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this coverage of CES 2017 is brought to you by fresh books the number one cloud accounting software for freelancers that lets you save time get paid faster and get more organized check it out at the link in the video description we're here in the corsair booth and they're showing off the k95 RGB wait both of those products already exist no this is the k95 RGB Platinum which is totally different from the other k95 in k95 RGB this one has a piece of plastic inside it from when I dropped it before we started but don't tell anybody it's a little be our little secret there are also some other differences so now in addition to individually RGB backlit keys the keyboard now has a logo and a strip at the top that are as the kids say lit but in RGB they have also altered the macro keys on the Left reducing them from 18 to a mere 6 which will disappoint Taryn from my team and according to Corsairs market research pretty much nobody else the macro Keys macro key keyboard keyboard keyboard because most people can't reach any further than the rightmost column of macro keys while they're gaming but let me know in the comments if you guys disagree with that they've altered the spacebar putting a textured finish on it that I personally am really not a huge fan of but some of the staples of Corsairs keyboards do remain including their dedicated media keys and that nice kind of knurled metal scroll wheel one big change I am a fan of that has to do with texture is the wrist rest it now has either kind of a dimpled texture on the one side or a more coarse texture on the other side it's got a really nice rubberized finish and the whole thing mounts with magnets whichever way you choose to put it on it feels and looks really premium you can't even tell it's reversible until you reverse it you're like oh I like this one better oh I hate this one I'm going to put it back that's not to say that I like everything about the wrist rest so on the bottom you find a cable management cross for your headphones so that they can run under your keyboard if you like having your headphone wire come up between your hands while you're gaming but unfortunately the implementation on the bottom of the wrist rest is not as good as the rest of the bottom of the keyboard with no clips to hold the wire in place meaning that you'll either be constantly fidgeting with it or it might end up under the rubber stoppers at the bottom causing the wrist rest to move around a little bit another thing I'm not a huge fan of down here is the fact that they've gone with the cheapo plastic clips for the wrist rest that inevitably get broken and given that this is such a nice wrist rest that I'd love to use forever I find that a little disappointing other than that it's got a USB pass-through and there's not really a whole lot else to say except it's not entirely reliant on software for the RGB lighting anymore you've got to set it up with cue but once you do that it can store up to three profiles for all your macro settings as well as your lighting effects that you can switch between with a configurable macro within cue that you can save on the keyboard so the onboard memory has been beefed up significantly it'll be available in two different colors black worldwide and black and gunmetal in the US and it's going to be priced at $1.99 when it comes out so now seems like a good time to give a huge shout out to FreshBooks for sponsoring our content here at CES 2017 freshbooks is all about making your life easier and helping you with your cash flow it lets you create professional invoices in seconds you can take deposits from your clients you can track your expenses you can track your hours and you can even see when you send a client an invoice if they have received it which takes the guessing games out of oh did you send the bill oh hey yeah I did oh hey I didn't get it and makes it so that you can get on with doing your work instead of following up on getting paid for your work so if all that sounds pretty cool you can try it out for 30 days for free at the link in the video description it's FreshBooks comm slash tech tips