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welcome to keyboard this is the ultimate s the Das Keyboard by NetID odd comes in four different configurations at least at the time of filming this video there is a clicky version and then a less clicky version so if you guys are familiar with mechanical keyboards you know what clicky is personally on the clicky guy not everyone is some people have you know sleeping babies nearby or annoyed co-workers nearby and they even if they want a clicky keyboard they can't have one so there's that then they have the professional and the Ultimate Edition this one right here is the clicky Ultimate Edition keyboard and what makes it ultimate well you guys will find out shortly because there are quite a few things about this keyboard that I personally think make it ultimate that are not necessarily the reason for the name so it comes with a little cleaning cloth that's not very ultimate don't worry about that it is fully compatible with Windows Mac and Linux in fact you can even buy little key set kits that will change your windows keys over to option keys if you want one let's see what meta dot has to say for themselves on the back and the keys are on the back of the keyboard on the back of the box here and mechanical key switches from maximum speed and comfort this is true in fact if you go to the - keyboard website they have a cool little typing test where you can compete and race with people in real time and people are on there all the time I actually wasted like two hours on it one night when I was like oh this is neat so it just automatically starts a new race and grabs whoever's like like on there and then you just race against each other and it records your average words per minute and all of that cool stuff so um I tested that with the mechanical keyboard not one of these this is my first ask keyboard although I've played with them before I was testing it on mechanical keyboard versus a Logitech G 15 so you know a good membrane keyboard and what I found for myself was I was about 15% faster with a mechanical keyboard my wife who has long pianist fingers was about 20% faster on her mechanical keyboard which is not even a great typing keyboard I'm not going to name any names but it was mechanical she she was about 20% faster than she was on a membrane keyboard so yes it is faster and it is more comfortable this is not open for debate uses the most advanced german-engineered gold-plated and slightly kick clicking mechanical key switches a double in the industry full and key rollover means even if you type with your face you won't accidentally press anything and it will register every keystroke avoiding key jamming I think that was more of a problem on typewriters however it is still valid on keyboards because it can you can ruin these issues on poorly made and poorly designed keyboards with that great multi-purpose keyboard for fast typist and gamers alike and just general elitists for this particular one and I'll explain why high speed USB 2.0 hub very cool extra long cable got it ok got all that got all that and that's what Daniel Graham where Graham you okay Daniel if you type eight hours a day it might be as well be on the best available keyboard I initially created this uncompromising keyboard for myself and now I'm excited to share with you what makes the ultimate no way no key labels whatsoever so unless you are elite typist you cannot use this keyboard that's right it has a built-in exclusion of people who aren't as good at typing as you are factor built right into it no one can sit down at your computer and use it unless they prefer on the keyboard awesome alright so build quality yes most mechanical keyboards because they are intended to be sold at a higher price are built just playing better than most membrane keyboards this has always been true no this is not a model M however this is pretty much as good as it's gonna get today in terms of the layout uh-huh okay so you can see we've got a pretty standard layout you got your skate key your function keys you've got your Tildy your numbers your backspace your enter your shift your other shift everything is correctly laid out as your windows keys and there are no sort of extra things thrown in short backspace short shift personally I find this to be the ideal keyboard layout you've got a couple keys that are slightly different from the other ones there's your dots for your home row so I mean you probably type without looking at your keyboard anyway if you're getting one of these but you know that'll tell people find your palm row you've also got a dot in the middle on the five of the number pad so that you will also be able to find your home position on the number pad itself now why does it the cleaning cloth because it does have a velocity surface so not everyone's the biggest fan in the world of glossy but it does make it look quite nice you know what let me go find a key cap remover and I will take off one of the caps and show you guys the mechanical switches so we removed one of the key caps actually one of the things I like about this keyboard versus one of the other mechanical keyboards that I have is that the keys are a little bit difficult to remove so one of the ones I have keys will actually pop off while you're typing sometimes yeah that's on the the ones my wife uses sorry guys I'm just talking to slick so yeah that's sort of inconvenient in fact once I was cleaning her keyboard and I was like vacuuming it to get the dust out from in between the keys I vacuumed up a key which wouldn't even have been that bad if I'd been using like a portable vac but I was using a built-in vac so I had to go all the way down to the garage pull the entire full reservoir off of it and dig through like years of dead skin cell accumulation and dog hair to find the key so anyway long story short it's good that the keys stay on moving right along right blue keys so I think it is fairly optimistic of gasps keyboard to say that they're slightly clicky because blue keys blue key switches are extremely clicky and they're my favorite because they feel so good to type on and here we go blue keys are whatever blue keys are generally the preferred key key switches of typists however there's no reason that gamers wouldn't also enjoy them as well personally I don't find that the key cats make - the difference to the gaming experience whereas with typing it is night and day it's night and day going from membrane to mechanical and then it's night and day going from any mechanical keyboard to the one that really suits your style the best so what makes them clicky is the fact that they are okay they like they reach up they reach a threshold point here give them really close so no noise here then you reach a threshold that is where the key activates and then it has some more travel down to the base so you actually don't even have to fully depress them in order to type comfortably on it but if you want to you can bottom them out as well so if you have a neighbor who doesn't want to listen to you typing all the time this is not the keyboard for you but I say get it anyway because it's really comfortable and really awesome and who cares what they think anyway so thank you for checking out my unboxing of what I personally believe is like I said the ultimate elitist keyboard the Das Keyboard ultimate don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from our boxing's reviews and other computer videos and we've also got high quality rubber pieces on the bottom of the keyboard that will keep it from slipping and going anywhere should you decide to elevate a little bit or should you decide to not do that don't forget to subscribe - tech tips I forgot to mention guys it does come with a USB to ps2 adapter don't forget there are two USB plugs at the end one for the hub one for the keyboard functionality itself