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hey guys Boston and you were probably familiar with the wonderful wonderful sound of a mechanical keyboard over the last few years mechanical keyboards have absolutely taken over the gaming market and for good reason know when they first came out they were very very expensive but now on Amazon you can pick up something like this for 40 bucks no no you're not going to have any of the bells and whistles but importantly you're still going to be getting the sound and you're also going to be getting that feedback like I just had to type on it to give you sort of an idea of the sound the feedback kind of on you so when Razer drops off a box with their brand-new keyboard and all in the mechanical switches I've got an it I'm definitely curious cat Phil awesome so this is the eraser huntsmen now it's a little bit different with this keyboard the idea that's got an opto mechanical switch the main difference between this and a standard mechanical switch is that it opposed to when you press the button and you're actually pressing a little sort of physical button on the bottom of the switch instead when you hit that key there's a beam of light that's going in to cross so once it starts to depress it actually cuts off that beam of light which immediately sends a signal from the keyboard to your computer that that key has been hit and because razor is Razer they had to go completely over the top with this a giant model of what the actual switch looks like I've already seen this and it is totally and completely ridiculous I mean just look at this so for scale this is what the real switch looks like versus the giant massive switch that they provided so this is actually 3d printed but it does give you a good idea of how the switch works so as you press this down it breaks that beam of light and as soon as that light is broken it will send an immediate signal so you don't have to wait for the spring to compress you don't have to wait for the button to go and fully depress itself and you also don't have to wait for any sort of built-in delay to sort of avoid any kind of double presses it's actually a really cool design and it sounds cool so the switch comes in two models right now the standard Huntsman as well as the Huntsman elite now the main difference here really isn't to do with the actual key switches but this guy is going to have a couple of extra features like some media keys as well as a wrist rest so if we pop this guy open it's going to be the same size keyboard you still get all of your number but you've got your hmm you've got your full RGB wrist rest Mele is this guy going to be patted to give you a little bit of extra comfort when you're typing but it also does have full RGB underglow which especially when you pair it with the very RGB of five huntsmen it's gonna look kind of ridiculous now that is some RGB action so we attach the wrist rest which should all be magnetic here we're gonna get the under blow as well can we actually kill the lights yeah that is so cool so especially with the LED under goal as well as every single key being fully RGB that looks do the way this works is similar to the bloody keyboard and that what you've still got the nice responsiveness and you still have that nice click you're also not having to deal with any sort of lag or latency that has to do with actually pressing a physical button all you do is press the key down hard enough to sort of block that beam of light and you're gonna be good to go no reason is actually not the first to making a key switch like this the bloody switch has been around for a little while and my bloody switch sounds like a really bad name it is a very similar concept except that razor is sort of taking it to the next level at least in theory with stuff like adding a stabilizer bar which if I bring up our super hopeful model is this bar right here which will help the switch from sort of leaning either side when you actually press it so for example I press it on the edge versus in the middle it should still feel the exact same so razor quote a ton of really nerdy specs like how this is supposedly 30% faster at response time versus a standard clicky switch and you've got a very light 45 grams of actuation force but I really care about is how it actually feels to use you actually I've got to say that this does feel pretty decent so supposedly you're cutting up to 20 milliseconds of delay off by using this key switch as opposed to a standard mechanical and while I really can't judge that for myself it does feel pretty much instant I mean when you press a key it is right there now there are some other things that you're not losing here as opposed to a standard mechanical switch obviously you got the sound if you got the feedback it is a little bit of a lighter touch so a lot of mechanical key switches sort of feel like you're kind of pressing down on it until it finally compresses whereas this is sort of very light to the touch but honestly I don't hate it at all it is a kind of a nice sort of different feel now there are a couple of major differences between the Huntsman and the Huntsman elite so on the smaller side you're going to be getting media controls on the elite as well as a digital dial which can you can use for volume or other features on the computer but the wrists dress is going to be the big one now it's actually pretty well designed it is going to be attached with magnets as well as these poco pens and right now it does require you to use a second USB port from the keyboard to be able to power this guy and send data but because you do have that full RGB control in theory you could actually attach different accessories to the keyboard so say something like a maybe a wireless mouse a pad or a wireless charger for your phone or something it could be attached with these pogo pins in the future oh wow that actually feels pretty good so it definitely does help that I'm playing on a high refresh rate monitor like 120 frames per second what I mean there actually is I don't it's hard to say could be placebo I'll totally admit but it does feel like the responsiveness actually is pretty much right there I don't know I'm actually kind of curious to see how big of a difference this is compared to a normal mechanical keyboard now this is definitely not a scientific test but I'm going to put the $40.00 mechanical keyboard side-by-side with the razor to see if I can actually tell any kind of real difference so because we do have the high refresh rate monitor hopefully that should sort of take any other latency out of the way and obviously the mouse is quick but can actually see a difference here because I do feel like there's a legitimate chance this could be placebo right but it feels like the razor does cut down a little bit of latency oh dude you would date the razor actually does feel a little bit faster wow that's actually kind of surprising I will say though that I definitely do like the way the razor switches feel it's sort of at least for my personal preference it feels about right with the level of clicking this as well as how light it is I don't like something that's going to be like I've got to really shove it down to actually get any kind of click on it now mind you I'm not trying to say that everyone should go drop your $40 amazon special and spend 150 or 200 dollars on a razor keyboard but I will say it does actually feel like there is a real difference and besides that you are still getting stuff like the RGB chroma stuff you're getting a nice feeling keyboard and also getting something that honestly I feel like kind of looks pretty nice too especially if you want to fully customize the lighting but that's nice I'm kind of surprised I actually didn't think it would be a noticeable difference at $150 for the razor Huntsman and $200 for the elite with the wrist rest it definitely doesn't come cheap but if you're looking for the ultimate gaming keyboard 2018 this actually kind of feels like it's it