Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless Camoflage Mechanical Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the filco magist stouch 2 camouflage 10 keyless so
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what does 10 keyless mean it means this is an 87 key keyboard it is
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short here even like a generic keyboard it's like shorter see shorter so 10
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keyless is for people who want space savings and don't necessarily need a
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full number pad well or a number pad at
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all all right so what do we got inside the Box first thing we find is a manual
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that doesn't appear to have a word of English on it sweet ah there it is yes
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handling a keyboard when you're using a keyboard dropping or any kinds of
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activities may lead to accidents Place keyboard on a secure flat surface when
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in use the keyboard is an electrical device that contains circuits and Transformers do not expose the keyboard
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to water or any other liquid excellent
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good advice adopting MX switches Cherry MX switches are mechanical switches
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developed by ZF Electronics Corporation Germany key travel is 4 mm deeper than
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comparative models the actuation point is located at 2 mm from the top when
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pressed down this keyboard uses individual cherrymx switches that give
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you light touch typing okay so
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mechanical keyboards if you guys don't know this already they are one 100
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billion times better and this is all sort of my own personal opinion than
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keyboards that that are not mechanical because they are significantly more
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comfortable they are significantly more satisfying to use because of the awesome
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noises that they make and I can guarantee you like I I will put my
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personal lonus guarantee of approval on
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the concept that they will make you type faster almost everyone I've ever encount
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no everyone I've ever encountered it's a guarantee has sat down in front of a
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mechanical keyboard started to use it and realized after a short period of
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time that they are typing faster on it and we're talking significantly maybe 10
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maybe 15 20% faster than you can on a membrane keyboard even if it's a really
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good membrane switch keyboard so let's keep on going with this guy right here
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so this one uses uh cherry black switches so the black switches are
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actually here there's a key remover so I'm going to show you guys what exactly
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is the Deo with the names of the various
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Cherry switches so Cherry MX that is the brand of switches that are used and then
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there okay this is a very interesting hold on I'll don't worry I'll figure it
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out like so you put it under the thing and then probably from oh okay he's
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laughing at me now cuz I think you're supposed to go this way um so this is a
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key removal tool and not not the awesomest one that I've ever seen there
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that is what makes this a Cherry MX black the fact that the actual switch
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right there is black so the characteristics of black is that they
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have a linear less tactile feel so you don't feel that that click that sort of
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that spring that that uh you don't really hear the noise as well other than
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the key bottoming out so if you put the camera close you can actually
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hear if I don't bottom them out they're quite quiet they don't have that they
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don't have that loudness that is associated with mechanical keyboards
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however it's still going to be louder to type on than a membrane keyboard just
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because most membrane keyboards aren't built very well and it has a nice solid
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back plane that you're going to be landing on if you're typing with any
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kind of force whatsoever so I'm going to pull off a few more key caps here this
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is probably the faster way to do it versus that tool that's the worst tool
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I've ever seen for removing key caps um
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not that I'm like criticizing or anything but that's sort of not yeah not
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ideal and we're going to replace the WD keys with the
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included WD keys so let's have a look at
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the layout layout is for me the the deal
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maker or the deal breaker of any mechanical keyboard and it can be the
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difference between a keyboard that I love to type on but I absolutely hate
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and a keyboard that I hate to type on but I absolutely have to use because
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there's no getting away from it this has my favorite possible layout no changes
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long shift key long shift key long Enter
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key long backspace key no long delete key awesome I I absolutely love it in
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every possible way you've got a fun function key here instead of a Windows
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key I personally consider this to be a boon for gamers because I don't think I
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put those on all the way there we go a boon for gamers because you're a lot
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less likely to be bothered if you accidentally hit a function key CU then
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you'll have to like accidentally also hit like f three to mute your audio like
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what are what are the freaking odds like
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um whereas if you have a Windows key here that could potentially bother you
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however I actually use the Windows key
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so having a Hardware switch to turn it off because I often forget to turn it
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back on is really annoying because I'll actually press on it I want like the
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menu to come up or I want to uh cycle through my Windows using Windows Tab and
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I can't so there you go Windows key
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function key uh it does have arrow keys however you notice the number pad is
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missing everything else is pretty normal the one thing that you'll notice is
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missing so it's still got your scroll lock and it still got your um caps lock
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buttons or lights but it doesn't have a number lock button which makes sense
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because there is no number pad keys are labeled on the tops
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although filco does have a ton of options for keyboards we're actually
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going to be taking a look at a fair number of their keyboards they have lots of different colors of keyboards lots of
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different colors of switches lots of different configurations in terms of the
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actual layouts of the keyboards there are one of the most um varied keyboard
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manufacturers out there but the one thing they all have in Comm common is
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they all use high quality
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builds and they all use high quality switches so let's just take a quick look
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at the rest of the physical attributes of the of the camo keyboard here which
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actually I was expecting to look kind of cheese ball but it actually looks kind
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of cool uh okay so you got a flip up here which will allow you to tilt the
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keyboard a little bit you can see again just build quality the weight of it the
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proper rubber that's used on it it's not going to go anywhere no matter how hard you mash on it we've also got rubber
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here here here and here and then your part number and your serial number on
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the bottom in case you need it for any particular reason so I think that pretty
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much it comes down to uh it pretty much comes down to what your personal taste
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is in terms of the look the layout the switches and what you're more what you
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like best so in general blacks are considered more of a a gaming key switch
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as opposed to a typist key switch so depending what you use your computer for
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you might want to go with a different skew however I don't think most typists are going to be interested in the camo
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uh the camo sort of look so it's probably appropriate that they used a
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gaming switch on this model thank you for checking out my unboxing and first
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look at filo's Magis touch camo 10
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keyless don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips and don't forget it also includes a PS2 adapter in camo green and
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these keyboards all include n key rollover I think well I think it's like
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hold on just SEC yes it does have full End Key rollover which means you can
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press as many keys as you want and you won't run into any difficulty also I've
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been informed by Slick who's actually more of a keyboard nerd than I am that
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this is apparently better than prying them off with your fingers because if you do it with your fingers you can
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apply pressure in the wrong way and you can accidentally damage the switch so that's why they have this tool which
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seems goofy to me but apparently it's for a reason so there you have it thank
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you for watching