- I actually wouldn't be surprised if this was the way the
industry is heading. This is the ROG Claymore 2. "It's from Asus who
sponsored this video to see, for me to unbox it for you people, to show the world what's inside this box. Apparently it's a wireless optical mechanical gaming keyboard. Whoa. Okay. First thing I see, there's
two sections to this box. This appears to be a
shortened like 10 keyless. Yes. Keyboard. And this? Is it a mouse? No, it's the num pad and it doesn't look like it has any way to attach
to this keyboard, but it does. I'll try that in a second. First let's look at
what else is in the box. Oh no, it's a bunch of stickers. Cool. Some literature. Okay. Then there is a wrist rest. It's kind of embossed on
this side with the ROD logo. And that is how cushy it is. This is the charging cable.
It is USB C to shining C. Okay. There's a couple of
little doohickey's in the box. This one is a USB A to C adapter, so the C to C cable is going to go into your PC and you don't
have a spare USB C port, plug that into your spare USB A port. And the other one is an extender, so if you are finding that you're getting intermittent
issues with connectivity, if your peripherals are glitching, it's nice to be able to pull your dongle out and off your PC tower
and somewhere closer. I actually have mine behind my monitor and I have no issues then. Look at that, it's magnetic. First of all, it's nice
that it just has it at all. I'll accept just like a
piece of tape on the back. Like anything, any place for
this to live I appreciate, but this is one of the nicest I've seen. So it's a wireless keyboard
that is 10 keyless, or not, and you can actually put
this num pad on either side. This. So it is on a track, stays on there. Is this magnetic? It is. This looks like your
standard 104 key and num pad and I'm ready to type kind of thing. Or you can put it on this side and then this is your
kind of gamer layout. So, you have more mouse
room and less fatigue when you're stretching your arm way over there. So that's cool. One setting for the feet. Ah, look at this. Even
this guy has a big foot. And each of the feet have
little rubber sub feet. This is stiff. The build quality, this is pretty stiff. I like that. It looks like it has an
aluminum front plate, glossy plastic back. And then as you can see,
it has USB pass-through. So you can plug in your USB C cable for pass-through where you can also plug in like your headphones or whatever, or you can switch,
instead of pass-through, you hit F, you hit function F12, and it switches to fast charging mode. So this is wireless. Okay. That's the full setup. Obviously, I can move this to whatever side I want
or I not use it at all, but now that it's set up, let's touch it. The whole reason this thing exists is because it is an optical keyboard, and you can see they even
have their own STEM design but more on that in a second. First I kind of just want to touch it. Yeah and this is definitely
giving me a faster activation than I'm used to with
less activation force than I'm used to. I am used to using clicky switches and you can get this keyboard
with blue clicky switches or linear ones like they have on here. These are the kind of red type. They recommend you use this for a few days even before you do an
unboxing, like I am right now, but I can see why, because
they don't want you to write it off because you're getting misclicks because they're more
sensitive than you're used to. I don't think I would be less
accurate off the bat, but I at the same time, I can feel that I think I might be faster
with this eventually. There's just something about it that makes you wanna type faster. Okay, so optical switches
are sweet, mostly because they're going to last longer. They're going to be consistent. And even though a normal
mechanical switch will last for 50 million presses, these will last longer
because, believe it or not, you can hit a switch 50 million times in actually just a matter of months, especially if you're
talking about your WASD or your arrow keys or
something like a spacebar. So reliability is good because there's just fewer moving parts. There's just, you're hitting the switch down and it's interrupting a laser beam. And so that means that
there's no history resets (?) or like reset when you're when you D bounce off of that switch it's going to actuate faster
and more consistently. So that's why I kind of, I wouldn't be surprised
if the opticals kind of takeover over time. Oh and by the way, Asus wants you to know that when the switch was first announced a lot of people compared it to
the Romer-G's from Logitech, which Asus respects but these
are completely different with a quite different design, they say. There you go. This switch, you can tell
from the STEM it's different, it's kind of like a box design, totally open in the middle. So once I get this turned
on you're going to see a lot of RGP shining
through that, I'm sure. It seems like a flashlight
is coming through there. And then you can see they
have these four corner latches to give it more stability. I've wobbled a lot of key switches and that's pretty minimal actually. You can see the key switch
design has these four posts. It's a little different. With these reds it takes an initial force
of 40 grams to go one and a half millimeters before it actuates. And then at 55 grams for the whole, the whole stroke to deep bounce back up. (typing sounds) I don't think you're going to have too many accidental strokes on these. Oh my gosh. I'm just unreal at typing. I did have a couple of
miss-strikes where, you know, you get used to a certain
tolerance level where like, well my fingers can just
flail around the board, it's fine. But on this, you might have to
be a little more disciplined. I think I'd get used
to this pretty quickly. There's like little
indicator lights up in here. Let's go function. Yeah. Okay. A single white LED for windows lock. Sure. There's your caps lock. Let's talk about this
little key pad for a bit. On the one hand you
might be like, oh cool, there's like super
tactile macro keys here, listen to this click. But on the other hand
you might think, well it kind of sucks that my
macro keys are way over there. Maybe you want them closer on your board. Well, you're in luck because on this board almost every single key can record a macro and it's really easy to do. I believe you just go function alt and then you record whatever
macro you want it to be, or key, and then you
hit function alt again. And then I think you have
to assign the key to it. Let's say one. Whoa, it worked. You can see on the alt
button it says macro. So alt one, there you go. QWERTY. Nice. What I do like about the keypad on the side is that it is symmetrical. So whether you have it
on the left or right it doesn't really matter because the macro keys are on the top, not on the side of it. You imagine if those macro keys were on the
left, when it's over here they're not at the end of the keyboard, or when it's over here, they are. That would suck. For other lights you've
got the breathing ROG logo, and then there's actually
a battery indicator light up here. Only two are illuminated right now but there's actually
four bars and they light up according to how much
battery you have left. It'll look different if you're full and it'll actually be blinking red if you have less than 25%. So this puppy actually
has a 4,000 millionth hour power battery inside, which of course is rechargeable by USB type C. And then they say that
you can get 144 hours out of it with the lights off and 43 hours with the lights on and blasting 100%. You get 61 hours if you
have it at 50% brightness. And because it's USB type C fast charging, 30 minutes of charge gets you eight hours with the lights on and 18 hours with the lights off in 30 minutes. That's pretty dang good. You can pretty much be set for the weekend just by half an hour of charge. All right. So you saw me record
macros for the normal keys. You didn't see me record
a macro for these ones. And that's because to do that you actually have to use
the armory create software which looks like a pretty robust software. This is what's used for more than just this keyboard, it's
used for lots of ROG products. You can auto sync all your
different RGV peripherals together. And I guess
some PC parts as well, but but you can see, you can click on individual keys and
change their functions. And then these are my macro keys up here. So that's the key tab. Then there's the RGB indicator tab. Oh, cool. So what I thought was
the battery indicator doesn't actually have to
be the battery indicator. You can make it just breathe
with the rest of the RGB. Then you've got all these effects for RGB. Man, you could spend
a lot of time in here. And this is a really
clean looking software. Then on the power tab it tells you your current battery life. You can set when you're get an alert, you can actually choose
when it goes to sleep mode after being idle. This is
the RG Claymore 2 keyboard. I would love to try this with their clicky optical
keys, which I don't have. This is 269, nice, 99. Check it out at the link below. And thanks Asus for
sponsoring this unboxing. So thanks for watching guys. If you liked this video, maybe
you'll like to watch me check out other keyboards like that crazy, really heavy, pink, candy
bar one we did a while back. Check it out.
