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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the meta dot Das Keyboard professional s so the dust keyboard professional s first we'll start with what meta dog has to say about the Das Keyboard mechanical Cui's the key suit key switches for maximum speed and comfort this much is true it also has full and key rollover thus avoiding key jamming which is a big problem especially with very fast typists so yes you will be more comfortable yes you will be faster everyone you put a mechanical keyboard in front of even if it's not ideal for them will type faster in double-digit percentages more often than not high-speed USB 2.0 hub extra long cable and requires some kind of computer as far as I can tell all Microsoft Mac and Linux operating systems I mean I guess if you like were running Android on your desktop maybe it won't work but it probably will so moving right along it comes with a little cleaning cloth which is good because the desk keyboard has a bit of a glossy finish to it go ahead and move this out of here and pull this sunny here it also comes with a little installation guide which basically means plug the thing into the thing there is no driver required for the dots keyboard now meta dot has four different variants available okay there is an ultimate s for alt R sorry there's an ultimate silent and there's an ultimate clicky and then there's a professional silent and a professional clicky so we went with the professional silent and the ultimate clicky for what's upcoming on the NCIX tech tips channel where we're going to do a thank you we're going to do a mechanical keyboard roundup because that gives us a good representation of everything available for meta dot the ultimate versus professional moniker means that it either has em sorry I'm just going to pull off a key can't hear it either has printing on the top of the keys or they're all completely blank and then the silent versus clicky means that it either is using quieter key so it or ones with more of a distinct click so we're going to talk a lot about different key switches as well in that upcoming episode of NCI expect if so you can clearly see here that the desk keyboard silent version uses Cherry MX brown switches and the brown refers not only to the color of the switch but also to the characteristics of it so the characteristics of this switch are that it has a bit of a smoother travel and a much quieter travel compared to the ones that are used in the clicky version now that doesn't mean that it's necessarily silent a mechanical keyboard is almost always going to be louder than a membrane keyboard and this is partly just due to the quality of the construction because if you come right down on it you'll bottom it out and they're generally built out of much more solid materials than well your standard cheapo keyboard and quite frankly from a typists perspective as well as from a gamers perspective I don't see a good reason why you wouldn't use a mechanical keyboard with so many options available on the market on the back of the keyboard you see we've got little feet for inclining it slightly should you see fit it also has four rubber pads that keep it in place so it doesn't go anywhere when you put it down which is good because keyboards that run away are bad okay in terms of layout everything is fairly bog-standard on this guy long strips enter and backspace and a completely standard layout for the rest of the keyboard so what it comes down to is the build quality of it nice long cables included so we're going to just open that up there you go it's approximately 1.15 Linus arm spans which makes it about I guess 7 feet ok also comes with 2 USB ports at the end of it so one of these is for the hub which is sorry here and the other one is for the actual keyboard itself so you can see there clearly labeled keyboard and hub which is very helpful so if you put this here it won't do anything useful comes with a ps2 adapter just in case you do want to use your keyboard with ps2 and I think that pretty much covers it so remember guys you can get the Das Keyboard in four different varieties and get it click on clicky and you can get it with printing on the keycaps or completely blank if you're one of those elitists who doesn't want people to be able to sit down and use your computer which I mean I can't say there's anyone in this room like that but thank you for watching Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe