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This video features the Mountain Everest Max keyboard (and accessories) and the Makalu 67 lightweight mouse. Sponsored by Mountain.
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There are some people that are at God tier status
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when it comes to mechanical keyboards. I'm kind of in there. I appreciate a nice click and a nice key switch
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And mostly I just know what I hate in keyboards. So if I touch something that is lacking the tactile feel
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then I'll be like, get this thing out of there. I need to get a real keyboard in front of me
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Well, today I'm lucky enough to have some of the best stuff
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out there sitting on the desk. The company's called Mountain. and this is their top of the line Everest keyboard
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It's not just a keyboard though, it's a whole modular situation where you can attach accessories to the keyboard itself
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including these little screens and number pads. It's a really elaborate thing going on here
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Well, this model here is the Cherry MX Brown, but I have all the switches here
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That's the wild part. Brown, silent, the red, the speed switch, the blue switch
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I know this has been quite the preamble here, but the reason is because we're gonna do
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a which switch is which and which switch is best. It's gonna involve willy-doo, it's gonna involve Moe
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We're gonna click some switches. This thing is wild. Look at this layer, look at how cool this is
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Unique MediaDoc, customizable display keys. The Cherry MX keys are hot swappable and plate mounted
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RGB backlight on a per key basis. I should also mention we have their new mouse
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This is a lightweight, yet not minuscule mouse. Mechanical keyboards are super popular amongst gamers
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but we like them here on the production side of things because we're doing a lot of video editing
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and we have many other reasons to be typing on keyboards as well
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To reach your summit, look at me, look at the components on the box. You're gonna hang on to this box
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Certainly this is not a cheap keyboard, but that's kind of the point
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This is for the enthusiast. This is for the individual who's looking for something more premium
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You have the keyboard right here. Actually, it's not insanely heavy. The first thing I notice is this cable management, the way that they have routed everything so
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that you can have the cable going out wherever is most pleasing for you
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We have one type C connector, another type C connector, and then a USB-A port as well
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Wow, check this out. This is, I suppose, where you can attach the number pad
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The number pad can connect either on the left-hand side, I notice a magnet here as well
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or onto the right-hand side. So whichever you prefer, depending on your individual setup
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I like the fact that the number pad is removable. Sometimes I might have a more slim setup
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and just go for the main unit and not be encumbered by that
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Little extra touch on the escape key. In this case, it is the Mountain logo
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Of course, all these keycaps removable, as mentioned previously. Now, I am actually not gonna type on this keyboard right now
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because we're gonna play Guess the Switch, and we're gonna pick our favorite switches
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So I'm just gonna put this to the side for a quick moment. Also, in the package, you're gonna receive this wrist rest
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This is a must. Some people swear by this. Some people need this
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Others don't like it. For me, that's a nice soft touch to it. I'll take it
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just clicks in with them I like the magnetic theme here wow look at the unboxing experience it's all in there man
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customized media dock number pad and USB cable all get their own separate unboxing here
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that is one of the thickest USB cables braided so it's going to be durable type C on each end specifically designed for
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your Everest Max keyboard. Oh, so this is the number pad. Now this one feels robust as well
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Cool, so these are gonna light up as individual little screens. Look at the way that this mechanism works
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for either side, that's cool. So these will poke out whether you wanna have it
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right hand right side mounted or left side mounted I like the way they did that Now as far as attaching this is concerned Oh baby the magnets kick in and look at your setup
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It's really that simple. This is quite a cool little deal they've got going on
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Now here is the MediaDoc. Change your settings on the fly. and this one is going to be look at that tactile
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so this one is going to be used for quickly adjusting things like volume i mean that's how
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i would use it i would definitely use the wheel for volume also a display so this is where
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you can have the weather or your volume amount a variety of other things it looks like it can
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and remind you to do some deep breathing meditation. Anyway, you have other dedicated buttons here as well
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like if you need to quickly mute, play pause, skip tracks and such
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and then a Type-C connector on the other side. And again, I presume you can mount it
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on whichever side is more convenient for you. Gonna plop that in like that
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Now check you out. You got this, you've got that, you have yourself a super setup
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This is gonna be our tools for removing keycaps. Wow, what exactly is going on here
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So here we have a key removal tool, magnet in the center
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Wow, check this out. So we have different magnetic feet so you can get the exact angle you want for the keyboard
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So I could be like, I like quite an angle here. I'm gonna put two over there, two on the other side
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and then put the final foot over there. You could have even more of an angle
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because they give you lots of these to customize. Then I flip it over and now I have the exact angle
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that I like. Put this one, ooh, okay. That is, yeah, way more sturdy
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So that's cool. And then I guess if you wanna have the regular escape key
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instead of the special mountain logo key, you can do that. That's in the customized box
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And then there's some different key switches. So it seems that this is just to give you a taste
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of what the different key switches feel like are capable of because the whole system is customizable if you wanted to swap out certain
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keys for gaming or something and you want the rest of the keyboard to be a different key switch
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you could actually do that on this keyboard so whether it's key caps or if it's even full-out
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switches customizability never ends here all right let's push this to the side real quick
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everybody's into these super lightweight mice right now and they're hopping into that game it
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It also has customizable RGB because you have to. Water repellent PCB coating, OMRON 50M switches
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100% PTFE mouse feeds. Magnetic enclosure on the box. Yes, it is a very lightweight mouse and cable here
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I guess we have some replacement feet also included. Holy cow, yes
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Super, super duper light. And no, you do not feel the cable
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USB type A connector. You can of course plug the mouse directly
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into the keyboard here like this. Ooh, very smooth and nice. We have a scroll wheel obviously
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a sensitivity selector, forward back, clickable. That's wow, I mean, you can like see right through it
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Hopefully Mo can give you a good shot of this. It's gonna be tremendous ventilation in there
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Pixart PAW3370, adjustable optical gaming sensor with up to 19,000 DPI. Let's go ahead and tap some keys
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Why don't we? I'm gonna start at the very top. Mm, yes
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It is obviously nowhere near the clickety-clack of like a blue switch
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Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Oof okay. Woo! We are in the blue zone
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This is silent. They still feel good but somehow not having any audible feedback
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is tough. Oh, I find this to be quite satisfying, this one
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Get out of here. That's insane. This I can... No. This one gets elevated
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The orientation's gonna stay when Will comes in here now. That could be brown too
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Oh no, this is red. So blue, red, brown, speed, silent. Those are my guesses
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And my favorite is hard. This is a very hard choice. I'm going to take this one right here
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This is my pick. I'm not going to move them anymore because Will's going to come in here now
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But this is going to be my favorite one. which this might be a weird development
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because I don't think I've ever owned that key switch before, whatever it is, but we'll find out
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Willie Do, get in here. Let's see what we got here. This is a solid blue
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Okay, I like that. I like the blue. Interesting. I think before you try to guess which is which
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let's just focus on your favorite and why, and then we'll see if you can guess them after that
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All right. Interesting. These two. Wow, these ones are a little harder
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They are both quite satisfying. I ended up picking this one right here
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I agree. This one's pink. Yeah. This one's blue. This one is brown, mainly because it has a nice thump to it
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It's a thud. I know. And I've used brown before, but they're similar, though
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They're not that different. I'm going to change it up. This one is the speed, and this one's the red
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Okay, so you have blue, speed. Brown. Brown. Red. Red. And silent
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Pink. The pink. I picked this one as my favorite. You like that one? Yeah
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I would probably still go with the blue. I'm a big fan of the blue or green, but it's gonna be noisy. We're gonna hear clacking from all the way down there
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Yeah, that's that's me. Okay. That's fair. And what if you had to pick a second choice
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Probably the silent I go for like very different It's not a gradient here. It's either I go really you're on now you're on the polar opposites
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I should let you guys know at this moment that Mo doesn't really care that much about keyboards
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So he's going to give you the, I don't know, layman, regular guy approach
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I just like the sound of this stuff. Oh, this is nice
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That's silent. Or we're guessing it's silent. We're going to find out. Yeah, blue to silent
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It's Will's two picks as well. It's so weird. It's like you either want the noisiest thing or the most quiet thing
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I think, by the way, what you guessed, I'd agree with that. Okay
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But I'm going to go with blue still. Okay. Okay, so we have two blue picks
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He also likes the silent. Will also likes the silent, which is kind of wild
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Mo has the same guess as me. Will's guess swaps those two
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That's tougher. Okay, pink, no surprise. Will's guess was because it's a little heavier
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So how can it be speed? He's right, we're wrong, we're idiots
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Speed it is you right Will claims to know the most about keyboards of all of us Yeah that the speed it interesting that I picked that one because I never used it before I had
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Red brown blue in the past this new new to me speed key switch. That's pretty cool
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All right, this one we thought this was brown This one if this is a brown it's red Red
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This one is red. You know red and brown is quite similar
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Assuming obviously that this is brown, which it is. Last up, the one that no one was really
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fooled by, the blue, the loudest of the bunch. From my taste, it's like kind of in this range here, but that's cool
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I discovered something about myself blindly here that I like this speed key switch Cherry MX speed
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So anyway, we were pretty close. I guess you were the worst performer. Well, you got three wrong
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I don't want to talk about it. Final tally though is kind of interesting to me. This the classic blue switch is still the switch of choice
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for a keyboard aficionado like Will and for a mechanical keyboard newcomer like Mo
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What a sound though. Everybody has heard this sound. I like this one better
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Cool. The Nutac XL. So this is an XL. This will be your mouse and keyboard that'll sit on this
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Ooh, that's a mouse pad right there. I'm gonna do my setup right now
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Thank you. I think I'm actually gonna put the number pad on the left
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so I can have my mouse closer to the keyboard here on the right
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I got my quick display keys up top. I feel like I would reach up with my right hand to adjust volume quickly
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or hit these multimedia keys. And then for the mouse, maybe I'll mix it up and go with the white one
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Now, arguably, this rib cage design looks even cooler on the white model because the components on the inside are more distinguishable from the cage
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So you can just see how much open air is in there and how light it is
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Even though it's honestly, like, stupidly lightweight, the other thing to mention about it is it's full size
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So they were able to achieve that weight without having to shrink the mouse
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So, cause I hate a small mouse. I gotta have something substantial over there
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and this is absolutely that. So this is my setup. This is the way that I would do it
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They also make a smaller mouse mat, the mountain nun attack medium size
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This is gonna be strictly for your mouse. Still a generous mouth pad, but just for the mouse rather than the keyboard and the mouse
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So there you have it. One of the most advanced modular keyboards you can buy with quality Cherry MX switches of your choice
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No matter what your preference happens to be, you can be like Willie Do and choose very loud blue key switches for that distinctive sound
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Or you can be like me and go for the new speed key switches, which are a little more subtle
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yet equally satisfying in my opinion. You can go with this gunmetal gray
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or you can choose the midnight black. You can get crazy with it
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with your different modules, your different components, and then of course your key switches
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I mean, it's truly endless. Your key switches or your keycaps, it's a wonderful
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oh, and I almost forgot the wrist rest. Also an option, also magnets
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Is this the ultimate keyboard for both productivity and gaming, it's quite possible
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I feel like this can satisfy pretty much anyone and their taste
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It is the Mountain Everest Max. Check it out
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