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I'm fed up a little bit upset to be quite honest because keyboard quality keyboard experience has been suffering lately it's an epidemic in fact it's all about butterflies and low profile and where's my clocks at you're sacrificing a large amount of tactile feedback in exchange for thinness in most cases on laptops but even in some cases like the keyboard that ships for example with an iMac the Apple magic keyboard very magical membrane style keyboard very little feedback super slim for what reason I mean kind of just for looks really look how thin it is so pretty I've been on a mission some call it a red ring to promote or at least look at and talk about the wonders of mechanical keyboards today I'm on the fence a little bit this product in front of me it is a mechanical keyboard but it claims to be the world's thinnest so you have these worlds colliding thinness mechanical key switches can they coexist can it all work or are we compromising too much to trying to do it all now the one in front of me here it's called key Kron but I don't know that's a name change or what cuz underneath this thicker you see it says key Tron key Tron key Kron look it's like a Kickstarter campaign right now they raised a few bucks they're aiming to manufacture this for the masses the world's thinnest mechanical keyboard now this one in front me is actually from Mac it's got the Mac key layout but they're making a Windows version as well that's also available it's a hundred and twenty bucks so it will cost you a few of your dollars but if we get this mechanical feedback and you're enjoying yourself and your life is improving maybe it's worth the money I don't know so this one has a white backlight but I think they've also got an RGB version that's your cup of tea let's crack this baby open it may have solved all keyboard problems that have ever existed the mashup mechanical thin all together now so this keyboard has bluetooth so it's wireless of course you have a wired connection as well it also comes with a key cap remover and some extra key caps okay so it's very thin so this is what it looks like this is the black version so the deck here is made out of metal you can see the key switches look a lot like Apple's own keyboard but they're elevated you can see the mechanical switch underneath there and in this case it's colored blue now these aren't cherry switches I'm guessing from the blue coloring they're probably some sort of MX blue knockoff now because this is the Mac version you have some Mac specific keys including the command key and of course some of the multifunctional F keys up here yeah we have brightness for the keyboard backlight we have volume up and down and so on I mean in this case it looks like this even a microphone button and I think that's like a Siri button it is a Syria but until very Mac specific on this particular unit the controls are on the back side of the unit here you can see you have a switch for Bluetooth off and cable connection so obviously you can use it Wireless or with the cable windows and Android or Mac and iOS you can flick that switch in either direction so this will still work with Windows obviously your key layout will just be a bit different and then also we have the wired connection USB type-c let's boot this thing up see if we have any juice on here I'm gonna go into Bluetooth mode oh you see it lighting up right away should we kill the lights for a quick second okay that is a bright backlight I'm happy with that very well that's a backlit keyboard ladies and gentlemen stop fiddling the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog it's it's not the most satisfying I've ever felt but it is not a little Chiclets membrane situation there is an actuation point there's a clock it's got I mean that's what you want it's what you're looking for in life now obviously the volume level goes up people that are nearby in your environment may get irritated but as we all know if you're the type of person who's into mechanical keyboards there's no one that wants to be near you anyways it's true now this is kind of a hybrid as I look at it like yes it's a mechanical keyboard but it doesn't have some of the things that I love about mechanical keyboards like the big sort of weighted keys themselves with the you know the ones that kind of have the wood is that concave they got a little curvature to them these are very flat keys more in line with what you might be used to on something like a MacBook but then just with the extra key travel to go with it it's still not gonna be on the same level as like a nice beefy kind of mechanical keyboard it's in between two - it's the style and the substance it's the form and the function trying they're merging together in this particular product alright let's hook it up first of all for a thinness scale like this is a very thin laptop that is the Microsoft Surface laptop - and as you can tell I mean these things are pretty much the same thickness so that's pretty impressive it's so thin in fact you could pop it into a bag like if you have a strictly mobile setup with like an iPad or something like that this could go into a laptop bag quite easily unlike some other mechanical keyboards and to be honest there are so few mechanical keyboards to choose from that are wireless to begin with anyhow these two things would go together quite nicely even though this is the Mac version of the keyboard hey what can I say I mean it's getting the job done that's for certain the quick brown how dare you he's sick of the brown fox jack he's jumping over the dog someone especially posting on the internet who uses shocking and nihilistic speech and opinions that they themselves may or may not actually believe to gain attention and come across as more dangerous and unique person most edge most edge words are teenagers trying to seem overly cool or over casually apathetic that has a thousand thumbs up and only 89 down so I'm going with that so then definitely edge lords like mechanical keyboards like 100% you're gonna be able to hack out like a lot more in terms of edgy remarks with fewer errors which let's be honest if you're a lord of anything spelling errors are not gonna cut it you know if life is meaningless you better not spell something you know you better get the spelling right anyhow so there you have it it is a wonderful little device it does what it says it's gonna do it's a mechanical keyboard which is slim and portable it's not cheap you've got to really be into this thing if you're gonna go out of your way to pick this up nonetheless it's on Kickstarter if you're into it myself you know to be honest if I'm gonna go mechanical I'm going all the way I'm getting big keys switches that clack I'm doing the whole dance because this keyboard here to be honest even though it is mechanical it's just once you've got the flat keys it's like you kind of lose some of the points of a mechanical keyboard in the first place this only gets you partway there but if you want something that's just a slight upgrade on the Apple keyboard for example the magic keyboard this is kind of in-between it too maybe it I don't know maybe it's more attractive to you nonetheless there it is key Tron key Chron edge Lord special unbox therapy Jack do you like it yes or no not for Jack