Pimp My Conference Room - Acer Projector, Carada Screen & More!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,350 words · ~11 min read
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so this my friends is going to be a pretty interesting little project this
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is our new conference room boardroom
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meeting room whatever it is you want to call it and up until now it has
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basically had a chair that was left over from chair racing the built-in bench
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seating that we talked about in some of the moving blogs a mini fridge and a
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table in it but the table's pretty cool because it's going to allow us to Tech
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out this room in a way that'll make it great for having meetings and looking at
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projections and all that kind of stuff which is appropriate because we're going to be using a projector on that wall and
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we are going to turn it into actually kind of a sick little gaming space so
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come along for the ride as we pimp out our conference
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room the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your
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midtower PC Chase your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories
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check out the link in the video description to learn more so it starts
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with better seating we reached out to our buds over at Max nomic who actually
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outf footed the rest of the office with chairs already and they are sending us
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their slightly less gamery looking like there's no orange on them but definitely
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comfortable office Comfort chairs to Kit
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out the other three sides of the table that don't have built-in seating next up
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Kara graciously sent us a project ctor screen and this thing is flipping huge
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you know for uh so everyone can see those charts and projections in our
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meetings and finally oh wow I just
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dinged the wall that's okay we're going to put a projector screen
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there and finally Acer's
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h7550 St DLP projector is going to be
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handling well projection duties this thing was sent to us a billion years ago
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when I told Acer hey we're thinking about moving but we need a projector for
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our new boardroom and they were like yeah but you just make sure you get the
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video done in a timely manner now they didn't stay that last
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part which is good because I didn't so this puppy's got three HDMI inputs one
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of which is on the inside for a streaming dongle like a chomecast it's
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even got a little USB power port in there it's got its typical power in and
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we've got our power plug on the ceiling to go along with that but hold on a
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second lonus what about HDMI you don't have an HDMI port in the ceiling do you
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no I do not but I do have a pretty cool
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table so to go along with the 3D glasses
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yes we have a 3D projector for our conference room yeah they also sent over
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their Wireless HD kit this is a 60 GHz
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wireless HDMI kit that I am hoping will be low latency enough for gaming I mean
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uh uh presentations so basically what you do is you plug your laptop into the
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power ports that are built into the table the HDMI and landan ports that are
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built into the table table and then we're going to have our transmitter on
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the bottom of the table so you don't have to run any wires you just plug in
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Bippity Bop and you are streaming hopefully in very low latency to the
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projector so let's test it out shall
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we so putting together the projector frame was pretty straightforward you
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basically just screw the thing into the thing you put a couple of uh mounting
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brackets for the wall rails onto it and
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then you realize that Kara doesn't actually provide the screws for the wall
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brackets themselves so because we're using metal studs here I am going to
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have to either go find out if we have
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any screws that are appropriate for mounting something heavy to metal studs
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or I'm going to have to go obtain some of
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them so we have obtained the tools we need a tape measure some metal screws a
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drill some drill bits a level and a pencil
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and now we need to figure out where exactly we are going to put it okay so
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we have a tough decision to make center
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for the area where people will be seating seated or Center on the
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wall no legitimately Brandon what should we do I would go with seating Center for
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seating this going to look weird though cuz we're going to have like 4 in of
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space here and like and it won't even be centered it
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still won't be centered so sometimes I
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just need someone to say my idea back to me so I can realize how stupid it
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sounds um I could really use a
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ladder 4 in how about that okay sure 1 and 38
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in from where you want the top got
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it let's mark some studs hey hopefully
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this piece of studfinder works it's working just
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fine okay nothing is ever easy when you're
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less and you write nothing down it's
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okay because I remembered 103
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and2 so getting all the frame mounting
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hardware on the wall was actually pretty straightforward as long as you're pretty
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handy with a measuring tape so basically the way it works is you've got your two
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rails on the top end to end and then you
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sit the hooks on the frame on top of that and then these bottom ones these
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bottom ones are tricky because if you don't align it just right it won't work
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because you might be thinking well hold on a second unless you slide it on how's
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it go in there you actually have to stretch the
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frame down under them then the whole
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thing is hooked but of course now we have to take the whole thing down and
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put the actual screen on because I just put it up here for a test
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bit so we need to do this okay so the
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clip for that is aimed for that t so the
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process of clipping the frame working your way around the outside is what
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iions the screen material and gives it a
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nice flat surface so with the screen itself
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tensioned and placed onto the back of the frame it's time to pick up the frame
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again take it back into the boardroom and hang it for real this time so with
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the screen stretched over the frame it was almost as easy to mount it on the
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wall hangers requiring just a little bit more Force than last time to stretch it
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over over the bottom hanger once it was on though it's pretty much flush against
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the wall just a fraction of a cimet of
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clearance around every Edge and looks pretty darn sharp okay and actually the
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decision that we wanted to make earlier but whether to center it in the room or
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whatever was sort of a moot point because you could slide in a fair pit
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after the
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fact
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chair assembly was pretty straightforward nothing I've never done before took about 20 minutes per chair
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and the end result is what you see right
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here it is starting to look like a
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boardroom in here but of course now it's
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time to fire up the projector and see what the difference is between our
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conference room and most conference
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rooms all right there we
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go not too shabby so projector alignment
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can be a bit of a nightmare you Keystone when you should have Twisted you twist
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when you should have moved it to the right you tilt it up when oh no you've
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broken the Keystone now uh but I did
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eventually get it pretty darn close to where we want it to be in terms of
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filling the frame without cutting off things like the start menu a huge
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disadvantage that people who intend to use their projectors for presentations
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and Windows versus people who want to watch movies where you can sacrifice a
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16th of an inch of the edge of a movie whereas you cannot really do that with
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your start menu we got it to the point where it needed to be and then moment of
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truth cuz quite frankly if you look at it in comparison to the screen running
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on the table next to it and not that impressive yeah projectors They Don't
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Really shine so to speak until you turn out the light and that is exactly what
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we did and boy is it an experience in
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here now okay you know what let me see if
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anyone else is still here I need a few volunteers to play an Android game on
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the gigantic projector upstairs yes quicker to train a monkey okay so
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why is pickup skip the tutorial it
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everyone everyone there we go okay freefor
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all don't touch sticky bombs if you don't want to blow up you guys should
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probably team up on Duck yeah so Taran
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you're just going to throw mines until I just I don't know what to do wow there
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are mines everywhere Jesus yeah no I'm uh I'm super pleased
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with how this turned out oh wow everyone stay away from
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Teran oh oh uhoh
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yes okay so in a word that was freaking
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awesome um but what we still don't know
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is whether our wireless dongle will allow us to just plug consoles in down
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here and have a low latency gaming experience up there once we ceiling
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mount the projector at a later date so to validate the latency of the wireless
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dongle I'm going to be using our tried and true Makey Makey test methodology so
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I'm recording in slow-mo on the iPhone and then I'm going to use the Makey
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Makey to touch these two wires together
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generating a left click so I'm going to look at the delay between the light
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turning on on the Makey Makey and the click registering on that icon
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there so here we
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go oh that's trippy hey you can see the uh
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you can see the DLP color
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wheel so the basic methodology for this
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is I go frame by frame through the video clip there we go and I look for the
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frame where the light on the Makey Makey
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illuminates then keep skipping 1 2 3
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4 okay there it is now it's highlighted
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all right so looking at our results it looks like our wireless HDMI adapter
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adds about 30 milliseconds of latency to
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our input chain not too bad is it
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perfect no but we're also not going to be playing you know competitive level
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CSO on here as well so I am pretty pleased and I'm going ahead Full Steam
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with the plan to run wireless HDMI and mount the projector on the ceiling
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but let's suppose for a second you did not want to game with controllers well
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good news for you because I have three
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sets yes friends three complete sets of
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Phoenix collection gaming peripheral so their their whole stick is like yeah we
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got like really kind of Premium feels to the products here so check this out this
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right here is the Arya headset and the
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stick on this guy is that the acoustic chamber is made entirely of Japanese
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Pinewood I don't personally know that Japanese Pinewood necessarily sounds
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better but it certainly looks great so little something like that it's
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got 50 mm drivers it's got memory foam and protein Leather Ear cushions and the
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cushions are definitely definitely nice feeling right there it's got a
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detachable cord the instructions for which are inside the box but there's
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more than that yes each of these three lucky winners will also win an ACA 8200
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DPI laser mouse one of those puppies right there a Deora mouse pad which I'm
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going to have to open because I did not do that before this thing here yeah
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there we
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go yes friends it looks a little something like that and finally an aore
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keyboard so this is featuring Cherry MX Brown switches my personal favorite as
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well as silk screened key cap so it's a full 104 key layout just a little
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something like that so you're probably wondering to yourself well hold on a second lonus how do I
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our projector update in our conference
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