FAKE Mechanical Keyboard FEELS Real! - S#!t Manufacturers Say

coolermaster 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 some 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 master of 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 men Kanaka witches but could a membrane keyboard really replicate the feel of a mechanical one let's find out on this episode of manufacturers say brought to you by thermal take thermal takes view 37 mid-tower case can support up to an e ATX motherboard with a fully modular design check it out at the link below to learn more [Music] [Laughter] so you're definitely blind follow the saw my boys watch your head towards me towards me towards me there we go okay step step I 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 claimed 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 oh look there's your home row there buddy somewhere close enough technically it is a Razer Orange okay yeah yeah but yes really 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 haven't fun yet it's just very face sweaty because there's nowhere for my breath to go huh that sounds very unpleasant I'm glad I'm not experience satisfying clicky feature great price full RGB and free nose so with a mouse with a full RGB backlight this thing is like 75 US dollars okay 50 million keystroke durability so they claim there is no compromise they're specially designed tactile and clicky switches similar to those found on professional level mechanical keyboards its fine-tuned to help you win all your battles oh okay you can put all your battles I would like to see like they should have to prove that that you can look increases your win right 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 what 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 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 okay I find it myself is that okay yeah yeah yeah yeah you can you can do the other hand yourself I think you should probably start by typing of what I can't go off homeroom oh yeah you can go on home row so don't take your fingers off the home row yeah yeah you can do it everyone 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 we'll hold on a second let's get you to try the other one because I want you to have a chance to to retract that statement in case it comes to that okay if that was cherry MX blue the field 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 okay you can take off the mask now hold on I have that I haven't tried it yet the other way around I would like to have an opportunity to evaluate this for myself I mean I was I was I was mashing it so I'm not gonna [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] 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 like in between a blue and a green in terms of the waves cuz it's like that 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 [Laughter] man you can probably even see the difference in pressure 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 ends 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 Coolermaster keyboard right here this is just a cherry MX blue so you see that key cap wobble there's always gonna be a little bit you never get away from that now have a look at this that's a tongue this is among the most I have ever seen yeah so hold on a second though okay free most though in fairness to Coolermaster yeah those are nice switches I think those are arm runs actually that does feel nice would you want a 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 there I was I was so worried when I had the mask on you put in front of me 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 Cheri's quality has gone way down and then you had him the other keyboardist 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 yep no problem speaking of taking things apart this video is brought to you by iFixit I think this is leading the charge in the electronics repair tools industry with their iconic black and blue pro tech toolkit and it's now only 59.95 the Pro Tech tool kit includes their 64 bit driver kit a wide variety of plastic opening tool sputters and picks so you can safely poke and pry a suction cup with a new fancy handle for removing display assemblies they're all rubber handle that Jimmy pry tool and a set of metal sputters yes these safe tweezers in an ESD strap and more and it's all backed by I fix its lifetime warranty so don't pay someone to 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 4,973,958

Rating: 4.892725 out of 5

Keywords: cooler, master, memchanical, masterset, ms120, keyboard, mouse, membrane, mechanical, feel, gaming, switches

Id: XLTlFkU0vrQ

Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 12 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Gati0420]

This has been on the market for as I can remember (I almost got one of CM’s “mem-canical” boards when I built my first PC around ~2015)

[u/[deleted]]

More like meme-chanical

[u/Fai9al023]

Oh and the board/mouse combo is $73.

"Budget" mem-chanical keyboard ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[u/StonccPad-3B]

I throw it in the traaaaassshh

[u/Doodadd]

it makes no sense if they call it a budget mem keyboard, but you could buy a authentic cherry mx keyboard that costs less.