So we're gonna check out two keyboards here
from Epomaker,
who are also sponsoring this video.
They wanted me to check out
two of their keyboards
that are pretty unique.
One of them has a mini screen,
a detachable screen,
it also has a joystick.
And then the other one has another screen
built into it,
which is wild.
There's a lot actually going on here.
Anyway, let's actually look at the boxes.
Let's actually look at what we've got here.
So yeah, this is the 65% layout.
RT65.
It has a detachable mini display, mini TV.
RGB lights, stuff like that.
Let's get into this one first.
Okay. Manual.
We don't need a manual.
Accessories.
Let's have a look at what we've got.
Okay, so we've got keys.
We have got the display.
Yo.
This is tiny.
USB-C as well.
That is tiny.
That's actually crazy how small it is.
What else have we got in here?
Oh, wow.
We have got one hefty USB cable here.
So USB-A on one end,
USB-C on the other.
Comes in a leather strap as well.
Let's get to the keyboard.
If you're a Mac user like me,
they do have the option
and command keys as well
so you can replace them on the keyboard.
So this is a 65% layout
and this colourway is quite interesting.
It's kind of like a beigey, browny colourway.
Not a colourway that you see that often, to be honest, at all.
Already sounds...
Already sounds incredible.
This joystick here, though,
that is pretty cool.
It literally feels like a joystick that you get
on a proper controller.
I'm not sure what you would use it for, though.
I assume it's completely customisable,
so you can do whatever you like with it.
But I can imagine this on like a canvas.
Imagine like you're on Figma or Photoshop.
Being able to move around the canvas
with the joystick.
That'd be pretty cool.
Of course, we can turn it on.
And it has a 3000 mAh battery.
We can see the RGB effects there.
Pretty insane.
There's a lot going on here.
And they're south facing RGB as well,
so you can actually see them.
This is also pretty neat.
The RGB on there.
I assume you can customise that.
We also have the transmitter here
for connecting it wirelessly
to your PC.
I assume if you don't wanna use Bluetooth.
And of course,
the display goes in to here like so.
Oh, there we go.
Can you guys see that,
that they
just washed right away.
So it looks like
you can see your battery life.
You can see the date.
You can see
if I keep it up.
You can see
it's searching
for Bluetooth
connectivity.
That is pretty awesome.
That is actually sweet.
That's pretty smart.
This USB cable is really nice.
Has usb-a SBC on one end,
nice and thick and.
And yet
some orange accents as well.
These are some really nice USB cables.
Very premium feeling
I think the thickness of the cable.
Alina, is pretty awesome.
Let's move that aside.
And now let's look at the 48.
We have a display on here
as well, 75%
layout,
very similar to the 46,
but of course, a 75% layout.
And this one is in
my favourite colour white, which is black.
Like it's just nice and simple.
Accessories
should be fairly similar or nice.
I actually gave
a matching
USB cable with this one,
so you don't have
the same colour USB cable.
You do have a matching one.
This is a grey,
which I like and on this side.
Oh, interesting.
So they've given actually a bunch
of other keys here,
keycaps here.
So if you
have like the enter key in three
different colours pretty much.
Oh there's white as well.
Yes. Green.
White. Blue and red.
Oh I do like the look of this already.
This is probably already my favourite
out of the two
for a few reasons.
I mean, the main thing that is black here,
I really do like the look of this a lot.
This is a really nice looking keyboard.
Nice and minimal.
Nice and clean.
There's a screen here.
Let's peel that off.
Right.
So but what I also like
is that there's media controls.
So when I'm
either working or gaming,
I listen to music
all the time,
literally constantly being able
to have dedicated music controls
to control my music.
That is a really nice feature to have.
Oh, wow. Okay.
The IGB on this I think looks incredible.
Can actually see it
much better on this
on this keyboard.
The screen as well.
It's pretty awesome.
So we also have the
two point
is a 2.4 gigahertz
transmitter here as well.
If I can get it out there.
You got it.
Is 2.4 on the table,
four gigahertz transmitter as well
here.
It's actually nice
that we have it here
so that you don't lose it
because the amount of times of lost
dongles and transmitters and stuff,
because it's like in the box
or something, it's not actually attached
to the keyboard in some way.
Like it's just quite annoying.
So with the 18,
we have a 75% layout,
which is definitely my preferred layout.
I like having the functional off
keys 65%.
I know for some people,
like it's great is amazing,
but I always miss the functional off keys.
I just like having the dedicated wah
function keys
for my typing experience.
My typing preference is it
just makes more sense for me.
This also has a 5000 mah battery.
It's a much bigger battery
and so it should last
for quite a bit longer too.
On the bottom, there are different levels
that you can stand it up at,
which is nice because I know
for some people
that can be a
big thing, like having
the ability to
angle the keyboard up
can make a big difference.
Okay, so I've connected the keyboard
to my Mac, the Usb-C,
and we can see the screen.
This is in sort of its default state,
but we can swipe on it
and we can get some functions
to control our Mac.
And I'll see you have four functions here
for basically touch screen
panels
and yeah,
you can change what you have on them
as well as customisable
or so these are just the default options.
But that's pretty awesome
because you could basically pull
I think pretty much
whatever you like in here.
What blows my mind
about both of these keyboards
is the price.
They're less than $100 each of them.
I think this one last time I looked
was less than $70,
which is just crazy good value
for a keyboard like this
with all of this functionality.
So I also have an Apple magic
keyboard here
and you can see the difference.
Like there's a massive difference here.
Here you have a mechanical keyboard
and here you have
a saw Chiclet style keyboard.
We can see the magic keyboard
is thin and smaller,
but if you prefer
the mechanical typing experience,
of course you need something bigger.
You need something thicker
for the key travel
and the keys, the keyboard itself,
which isn't actually bigger.
So I've now connected this keyboard
via usb-c to my Mac
because I wanted to see
what the joystick does by default.
And the joystick by default
actually
does the music controls.
So you can change tracks
by going up and down
and then you can click it to mute,
and then you can also go left
and right to adjust the volume.
So this is quite funny.
I'm hoping you guys
can see this
with the software.
I wasn't able to upload a picture
to the screen on the keyboard
so you can have
anything you want to have ever.
You have a picture of your cat
or your dog or a loved one or whatever.
You can have it on the screen,
which is pretty funny.
You can even upload
your own sketches and stuff.
So I just randomly just drew a line
and yeah, you can upload it
so you can really sort of put
whatever you want on the little screen
that's attached to the keyboard.
Let's get into one of the keys.
Like, say we should be able to
remove.
Yeah, nice and easy.
The switch comes out super easy,
super clean,
and so you can change the switches out
if you want to.
You can have
whatever switches you like in this
and of course you can change
the keycaps as well.
So that's pretty nice to see
a lot of customisation options there.
If you guys are interested
in either of these keyboards,
I'll leave a link to them
down in description below.
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