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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best darn screen protectors out there as well as hyperx our guys welcome to the steelseries sweet we're checking out the m800 keyboard this is similar to their last apex in the idea that it has the replaceable rubber plug feed on the bottom and a lower and higher profile setting it has dual USB hub ports on the back which aren't powered but you'll be able to do some minor stuff with them and then other than that there's some changes the layout has changed a little bit there's slightly less macro keys but it's probably fine as you probably weren't using all of them anyways and there's individual lighting on each one of the keys instead of zone lighting like the Hat before I think there was about five zones before now its individual lighting everywhere which is going to be a lot better they've switched to their own key switch which now has three millimeters of total travel distance and a 1.5 millimeter actuation point compared to Cherry's which is four millimeters of total travel distance and a two millimeter actuation point these key switches are also rated for 60 million presses and have a fairly interesting design as you can probably see on the screen right now one thing that you do need to note is that the stem is not a cherry MX compatible stem so you cannot put on Cherry MX key switches custom but it does come with a few swappable things say if you want to use it on an Apple computer you can swap out for command keys or whatever you want to do in that realm this key switch is a linear key switch and the waiting is probably going to be somewhere between a red and a black that's what they're telling me right now although I don't know the exact waiting specification for that key switch quite yet like I said before there's individual key switch lighting there's an LED in the middle of the switch which is able to do 16.8 million colors which is customizable in their software another thing to note is that the key caps themselves are also a lot shoulder just like the travel distance so you'll notice quite a big difference typing on this keyboard compared to a full-size key cap and cherry travel distance keyboard not necessarily a bad thing just a difference thank you for watching this video if you want to see all the rest of our CES content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips and thank you to phantom glass for protecting our phones and bring us here this year we have a cool video with them coming fairly soon also thank you to hyperx for supporting us this year and you should check out their youtube channel at youtube com / hyperx they released a whole bunch of cool gaming content and have almost 100,000 subscribers thanks for watching I'll see you next time