me
i'm gonna guess that one and three are the actual reds and two is the fake red
they all seem pretty linear to me
there's actually a little bit of variance i think in terms of the the weights
i feel like some are going down easier than others
uh this actually feels a little better i think
this one feels a little bit stiffer
i would say that the smoother action of number three would probably be cherry
i'm not sure if this is cherry or not but it's also pretty smooth this one is
a little rough actually which is strange because people would usually want a red
switch for its smooth linear action
cherry kale
now dude my gut instinct uh that's always the worst
wait definitely not that one
this one feels the best these two
i think of the cherry switches i think this one's the kale switch
i don't know this feels like cherry reds number one
although these also might be the kales
i could be totally wrong there
i feel like number three feels a bit different
so i'm guessing that the middle one is kale and the two on the outside are the
cherries although i don't really like the feel of any of them and wouldn't use them reds are not
great in my opinion so much of the sound actually comes from
like the keycaps smacking the switch
it's not even from the actual switch itself which makes it really hard to
oh man i don't know
i think the middle one is kale and the other two are cherry
hello my name is riley
that's different
wait i think i know i think number three is
number three is kale this
this one that one's cherry that one's kale
number three that's kale number one and two that's cherry mx and i know that
because i played piano i'm very familiar with keys you are wrong see you later
okay so literally zero of our participants were able to
correctly identify which were cherries and which one was kale but i mean
they feel the same like regardless the km360 is still a good deal at 50
it's a minimalistic 10 keyless with narrow bezels a detachable braided usb
type-c cable and every marketer's favorite anodized aircraft-grade
aluminum top plate which permits only modest deck flex
both black and white varieties come with a white led backlight and looks so good
that it's really tough to choose a favorite but i think i'm leaning towards
the black one i'm also leaning towards wearing LTT merch the rest of my life
and wearing the underwear right now so head on over to lttstore.com and get
these garments on your body anyway the double shot injected abs
plastic keycaps are marked with a very clear and professional legend and of
course underneath
oh god cherry mx key switches note though that
unlike many mechanical keyboards which give you the choice of which switch type
you want the km360 is only available with cherry mx reds
well except for under the space bar which uses the slightly harder to press
cherry mx black key switch so
why just reds our guess is that limiting the km360 to a single skew help g-skill
achieve that low 49.99 price point and
they chose red specifically because they're tarting gamers many of whom seem
to opt for the linear low activation four switches so
what other corners did they cut in order to sell this thing for just 50 bucks
well the easiest way to assess that is to compare the new km 360 2g skills
existing rip draws km 560 which they sell for 30 dollars more the biggest
difference typing-wise is weight this thing is just 685 grams while the
km 560 is 960 grams while it is true
that the lower weight makes the board more portable many typos prefer
keyboards with thick metal back plates because they like the solid feel that
this gives it this is actually one of the reasons that people love the original model m keyboards which i
highly recommend learning more about here next there's the lack of media keys
now the rip draws km 560 also lacks
dedicated media keys like the kind you'd find on say a Corsair k65 but it does
have media playback control on a secondary layer the new km360 doesn't
even give you that and finally neither
and finally neither have dedicated macro
keys the km560 does support on-the-fly macro recording whereas the new km360 is
not programmable in any way sorry taren but even compared to the
cheapo keyboards from our roundup that we did at least all those ones had
multiple backlight effects but this one only gives you the ability to dim the
backlight through various levels than off
though it does it does indicate key activation by adding extra brightness
to the key which is kind of cool i guess
so should you buy this keyboard let's set aside the cherry mx switches for a
moment because even without them this is quite a nice board it definitely has
better plastics and build quality than your typical amazon qwerty plus it's
coming from a reputable company with an actual warranty it might be worth a 50
bucks just for that when it comes to the actual key switches though it's a bit
harder to say whether they're definitely worth an extra 15 or 20 dollars because
as we saw most people won't even be able to feel
the difference others can and they'll tell you that the mainstream consensus
is that cherry makes the best key switches in the world period especially
when it comes to reliability and lifespan but then there's the enthusiast
community where more than a few people claim that these chinese clones like the
kales now equal or even surpass cherry
regardless of all that though in my humble opinion this is a great value no
frills keyboard that most people will feel great purchasing
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