Get a WAIFU and a Wireless Keyboard!!! - NuPhy Air75
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,769 words · ~13 min read
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- So I feel like I want the loudest clickiest keyboard if I'm gonna do any of this business.
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- Ok. - Yeah. - Do you need a keyboard and a new Waifu?
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NuPhy thinks you do. And, they've got the new NuPhy Air75
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wireless mechanical keyboard. It's got the world's thinnest spherical PBT keycaps.
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And this thing is pretty thin in general. It's got I think, 16 mm
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at the thinnest point or something like that. Let's open it up and get you guys a few more shots of it.
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I don't even know what her name is. - [Jono] NuPhy.
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- Yeah, just NuPhy probably, right? Yeah. Okay, so yeah, you got your keyboard here. This little box.
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These are just accessories, probably. I think it comes with like, you know, switch puller and keycaps and cable.
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Oh, and it's got feet. Yeah, so this thing has detachable feet, which is pretty cool. They're magnetic.
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So, you don't have to... like they're trying to make it thin wherever they can.
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So they can't even like flip up the feet. They've gotta put 'em on magnets so that they're detachable
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and you can put them on as you want. 'Cause you know, you need this thing razor thin
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to travel with or whatever, (coughs) whatever you wanna do.
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It's an Okay cable. Nothing special. USB 80 USB-C.
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Oh, okay. Sample switches. So, oh, so it's using these
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low-profile
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gaterons, I think. So they've got red, blue and brown gaterons.
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Super thin low profile like, look at that. That's great.
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The USB dongle is not labeled.
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So, be careful you don't lose it otherwise you're not gonna know what it's for.
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Or I guess if it's the only unlabeled stick you have,
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you'll know it's for your NuPhy. All the reviews I was reading were like pretty decent
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and yeah. Even just holding this thing, like, it's pretty nice.
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It's not perfect but for the thinnest keyboard around,
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or at least, you know, one of the thinnest mechanical keyboards around,
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it's pretty decent. There's not much... like there is some flex to it,
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but really you're going for portability
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and just a super thin low profile minimalist desk set up kind of thing.
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(keyboard clicks) So it feels okay. It sounds okay.
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This is a linear. So it must be the reds. To each their own man, if this, you know,
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if you like clickies, go for it. Uh, it's got LEDs on either side.
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There's some here and then there's one here. Ooh, it's got a little badge. This is like a mirror finish
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on this thing too. It's actually really nice.
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And then the feet attach up here or I guess you can put them down here too properly.
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There are switches on the back for Windows and Mac toggleable. And then what's this guy?
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Off wired and wireless. Oh, okay, so you just switch it.
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That's fine. Or between if you want wired and wireless.
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It's nice having an off switch. Some of them just they don't have off switches.
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They just turn off automatically after like 10 minutes. But it's kind of annoying if you wanna put it in your bag
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right away, you just flick it to off. That's great. You can just throw it in and don't worry about
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any other key presses happening. The other thing that they're offering here
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is these razor thin
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keycaps. They're spherical so if you like the other, like non-spherical ones the cups that are like a U shape,
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then I don't know. I mean, I guess you're out of luck. But it feels okay.
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(keyboard clicks) It's not a very deep like cupping on it. So you're not gonna be, you know,
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missing your keys or anything just because you can't move your finger over fast enough.
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but it's noticeable. I love the color scheme, the gray,
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like the kind of space gray with this darker gray on the back and then just a few...
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lot pastel, but like muted colors, like this orangy here and then the yellow here and the what
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teal, I guess up here. It's nice.
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So just look at the box. It's got a 2500 mAh power battery.
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It's got these low profile switches I already mentioned, ultra thin PVT keycaps yeah.
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So it's a compact 75% layout, which means you still get like your Up Arrow
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keys and stuff. And then a bunch of stuff like delete and Home and End in case you use any of those in your
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F keys. So you're not missing out. It's basically like a laptop keyboard.
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And this thing is actually meant to go over laptops
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and you can then use it. So if you... - [Jono] Wait, what?
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- Yeah, it's meant to go over laptops. So if you buy a laptop, but you absolutely cannot stand the keyboard on it for
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whatever reason, you know, maybe it's just a membrane and you just absolutely cannot
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deal with membrane keyboards. Or maybe you just want something that looks a little nicer
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and you're willing to carry it around with you. You can take this guy and just pop it over whenever you
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want. I'll show you that in a sec, for now let's see what keycaps they sent us in the sample box.
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Oh, it's the carrying case. Oh, this thing's great.
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Okay. Yeah. Nevermind. It's not the keycaps. I was wrong. It's the carrying case.
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Oh, what? Oh my God. (Jono laughs) Oh my God.
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You get a poster I'm pretty sure this I'm sold now.
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I mean, I was really, I was already on there on the side of the fence,
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but they give you a poster and stickers.
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Can I keep these stickers? Oh my God. This is amazing. - [Jono] You can keep one.
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- I can keep one? Okay I get one of the stickers. I'm absolutely fitting that somewhere. So yeah.
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(Jono laughs) You get your own baller, your own poster for NuPhy, if you really wanna simp over NuPhy here.
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I honestly, I hope that's her name. I don't know what else it is.
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I guess she's got a badge. - [Jono] It's not simping when it's for love. (laughs)
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- If you, I mean, honestly, actually kind of like this as wall art
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even though it's a quick start guide, this is great, but I mean really, come on, you got it.
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This is what you got to put on the wall. So aside from the carrying case,
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which I'll show you guys in a sec here, they did send us keycaps, labeled keycaps.
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So I should have seen this, okay So yeah, here's all the other stuff I was expecting.
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You've got a keycap puller... switch puller.
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Ooh, this is nice. They come with this little foam insert to cover them.
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They are, oh, they're not loose, okay. But there's not too much. I mean, yeah,
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I guess you were held by this plastic and this foam. So that's totally fine.
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So I guess my one complain about the keycaps is I would've liked... They're just kind of replacements
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and I would've liked a secondary color scheme or something. Okay, what else we got? We got the feet.
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We'll put the feet on. I really would've liked a better switch puller.
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I really like those ones that are like plastic in the middle and then wire on both ends.
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And one half is a switch puller and the other half is a keycap puller
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Oh, there is one. Oh my God.
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They include it too. Oh, these guys are the best.
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Look at this. These are the best. Yes, it comes right off.
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Yeah, they are the reds. Okay. Oh, you pull these from the side I think.
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Yeah I've never used these low-profile guys. This thing's hot swap, which is always a bonus.
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They've tried really hard when designing this to keep the
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frame up so that you don't see your switches so that everything is like integrated as one solid piece basically.
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And it's all nice and clean. I do like that aesthetic, but I'm also like,
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I buy really colorful and interesting and nice switches,
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right. So I actually like seeing them, So for something like this, I would have loved an option where they remove this kind of
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top part of the case here, And then you can actually see all your switches underneath.
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Yeah, so this is easy. I mean, they're magnets and they've got this little slot right there
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that you fit onto the tiny rubber feet. So that's the other thing too is it's got rubber feet built
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in, so it's not gonna slide around when it's on your table and it's pretty light.
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I think it's a little over 500 grams. So it's a little over a pound.
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The feet are great, good option kind of sucks that they're not built in
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but you're not gonna be able to stick these anywhere without like... so like what's your other option,
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putting some cheap flip out thing that could break or it
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doesn't look nearly as cool. Like I actually love how they went with this colorful
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rubber feet that kind of match the Enter Key. So this case is great.
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My only problem with it is the big NuPhy badge up here.
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It's not bad. Like there's so much more egregious logo and branding on
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certain carrying cases and whatnot. And it fits the rest of it. Like from an aesthetics point
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it looks okay. I just don't like when branding is all over the place,
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it's really not bad though. So it's got this, it's all vegan leather,
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which is whatever it feels pretty good. Strong marketing move. I don't know who came up with the term vegan leather
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but those guys are geniuses. So you open it up. It's got this foam insert to make sure it doesn't get
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deformed. This thing acts as both a carrying case and a stand.
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Oh, it's supposed to go here. You can see. Yeah.
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You can see the little feet indents to tell you where to put the keyboard.
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Yeah. Just sits in there nicely. Oh, that's great.
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And then it just kind of wraps up.
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It's a little flimsy. Like this is not, you could use this,
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but it's really not gonna hold everything
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if you're, I mean on a, on a plane, you're probably safe on a train maybe not so much.
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Oh yeah. It's pretty good. So let's try typing on it. But before we turn it on,
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power supply. Check them out at the link below. Wow, It's Jonathan from Mac Address.
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Jonathan, this keyboard is meant for you. How... - The magic keyboard is the only keyboard I use
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- What do you think about this, here? - Do you need a MacBook?
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I heard you might need a MacBook. - Yeah, let's try it. Let's put it on top of the MacBook.
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So this thing can go over your keyboard.
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Apparently. - [Jonathan] Well this has the butterfly keyboard,
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so you definitely would want to. I hope that it's battery life. - Yeah that bad boy.
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(keyboard typing) It doesn't cover your screen or anything.
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- I don't like the gray. - No! I thought the gray would be like the selling point
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- I hate to say this. - Yeah.
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- But the colors, these are very Google-y. - Oh, that's funny.
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(crosstalk) - Today's Pixel Day
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- Yeah, yeah. - These are like the pixel six hole cut colors.
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I don't know. I'm so newbie, when it comes to keyboards,
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I feel like I want the loudest, clickiest keyboard if I'm gonna do any of this business.
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- Okay. - Yeah. - But you know what the funny thing is, I actually,
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I already don't like this nearly as much.
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- This is great. (chuckles) - So is it just the angle though?
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Cause you can put feet on this guy. - No, no. - That's straight up then typing experience and the,
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and the look of it and everything. You can get it in clickey. - Is this pre production?
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- No, pretty sure this is final. - Why are some keys higher than others?
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Like the X look at the X. - Yeah. And the shift is like ever so slightly higher.
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It's pretty minor though. - That's not minor.
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- Okay. Fine. The X. Yeah, the X is a little taller and I can't squish it down all that much.
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- Well, no, I kind of squished it down a little bit there. - Oh you did squish it down.
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You fixed it. - Yeah. - So did you put all these on?
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- No, no, no, no. So your first typing session has to be intense.
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- Yeah, really get in there. - This is very playful.
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You know, I have an iMac sort of situation. - Yeah.
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- This is very serious. - That's a serious one. That's the business - I got a brand new MacBook Pro in Space Grey.
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- Yeah, I'm Mr. Business doing all the business. Yeah. Go subscribe to Mac Address. You see more Jonathan,
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talking up all the Apple stuff that I'm not a big fan of. One thing I actually don't like about the cable that I
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didn't notice until now is that it's all black. And so once I plugged this in,
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it's just going to look kind of jarring or weird. Like, this is already gray.
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It matches the bottom, I guess, but you don't see the bottom all that much.
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Oh, and there is RGB underneath. It's really minimal though.
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Like you can't hardly see it at all because of how they've
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created the case in the keycaps to cover everything instead of having like that under the switch kind of look.
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So like I said, I don't like how the cable looks anyway. Let's use the dongle and go wireless mode. So, here we go.
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Jeez, I mean a 100 words per minute and 93% accuracy. It's not great.
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What tripped me up is even though I've been using XDA,
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I think it's how low profile everything is.
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I would get caught up on the keys as I moved to try to type
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something else. It starts at $109.95.
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At that price point for something this portable and versatile and slim, that's not bad,
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especially for mechanical option. I don't know if I would buy it personally because I don't do
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a lot of traveling. I basically just have my keyboard and desk set up and like,
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that's where, that's what I use. That's I'm done.
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But for anyone who like wants to go anywhere and who needs
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to bring a mechanical keyboard and not something membrane,
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I think that this is probably one of your most solid options.
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Especially if you get this case, get their little travel case here.
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So this is the Air75 wireless mechanical keyboard
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from NuPhy. It's pretty good product for the price.
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And if you like thin keyboards, make sure to get subscribed so that you can see us unbox,
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that new logic tech keyboard that we showed briefly. I mean, we've already put in, taken it out of the box,
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but we haven't done much else with it.