Func KB-460 Mechanical Keyboard
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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914 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the KB 460 from Funk this is a brand you haven't
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seen featured much on the channel and the reason for that is that they just
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don't really have that many products up till now so the ms3 is their gaming
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mouse that I really feel is quite optimal for people with larger hands and
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both Diesel and b-roll actually use them day-to-day at their editing stations and
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this is the follow-up the KB 460 so first up inside we find a product manual
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next inside we find a couple of little
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presumably feet or something we'll find out what those are for later and we've
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also got some nice closed cell foam packing material on either side of what
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is a fairly sturdy
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feeling Cherry MX red back lit
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mechanical keyboard once we get the keyboard extracted from
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the box we find a design that is actually kind of both subdued and
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striking looking so the back plane itself has a matte soft touch feel that
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looks very professional and very clean and then the keys themselves are
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individually LED backlit with red LEDs
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and to augment the LED shine there's actually a red layer underneath all of
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the keys that is easily visible when the keyboard is not powered on see there you
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see that so that the the LEDs Shine off of that as well making the lighting even
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more striking the cable has the standard
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Funk black and orange finish to it it's actually quite a thin cable which it
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makes sense because it terminates in a single connector on the other end so it
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should be borne in mind that these two USB 2.0 ports are non-powered ports so
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you won't be able to plug in like the most you know power hungry like you know
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you know a light in a fan that's for your desk or anything like that it's
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meant to plug in your mouse and maybe a USB drive or something along those lines
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the layout has nothing about it that I would complain about which is a definite
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plus cuz there's usually something for me to gripe about when it comes to
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keyboard layouts long shift Keys long backspace long enter media Keys built in
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as well as built-in profile key so you can actually reprogram any of the keys
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on the keyboard and then switch between the profiles using F7 to f11 along with
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the function key next to the profile Keys there's also the funk mode key
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which does a couple of things so number one is that it illuminates the funk mode
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button no no it does more than that don't worry it also disables the Windows
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key and allows all of these function keys to be accessed without holding
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function so you can switch between profiles on the fly it has built-in
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memory so there's absolutely no driver installation required and the keyboard
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also supports full n key rollover on its
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Cherry MX red switches now Cherry MX red switches are one of those hotly debated
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items gamers will run around saying they're the best things since sliced
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bread because they're extremely light making them great for fast repeated
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pressing whereas typists will run around saying well no I can't type on anything
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but blues and anything but Blues is terrible you know what there's probably
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a middle ground somewhere here but there it is it comes with Cherry MX red
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switches and given that it is a product that is marketed towards Gamers that
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makes a fair bit of sense the last thing of note here is those little clips that
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I had in the Box before so those go down here and then you actually clip the
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wrist rest onto them that gives you a fair bit of flexibility in terms of the
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range of motion of your wrist rest and a system that looks like it'll come off as
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opposed to Breaking this is something I'm happy to see included I'm seeing
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more and more manufacturers just flat out cheap out and not include wrist
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rests and Funk has gone and included a nice wide one that spans the entire
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width of the keyboard kudos to them for that so if I had to summarize the KB 460
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in some way the highest praise I can give it I think is that I have nothing
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to complain about I'm personally not a huge fan of Cherry
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MX red switches so it's not really made for me personally but other than that
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there's nothing wrong with it it's driverless it has all the function keys
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that you might want it's solidly
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built no complaints and when it comes to keyboards if there's not something
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that's driving you crazy about it it's probably just as well that it gets out of your way and you have nothing to
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complain about with it thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of
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