AZIO Levetron KB555U Backlit Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have an unboxing of the AO latron and I believe what they mean to
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say is levron but you can clearly see this e is backwards in Elite Gaming
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manner in fact it's the Lea
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leoline or or Crosshair Letha
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Crosshair okay whatever it's the Le Ron gaming keyboard it is a high performance
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gaming keyboard you can manually toggle the keyboard from standard mode to gaming mode adjustable keyboard
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backlight will keep the action going even when the lights go out so this is a backlit keyboard with programmable macro
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Keys 10 * three programmable macro keys so um use them as hotkey shortcut
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specific keyboard characters or whole keyboard sequences through the keyboard software macro Keys automatic profile
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switching with the launch of user specified program or the Press of a key
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the keyboard will be right on board with your game plan by automatically
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switching to the right profile very cool so that's what they mean by 10 * three
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macro keys so 10 macro keys with up to three separate profiles media Keys
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including volume up down and mute keys for convenient audio control also
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equipped with replaceable cassid gaming
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function keys with key cap remover very cool so I'll show you guys that once we
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open it up the control of the battlefield with the long description
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that if you really want to you can pause the video and read it okay customizable
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Keys Auto profile switching three profiles Command Center that's the software macro key Keys media Keys
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package contents and this is all stuff that we've covered before Oh limited
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lifetime warranty that's interesting you don't see that very often on a keyboard
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so there you go limited lifetime warranty from
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AO okay open this baby
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up oh look at that lifetime support in
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addition to warranty by phone by live chat by email huh really not very often
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you see that on a keyboard very cool okay we got a quick start guide here in
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color showing you the macro Keys the command center media Keys other more
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different macro Keys product features which we've covered twice now uh let's
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see if there's anything okay the keystroke life is 5 million this is a membrane keyboard so something to bear
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in mind is that at the price point this keyboard is at with the backlight built
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in that is um to be expected you're not
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going to be getting a mechanical keyboard at this kind of a price
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point all right let's take this
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out and let's have a look at the the three V Crosshair
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and in more detail after I cut this open
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with my knife off camera oh no wait no I got it I got it don't turn it off just
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yet come part ah now my phone's ringing
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okay I'm going off camera in the baggie we find the
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replaceable uh gaming keys so you can
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see here there's the there's our s which
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hold on w a s now I'm confused oh no
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W and then ASD you know what let's get the keyboard out of this bag first that
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will help us and make things more
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efficient in the long term okay
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keyboard the overall look of the levron is actually fairly good it's got a
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glossy black finish just around the keyboard itself the keys have a matte
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finish to them and then around the outside of it there is there's a more of
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a matte finish okay all of the uh control center Keys up here these are
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glossy you can actually manually switch between the profiles or you can use the
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software to make it so that it will automatically switch between the
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profiles you can control the level of the LED backlight you can lock the
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Windows key that is a very useful functionality the last thing you want is
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to accidentally minimize your game and let's have a look at the positioning of
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the macro keys so there's five macro keys on the very far left five more
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macro keys on the very far right and I'm just going to do a quick evaluation of
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what I think of the actual key responses themselves these are a very short travel
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so you're not going to have to press them down a whole long way in order to
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get a response out of them what I would compare this to um not necessarily in
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terms of key response or feel but in terms of the travel distance is
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something from uh something from one of razer's gaming keyboard lines so where
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they use like a here you can hear they're very quiet
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so the switches are extremely quiet very low travel so um just the general feel
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is is similar to what I would get from uh from one of their keyboards although
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not with the glossy Keys okay so hello world I am seeing
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what I think of this keyboard not bad actually it's a little bit mushier than
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I would personally prefer I do like a little bit more tactile feedback but
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it's a tradeoff because it does take a little bit longer to press a key that
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has more feedback in terms of the layout of the keyboard itself I'd say there are
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no glaring errors other than the positioning of the backspace personally
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I have small hands and I very much prefer a long backspace and then a
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shortening of the enter key so just putting this guy right here is my
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preferred layout because nobody presses enter up here but many people press
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enter here long shift keys that is a must for a gaming keyboard and then WD
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everything is laid out as normal here uh we do have our media Keys up here so
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there's your play pause as well as your volume adjustment keys I think that
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pretty much covers everything on the front of it let's move around to the back so it does have little feet that
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you can go ahead and flick up so if you want to increase the angle of the
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keyboard towards you or decrease it all you have to do is flip those and then
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let's have a look at the key remover so it does come with a key remover tool as
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well as replacement keys for most of the
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gaming area Keys themselves so why don't we do r
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H look at that that was easy and then we can take
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R and we can put it back on and now R has a
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Reload button on it and if you like really wanted to like screw with someone
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who you know who has this keyboard you could take one of your spare keys and you could like you could do something
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like that just to be a
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jerk be a jerk really slowly there oh no
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which one's the a key hahaa
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that's pretty much it all right so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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levitron from