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If you think that all keyboards are similar, you just haven't ever tried a high-end professional grade unit. That's what the rather amazing Cherry MX Board 6.0 is, an external keyboard that'll leave you dissatisfied with that mediocre keyboard built into your laptop or the cheap unit that came with your desktop system. And the dark red LEDs on every key? That's just the icing on the cake for this keyboard from http://www.cherrycorp.com/ . My review...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about the lowly keyboard
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yes the keyboard that probably you use
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that's built into your laptop maybe you
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have an external keyboard for your
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tablet or maybe it's the keyboard that
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came with your computer because you have
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a desktop machine of some sort the
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reality is though those are designed to
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be the world's greatest keyboards and
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especially with laptops they tend to be
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designed for space constraints I mean
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they have to fit a lot of other stuff in
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there not just the little keys in the
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keyboard so if you're just plinking away
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sending an email to Grandma it's all
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good but if you're a professional typist
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a brighter if you actually do document
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management if you're a gamer there's a
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lot of people that spend a lot of time
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pushing different keys and you've been
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missing out on something that you're not
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even aware of tactile feedback accuracy
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lack of ghosting there's a lot of issues
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so enter a German company called cherry
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and this and look at this it comes with
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its own cover how fancy is that this is
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the cherry MX board six dot oh and this
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is a pretty amazing keyboard even comes
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with a little wrist rest so we'll use
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that to assemble the whole thing and
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here's what's nice is that it is mac and
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pc compatible so you can plug it into
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pretty much anything that has a USB port
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and wants a keyboard this is your baby
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so let me plug it in preferably without
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knocking over my cup of coffee and okay
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so we're up now here's something that i
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know you're not going to see very well
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on the video these are light up red LED
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keys it is very swag very sick as my son
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would say and the windows and function
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keys actually light up blue so there's a
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whole look to it that's really cool but
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what really makes this a winner is the
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feel when you're typing now you can hear
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it's loud but what you're gaining for
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that is you're gaining a really amazing
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feel and I have to say that you
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this is kind of spoiling me for the
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keyboard on my computer because I use
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this a ton but the fact is is that this
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is a very different aesthetic experience
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and it will actually make you faster and
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more accurate in fact this is such a
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high-end keyboard that I actually want
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to give you a heads up on some of the
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specs so the company calls us the
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world's fastest keyboard because what
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cherry does is they actually build the
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hardware switches the sensors that are
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inside keyboards so this is their thing
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and they're really good at it they have
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a gold cross point precision module for
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each key so each Key has its own
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hardware setup every key is being read
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simultaneously so I guess if you want to
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have the cat run across it and see what
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comes up I don't know i'm pretty sure
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that I've seen blog comments that look
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just like that and anti-ghosting no
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input errors this thing's actually made
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out of aluminum oops sorry by the hand
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rest so it's heavy this is not something
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that you want to just towed around
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unless you really seriously need it has
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function keys you can actually
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deactivate the window key a lot of
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Windows people like to do that to avoid
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errors when they're in the middle of
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working on something and suddenly boom
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you're back at the start tiles that can
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be frustrating so you know really not a
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huge amount i can say about this comes
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with a nice braided six and a half foot
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USB cable so plenty long enough for
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whatever your use situation is and
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here's what you can think about think
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about taking your laptop plugging the
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screen into a big huge HDTV plugging
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this keyboard into it and then your
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laptop you just leave closed and sitting
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and charging and now you'll have a huge
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screen and you can sit and relax and
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work on this beautiful keyboard so what
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you're thinking right now I know you are
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is okay how much is this thing and
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here's the reality this is a pretty
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spendy keyboard this is really a
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top-of-the-line probably one of the very
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best external keyboards that you can buy
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it's not wireless you don't really want
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wireless wire is good because it
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transmits more data faster this thing is
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retail 219 dollars you can learn more
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about it read the specs i think that
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have a demo video you could certainly
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get a better sense of the cool red LED
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which i know you can't get on the video
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sorry about that and you can check all
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that stuff out at Cherry de remember I
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told you it was a German company but
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they do ship to the US and they make
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other keyboards that aren't quite as
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high end but this MX board 60 just
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released it's a cherry of a keyboard and
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you knew i had to end up saying that so
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this is dave taylor i have to get back
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to typing while i can and the guy while
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I can't enjoy this beautiful keyboard
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and i'll see you in my next video
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