 Welcome to a re-unboxing, something we don't do that often. This my friends is the Cooler Master CM Storm Quickfire TK, fully backlit mechanical keyboard. It has an extremely clever layout so it delivers pretty close to a 10 keyless size. So for those of you who aren't already sort of familiar with the terminology that goes along with mechanical keyboard shopping, 10 keyless refers to keyboards that don't have a number pad, but this one does have a number pad. So what they've done is they've used the number lock to either enable number pad functionality or arrows, num law or rather print screen, scroll lock, pause, insert home page up, delete, end page down, all that functionality you can choose whether you have a number lock or those things, which is actually kind of cool. It's available with a variety of Cherry MX switches, including the very reason that we are redoing this particular unboxing because there is a new option for the Quickfire TK, Cherry MX green switches. So the keyboard includes a removable braided cable as well as a key cap puller and we're going to use this as an opportunity to show you guys just exactly what a Cherry MX green switch looks like. Ah yes, it looks like pretty much any other Cherry MX switch except for the fact that it is indeed green. But before we get into the typing impressions from both me and Slick, let's do a quick recap of the overall features here. So it has function keys, which give you your media playback, play pause, stop, backwards, forwards, mute, volume up and volume down. You've also got a windows key lock, which can be enabled by holding function and clicking on that one. You can see, ah yes, it has a backlight. So you can use the function key to control various types of backlightness. So you can turn it on and off. You can adjust the brightness between five different levels. It actually gets extremely bright at the brightest level. It looks very, very, very vibrant. It looks quite nice. And you can choose three different modes for it. So you can have it in breathing mode. You can have it in fully backlit mode and you can have it in just illuminate the WASD keys mode. The other thing to watch out for is when you press the number lock, those arrow keys illuminate. That indicates that you are not number locked, which is a little bit counter intuitive. I wish the num lock illuminated or something like that. When you press num lock and when you are in num lock mode, it has a removable cord as well as a nice set of ergonomic options back here. So you've got nice little rubber feet on the top and bottom of the keyboard as well as rubber tipped feet that can flip up in order to elevate the keyboard a touch. It does not come with a wrist rest, unfortunately, and that is something that I would have liked to see included. However, it is a fairly value conscious option in terms of pricing. So you got to just kind of remember that that comes with the territory. Last thing is with function held, you can press the escape key and either six or N to choose between six key rollover, which is compatible with Macs and all PCs. So compatibility mode or N key rollover, which allows you to press all the keys and have them all register even over USB, but not compatible with Mac and can cause some PCs to fail to boot. So you can just change that mode back if that's not working for you. The last thing to cover before we get into the typing experience is the cable management on the bottom. So the detachable cable can be routed either straight out the top or to either the right or left side. This is great for keeping your desk tidy. Now typing experience. Let's start with the big thing about Cherry MX Greens. I mean, why are they so rare? Well, because they require a lot of force to press at 80 grams of actuation force at the actuation point. That is nearly double what is required for Cherry MX Browns, which are a light tactile switch and Cherry MX Reds, which are a light linear switch. So both of those are around 45 grams and it is a full 60% higher than the 50 grams required for Cherry MX Blues, which are considered to be a relatively heavy cherry switch. So with that said, how does it feel for typing? Well, for me, it was too heavy, just right out of the gate. I'm going to give it a shot in the longer term here and you guys can stay tuned on Twitter or on the forum or whatever else and I'll let you know if I change my mind. But I found that it was just flat out too heavy for anything but my index finger and my middle finger. So for my ring finger and pinky finger, it was very unnatural for me to type on it. Now I am not a great typist. I rarely use my pinky, so it wouldn't have even mattered if it wasn't too difficult for me to press with my ring finger without it feeling a little bit weird. So I'm not necessarily the best person to go, okay, well he had trouble typing on it, so therefore it is difficult to type on because Slick tried it too. And while he didn't find it as fast as Cherry MX Blues, which is not even by a long shot, he didn't find the typing experience physically difficult because he just has plain old heavier, stronger fingers to start with. So right now we're kind of going, okay, results are a mixed bag. It is a different experience and it is certainly very unique. I mean it's probably the closest we can get with a Cherry MX switch to something like a buckling spring or even more like a typewriter feel where it really feels like there's a long sort of resisting press before you reach that actuation point. But we didn't find it to be dramatically better than some of the other more available and less expensive switches that are out there. 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