 Cooler Master sent this over not because they're expecting me to review it. I specifically told them I wasn't going to we don't really do keyboard reviews anymore But because they just really wanted me to try it I mean, it's a Cheap keyboard mouse gaming combo set. These are kind of a dime a dozen these days What are you really expecting? And they were like no, this is a direct quote from Cooler Masters marketing We created a keyboard that mirrors the highly popular mechanical Cherry MX Blue switches And we made it affordable while maintaining functionality We successfully pulled this off with the satisfying clicky feature on our new mechanical switches But could a membrane keyboard really replicate the feel of a mechanical one? 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Okay step step high I mean you're stepping over a cord so it's a little overkill but Now I'm gonna form my own impressions here but I Wanted to bring in someone who's an even bigger keyboard Dork than me to evaluate this so I think I've run you through the premise Someone has created a keyboard that they claim At least closely imitates the feel of a Cherry MX Blue Okay Now as a warm-up, I'm gonna put something random in front of you, and I'm gonna make sure you haven't lost your touch Come on over here Um oh oh there there's your home row there buddy somewhere Browns close enough technically it is a razor orange. Okay. Yeah, but yes Yeah, essentially. Yeah Okay, good. How do we make this random enough? Hold on. I'd like to read you some more of the marketing first if I can Is that okay you good? I'm fine. Okay, you having fun yet. It's just very face sweaty because there's nowhere for my breath to go. Oh That sounds very unpleasant. I'm glad I'm not experiencing it Satisfying clicky feature great price full RGB and free mouse So with a mouse with a full RGB backlight, this thing is like 75 US dollars. Okay 50 Million key stroke durability. So they claim there is no compromise there Specially designed tactile and clicky switches similar to those found on professional level mechanical keyboards It's fine-tuned to help you win all your battles. Oh, okay You can win all your battles I Would like to see like they should have to prove it That you can like increases your win rate. So i'll tell you how they do it Later, but let's get you let's get you to try one of them So don't take your fingers off the home row. I will consider that to be cheating. Okay Okay, why just you don't you don't get to know any of these things what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna have Brandon pick Which keyboard is the most important? Is i'm gonna have Brandon pick which keyboard I am going to put in front of him Okay Okay, don't touch it yet Don't touch it yet. Okay. Hold on. Don't touch it yet. I didn't Here's your right hand Is going straight to the j All right Can I find it myself? Is that okay? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you can you can do the other hand yourself I think you should probably start by typing Oh, but I can't go off home row. Oh, yeah, you can go off home row. So don't take your fingers off the home row Yeah, yeah, you can do whatever you want I don't think I wonder if he's gonna get this. I don't think I need to try the other one I'm pretty sure this is the imitation one All right. Well, hold on a second Let's get you to try the other one because I want you to have a chance to Retract that statement in case it comes to that. Okay If that was cherry mx blue the uh, the feel has changed a lot over the past few years My keyboard is relatively old but it doesn't feel like that. I can tell you that much. Okay. All right There you go go for it Yeah This is a joke, okay, you can take off the mask now Okay, you can take off the mask now, okay, I think I pressed it once Okay, shut up hold on I haven't I haven't tried it yet. Is it the other way around did I get it wrong? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I would like to have an opportunity to evaluate this for myself Uh, I mean I was I was I was mashing it so i'm not gonna Yeah, oh It's like every single it feels like relatively okay And then you start to get anywhere close to bottoming out and you're like, what is that? It's stiff. It feels like it feels Almost like in between a blue and a green in terms of the weight In terms of the weight, yeah, because it's like a and it's inconsistent a little bit. Yeah towards the end It's like I mean that wouldn't even be an o-ring. That would be like a memory foam ring. That's what Oh man, you can probably even see the difference in in in pressure. Yeah, like it's quite a bit heavier towards the end The selling point here is that they've done this mechanical feel But without rubber domes, but it's still a membrane keyboard Would have blown my mind a little while ago But recently we did a video on the history of the model m and I found out that there are actually model m's that do use membranes But with a mechanical key switch like it feels it feels like a toy Okay, so there are some other issues here too now to be clear. This is also a cooler master keyboard right here This is just a cherry mx blue. So you see that key cap wobble There's always going to be a little bit you never get away from that now Have a look at this That's a ton. This is among the most I have ever seen. Yeah, so hold on a second though Hey free mouse though in fairness to cooler master. Yeah Those are nice switches. I think those are on runs actually That does feel nice Would you want to game on this though? No, I don't like it. I would I would rather have a good membrane keyboard than that Like original g15. I would put that way above there again I feel like I'm being possibly too inflammatory But that feels like it's trying to be something that it's not And that makes it feel weird because the click feels kind of fake. The bottom out is weird and squishy the whole time. I Was really hoping there was gonna be a lot more suspense. I Should probably tried this before I got you to try it I was so worried when I had the mask on you put in front of me I was like I might have lost my touch and then the first one I was like wow this better not be it because if it Is cherry's quality has gone way down and then you have the other keyboard is yeah Short video All right, go ahead and cut well, thanks for coming in and Helping me go straight savage and take this thing apart. 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