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of course there has launched its new flagship keyboard the k95 RGB platinum we took a look at this it's kind of a first look at CES and as ice and of the k70 in k70 RGB that i've been using for quite a while I'm kind of curious to see whether or not well I'm excited about this one they bring a few new features and bring back some old ones that people kind of complain that they were gone so let's go ahead and crack her open play around with it let's see exactly what Corsair is bringing to the table hey that's a pun didn't mean to do that whatever go tit now I'm going to start with the wrist rest because this is one of my favorite features it's removable of course that's a big deal it's got some of its own rubber on the bottom here to make it an anti-slip and of course it has got as I showed at CES the Magnetic reversible wrist pad here so some people like a more textured pad and some people like a more smooth pad well now you can just choose the one you want flip it around stick it in the groove and it's going to stay because it's magnetic the only kind of sucks about this rubberized texture here is it does pick up dust and fingerprints and dirt really quickly I've been handling it here for only a few seconds and it's already got dirt on it so you're probably cleaning this quite often the only other thing you get inside the box here is of course the warranty information here for Corsair make sure you fill out your warranties because that way if something breaks how so they're going to know that you bought it legitimately so all right well let's uh this crap out of here and let's look at the keyboard here she is right in here and all of her spectrum waving goodness now this is the part that kind of turns a lot of people off I think with RGB is they think oh my god stop Abbadon all the RGB let's talk about this here for a second people complained when there was a color scheme because what if you didn't want that color well RGB was a thing now because you can customize the color to be whatever you want anyway one of the first things you might notice that's quite a bit different with this Platinum keyboard versus the standard k95 RGB that was before this one is you have one row of macro keys right here instead of three now there is also onboard memory on this you can say three user profiles to this that go with you wherever you go one of my major complaints I had especially with the k70 RGB the color profile I would load didn't actually work until it was plugged into a computer that had Corsair link on there to allow it to load the profile it was slaved on the machine not on the keyboard and that was a huge mistake in my opinion now it's saved on the keyboard three customizable profiles that you can put on there yourself but as you can see when it's off it looks quite weak and stealthy and we turn it on it's like well check out all of those colors I mean you got three brightness controls right there but you got the usual suspects when it comes to buttons you've got your profile key your brightness key and your windows luck and then over here you've got mute you've got a volume rocker as well as a well it's actually a volume dial I'm not really a rocker bit of dial and then of course the multimedia function keys it does anyone actually use those every keyboard I think I've ever owned has had them but I don't think I've ever used it even once one thing I think is kind of neat though is even the Corsair logo is RGB so you can control that what really stinks is when a company gives you lighting control but then there's some parts of the keyboard that doesn't actually change color like for instance if you had RGB control here but the logo always shined red or the multimedia keys always shined red or shone red whatever the right term would be and it was shown I don't know words are hard okay then it kind of defeats the purpose of having RGB if you forced with another color down your throat whatever hi digress we talked about a little bit at CES and on the back here you have a channel that's kind of a cross channel here so you can control which side of the keyboard it comes out of this is actually designed for corded headphone users that you can have the headphone cord come out the middle of the keyboard and not be routed around it which can get in the way of your mouse and if you're a competitive gamer then maybe that would bother you having the mouse routed around your keyboard it's never bothered me but it's a function that's there nonetheless so you can take advantage of it but as you can see on the back of the keyboard here we have a USB pass-through they brought that back thank you that's been gone ever since they started RGB they talked about all those bandwidth of the cable or something for whatever reason they didn't have a pass through USB anymore thank goodness that's back then with the I think it could have made it even cooler as if there was a built-in SD slot but that's because I built content creation and so I was always looking for SD cards I'm looking for places to stick it you might also notice here you have some edge lighting that's kind of new right this is new to the Platinum Series this right here what appears to be just a spectrum wave of LEDs Ashley has nine teen zones that can be controlled and colors that change with almost endless customization you can control what these do in Corsair link and it gives you a full complete control of the lighting like I talked about I mean if this was always spectrum wave and no matter what you change the colors to that would kind of stink but it would also kind of think if this was just a solid color you can make it a solid color if you want but it's cool because you can change this in 19 different zones some other things worth mentioning here that are actually kind of almost not worth mentioning it's got all the functions you'd expect of a mechanical keyboard and key rollover anti-ghosting all that stuff in fact that doesn't even seem like a marketing point Newmark is every single mechanical keyboard on the market has it but it has it some as well at least mention it now one of the neat things about Corsair and its ecosystem with the Corsair link is this can actually sync with any other coarser RGB products that you have in your computer your water coolers your mice your keyboards your void headsets whatever so you can have one piece of software that controls everything so if you want kind of a unified color scheme then that's something you can actually do anyway let's do this real quick let's go ahead and do a quick typing test and then I guess that will pretty much wrap things up now I'm not going to be doing the typing test with the intention of accuracy in there I'm not the fastest or the most accurate typer but I kind of want to see how the MX speed switches feel and I'm also checking for things like noise I've never typed on the MX speed so let's go and see how they sound to test the audio on this I have a shotgun mic actually mounted right here right in front of my face but I'm kind of using the same distance that your head would be to the keyboard to try and gauge the sound of course your volume levels in them you're going to vary but here is how the switches sound now the speed switch has a little bit less travel I'm used to typing on Browns which have a tactile hump and a little bit more travel so I'm probably pushing pretty hard on the keyboard but anyway I think that it feels pretty nice okay let's talk about undoubtably the most subjective portion of the review and net bean price this is a $200 keyboard and I know right now that that sounds super expensive and it is trust me that's a lot of money on keyboards most expensive keyboard I've taken a look at coming through here with the exception of the taupe race which keyboard from coolermaster we took a look at a couple years ago but you get a lot for this though you get a aircraft-grade aluminum construction it doesn't creak it doesn't twist it's flat I've had keyboards where I go do the review and I put them down and they're like rocking and teetering because they're twisted or somehow it just feels like quality it does so at least you get that the case 70 in k70 RGB keyboards I've had those since they launched they're still going you get the longevity and the life out of them so you could buy 200 our keyboard and probably last you five years no problem but pricing is one of those things you have to decide for yourself if it's worth it I can't do that for you I must say seems like hoarser is listening they change some things that the audience wanted and now you can find it on the K 95 platinum I guess the question is going to be whether or not some of the features we're looking at here are going to trickle down to say a K 70 platinum who knows I've got no word on that so that's just speculation and wishful thinking realistically anyway guys time to go thanks for watching today's video where I take a look at 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