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welcome to my unboxing of the magic touch ninja ten kilos keyboard from Philco so Philco is well no mystery to keyboard aficionados and this one is absolutely beautiful I actually didn't check the outside of the box before we open this and I didn't realize that this was hi actually you know what slick and I were discussing this before we before we started doing the keyboard unboxings for all of the end all of the keyboards that are alright and I was saying that I didn't think I was going to be a fan of the side labelled cheese but I am I really like it so it looks just beautiful and elegant and plain from the top down and then from a slight angle you can see all the keys just like that I really like this okay so Philco right no no stranger to connoisseurs of quality keyboards um extremely well built some of the best out there so there is no flex to the deck nothing whatsoever the weight that they had even a 10 kilos model like that which means there's no number pad you could probably still stun you know um invader with it no problem with that they also have a ton of different customization options so you can customize so many different things you can customize the color of your deck you can customize the types of keys that you have on it so you can either have writing on the top writing on the sides you can have a full you can alright you can customize the layout so you can have a full size or a ten keyless which some people prefer because they want to have their keyboard laid out like this don't worry the app when it's here they want to have your keyboard like this and their mouse in the mouse pad and then the number pad over here as opposed to having it on this side this is actually in sort of purist terms slightly more efficient because if you want to get to your keyboard you go here if you want to get to a number pad you go here as opposed to going over the number get all the way to the keyboard so there you go um layout wise perfect long shifts long enter' and long backspace it has no number lock light so only scroll locking caps lock but that stands to reason because it doesn't have number keys on it and let's have a look at what switches this is using so Philco actually sent us a variety of their keyboards to check out and the right so what makes this keyboard a quality keyboard the biggest thing is a the overall construction of it and hold on there we go and B the quality of the switches that they're using so they're using Cherry MX which is for all of their keyboards and that combined with the rigidity of the deck behind it is what gives you the more comfortable less fatiguing and faster typing experience than what you'd get from a membrane keyboard and basically unless a keyboard says it's mechanical then it is a membrane keyboard all right so here let's cover everything so this is a body color black key arrangement 87 key switches are blue which means that they are quite clicky and very tactile feeling and we were actually looking at the box from the keyboard features n key rollover which means even if you type with your face it will actually register all of your keystrokes which is handy um if you type with your face it uses a USB or ps2 interface it comes with an adapter the printing position is front face so that's what I'm talking about in terms of the difference in how the keys are printed so this actually avoids a problem that a lot of people have with keyboards and that is fading over time of the lettering these will never ever fade so you can clearly read them and they won't fade and that seems like a pretty good thing to me right in terms of the non-slip enos so they've got four pads down here as well as these are fairly unique so they've got a rubber pad that actually rolls all the way around the outside of this so that even if you have it elevated it is not going anywhere whatsoever in terms of included accessories they give you let's put that back on they give you two additional Windows keys these ones with the side printing as a - the ones with the embossed windows logo on the top they give you the key remover tool and the adapter that I talked about before it also has a velcro wrap for the cable itself which is approximately one Linus arm span in length which means it's about five and a half feet or so so in summary quality key switches so far out of all the keyboards I've used in my life this is the best most solid overall feeling one other than I did have an IBM model M and nothing can compare but I actually gave it away so I probably shouldn't have done that it's looks looking at me like stricken right now I really had one it was like an early 90s one and it was ps2 and it was just awesome in every possible way anyway up so other than that one this is as solid as I felt and this is with the three fill codes that I've checked out so far and I really don't know where I was going with that because then I'm really sad about my model M but if you want a good typing experience cherry blue switches are an excellent choice personally I find them just fine for gaming as well although not everyone likes for gaming here get get close so you can hear it you hear that actuation point not everyone likes that sort of very narrow actuation point there whereas some of the other switches such as the Reds of the blacks will have a more smooth key press experience I love the noise though and I love the feeling and the the audio feedback of knowing that I've pressed it correctly so I yeah finally just fine for typing just fine for gaming I type fastest on blues as well so it is slick so you have to kind of try things yourself because these are so customizable get whatever switches you want whatever key caps you want whatever layout you want and you end up with the best typing experience yeah you pay for it but personally I think it's worth it don't forget to subscribe to - 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