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