 Welcome to my unboxing of the ASIO Levitron Mech4 Gaming Keyboard. This actually has some pretty unique features at a pretty unique price point. And let's start with a warm welcome for our guest camera operator who is also interviewing for the Tech Tips assistant job. So hopefully he does pretty well operating the camera here. He's giving me a kind of a weird look from behind the camera, so that's a good sign. Okay, why don't we start with the main features, which are the Cherry Black mechanical switch keys. So that is, okay, according to ASIO, why don't we go with what they think. Widely believed to provide the best gaming experience. Fascinating, okay. Modular design adds functionality by attaching modular accessories. Numeric keypad and macro keypad modules are included. Interesting. And it has anti-ghosting. So there is actually an anti-ghosting zone. I'm going to go ahead and flip it over. And so you can see your WASD, ZXC, QE key zone is all anti-ghosted. So while this keyboard does not feature N-key rollover by any stretch of the imagination, it does have an anti-ghosting zone, which is where you're going to be pressing most of your keys in gaming. So unless you type with your face, you're probably not going to run into any issues as far as ghosting is concerned. Now, the features are all listed here, but what I'd really like to do is get the box opened, before we just start listing features so I can show you where they are on the keyboard itself. Now, one thing ASIO did ask that I mention on this unboxing is the use of cardboard packaging, which is recyclable, versus styrofoam packaging, which is not recyclable. So there you go. I have mentioned it. So you can clearly see the cardboard packaging present here, the highly recyclable cardboard packaging. Okay, quick start guide is in color. Look at that. So they show you how to install the software manual, as well as installing the software to manage your profiles, as well as your macro settings and key customization. All right, what else we got here? Okay, so they... Oh, look at that. It's an actual color manual, and it's a quick start guide that says more than plug the thing into the thing, and then turn it on. Awesome. Okay, so there is your manual, as well as your software, although you're going to want to download the latest software from the ASIO website. Here are some modular pieces, including a number pad. Very nice. It's got a good feel to it already. Calculator. So there's a button to just open up the calculator program, which is... this is a good place for it. I'm liking that. Okay, there's the USB interface, and there's the USB interface on the other side. So I'll show you why it has two in just a moment. Here's a way to... Oh, cool. So you can attach it by an extension cord, too. So it basically comes with... This is like the smartest thing ever, actually. I'm really impressed right about now. So look at this. You can either clip it directly to the keyboard, or you can go ahead and plug it in by USB somewhere else, and then you just have like a little number pad. These are like 15 bucks, 20 bucks if you want to buy one. So it comes with your keyboard now. Cool. All right. Here's a little macro key piece. So this one is going to clip onto the keyboard, and it's going to add some additional macro keys. So I'll show you where those go. I don't think those are mechanical, but I'll let it go this time. All right. Honestly, I think it's a little bit overdone, the whole partial mechanical versus full mechanical, and how it's, you know, sinful to do it one way versus the other way thing. But that's just my opinion. Nobody watches this channel to hear my opinion, so I'll keep it to myself. Okay. Actually, I lied. People do watch this channel to hear my opinion. So there you go. That's my opinion. This is the Levitron Mac 4. The first thing I notice about it is it is built like a mechanical keyboard. It's got some heft to it. It has some weight. Let's do the overall appearance first. So we've got, oh, look at that. Two different stands. So you can either put it up a little bit like that, or you can put it up a lot like that, or you can put it up not at all like that. We've also got rubber feet on the bottom. So there's rubber bits along the bottom of both of these. This is actually like really nice little touches like this. Rubber feet here, and then rubber feet here. So if you have it running flat, it is completely rubber grip-ified. So it's not going to move on your table regardless of what configuration you are using. Overall layout, let's have a look at some of the custom keys we've got. So we can turn the Windows key on and off here. We can switch between macro profile A and B here. And look at that. The macro keys are actually on different heights. I want you to get down at that level there so you can see how these are actually kind of staggered. So you can actually feel if you were to run your fingers down them or if you were to reach for them which key is which because they are all at slightly different heights. So that's something that may not seem like a big deal to the casual observer, but personally I think it's a very big deal because the last thing you want is macro keys that you cannot feel in the midst of a firefight. Okay, cable. We've got a standard sort of sleeve looking USB cable. We've got two bundled together in one here. So I'm guessing one of these is for the hub. Yep, and one of them is for the keyboard itself. It doesn't tell you which is which, but my guess is that you'll plug both of them in anyway so I'm not too worried about that. On the back we do find the USB hub that I did refer to before. And let's see what else we got going on here. So you know what I'm going to, I'm just going to pull my cheat sheet out and kind of run through with you guys. So we've got a volume knob which is right about here. Alright our anti-ghosting allows for six keys to be simultaneously pressed. For USB expansion we have two USB expansion ports which I showed you before. The Windows key we saw. Each key has its own mechanical switch. The advantages, registers without pushing the key all the way down. And the keys snaps back to the original position faster. They are rated for 50 million keystrokes. So I could sit here and I could do this all day and probably never wear it out. The numeric keypad, yes. Okay, so let's show you guys this. So I showed you this way, which is like this already. So then I can put it over here if I want. But there's also another way to hook this up. I can go like this. And I'm just going to make sure that I have it in the same configuration as the keyboard itself. And okay, I don't know how this works. I've never tried this before so bear with me here you guys. I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to try and figure out how that goes. There we go. So there you go. You can clip the keypad, and that's mechanical too. You can clip the keypad onto that side. Or you can take the whole thing off, which comes off somehow. Okay, now it's on there pretty good. Does it lock in place? Oh yes it does. There we go. And it locks up here too. There we go. Or you can put it on the other side. So depending on the configuration of your desk, you can actually change the overall width of your keyboard or which side of your gaming keys it is wider on. Very, very cool. Alright, modular design. Modular rail. Aha, it enables the macro D-pad to be adjustable in positioning and allows future modules to be hooked on the same rail. So this rail up here, which looks kind of like for mounting sights on a gun. And this kind of looks like sights, doesn't it? Kind of ignore the keyboard keys on it. So you just slide these along here. And they click into place wherever you happen to want to put them. So you want to put them here. Let's say you never use the F1 to F4 keys while you're gaming. And let's face it, who does? I mean I'm sure there's some sort of weird game out there that requires the use of F4 key. You know, I don't know. Maybe F10? We can cover up F10. But then you know you couldn't do whatever functionality you're trying to figure out how to do in Counter-Strike when people tell you how to do it right. So okay, so this allows you to actually reach it if you needed to. So maybe you have like an alternate WASD that you want to put in for, I don't know. I don't question what they're actually for. The point is just you have six macro keys here, six macro keys here with A and B. So that's a total of 12 functions. And it's all within reach of your actual gaming keys. Unlike keyboards that have banks of macro keys over here or on the other side, whatever the case may be, now you can reach them all. Very neat. Alright, 11 dedicated macro keys. We just went through that. Water resistant seals and drainage holes built in. This I didn't know. Spilling your drink on your keyboard is no longer an excuse for losing. Drainage holes. There they are. One, two, three, four. Four drainage holes. And simply keep playing as the liquid will come out from the bottom via the drainage holes. Now, if you spill something sticky, I still wouldn't expect it to work 100%. What you might have to do at that point is take like some rubbing alcohol and then pour that down after it. Mind you, that might wreck any rubber or whatever happens to be in there. Okay, the whole thing's not good. Still try not to spill on your keyboard, please. Or drink water around your keyboard at the very least. Braided and gold connectors. We talked about that already. Fully programmable. All keys can be reprogrammed, not just the dedicated macro keys. Very cool. So the first thing some people are going to say is, Windows key, we don't need no stinking Windows key. But you could actually just change that to do whatever you want, including the tab key, the caps lock key. In fact, one of my big gripes about keyboards tends to be short backspace keys. Well, I'll probably just reprogram this to be a backspace key and then my problem is solved. Actually, let's look at the overall layout while we're at it then. We've got nice long enter, shift, shift, normal size, control and alt. So the one thing that I don't like about the layout is the short backspace key, but the fully programmable functionality really does help to make me forgive it for that. Okay. And I think that's pretty much all there is that I have to say about the Levitron Mac 4 with the aggressive pricing, the very full feature set. The one thing it doesn't have is backlit keys, although it's arguable whether that is necessary or not, especially with all of the other things that it does include. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.