Cherry, the company most likely behind your mechanical keyboard - Computex 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is nx.com hey guys we were walking
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through and I checked out the map and saw that there was a cherry Booth anyone
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who knows me anyone who watches the live stream anyone who's on the Forum a ton
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will know that I'm a huge fan of mechanical keyboards so just if anyone
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was wondering if you're buying a usually if you're buying a mechanical keyboard
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on a general shop today it will most likely be with cherry switches behind it
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Cherry switch is a mechanical switch I brought my own keyboard today I didn't
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want to take apart theirs this is kind of what a Cherry MX switch will look
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like that this is currently a blue with an LED on it not all of them will look
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like that I just had to show off my own keyboard sorry I chill out a little bit
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um so yeah if you're wondering who's behind your keyboard if you are running
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a general mechanical keyboard that has Cherry MX switches it's Cherry these are
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them they make a ton of different keyboards you probably haven't heard of them because they make more business
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level keyboards or more embedded systems keyboards but they're great keyboards
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and they're running the same switches that are on your on your mechanical
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keyboards sometimes if you go to say like a hotel or any POS system you might
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see an actually cherry branded keyboard which is very cool when we were in Las
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Vegas for CES their POS systems had Cherry keyboards that had built-in
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credit card readers and I geeked out a little bit by seeing that because I knew
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that the teller behind the desk probably didn't realize what they actually had their hands on so just if you were
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interested in what Cherry was and what they did they make keyboards they also
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make some mice and they're just pretty awesome I know a lot of you were
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probably expecting this video and I know I can't show off too many consumer
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products but I wanted to show you who's behind your keyboard and who Cherry
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actually is thanks for watching and if you want to see all of our comex content
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