Tt eSports Meka G1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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performance welcome to my unboxing and first look at the tte sports by thermal
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take Mecha G1 so Mecca is short for
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membrane because that is the kind of key switches that no I'm just kidding Mecca
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is short for as you guys might imagine Mecca anical so this is a fully
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mechanical gaming keyboard from tte Sports optimized for as you may or may
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not have figured out by this point in time gaming so there's a few things on
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the packaging here that I do want to go through so multimedia keys to control
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audio function at Instant without going to control panel very handy so you use a
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function button which is down there and you use some other buttons which are
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over here I do like audio scroll Wheels
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but in a pinch I will definitely settle for these in fact my own keyboard does
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use these USB for installation of other
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USB gaming device so it has two buil-in USB ports that are in a hub as well as
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audio jacks for microphone in and speaker out function excellent military
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grade cable tough and reliable goldplated USB connector PS2 adapter for
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n key rollover awesome I still do like to see PS2 compatibility black cherry
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switches so 50 million keystrokes and finally a th000 polling 1,000 HZ pulling
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rate is supported by this keyboard now
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okay normal takes marketing for that
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particular feature I personally took exception to because they are okay torts
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rather not thermal take because they are different even though they are very very
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closely related because right here on the front of the box it says gaming
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speed eight times quicker which I think is a pretty broad statement but does
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have some truth to it so what they mean is because the keyboard supports a 1,00
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htz polling rate that is to say that the keyboard is reporting to the computer
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1,000 times every second versus a standard 125 HZ pulling rate the the
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computer itself can receive the signal in up to 1/8 of the time or or as little
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as 1/8 of the time so that's what they mean it is more responsive assuming you
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set it up that way which you can do because it does support it but it will
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not make your gaming eight times faster any anything like that so the keyboard
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itself has a fairly standard layout on the bottom you find four nice big rubber
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pads that don't look like they're going to slide anywhere I also see this looks
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oh this looks really nice actually I haven't seen thermal Tes system for
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attaching a wrist rest before but it looks like there's very little risk of
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these accidentally coming out and very little risk of accidentally breaking
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them when you pull them out because they use a like a like a breakaway a
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breakaway system here so when they when the prongs come out the side there's a
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very good chance they're going to rip off but I actually quite like this we've
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also got adjustable seat right here on the bottom so you can change the angle
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to suit your personal gaming or typing requirements and then we're going to go
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ahead and flip the keyboard around where you are going to see the military grade
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cable and this thing is truly redonkulous so for context I'm going to
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go grab a k70 here so this is a Corsair keyboard which doesn't contain all the
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same functionality mind you but you can see the actual difference thickness
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between these two cables is kind of funny so the Corsair keyboard doesn't
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carry audio through the same cable as the uh as the thermal take one does or
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the tte sports one does tte Sports got to got to remember that so speaking of
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the all the things that are carried by it so there's USB for the Hub it's
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clearly labeled Hub thank you for that tte Sports can you see that cool then
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we've got the keyboard itself which has a picture of a keyboard as well as a PS2
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adapter attached to it finally the pass through for mic phone and the pass
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through for headphones which are clearly labeled here wouldn't mind seeing these
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ones green and these ones pink I do find that particularly helpful for myself but
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having the picture on it is definitely an acceptable alternative so next up
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here actually I'm going to borrow something from that other
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keyboard again we have a key cap remover so let's find out what Cherry MX
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switches we have down there remember guys genuine Cherry MX switches always
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say cherry on the key switch itself here and they will have color code Ed switch
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colors that will actually correspond to how they feel so because this uses black
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switches it's going to have a linear feel to the Press much like a Cherry MX
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red but with a bit of a heavier keystroke so all Cherry MX switches are
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rated for 50 million key strokes they all bottom out at 4 mm and actuate at 2
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mm so actually at half of the bottoming out and many gamers prefer the linear
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keystrokes so that is to say the red and black switch keystrokes because there is
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no double tap issue like you get sometimes with Cherry MX Blues where the
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actuation point is actually slightly different from the tactile feedback
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point so okay so what these ones will do is they tend to be potentially able to
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rebound a little bit faster and be more suitable for gaming whereas many typists
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prefer blues and Browns so there you go
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black switches linear a bit heavier than Reds personally I like black switches
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but they aren't my favorite my personal favorites are Browns cuz they have a bit
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more of that tactic feedback whereas if you want something that's quite
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quiet you might like Cherry MX Reds or Cherry MX blacks in terms of the layout
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of the keyboard itself this is not the illuminated version although there is an
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illuminated version you've got your standard shift backspace enter and of
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course other shift key over here other than that what is this thing well it's a
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solidly built mechanical keyboard on the back you've got that two Port USB hub
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remember guys this is is not a powered Hub so you won't be plugging in
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something like a USB to 2 and 1/2 in external hard drive and another one or
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something like that cuz you will run out of power um it's got their microphone
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and headphone jack it's got a TT Esports
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logo here as well as their battle dragon down here on the bottom and let's do our
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traditional Flex test not bad at all now a lot of people
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say they don't need a mechanical keyboard they don't want a mechanical keyboard they don't want to spend
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particularly the money on a mechanical keyboard they expensive but I would say
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let's make this week a challenge week to try new things you don't have to buy one
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to try one you can go to a store where they happen to have them on display or
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you can find a friend who happens to have one who's willing to let you come
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try it out give yourself five or 10 minutes in front of it and see if you
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like it now speaking of trying new things audible.com this isn't new I've
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talked about it before on this channel they have audiobooks which you can
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download you can either get a membership or you can download one at a time listen
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to it on your Android device or PC or in your car whatever else the case may be
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and I took all of your comments last time about which Audi book I should try
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by the way if you want to get a free audiobook go to audible.com Linus and go
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ahead and use that link because that makes me look good so I took all of your
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suggestions for which book to try and I threw them all on a fire and what I
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decided to try was if I'm going to challenge you guys to try a different
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keyboard experience I'm going to try a different book experience I am going to
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download the first Twilight book and or audio book and I am going to
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listen to it it is going to take 12 hours um I'm going to listen to it
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before I go to bed which is what I typically do with with uh audio books
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nowadays and it will either put me to sleep which will be good or it won't put
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me to sleep and it'll be surprisingly good I am prepared to be surprised and
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you should too about mechanical keyboard so remember guys that's audible.com
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Linus if you want to try Twilight with me or if you have um sort of
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a different thing in mind then you could also get a different book as well so I'm going to go subject myself to that now
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as always guys don't forget to like the video and share it and comment on it and
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all that kind of stuff let me know what book you're going to try and as always
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