It's $600 and stupid, but I LOVE it!!! - Angry Miao R3 Cyberboard Wireless Keyboard
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·2022-05-05
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(case clicking)
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- We have got the Cyber Board R3 from Angry Miao.
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I think it's Angry Miao, that's what Andy told me. This thing is supposed to be pretty nice.
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It's one of the most expensive keyboards I've ever touched personally,
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it goes for between I think 400 and 600 US Dollars
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something around there. It's pretty sweet, it's got this huge LED screen.
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I admittedly have looked at it already very briefly.
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I just... I heard we got it in and I couldn't help myself. I raced down a logistics, I opened the case
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I looked at it, I pressed a key. That's it, but I'm sorry.
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Let's check it out. (case clicking) Comes in an amazing case.
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Like you're paying 400 plus dollars so I hope it's nice.
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Wow. Check this out. You see this, nice foam.
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I mean, when I buy a premium keyboard, this is kinda, I don't really expect this every time,
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but if it's like pre-built for you, at least you can get this in a base kit as well.
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So if you wanna put it together yourself, you can totally do that.
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If I recall correctly, it's all hot swap and 75% layout.
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I don't know. Let's take a look. This thing's heavy. Oh men.
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(keyboard bangs table) (man laughs) Bonged as soon as I dropped it.
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Honestly, part of the appeal to this
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isn't even the keyboard itself, it's...
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Jesus hurts just picking it up. It's this guy, right here.
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Oh, there are stickers. Okay. Sweet. I'm already totally fine with this.
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I guess my only complaint is I don't see any sort of
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like key cap puller or switch puller. That being said, honestly,
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if you're buying like a $500 keyboard, you probably have those already.
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So it's not the end of the world. This isn't really entry-level, nothing too extravagant.
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I think I'm still mostly impressed by the newbie
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Wi-Fi stickers, but that's okay. And so if you want to take this thing apart, which you can,
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except for the screen, you just pop those off and then pull the back off.
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Oh man. What's on the bottom there. Oh, that's huge. I don't know what that is in the center
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it looks kind of just like a weight or something. This thing it's like a 10 degree typing angle.
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- [Jamie] Wrists hurt yet? - No, but I'm very curious to see,
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like just how bad 10 degrees is. Mine is...
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Most of my keyboards are like five degrees tops actually
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kinda like a flat keyboard so I am excited though.
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Yeah, it feels pretty good to type. I really like this thing already,
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but what I wanna check out is the screen on this thing.
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I want to find out what switches they sent it to us with. It feels like just some linear, don't know what.
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Okay, so actually before I peel this off, I'm gonna read all of it. It's got DIY LED effects.
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Oh, it's actually got all the little hot key presses. It's got... You press and hold for three seconds to turn it on and off.
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USB must be connected on first boot. Okay. That's fine. Yeah.
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It's wireless. So part of this is the battery, but you can use a wired,
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like most keyboards with the USB-C cable.
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(laughs) I hope that once you put it down, somewhere,
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it staying there 'cause good luck moving it. There's no, there's not much for feed on the bottom
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so it's hard to even get your fingers underneath it. That being said, the feet grip pretty good.
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Like this thing, I mean the weight of it, coupled with the feet make sure that it's
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not going anywhere, which is great. We have got the West Henderson inspired color styles.
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So it comes in three different ones. There's the white and black versions
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that are still available, but they made three new ones that are all kind of pastels.
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The other cool thing is this actually has like an anti counterfeiting feature.
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So once you've got your board set up,
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register it and then that way, if you ever buy a new one kind of...
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I hate NFTs, but kinda like NFTs, it'll be in the database and you can basically look up if
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you ever buy one secondhand, whether it's counterfeited or not. It's kind of like how Rolexes all
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have the numbers on them and stuff. Yeah. This feels great. Sounds amazing.
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The stabs are decent, even pushing on the outside there's
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not a lot of wiggler rattle. So first I want to see what's underneath this and then we'll
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do some measurements to check the weight and the size of it.
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I, once again, as much as I love this aesthetically,
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and it's not too hard if you start from like a different key cap that's not the inside
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or that's not the outside, but I like starting from the outside and then going around
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and then even this escape key, like this is going to be kind of a pain, to get this out
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because it's just so tightly in there. It looks amazing.
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It's kind of a pain to swap stuff. The reds though, so they are linear.
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I don't know if they're just cherry reds or what, we can find that out later.
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These look kinda cool though, they've got like a, like an orange bottom.
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Sorry. These switch pullers kinda suck. Yeah, this is gorgeous.
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So they've got these reds with this orange bottom.
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ShortCircuit banana for scale and it's like one
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and normally these are about one and a third long.
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This guy's a little more like one and a half. My only issue is like,
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I haven't really looked at the LED panel yet, but I'm worried that since it's sitting in front, right,
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like this, you're not actually going to see it all that much when you're using it
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and then I know like myself, I have my desk up against the wall,
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so no one's gonna be, you know, in front of my monitor, looking at my desktop like that.
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So it feels a bit wasted, but I haven't turned it on yet
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so let's take a look. So actually one thing that I'm kinda complaining about right now is
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this didn't come with a cable and I'm a little disappointed
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because you can't even turn it on the first time without being plugged in. Luckily I bought some cable mind cables and they're here.
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It's like a $500 board so I guess they're assuming that you have
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your own custom cable at this point. And that's probably a pretty fair assumption,
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but it's still incredibly disappointing that you don't get even just a cheap C to A or C to C cable here.
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Because like, for instance, right now I've got to go and grab a cable.
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(melancholic music)
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So check this out. So yeah, each of these... maybe it is like an LCD and those are just configurable.
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I'm not sure, either way there's like a whole website where you can basically make your own
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patterns for this thing and you can have it. You can set up key frames and stuff too, so it can be like,
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press a button and then it's like, spells my name pixel by pixel.
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It's not pixels, but you know what I mean, cell by cell.
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Super cool. I'm not gonna sit here and configure it for like a half hour,
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but I will check it out. Oh, that's RGB. Oh, okay.
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So now I've got RGB underneath. Yeah. That's the other thing that's on top of this panel,
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there's lights under here on the, on the board and it looks really nice actually.
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Like it could shine through more. You're seeing it mostly in the gaps here.
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F10, oh F10. Ah, okay. So F10 turns this panel on or off
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and then you can configure it online.
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I don't know what else we can do though. Oh, F12.
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Oh my God. Sorry I'm gonna change the keys in a sec.
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I finally found the function change the panel.
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Oh, this is amazing. Is it worth $500? I don't know, but it's really sweet.
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Like this is so (beep) cool.
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Yeah. And so there's like... There's a bunch of different patterns. It'll show you your battery, how far it's charged.
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You can... And then, like I said, you can make custom ones as well.
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I'm gonna go with the car. You know what? I actually can see that pretty well.
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Just from sitting down and with Windows 11, moving your clock to the wrong part of the screen
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while it moves it to the other display. It's on your main display, you can't see while gaming it's frustrating.
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This would be amazing. And I am tempted to buy this board for this feature alone,
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which is stupid, but I love it.
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I, I can't even, I can't even type properly because I'm so like, oh my God,
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this feels so good and it sounds so good. I'm making all these errors.
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This is going to be one of my worst typing tests. Okay. I got to redo this one
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and just try to be objective about it. Oh man.
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Yeah. It's, it's garbage but this thing. It just feels and sounds so good.
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Oh my God. I think that this is the nicest keyboard I've ever typed on.
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And I really want one now, and... (laughs)
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I don't even know what else to say I just want this thing.
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- I know. There's probably nicer keyboards to like,
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this thing is for me. And I was really worried about the 10 degree typing angle,
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that's probably part of why I'm not going as fast as I normally can.
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It's pretty steep, but you get used to it. And I think with a wrist rest,
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that would actually help a lot. Right now my wrists are just kind of sitting on the,
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on the desk right now and that's not ideal. It's like 7.015 pounds.
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I'm just going to unplug it. And then yeah, that's the,
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that's the beauty of it is too is it's wireless. So if you need a wireless solution,
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but you still want like a crazy expensive,
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decently high end board, this is a good option.
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I think they're starting at 400 and then they're selling later
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for like 600 or something like that. I just looked it up quickly before coming down here so I could be wrong.
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You've got all your F keys, you've got your Arrow keys and there's a bit of a divide, but it's not huge,
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but it's not that like 70% or 80% compact
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where there's no space like here, we've got a nice separation at the top
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between the F keys and the rest, even in the rows of F keys
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there's that separation that you'd see in a normal layout, but the bottom, I figured this out.
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So this thing also comes with a charging mat
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and I'm pretty sure, let me peel this.
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I'm pretty sure that if you want to stay wireless, this is actually the like magnet
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and induction stuff for wireless charging. So they sell like a cyber mat or something like that too
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and so you can get both of them and then put it on your desk.
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I think you have to plug it in the first time it's connected , but after that,
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I mean maybe that's why they didn't send us a cable is because this thing can just sit on your desk wirelessly,
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indefinitely. Right?
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I still don't know what this LED is here for, but whatever.
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I don't even care. I just love this thing. I want to keep this at my desk forever and ever.
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Do I want to spend 600 US Dollars on a keyboard?
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Yes. Should I spend $600 on a keyboard?
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No, but man if you want something nice
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and you've been waiting for a board that's like a statement piece.
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I think you've kind of found it in this thing here. Yeah, that is the Cyber Board R3.
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If you enjoyed this ShortCircuit, maybe check out some of our other keyboard short circuits.
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I think it was a thin mechanical keyboard with like low-profile getter on switches in it. That was fun.
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