Steelseries Shift Cataclysm WoW Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,125 words · ~5 min read
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Now, I always liked the concept of the Zboard or the Zedboard, but honestly,
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the build quality always felt a little well suspect to me. Now, what Steeler
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did in their acquisition of ideas on is they took some of the products,
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particularly the Zboard, and just made
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them better, beefier, stronger, faster,
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just better in sort of every way. So, that's where the shift comes from. It
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actually accepts the same key sets as the Zboard. So, if you have an old
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Zboard key set, you can throw it right onto a shift keyboard. And vice versa,
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you can buy a shift key set for your old Zboard, no problem. But they've just
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really improved the base station of it
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um a great deal. So, I've actually done an unboxing of the Shift already, so you
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can check that one out on my channel if you want to. This is specifically going
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to be about the World of Warcraft Cataclysm key set for the Zboard. So, I
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have a Zboard. Well, it is for the Zboard, but it's mostly for the shift.
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Okay. So, here we go. This box includes
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Well, here. Why don't we start opening it, and then we'll talk about what it
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includes. So, let's see if there's any features on the back that stand out. Um,
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no. Doesn't really look like there's anything there that I don't already
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know. So, I guess I'll just go ahead and
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start getting this thing opened up. So, you can see it comes with the default
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key set installed. There we are. And I'm
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just going to show you guys as part of this unboxing. So, we got a sticker,
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product guide, uh, yep, little baggie of
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stuff there. We've got a Steel Series Shift keyboard here, which is taped
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closed. So, go ahead and remove that tape. Take out the
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keyboard. There we
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are. All right,
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then. Sorry, guys. been having a fair bit of trouble with this here.
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Okay, so shift keyboard. Let's go over this really quick, even though we've
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kind of already done it. Okay, media keys here. Very nice keyboard layout
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that I like a lot. Full size backspace, full size shift keys, all of that good
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stuff. You got your F keys. You got your programmable keys up here, including a
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record button and three different profiles. Okay, you've got u all of your
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other sort of normal stuff over here. Number pad, print screen, scroll lock.
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Okay. So, well, that's normal except bam. Whoa. It's all gone. So, if you
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haven't seen a Zboard or a Shift before, then there you are. That's the concept
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of the Shift removable key sets. Okay.
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So, it includes a wrist rest, and I'm
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not going to get too far into that. You can check out my uh my other Shift
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unboxing if you want to see the wrist rest. And it includes a Cataclysm key
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set. Here we are. So, the Cataclysm key set comes wrapped
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in plastic. And the first thing we're going to do is show you how easy it is to
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install a key set on the shift. You just slide it in like that. Lay the whole
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thing down and clip it in on the side. There we are. Now it's in. That
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was easy. So, all of this stuff over here that is not for gaming. I mean,
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maybe some people bind things to insert
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like gaming functions, although most people probably don't. Okay, so not for
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gaming replaces all that stuff with for gaming. Okay, so here everything over
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here is fairly normal except they've changed a lot of the labels. So check
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this out. So tab is now the Oh, really?
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It's not going to focus for me. All right, let's see if we can get it to
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focus. Please focus. I'll have to read
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it for you. Tab is the target nearest enemy button, for example. Okay, so
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there's a lot of stuff here. There's enemy plates and then with the shift,
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friendly plates, there's backpack. Shift is all bags, talent, map, skills, quest,
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social, spell book, action 10, action nine, all kinds of stuff here. So the
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F1s, okay, emote bar one, emote bar two. So thank you, cheer, welcome, charge,
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congrats, incoming, all good stuff here.
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Pet pet one, pet two, pet three, pet four. All right. And then over here,
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this is the gaming area of the keyboard.
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gaming terrain. All right. So, we've got
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a complete replacement for
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WD. Okay. So, if you want to run using this over here, then you can totally do
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that. We've
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got Huh. Okay. Well, you I guess the way this is set up, you would not use
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this with your left hand the way you
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would for FPS games. Okay. So, you're going to use this with your right hand
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and then this with your left hand. Okay, I don't quite understand how this works.
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Give me a moment. See, this is the problem with doing these videos like
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completely off the top of my head. Okay, so this this is pretty clearly not not a
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replacement for WD. So, WD are your
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movement keys. Over here is a whole bunch of supplementary stuff. So, we got
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screenshot, exit vehicle, inspect, invite, trade, raid. Okay, here's all
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your raid functions. So raid chat, ready check, raid warning, raid browser. Okay,
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chat functions. So you got party chat, guild chat, region chat, BG chat, say,
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whisper, yell, emote. So these are all useful things to have automatically
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bound. Okay, and most of these are keys
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that you would already normally find on a keyboard. So check this out. Okay, so
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right here, delete also has a delete key
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over here. Now it looks like it's
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changed the actual location of it. So what would have normally been print
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screen right here actually corresponds
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to insert. So they they've changed the layout slightly, but the the uh here the
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circuitry in the key set itself is going
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to remap that for you without you having to worry too much about it. So pretty
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much that's it. The point of the shift keyboard is this. Okay, it's basically like a Zboard
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except just generally built better. And
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Shift Wow Cataclysm edition.
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