Filco Majestouch 2 Cherry MX Red Mechanical Keyboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the filco magist stouch 2 this is a mechanical
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keyboard and you can see here filco has
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so many different configurations of their keyboards they let you have pretty
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much whatever you could possibly want in
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terms of the layout so you can have you can have different layouts different
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sizes different switches under them you can have different color schemes of the
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keyboards we've unboxed a cam one before which is pretty cool uh this particular
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one has a black body cover with a 104 key Arrangement so it doesn't have the
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missing number pad it has Cherry MX red
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switches which are basically like a softer version of the black switch so
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that is to say that it's very linear in terms of the travel there isn't like a
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resistance and then a click and then a release uh it's very linear and it
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requires less Force to depress than a
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black switch which isn't to say that it has like a neurological disorder that
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causes it to be sad that is to just say
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that um it is being pressed down
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depressed not like you
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know like it needs you know help from
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somebody to become undepressed although actually no because it doesn't need help
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to be I'm the one making it depressed and then if I would just stop putting so
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much pressure on it then it would be
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undepressed I don't know where I was going with any of this okay so let's
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have a look at the keyboard itself filco is a world-renowned brand they're a
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Japanese brand pretty much if you're into keyboards and more people are into
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keyboards than you would think you have heard of filco you are familiar with
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filco and you probably want a filco keyboard in some shape or form so they
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are known for their build quality very
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very solid keyboards it's not quite a model M but then again nothing is uh
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what can I say right however as far as modern keyboards go you aren't going to
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do any better than this there's absolutely no flex to the deck itself
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there is that weight to it like it's not you know once again it's not a model M
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like you probably couldn't kill a man with it but you could stun him you know
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like if someone broke into your like your gaming den and you all like oh I
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have you know no like axes nearby you can pick up keyboard and be like pow and
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then hopefully you wouldn't wck the USB port because this keyboard does plug
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into your computer by USB or PS2 with the adapter it features n key rollover
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which means you can press as many keys as you want without running into any
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difficulty with you know random ghosting and you know if you learn to type with
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your face then you could type with your face and that would be really weird
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looking but like probably effective uh in terms of the layout I love it because
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as I'm one of those guys who wants to see long shifts enters and backspace
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keys because I have small hands and I can't reach a backspace key over here
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without moving my index finger off of the J which means that I'll get lost
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when I go back and then it'll be a total disaster and I won't know what to do um
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no tall delete key thumbs up again no function key on this one that's
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kind of interesting so two Windows keys this is I guess not a more gaming
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oriented model whereas on the last gaming oriented one we had a function
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key here with media Keys up here and just over Windows key on this side we've
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also got a full number pad and honestly
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in terms of the mechanical keyboard typing experience the number pad to me
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is very important because in my particular job I do a lot of typing on a
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number pad I can actually touch type faster on a number pad than I can
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actually touch type in terms of written
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like words and stuff because I enter a lot of numbers into my computer and
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mechanical Keys make everything faster everyone that I have put a mechanical
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keyboard in front of types faster and is more comfortable than they are on a
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membrane key switch because they do provide more responsiveness more
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feedback and just like they're they're
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better they become depressed more EAS uh undepressed more easily as well so
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that's a good thing too uh again build quality huge rubber pads quality rubber
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pads these are incredibly non-slip four of them on the bottom you can also flip
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up these guys right here and they have folding rubber pads that aren aren't
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going anywhere if you want to Incline the keyboard a little bit and what it
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comes down to with FCO yes they're expensive yes they're a much better
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typing experience and yes you can get pretty much whatever you want in terms
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of the layout the color scheme the switches that you prefer try keyboards
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find out what you prefer personally I'm not an MX red guy it's just not my thing
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however that doesn't mean that I couldn't get this keyboard with different switches cuz feel cool rolls
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