Metadot Das Keyboard Ultimate Blank Mechanical Blue Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to the Dos keyboard This is the
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ultimate s the Dos keyboard by metad do
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comes in four different configurations at least at the time of filming this
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video there is a clicky version and then
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a less clicky version so if you guys are familiar with mechanical keyboards you
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know what clicky is personally I'm a clicky guy not everyone is some people
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have you know sleeping nearby or annoy co-workers nearby and they even if they
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want a clicky keyboard they can't have one so there's that then they have the
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professional and the ultimate edition this one right here is the clicky
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Ultimate Edition keyboard and what makes
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it ultimate well you guys will find out shortly because there are quite a few
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things about this keyboard that I personally think make it ultimate um
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that are not necessarily the reason for the name so it comes with a little
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cleaning cloth that's not very ultimate don't worry about that uh it is fully
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compatible with Windows Mac and Linux in fact you can even buy little uh key set
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kits that will change your Windows Keys over to uh option keys if you want all
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right moving right along let's see what metad do has to say for themselves on
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the back of the key or on the back of the keyboard on the back of the box here
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mechanical key switches for maximum speed and comfort this is true in fact
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if you go to the Das Keyboard website they have a cool little typing test
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where you can compete and race with people in real time and people are on
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there all the time I actually wasted like 2 hours on it one night when I was
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like oh this is neat so it just automatically starts a new race and
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grabs whoever's like like on there and then you just race against each other
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and it records your average words per minute and all that cool stuff so um I
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tested that with a mechanical keyboard not one of these this is my first ass
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keyboard although I've played with them before um I was testing a mechanical
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keyboard versus a Logitech g15 so you know a good membrane keyboard and what I
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found for myself was I was about 15% faster with a mechanical keyboard my
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wife who has long pianist fingers was
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about 20% faster on her mechanical keyboard which is not even a great
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typing keyboard I'm not going to name any names but it was mechanical she
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found she was about 20% faster than she was on a membran keyboard so yes it is
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faster and it is more comfortable this is not open for debate uh uses the most
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advanced German engineered gold plate and slightly KCK clicky mechanical key
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switches available in the industry full End Key rollover means even if you type
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with your face you won't accidentally press anything and it will register
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every keystroke avoiding key jamming I think that was more of a problem on
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typewriters however it is still valid on keyboards because it can you can run
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into issues on poorly made and poorly designed keyboards with that great
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multi-purpose keyboard for fast typists and Gamers alike and just general
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elitists for this particular one and I'll explain why highspeed USB 2.0 Hub
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very cool extra long cable got it okay got all that got all that
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and that's what Daniel gr gr okay Daniel
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if you type 8 hours a day it might be as well be on the best available keyboard I
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initially created this UNC compromising keyboard for myself and now I'm excited
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to share it with you what makes it
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ultimate no way no key labels whatsoever so
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unless you are Elite typist you cannot use this keyboard
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that's right it has a built-in exclusion
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of people who aren't as good at typing as you are factor built right into it no
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one can sit down at your computer and use it unless they bring their own
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keyboard awesome all right so build
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quality yes most mechanical keyboards
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because they are intended to be be sold at a higher price are built just plain
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better than most membrane keyboards this has always been true no this is not a
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model M however this is pretty much as good as it's going to get today uh in
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terms of the layout okay so you can see we've got a pretty standard layout you
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got your Escape key your function keys you've got your TIY your numbers your
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backspace your enter your shift your other shift everything is correctly laid
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out there's your Windows keys and there are no sort of extra things thrown in
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you know short backspace short shift personally I find this to be the ideal
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keyboard layout you've got a couple keys that are slightly different from the other ones there's your dots for your
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home row so I mean you probably type without looking at your keyboard anyway
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if you're getting one of these um but you know that'll help you find your home
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row you've also got a dot in the middle on the five of the number pad so that
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you will also be able to find your home position on the number pad itself now
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why does it include a cleaning cloth because it does have a glossy surface so
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not everyone's the biggest fan in the world of glossy but it does make it look quite nice you know what let me go find
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a keycap remover and uh I will take off one of the caps and show you guys the
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mechanical switches so we removed one of the key
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caps actually one of the things I like about this keyboard versus one of the
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other mechanical keyboards that I have is that the keys are a little bit
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difficult to remove so uh uh one of the ones I have keys will actually pop off
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while you're typing sometimes yeah that's on the uh the one my wife uses
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sorry guys I'm just talking to Slick um so yeah that's sort of inconvenient in
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fact once I was cleaning her keyboard and I was like vacuuming it to get the
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dust out from in between the keys I vacuumed up a key which wouldn't even
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have been that bad if I'd been using like a portable vac but I was using a
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built-in V so I had to go all the way down to the garage pull the entire full
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Reservoir off of it and dig through like
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years of dead skin cell accumulation and
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dog hair to find the key so anyway long
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story short it's good that the keys stay on um moving right along right blue keys
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so I think it is fairly um optimistic of Dash keyboard to say that they're
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slightly clicky because blue Keys blue key switches are extremely clicky and
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they are my favorites because they feel
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so good to type on and uh here we go
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Blue key are oh oops okay whatever uh
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blue keys are generally the preferred key uh key switches of typists however
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there's no reason that Gamers wouldn't also enjoy them as well personally I
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don't find that the keycaps make much of a difference to the gaming experience
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whereas with typing it is night and day it's night and day going from membrane
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to Mechanical and then it's night and day going from any mechanical keyboard
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to the one that really suits your style the best so what makes them clicky is
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the fact that they are
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okay they like they reach a they reach a threshold Point here come getting really
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close so no noise here then you reach a
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threshold that is where the key actuates and then it has some more travel down to
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the base so you actually don't even have to fully depress them in order to type
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comfortably on it but if you want to you can bottom them out as well so if you
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have a neighbor who doesn't want to listen to you typing all the
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time this is not the keyboard for you but I say get it anyway because it's
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really comfortable and really awesome and you know who cares what they think anyway so thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of what I personally believe is like I said the ultimate elitist
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keyboard um the Dos keyboard ultimate don't
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forget to subscribe lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and we've also got high
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quality rubber pieces on the bottom of the keyboard that will keep it from
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slipping and going anywhere should you decide to elevate a little bit or should
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you decide to not do that don't forget to subscribe to L
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techtips I forgot to mention guys it does come with a USB to PS2 adapter
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don't forget there are two USB plugs at the end one for the Hub one for the
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keyboard functionality itself