Gadgetory

so I've got a pretty cool product here today this is the SteelSeries 7g this is their premium keyboard and it is for pro gaming yes you guessed it excellent so this is a no click mechanical gaming keyboard that means it uses all mechanical switches but it doesn't use the ones that have like a springy clicky sound to them when you click them so it should be in theory not quite as loud as something like an IBM model M but I mean it's not going to be as quiet as a membrane keyboard but you get that tactical feedback off it that you do not get off the lower quality keyboard wow that was really long and run ok 18k gold plated connectors for extremely low latency I'm not sure how that affects the latency but they do say gaming great durability 50 million keystrokes gold plated connectors will affect the durability gold is not used on connectors because it's a particularly good conductor it's used because it is a malleable soft metal so it is an extremely durable conductor wherever there are moving parts WASD etc etc etc this supports the use of all keys simultaneously that is a very cool feature very few other keyboards on the market support a feature like that ok removable super steady hand rest durable metal inner chassis and used and endorsed by the world's best eSports players SteelSeries media controls and a 2 meter braided cord ok so at the back we're going to see a whole bunch of gaming associations that this is associated with and then we are going to open the did you look at this you're supposed to look at the gaming associations ok and then after that we will open the box so I get my knife here gonna cut my seal did it today ok here we go so let's get this out I love Steel serious products too I'm gonna give away my personal bias here almost everything they make I really really like so I'm fully expecting to like this keyboard if I can ever get it open see they tricked me you have to actually get rid of this seal in addition to the seal on the other side in order to get the keyboard to slide out there we go I wasn't see it's a good thing we have these instructional videos on how to open the box of the product because then how would you get this open you wouldn't be able to be challenging okay so I'm gonna just move and we're gonna start a focus on the keyboard here because it's so big that it's hard to fit both me and the keyboard in the frame here so let's take parts of ox I love black boxes too presentation very nice I give it a b-plus I've seen better but it gets the point across here is what you paid the big bucks for because this is a very expensive keyboard so I'm just going to take this out and let's have a look at what it comes with in terms of accessories and add-ons so inside here you will find a little baggie and it is full up a ps2 2 USB adapter now I believe the anti-ghosting feature only works if you plug it in by ps2 but do not quote me on that because I'm not a hundred percent sure ok and then we have a steel series case badge sticker ok you can stick that on your case then we have a steel serious professional gaming gear catalog that shows you a bunch of their other stuff which is also really good ok and then we have the 7g so this appears to be some kind of user's manual professional gaming keyboard oh wow this is oh this is the best diagram ever okay so can you can you see can you read this one professional gaming keyboard 2 hand rest damn just in case you could not figure that out that is how it works okay so as case Bond one of the foremost counter-strike players in the world helped with the development of the SteelSeries 7g here's one more than a dozen major international grandson he uses the following keyboard setup when playing his setup is optimized for speed and accessibility maybe you will find it helpful these guys take their professional gaming very very seriously and it comes down to yeah even that they'll give you tips on how to configure their product just like the professional gamers in the world use it okay so let's here's the keyboard itself we got our 2 meter braided cord here which is a very nice cord I wouldn't normally I wouldn't normally comment on the quality of a cord but check okay well if I can ever get it untwist I'd and then I'd be able to show you oh we got one more here really sorry about that so this includes all of the cables that need to be plugged into this keyboard in one little convenient cord and then it goes around so you look how long this is okay so it goes around to the back of your computer in another room I guess and then it has all of the connectors that you need so here's your ps2 you'll plug a USB to ps2 adapter into that if you want to use the keyboard by USB which works just fine there's your mic there's your speaker's because you have pass-throughs in the back of the keyboard so you can actually plug your headset directly into the back of the keyboard right there rather than plugging them into around into the back of the computer it allows you to use a much shorter cord if you also have a SteelSeries headset and then you've got another USB port this is for the USB hub ok these are actually labeled see this is keyboard can you see can you read that that's okay that says keyboard and this says hub so that you don't get confused because ps2 is not for a hub okay so then there's the keyboard itself now I'm going to get the camera a little bit close so that it can actually hear me more than see this so you can hear that these keys while not completely quiet are much quieter than a traditional mechanical keyboard with the with the spring sort of sound in it okay so you got a couple different features here first of all this Windows key gone this is now the SteelSeries key this is used for any of the functionality up here so if you want to mute the volume decrease it increase it play back forward that's used for all of that you do still have a Windows key over on this side they have done nothing goofy with the layout as far as standard layouts go the one thing I personally don't like and a lot of people do like this is the shortened backspace I have very small hands and for me to actually reach that backspace while keeping it's not going to happen so I like a backspace that's right here but that's a personal gripe these light up bright white they're very very very nice to look at it has a full number pad all that good stuff this this looks incredibly stupid I'll be the first person to tell you that but I actually already have one of these keyboards I'm just unboxing a new one so that I can unbox it for you I love this keyboard and the I love it has very little to do with the keyboard it's a great keyboard but I'm not that fussy about them this is it because this is the most comfortable wrist rest I have ever encountered on a keyboard it really supports you unlike some of the goofy goofy wrist rests that I've seen that are shaped or fashionable or whatever this takes functionality and just drives that point all the way to the finish line because it is functional and comfortable so with that sort of gushing out of the way thank you for checking oh oh sorry sorry sorry here's the USB hub it's a USB 1.1 hub so you're not really going to want to use like any high-speed USB flash drives or anything like that but it'll work just fine for a mouse and whatever else you need that's a that's a low power and low bandwidth device so and there's your built-in mic and headphone ports it has little rubberized grips on the bottom as well and one of the things they did mention is the metal frame inside so you can see there's actually very little flex to this keyboard and it's got well the box felt it's good it's got a lot of heck to it as well it's very durable feeling it's the kind of thing that if you like rain you throw it down it would be just fine thank you for checking out my unboxing of the SteelSeries 7g