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Luke has tried out quite a few different keyboards in his professional career, but the Q6 HE QMK from KeyChron might be the most expensive. Here's what he thinks after testing it out!
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hey guys I'm Luke thanks for joining us
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here at gear 43 today we are going to
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jump in and look at the Kyron
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q6h hall effect um fullsize wireless
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keyboard I've been testing this keyboard
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for the past 3 weeks and uh I'm in love
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with it it's absolutely amazing this
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keyboard was gifted To Us by Kyron but
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I'm going to give you what I like what I
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don't like and uh who I think it's for
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at the end and uh I have some experience
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with keyboards but not anything close to
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this one so while this one is for gaming
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and production I'm really only going to
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talk about the production side uh
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because the whole gaming side I'm just
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not into and uh not going to be so I'm
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going to talk about the production side
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if that's you if you spend a lot of time
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on keyboard stick around because we're
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going to get into why this might be a
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good keyboard for you and uh this is
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what I'm used to with keyboards I've
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used Apple's keyboards it's one of my
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favorites alien wear even though I'm
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running a Mac and the old tried and true
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$20 job from your local store well with
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that let's talk about what this keyboard
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is and there is a lot so let's dive
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right into it first off it's a it's
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heavy this this thing is like 4 point
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something lbs I don't have it right off
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the top of my head I did write it down
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but I weighed it and it's heavy um it's
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a full aluminum case which is amazing it
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has two silicone pads on the top and
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bottom uh with acoustic treatment kind
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of built in which gives you this really
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like Thy intense like typing experience
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it does have Dynamic rapid triggers so
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if you are gaming that's going to come
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in nice and handy and each each key can
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be set with four different settings um
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On These Guys these are hot swappable
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key caps and uh with each key cap you
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can set up to four different settings
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and one of the one of the most amazing
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things about these is that it actually
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uh has a magnet inside and uh the
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keyboard will actually track how far the
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the magnet goes down before it actuates
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the the the keystroke or activat your
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keystroke you can set up to four
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settings on each keystroke which is
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absolutely amazing it does have
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customizable key mapping and macro
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setting so you could make it do whatever
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you want I tested the software a little
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bit and used it a little bit not to the
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full capacity but I didn't have any
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glitches any problems it was all fairly
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intuitive and I didn't have any problems
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with it with the keys themselves it
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comes with mac and window keys that you
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can swap out uh depending on what
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operating system that's you're using and
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it's double shot PBT caps which is just
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amazing the ones that have here are the
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sa style uh key caps that are unique
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they're not uniform so the typing
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experience from your your space bar all
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the way to your you know your F7 is form
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fitting and so that I found that it
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really increases my typing accuracy now
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it does come with south facing RGB LED
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lights um which is a great feature to
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have if you are running it not wired and
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you're running it through either the
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Bluetooth or the USB uh connection you
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will get they say about 100 hours of use
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um I've been trying to test that but
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haven't used it enough to see if that's
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actually true and that's only if the
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lights are off well let's talk about
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what I like with this keyboard and there
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is a lot to like the first thing that I
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really noticed like out of the box of
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course with a keyboard other than the
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weight of this guy is the acoustic sound
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uh those silicone pads that are that are
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between the top and bottom of the frame
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are absolutely amazing with the the sort
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of kind of thy sound that you get out of
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the keyboard it's not loud it's not
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obnoxious um sometimes when you're
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typing away the sound of it can start to
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agitate you and as you're typing for
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hours you don't realize how much it's
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actually agitating you um but
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consistently throughout the day as I'm
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typing on uh these keys I find that it's
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an actually an enjoyable sound that I
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got out it sounds high quality it feels
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high quality something that I never
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thought about before um was the shape of
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the keys I just never thought about it
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you know I've used a lot of different
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keyboards and uh I've never actually
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looked into how the keys are shaped made
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whatever but with these sa style caps I
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absolutely love them this is what I
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found right away my typing accuracy
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increased mainly because the keyboard I
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was using before was not a good option
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for me so make sure you look into the
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keycap style uh before you buy you know
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the other thing that I like about it uh
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is when I used Alienware cuz someone
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gave me that keyboard it a nice keyboard
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I'm like man I want to use this and when
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I used it it doesn't you can't program
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it to a Mac so I'm running a Mac Pro
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book and uh while it works you can't
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program it you can't even get the
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software on it which is really
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frustrating I love that keyron will
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actually let you run both options they
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give you the keys you don't have to
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order them separately to both and that
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is a nice feature here's another thing
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that I like about it and I think you
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might like it too uh is the south facing
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rgbs and uh the the LED lights because
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they're not in your face when you're
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when you're at all the time sometimes
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the lights are so bright it can be
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distracting but these are subtle quality
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they're not in your face they're just
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there when you kind of want to notice
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them but they sort of fade out and uh
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they don't grab your attention um and
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distract you when you're trying to be
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productive using your keyboard this is
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one thing that I don't like about it and
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uh after watching this you're going to
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know it too unless you paid attention
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when you're buying it is the weight
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you're not going to pack this guy around
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it's a full keyboard first of all and so
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you wouldn't order to pack it around but
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this thing weighs so much if you are
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going to put it in the backpack and and
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you need to like carry your keyboard
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from here to there or you have like two
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you know an office at home and office at
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your main work um this is going to be a
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problem the keys are going to pop off in
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the bag things like that as it brushes
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up against it would not be a good
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keyboard to carry around so if you do
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want something that's like that that you
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can throw in a bag move around highly
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mobile make sure to check out this video
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of a review we've done and that might be
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the one for you well let's talk about
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who this keyboard is for one it's for me
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for sure sure uh because I'm typing a
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lot I'm I'm standing at my desk typing
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all day 5 days a week and uh this is a
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nice calming keyboard for production
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it's amazing I love and I sort of didn't
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mention it but the volume knob uh right
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here is absolutely amazing so the dial
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how it feels in your hand the kind of
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the tactile experience is nice when you
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get a call or you just need to focus and
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shut some music off you can just hit
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that it's off or you could set any
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number of other keys to do that and uh
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the macros that you can set on it is
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absolutely amazing so if you are using a
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keyboard for strictly production like me
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this is going to be a good keyboard for
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you I'm sure it's a great keyboard for
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gaming with all the different things
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that you can set with it and uh how how
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the keys are hot swappable um if you are
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going to swap this out with other keys I
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would caution you to check out their
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website because you are going to with
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this one you may need to order keys that
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are from them and all the other ones may
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not work or certain types may not work
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so make sure you do your research before
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you buy and check it out let's talk
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about who this keyboard is not for I I
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mentioned that like if you're traveling
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a lot this is this is with the weight of
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it and uh you know the tall Keys it's
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going to be a problem to put into any
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suitcase or any backpack all right well
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this is also not for the person who's
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shopping on a budget and often times
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that's me I'm using this because it was
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gifted to me but what I ever spend over
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$200 on a keyboard well before I use
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this no now that I've used
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it's kind of kicked me into a higher
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bracket of keyboards and uh I can see
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why someone would want something a
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little bit more um high quality well
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thank you guys so much for sticking
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around um we hope that this is going to
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allow you to shop boldly uh definitely
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go check out the Kyron q6 he keyboard I
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think you just might like it if you
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