Gadgetory

okay this video is a little bit different I have prepared nothing this is like yeah I came into work today and I thought I should do a video because this keyboard I get asked about a lot it's a keyboard that comes up in my videos once in a while and I thought I should probably do a video on this and then I realized I can't do this thing without story time and then talking about some other keyboards so story time I get access to keyboards more than the average person company sometimes semi keyboards and I like keyboards I purchase them so I will go through a little bit of like of whatever this is a keyboard that I used to use a lot so razor I'm very prepared the Razer BlackWidow chroma X I had the original one like the one that didn't light up in different colors called the Razer BlackWidow use that a lot and then when the chroma X came out because it had colors I picked it up then I decided that I want to build a custom keyboard so this is the thing that comes up a lot in my videos wow that is very overexposed we'll see what we can do so this was originally a black keyboard ACM storm quickfire so that's like a ten key list keyboard it is fully customized so what I did was I popped it open I D soldered all the switches on it and I put on new switches because I'm an idiot and then I purchased these are called gmk cyan key caps because I thought the key chaps would kind of go with the theme of my channel and these are like my favorite colors and then I spray-painted the casing white and then it still had a wire coming out of it and I thought this isn't going to do because I didn't like the wire so I actually put an Arduino Android like a basically this thing is Wireless now it's got a Bluetooth thing and a battery inside here that makes it Wireless now I enjoy the idea of it but I don't think it's actually as good of a keyboard as I thought it would be when I was building it and spending like 15 20 hours constructing this things it was also horribly expensive to get all the parts and it's just not the way I would recommend but that's what it is if you wanted to know and then I also use this once in a while this is a razor I believe it's called an or inada it's like one of their newer keyboards I don't think it's a real mechanical keyboard like a like tactile membrane that sounds mechanical like but if I don't think it classifies as a true mechanical keyboard but the reason why I wanted to make this video at all was because of this new keyboard this thing this is the Microsoft Surface I think it's called a Microsoft Surface keyboard and I didn't think it would be that cool I actually purchased it it's like a hundred bucks it wasn't she hundred bucks American and it doesn't look like a particularly special keyboard but the more I use it the more loved it and the fact that has like proper wireless and the way that integrates with Windows is awesome now as for whether or not it's good for games truthfully I've never even tried it for games but you know what we have time I'm actually gonna play it off an XPS 15 because I'm just used to it this is what I this is what I play overwatch on most of the time so that's how we're going to roll actually before I get into the game I should actually talk about the good things about the maps on the keyboard all right it's fully metal it's very well made the bottom has some rubber feet for grip and it's battery operated so some wireless keyboards especially the Apple one you can charge them up this one is battery-operated still and it uses bluetooth for connectivity there's no dongle or adapter they need to connect up key travel is great it feels really nice to type on it's not backlit which might be a deal-breaker for some people but it's for your desktop so I'm normally in properly lit areas the volume and brightness Keys work in Windows which is pretty cool there's really nothing that I dislike about the keyboard I was used to the layout and everything about this keyboard from the moment I opened it so yeah I really recommend this thing if you're looking for like a productivity oriented device it has this complimentary Mouse complementary as in it goes with it it doesn't come free with it it's like a matching Mouse and I think that they look really good together it's a super simple Mouse it works really nicely with Windows obviously the buttons have a nice click can't complain about them the scroll wheel is a little stiff you can't spin it like you would on the BMX master or something like that but it's a good scroll wheel supposedly the battery lasts a really long time they say twelve months on the packaging I'm not sure bill to actually hit twelve months but I'm what two months now two and a half months and still going strong okay this place has overwatch oh this is a bad idea I can already feel like this is not going to be good but I should probably go mousepad right actually you know what forget the mousepad this thing is supposed to be able to be usable on any kind of surface or like the majority of surfaces so we'll give that a we'll give it a real test hey I okay so I recently got into masters in overwatch which is like for the people that are unaware of it it's like a relatively high ranking it's not like the highest ranking but it's like I don't know like a b-plus let's just do it all my teammates are probably not going to be happy if I'm playing on a crappy keyboard and crappy Mouse whatever we're doing this for YouTube they should understand yeah the aim is uh knock mail to aim properly on this that's okay oh you got a lot of stuff I'm gonna drop beat get to the floor right now dropping beat oh my God look at that oh-ho-ho brutal this mouse is horrible not that it's horrible it's just horrible for first-person shooters are if you saw that I was trying to turn over to that like fat pig looking creature and I couldn't connect with them so at this point I would probably switch to a regular Mouse because I feel like that's pictured it not being triggered my teammates kept saying I'm like not ideal hardware but then I won't be giving this the proper proper test right we're we're all tripping compete this mess is awesome let's never mention this again okay back to the mouse and keyboard they're great for work they're great for video editing and not so great for first-person shooters