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what's up guys Lew here back with a brand new video and today we've got something that I consider to be exciting what's in front of me is maybe the greatest keyboard on the planet I'll of course have to find out but I owned the previous version of this this of course is the Das Keyboard professional this is the version number four on the previous one you had a very similar look and feel but this one has upgraded a few components and they slimmed it down as well so it looks a little bit slicker and sleeker in fact I believe that they say this is the thinnest mechanical keyboard on the planet so if you don't know about mechanical keyboards I'll give you a quick little breakdown these of course are keyboards that give you a tactile feedback so when you click down on a key you're getting a little bit of a resistance and then in the case of blue switches like this one has you're going to get a little noise and audio reference as well to let you know that you have successfully hit a key in all this together means you're going to improve your typing hopefully not for everybody but for the vast majority of people they can improve their typing their speed their accuracy etc and in this case you could do it in a nice little package I'll flip the box over real quick so you can at least see the back you can see german-engineered MX blue mechanical key switches you can actually purchase this with MX brown switches as well they're still going to be tactile of a little bit less clicky so if noise is an issue for you depending on what you do for work or where you're working you may want to opt for the brown switches I'll link both of them down in the description you can see cutting-edge design premium materials this one adds a super speed USB 3.0 hub along 6.6 foot cable it has media controls but then again so did the last one and a detachable foot bar a ruler this is kind of interesting the little stand you know the part that puts your keyboard on an incline in this particular case can be pulled off and can act as a ruler that's kind of interesting so it'll work with Windows Linux Chrome OS and Mac computers and requires one USB port enough about the let's go ahead and take a closer look inside so the first thing I notice is the ruler portion that is a legitimate ruler right there reminds me of being back in grade school so I guess you can use this for drawing straight lines or maybe you're into geometric artwork I don't know what you're into that's completely up to you for me it'll just be a kickstand so I can get that healthy ergonomic incline on my keyboard ooh very very very silly so I have right right now I'm using a keyboard with super stealth looking keys and you can actually order this das keyboard in a stealth version as well it's called the ultimate this one's called the professional these are etched keys so of course you have all the characters that you might be looking for I'm unfortunately not enough of a badass to have the completely blank ultimate version but the one that I'm using right now it has a sort of close to stealth look not a lot of contrast between the letters and because it's not backlit sometimes I don't know if I'm sitting back from the keyboard a little bit I really wish it had more defined lettering as this one does here so rather than have little feet that kick down you have this ruler portion and I assume it just fits in here oh whoa it's magnets oh whoa magnets love magnets anywhere you can put magnets put magnets my that's my theory on life no not at all I'm sure there are some bad places for magnets multimedia controls up on this side first of all very very sturdy I don't know what it's made out actually I can't tell if that's plastic or aluminum feels like aluminum actually so very sturdy construction here yeah I mean that baby's not twisting very much at all up here you have a volume wheel which has little miniscule clicks to it you have a play/pause button back forward a sound button to mute the sound and what looks like a sleep button I'll let you hear the is really quick so you can distinguish if this is too loud for you it is pretty loud spacebar is the loudest anyways those are blue key switches and they're essentially going to be that loud no matter which keyboard you order them on now in my opinion these are great key switches for accuracy because having that audio feedback and that really distinguishable click means that you're not going to have mishaps quite as often and type the wrong key then you need to hit the backspace etc up so accuracy is the name of the game here and you know full-size keyboard as well a lot of people are using slim little tiny ones you don't have full size arrow keys which are very useful for professional applications editing applications like I use so overall I look for a durable robust keyboard it's got to hold up to all of the tasks that I throw at it here in the new studio so we also have a couple of USB ports at the top and one nice thing here is that their USB 3 well that's of course nice but also the location of them rather than having them on the side over here where they might interfere with your mouse they are on the back of the device I won't use them permanently but it's nice to have extra USB s in this location or anywhere for that matter more us be more happy people there you have it the Dass keyboard professional number for the - keyboard for professional and I think it's a nice upgrade the last one was glossy as well which really attracted a lot of dust and fingerprints this one has a more of a matte finish which I'm happy to see a lot of electronics manufacturers moving in that direction the matte finish generally speaking looks better longer at least in my opinion also this magnetic ruler kind of cool don't know if I'll use it but I like magnets and sometimes those little kickstands that you see on the back of your keyboard are pretty flimsy so in this particular case since it's one solid piece it's probably not going to be as flimsy as those little kick stands which sometimes can break off when you're moving it etc what's this it doesn't matter as I said before the - keyboard for professional there is a version of this with brown key switches if that is more your cup of tea as I mentioned those links will be down in the description so you can check out both these aren't cheap but then again professional level top-tier stuff never is and of course you're paying more money for limited returns you can type on any keyboard that's out there but if you make a living using this baby right here then it becomes a little bit easier to justify the cost I'm gonna go test it out now and it should will probably likely become my daily driver if you guys enjoyed this content please make sure to leave a thumbs up down below thanks as always for watching leave a comment if you have a question and I will catch you very shortly on the next episode later guys