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Enhance The greatest keyboard of all time. Oh PewDiePie You just had to say that didn't you? About three months ago PewDiePie announced his latest product collaboration a mechanical keyboard And a mouse that I didn't buy because I don't care about mouse. Now now naturally as a 19 plus 2 year old I was pretty interested and by interested I meant I rushed to the nearest internet browser Slammed in the website matched in my bank account details and sat waiting patiently for the board to arrive Fast forward about two weeks my keyboard arrives. My excitement is immeasurable and my fingers Fingers are ready. Now you might be wondering glasses you use custom keyboards all day. Why are you excited about this one? Also, you said you got this keyboard three months ago. Why are you only making this video now? Well, I'll tell you I'm excited not only because PewDiePie said this about the keyboard, roll the clip, the greatest keyboard of all time but because of the incredible and I mean the Incredible product listing that ghost keyboards gave for this board The PewDiePie A1 keyboard is our flagship model for those who only demand The best we start with a solid block of cast aluminum carved in a CNC machine add on our premium MX switches Double shot PBT keycaps pre-lube stabilizers Bluetooth wireless 5.0 Textured WASD and you start to understand why ghost keyboards are the best value on the market This is my favorite part, right? now you can get an ultra premium keyboard without the ultra premium price tag and This ladies and gentlemen is what I call shooting yourself in the foot because for the remainder of this video I'm going to purely evaluate this keyboard based on the description. They gave here we case is high-profile with relatively thin uniform bezels and curved edges a matte black finish a Bunch of logos recessed USB port and most importantly for rectangular rubber feet. The external finish is fine It's not quite Korean sparkly, but it is grainy but consistently grainy. So it's alright Unfortunately, they decided to throw away all that consistency internally choosing instead to sport scratches Peeling very obvious machining marks, which confused me because I thought this was a premium keyboard This is a tray mount case meaning the PCB and the plate screw into mounting posts on the bottom of the case But before you decide to throw in your aftermarket PCBs and plates don't it doesn't support them coupled with the aluminum plate You have yourself exactly one firm typing experience Which is admittedly the same as most pre-bought keyboards I'm not not gonna call this premium, but this is very obviously a $50 aftermarket case So I'm really hoping there's $180 worth of value in the left of this keyboard spoilers. There's not Moving on to their premium Cherry MX switches of which there was a choice of reds blues and Browns and I chose Browns, obviously Now ignoring my own biases these RGB Cherry MX Browns are very scratchy Does not at all help accentuate their very small tactile bump now, I know before you say it this isn't just a case of Cherry MX Browns bad In the last year, I've picked up retooled Browns and hyperglide Browns that are distinctly smoother than these These also have incredibly bad spring-prings. So Yeah premium. Here's a sound test As per their description the PewDiePie keyboard comes with pre-lubed stabilizers. So this should be good Leave this Enhance They forgot the loop. These unclipped plate mount stabilizers are bone-dry like they There's these little droplets of lube. They put on a stabilizer housing insert. So it's Technically lubed because there's lube on it It does absolutely nothing to increase smoothness or reduce rattle, these are among the scratchiest Rattliest stabilizers I have ever had the displeasure of using so yeah Okay first I think the wavy design is really nice I really like the wavy design on the keycaps I didn't notice it at first But the waves on the keycap actually connect at the end and beginning of another keycap on a bottom row Which I thought was just I thought that was really cool Okay, however the legends on a wavy keycaps are inconsistent in both thickness and positioning It looks like you just slapped it onto the keycap and there's this weird Saturation disparity from the top of the keycap to the sides like when you see it you you can't unsee anymore They also bleed light like crazy Especially through that spacebar the main alphas are a lot better The legends are a lot crisper and more consistent in their thickness and positioning These are a bit thicker than your normal gamery keycaps They have a nice subtle grippiness But they have the same problem that a lot of these cheap double shot keycaps have in terms of the connecting O type letters and numbers where you can see it doesn't connect properly So you get these kind of like dark spots which look kind of inconsistent when you shine those LEDs through them the grippy wast keycaps are grippy You know, it's got that kind of grippy rubber texture and the actual engraved waves also adds to a bit of that I'd say the keycaps on this board are a bit of a step up from your normal gamery keyboard But it's still like a $25 aftermarket keycap set. Yeah, I'm still waiting for the rest of that $180 in value the Felix board PCB comes with a whole host of features like RGB and Bluetooth wireless 5.0 with a 2,000 mAh battery. It's not even funny. No, I'm laughing. I like Bluetooth I love Bluetooth and it was really straightforward to connect to my computer this keyboard also has per key RGB via SMD LEDs, which can be adjusted to do a range of RGB things like Static colors and breathing colors and whatever the heck this is called and oh I can turn off lovely However, north-facing LEDs means that you're going to run into interference with your cherry profile keycaps So no kids don't put your GMKs on here. There's a bunch of built-in hotkeys and shortcuts like Menu and onboard macro functionality, which was an absolute pain to use There is no software support the booklet explaining all of this stuff sucks. There is no QMK support No via support. So in every sense a very lacking PCB This is a $50 gk61 with a $50 aluminium aftermarket case Which I paid $230 for Yay, unfortunately instead of getting an ultra premium keyboard without the ultra premium price tag You get an ultra standard keyboard with an ultra bloated price. Hey Who are you you are being way too harsh on this keyboard, you know Decent stabilizers, they're all trash. That's a low blow. Oh Okay, but that must be like one of those expensive hundred bucks UK okay. Okay. Okay, but you can't build an all-aluminium What is that? Oh this yeah It's just my PewDiePie inspired keyboard keycaps of red Japanese sub-legendous to match PewDiePie's weirdness it also has clipped a new PCB not stabilizers a carbon fiber plate and all these creams and a Red case right, but how much does that cost about a hundred and eighty dollars? But that has a low-profile case the PewDiePie keyboard has a high-profile case. So oh Like this this high-profile and denser case of a stainless steel weight. Yeah, just add twenty twenty five dollars Oh, okay. I want pop pop and RGB and and Bluetooth awesome Just get a gk621x PCB at an extra $15 Cherry MX Browns, I want cherry MX Browns just like the PewDiePie keyboard for sure. Yeah, just subtract $20 Right at the end of the day, this is still a keyboard that will do keyboard things for you so if you really love those wavy wavy keycaps, or you are a diehard PewDiePie fan then Go for it. But honestly, this is a pretty small PP keyboard bad meme