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do you like expensive keyboards i like expensive keyboards and we've got a big

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old box from wuche studios makers of some other boards like the aurora and

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the mammoth not the most expensive but they're over

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200 sometimes in the four or 500 range especially for their i think the balance

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keyboard is like 465. we've got the promise 87 here in this box today and it

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is so far there's just been an interest check i think but they've sent us like

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an initial sample to take a look at this box is pretty big though so there's

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definitely more than just a keyboard in here and i'm really curious to see what else they sent

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let's check it out oh okay so we got some switches

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don't know what these are but they're boxy let me open one

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they are lubed which is great i don't have to do anything

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i mean okay if you do your own loop job it's probably gonna be better in the long run but

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factory lube at least in my opinion is like okay it's serviceable

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yeah that's all right i don't know what these are they're just some linears

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we've got a whole bunch of these guys one two

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three four five

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okay and then this is something else entirely this is really heavy what's in

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here what oh it's like a holder that's actually great i just complained

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recently about um how i don't like most organizers because

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they're a pain in the ass to get everything in each individual socket but

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with this you can just put like all your bottom housings here all your top housings here and then take put the

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stems in there if you want to um cool i don't know if we'll use that for

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anything but that's neat oh we got more switches wow wait no these aren't

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switches at all these are lit stabs see we've got some stabilizers as well as

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what looks like band-aid mod i don't know what to call these anymore

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because they used to just call it band-aid mod but these days it's they've

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got an actual name for them basically you just take those little tabs kind of

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like the band-aid mod and you put them on your pcb and then you put your stabilizers over them

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oh it's hefty let's get this ugly box out of the way

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oh my god i can like barely hold it up with one hand

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yeah i love the box already it's got these nice pink or rose gold letters

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with a cool emblem in the center with like i don't know weird angular hearts

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or something you've got the wuche studio logo right there and oh a really minor

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detail is if you can see this it's angled the

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slit down the side here and that's because apparently the um the

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bottom weight can be split and then you get like two different kinds or

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something like you can get two different materials we've got an engraving so i

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think we have the more expensive version but i'm really curious to see and find

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out oh my god so we've got two boxes here

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this little box which i'm not sure what's in here looks

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like gaskets one cool thing about this guy is they've

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got their new slip-on gasket design i haven't actually seen these yet so

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instead of like applying your gaskets you just slip them

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onto the plate uh very very cool they've made these

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open source as well so anyone can make them if they want to

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i'm very intrigued to see how these feel it looks like they've given us black and

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white options this is probably just like a polycarb plate and some other stuff

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like that yeah pcb probably as well oh this is

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very nice i'll give them this you know you're paying a lot for this board the

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packaging is absolutely beautiful look at this you've got like a wax stamp

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oh that's beautiful so here's our foam

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there's our pcb i think this was the plate right here

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yeah and then this is more foam probably cool

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that's all of our materials uh here's the big boy oh my god

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oh my god oh my god

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it's so heavy oh wow so it's like a little carrying case

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beautiful yeah for the money honestly you're you're expecting a lot and so far

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i'm kind of getting a lot oh my god

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okay

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how does that look oh we didn't get the design i thought they were gonna give us

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a design they're probably like yeah that's too much money basically there's a bunch of different finishes you get

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like silver gold you can get this really cool one like here you can get a

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mirror finish as well and then when you've got the 800 or the 900 version

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you can get an engraving too so you do get a little extra for paying

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more and then the big extra that we've got is this moissanite

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right here it's got a usbc port right in the middle of the board so if you prefer

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yours to the side this might not be the board for you this one is a tkl and it's being

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heralded as like the next level of customization in a tkl

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i don't know how much i agree with that but there are a number of features that

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you can customize so basically these little um accents here with the

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moisonite you can get them in silver or gold they're the same color as the case

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and then you can change them here you can change them here

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and you can also get different chamfered edges looks like we've got the silver

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ones i'm going to take this thing home and build it and then i'll give you guys

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a much better understanding of how the build experience went how the quality of

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all of the little extras we've got are like the stabilizers and whatnot and the

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switches i'll use the switches they included as well and then i'll give you

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all a whole rundown on how it feels and whether or not i think it's worth

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right back

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uh yeah so i built it built the promise 87 it's pretty sweet i

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have a couple complaints but mostly it's all praise particularly because the

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biggest news is they've actually lowered the price i talked to someone from wuche

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recently and they said yes um the group by price that we originally posted on

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reddit is not what we're going with oh man it does look nice

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it's uh it's gonna be i think 380 for the regular version and uh up to 570 for

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the bespoke version with all the bells and whistles which is expensive that's

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still a really expensive keyboard but it's not a thousand dollars 900 is expensive

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if i was you know talking about this from the 900 price point i would say

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it's not worth it uh it's a really nice keyboard and i think at 380 or even 500

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it is really good uh but yeah take a look at this thing uh we didn't have a

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full keycap set they sent us most of that irish set like i showed you guys

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which was like uh specialty keys and like control and

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stuff like that but it didn't have alphanumeric but in the meantime what we

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got was our ceramic we got our ceramic keycaps from syrah key and i'm really

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excited to say that i actually rather enjoy them uh as for the build experience itself it

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was pretty solid i my one issue is i try

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to insert every screw a little bit and then tighten it all down and what

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happened to me was i had the top two inserted first

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and i pressed down a little bit and i'm pretty sure i stripped a tiny bit of the

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housing inside so these two screws right around here are not fully seated

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everything else is screwed down nice and tight and it's still pretty

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good in terms of like tolerances on the case but you can see here in this top

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left corner that ours isn't fully

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closed and you can close it

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with your hands and i tried that i tried pressing down as much as i could maybe

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thought maybe just the top uh what you call that tooth on the screw

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was just not there anymore and i figured oh i pushed down and get it to seat but no not quite

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but it's still really good and the reality is

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i really like it um i kind of want it at my desk we should

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probably do some kind of typing test now and it feels really great we use their

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wuche aurora switches they sent a whole bunch of those they're just a linear

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switch and i like the feel of them i like the sound of them

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let's type on it can we type on it where's the typing

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tool where's the laptop give me the laptop one one of the nice little

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features is there's actually an RGB or i don't know if it's RGB but there's an

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led below the moistenite and so it shines red just barely i don't know if

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you can turn that off or not another nice thing about the uh ceramic keycaps

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is they have really good light shine through apparently and you can see here

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there's not a bunch of RGB on this board to show you that but the caps lock

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lights up and the light is all the way on the left so there's only that one

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portion there but i have to think that a full RGB uh keyboard is actually going

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to shine pretty nicely as for the feel um i like it it's like glass kind of and

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now i want glass keys just to try those but they're pretty heavy they sound

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really nice my only issue is there's no bump for the home row so if you're trying to find it blind that can be a

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little tough um but like going from the

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i think the pbt at the top here that came with this and then down to the

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ceramic it just your hands kind of sit in them really nicely too they don't

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there's not um they don't slide away very much there's

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kind of they're kind of grippy in a sense uh but yeah let's type on it and

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see how it sounds

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112 97 it's not my fastest it's not my most accurate but

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man i like these things um when you've got the ceramic as soon as your fingers

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start to sweat they do get a little slippery so based on this really quick

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test i can't tell you whether i really like them or not i know that i like the

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sound and the initial feel and i do like the look so i have to test drive them a

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lot longer to give you a more definitive answer the only other really minor

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issues that happened with this unit probably because it's an early sample

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hours came with the feet pre-installed and then it didn't come with any sort of

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allen key so i luckily had keys at home and it was fine i could tighten

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everything down no problem but um that wasn't an issue and then on top of that

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it doesn't come with a cable you're paying a lot of money for a very expensive keyboard that does not come

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with a cable but the reality is you're going to instead buy your own that then

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fits in that hey lines you want to try to type on the really nice keyboard did you just justify it not including a

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cable yeah because you're going to want to buy your own that matches the keyboard and your desk setup

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well why don't they provide one that matches the keyboard

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they could yeah

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there's no bumps on the home row that's stupid i mentioned that already

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those are ceramic keycaps okay let's give it a quick way and see how heavy it

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is it's got to be like at least 10 pounds maybe not 10 but it's pretty

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close 8.2 pounds so not quite 10 but it's a

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pretty hefty uh piece of gear i'll be frank if i

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didn't already own a 500 350

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keyboard i would be very tempted to buy this i've actually already convinced one

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or two people to at the very least think about it once the group eye opens

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yeah i love it i would get it if you can and you don't already have a big tkl

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that you really want like a nice higher end one this could be the option for you

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it's going to come in a bunch of different colors even if you don't pay the extra to customize it they will have

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like the most popular ones kind of pre-made that you can choose from

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the plate is maybe something i would change

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ours came with an extra polycarb plate so i would maybe try that out instead

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just to see if i prefer it but otherwise it's pretty sweet

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as for the keycaps themselves these are a completely different product from a

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completely different brand i like them they are expensive i don't know if i

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would personally well no that's not true i kickstarted them so i've got my i've

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got my own set coming but at a reduced price because of the kickstarter price i

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think mine were like a hundred dollars or something the full indiegogo price is

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140 uh these do come in a number of

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different styles right now we've just got white with legend but they come

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blank they can come um glazed with a number of different colors and options i

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think i got a blue set with legend on the way and uh yeah that is the promise 87 from

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wuche i really like it i think that is

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definitely a good keyboard uh justifying

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spending that much money can be difficult but if you're into the hobby

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then yeah maybe pick it up thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you want to watch another video about a keyboard

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that i don't necessarily recommend but i do like for the aesthetics check out the

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pop keyboard from logitech