Tt eSports (Thermaltake) Poseidon Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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by and unlocked Intel fourth gen cor i7 or core i5 processor and get a free copy
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of Rome 2 Total War click now to learn more welcome to my overview SL review
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whatever you want to call it of what may seem at first like the least exceptional
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keyboard ever all right so it comes in a
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box but that's pretty much you know part for the course it's got like bubble wrap
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and you can take it out there's no there's no braided cable no wrist rest
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no real accessories in the Box no detachable cable although they do have
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this cool little feature where you can route it around to one side if you want
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and get it out of the way of your uh your monitor or whatever else it has uh
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no audio pass through no USB hub and
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basically just looks like the most boring thing ever so which you might reply okay lonus why am I even watching
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this why did you even do this well the answer is check out the link in the
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video description labeled pricing and availability and prepare to have your
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eyes fall off yeah or out or whatever
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your eyes do when they fall yes this is a mechanical keyboard that is actually
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less expensive than many fully back lit membrane keyboards and it comes with a
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full backlight in this case blue so now I'm done hating on it let's talk about
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what's good about it first of all they've done nothing stupid with the layout nice standard 104 key layout
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without any shortened shifts or back spaces or anything like that the LED
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backlights are actually pretty darn good you only get four brightness levels so
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you can go all the way down to nothing or all the way up to actually quite
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bright the build quality is much better
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than I was expecting There is almost no flex to this bad boy and I would not
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have pegged this for such an inexpensive mechanical keyboard if someone had just
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handed it to me and asked me to tell them how much I thought that it cost it
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has a Windows key disable key which is sort of in a weird location up at the
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top right but it has one it also has media keys that are handled with a fun
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um you know secondary functionality thing but it does support play pause
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forward back stop volume down up and mute so it's got that functionality on
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board but other than that not a whole lot depending on where you look I think
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on the box it says n key rollover but actually on their site it says 6 to8 key
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rollover so it does support enough rollover that for pretty much any gaming
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combination you're going to not going to have any difficulty and other than that
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what can I say about it it's a better typing experience it's very solidly
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built and it comes in at a very appealing price they' got nice little ergonomic you know risers at the back
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here that actually have rubber tips this is something you don't see that often so it won't slide whether you have it
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laying down flat on the table or if you have it raised and it's available with
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at least three different key switch types so they've got Browns Reds and
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blues available depending on where you look and uh so that means it's
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inexpensive and there's lots of variety just like audible.com head over to
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audible.com Linus to check out their monthly audiobook membership you get a
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credit for one audiobook per month and the first one is free we should have
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like little streamers fall down audiobooks are great for driving for
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listening to when you're performing repetitive tasks or for listening to
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while you fall asleep and they've got all kinds of different audio books but
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the one that Brandon insists I feature is The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan
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belr you can now listen to an unabridged
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audiobook version it will take about 20 hours but that's not really that much
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time to invest is it wow terrible anyway
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audible.com Linus to learn more and to get your first one for free thank you
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guys so much for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you
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disliked it leave a comment and let me know mechanical keyboards at this price
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