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Adam REVIEWS the KeyChron K3 Max Low-Profile Mechanical Keyboard!
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Jan 25, 2025
Finding the right keyboard for your setup is incredibly important! That's why Adam is testing this KeyChron K3 Max (that the brand gave us) to see if it's worth your money! While he may not say it, he very much enjoys getting into the little differences between these keyboards and has bought plenty of his own. In this video, he is going to review it, what he likes, doesn't like, and exactly who it is for! So stay tuned. Get your KeyChron K3 Max here (Paid Link): https://amzn.to/49qWAyv
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you'll get roasted so that's a 75% so if
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you take this top row off that's 15% of
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the keyboard so that's wrong all right
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so here we have the Kyron K3 Max and
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this one was gifted to me by Kyron it
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has the brown switches so these are the
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the tactile bump switches as you can see
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here this is a wireless Bluetooth as
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well as a USB type-c corded keyboard
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it's a it's a 60% keyboard so it takes
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instead of having your 10 keys on the
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left here or the right it will not have
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that as you can see so it's it's a much
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more compact design it does have RGB if
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that's something you are excited about
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they make it really easy to swap all the
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fun different types got to love that and
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this keyboard is for most people if
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you're not a gamer you'll like this
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keyboard if you are a gamer you'll like
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this keyboard if you have a full desk
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set up and you never move it you'll like
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this keyboard if you travel every day
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you'll like this keyboard they did such
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a fantastic job with the low profile
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design and having these amazing
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mechanical switches along with this
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super nice compact design so I want to
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make sure that everyone can see these
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awesome RGB lights so let's turn this
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light off and hopefully you can see
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these things they are North facing so as
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you look at the keyboard it' be on the
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top of the switch they are North facing
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RGB they have they support full all the
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Six Million colors or whatever that is
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you know there's there's tons of options
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they have an easy to use uh interface to
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change all the colors and all the
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different styles you know different
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things like that so we're going to talk
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about that later but let's first get
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into this low profile design now this is
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my first low profile keyboard and I've
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had other mechanical keyboards and
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they've all been pretty big here I have
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one that I purchased a few years ago and
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you can see the size difference from a
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traditional this is kind of a thicker
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it's curved yes but this is even the
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case height here at the base for this
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one is far shorter than the Kyron K3 and
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if you're typing every day and you have
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a lot of wrist issues a low profile or
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even some wrist issues or just you find
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that normal mechanical keyboard isn't
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comfortable having a lowprofile keyboard
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of any kind can be very very
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beneficial the nice thing about a
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mechanical keyboard is they are
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programmable they can be Wireless they
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can be wired all these different things
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you even get cool RGB I mean heck that's
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really cool right but th they did such a
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good job with this low profile and that
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is one thing I absolutely love about
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this keyboard all right so the switches
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let's talk switches for a second so this
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is a low profile switch I'm going to
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hold on to the base so we can check that
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out so this is a low profile switch
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these are actually Kyle Browns and you
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can get this with Blues which are clicky
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which when you when you press it down
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it'll actually audibly these are the
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linear switches or these are excuse me
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these are tactile switches so you'll go
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down and then there's a little tactile
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feedback on there and then there's the
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linear which they just press down
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there's no feedback it's just a straight
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push these are the nice switches you can
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get for a lowprofile keyboard normally
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low profile switches are super touchy
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you can press them down just a fraction
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of an inch and it will actually trigger
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the keystroke you get around this with
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larger full-sized switches because the
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distance that this travels before it
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actuates is much greater this is
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something that has been kind of a
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sticking point for most low profile
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keyboards is having that that constant
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actuation distance and low profile
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keyboard like this with a mechanical
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switch I will say this is the best
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mechanical switch I've ever used and um
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that it's low profile makes it even more
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amazing I love these the hot swap for
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this keyboard is also a great feature
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you can take this brown out and put a
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clicky blue in if you want to have your
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caps lock your tab your shift on a
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clicky and the rest of it have linear or
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tactile switches so the third thing is
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this keyboard can be programmed for
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different layers now when we talk layers
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the simplest way is when you press shift
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so when you when you have not depressed
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shift it's all lowercase when you press
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shift it's all uppercase so that would
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be considered a layer what's cool is the
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Kyron has three different layers so you
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can program all of your media all of
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your Macros everything that you want to
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program on this keyboard you can do and
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they make it super easy with their
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integrated software a lot of great
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keyboard manufacturers do not have
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fantastic software I have some
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mechanical keyboards that have toggle
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switches on the bottom to switch
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different things so the fact that they
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have a great software to support their
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awesome keyboard is just is it's another
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plus and um we're going to have some
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b-roll of that so you can see the only
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thing I will say about their software is
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I wish it was not an online software I
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wish you could just download the
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application and run it on your machine
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but other than that it's it works very
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fast connects super quick and I have not
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had any problems with it so let's talk
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about things I don't necessarily love
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about the K3 Max so first off battery
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life so I know that this is a wireless
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keyboard with RGB I know that's going to
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take down the battery all these things
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you can leave it plugged in yes I
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understand that but this thing will chew
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through some battery if you leave it on
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and are using it very often especially
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with the RGB on that is not a terrible
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downside but it can come into play I
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mean they don't have a lot of space for
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battery in here seeing how thin this is
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you know if it was twice as thick I
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could see it running for 3 weeks without
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charging I can get about 8 days with
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this and granted I don't always I'm not
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always typing at my desk there's a lot
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of downtime a lot of reading and things
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so if you use it every day I would
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predict that you probably would get six
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days you may you'd probably get a full
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work week before charging so that could
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be a plus for for some if you're
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traveling and you don't have a
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consistent source of power to charge it
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then that might be a factor for you but
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other than that the battery life could
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be better I feel second thing is the 60%
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layout 10 keyless this thing oh so it's
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it's not 60% it's 10 keyless cuz if it
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was 60 it wouldn't have top row sorry I
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need to that's wrong I bet
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misinformation people it's it's a 10
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keyless sorry
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you'll get roasted so that's a 75% so if
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you take this top row off that's 15% of
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the keyboard so that's wrong now you may
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have very Nimble tiny fingers and you
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don't have this problem and that's I'm
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so happy for you but I have bigger hands
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and bigger fingers and I find myself
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typing and then hitting caps lock tab or
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shift accidentally quite often because
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these keys are actually shaped they're
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beveled on the inside and so if I come
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out on the Q and I hit it a little bit I
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might tab down if I hit especially a
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this is the one that really gets me is
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I'll come over on an A and I'll actually
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depress it but I'll actually hit that
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caps lock and again these are the the
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low profile switches so that that travel
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distance to actuate is very low much
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lower than a traditional keyboard and so
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I'll actuate the caps lock and then all
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of a sudden I'm typing in caps so it
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would be nice the only modification I
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would do to this is I would since it is
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hot swap I would probably take out the
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tactile bump keys on the uh peripherals
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out here and I would put in the clicky
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keys so if I did hit that I would have
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that audible click but other than that
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that's the only real issue with this
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keyboard which that's not even an issue
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with the keyboard that's mainly me all
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right so that wraps up the likes
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dislikes the Kyron K3 Max and man if you
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use a keyboard you'll like this thing
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and you should buy it at the price point
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and the features that are packed into
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this keyboard that you can't go wrong
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this is if you're gaming this is going
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to be great you can plug it in for a low
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latency if you're typing on it it's
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going to be great if you're just a
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casual Surfer on the web and you want
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something that's a little bit better
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than just the keyboard on your machine
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then this is probably going to be a
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great upgrade um you can't go wrong with
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this keyboard if you like mechanical
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keyboards and you're W to get into them
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then this is a great starting point
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especially with the low profile you can
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travel with it super easy and this is
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something I will be keeping for a long
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time this is a great keyboard probably
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one of my top five mechanical keyboards
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I've ever used actually and this is
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definitely worth picking up if you're
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looking for any kind of mechanical
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keyboard whether that's for gaming or
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just everyday work if you're an engineer
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anything like that this is going to be
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the keyboard for you if you thought this
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