- Do you ever wanna buy
a nice wireless keyboard? One that you can customize with firmware and hot swappable keys and everything? The new Keychron K8 Pro has got just about everything you need. For those of you who don't know, Keychron is a keyboard
company and a lot of you in the comments are always saying, "Hey, check out the Keychron." And you're right. I agree with you. I love Keychron. I think they're great company, especially if you want something
that's a little higher end but still it's not enthusiast level. It's just a solid option and it's someone that
I typically recommend to my own friends for anyone who doesn't wanna wait six plus months for a group by the end. They've got a ton of features
advertised on the box. They've got Screw-In-Stabilizers, Hot-swappable, PBT Keycaps. I think they're double shot. VIA, QMK, Bluetooth 5.1. I love that sound. Cool, they've got a little guide here. An open source customizable
keyboard for peak productivity. So yeah, here's our board, it's a TKL. Before we look at it any further though, let's take a look at
what else is in the box. We have got a cable. And they've got like a
right angle connector. I have actually wish more places did them because it's just a nice
sleek look especially. I think these guys have a side connector. Theirs is on the side so that's gonna look great
coming straight off of it. We've got a screwdriver
which is really teeny. We've got our other windows keys, like Alt and Windows and stuff. This has got the Mac layout on it already. And keycap and switch puller. I think that's pretty much it. I think there's not a whole lot. And then an instruction book. Extra keycaps, warranty, VIA. Wow! They actually tell
you how to use VIA though. A lot of people in the mechanical keyboard
community love customization. And the fact that they've included this for anyone who hasn't used
VIA before, is kind of nice. Honestly, I wasn't expecting that. So here's the board. Well, the layout itself is fine but I don't like this
edge on the metal here. I would much prefer to
honestly at this point, remove this extra lip. But otherwise you end
up with this like tray, I'd much rather that the
housing came all the way up and covered all of this. So that you'd have like a metal layer that just goes right around here. It's an aluminum on top and
then you've got a steel plate with the bottom being made outta plastic. And it's fine. It doesn't really flex around because of all the metal in there. But if you're looking for
like a much heavier build or something with like a bar
on the bottom and all that, it's not gonna be quite at
that level, 2.865 pounds. So it's just try three pounds,
which isn't crazy heavy. So you've got feet. I'm always a fan of feet,
especially with two modes. You gonna do the big guys of the little guys for
different typing angles. One minor quality issue
that I'm not crazy about is you can see how there's
like a connection here on each of the corners. So it's not one giant piece
of mild aluminum for the top. You've got a Windows and Mac switch and then you've got a BT off or cable. It's a little thick on the bottom. That's because there's
a big battery in here. And it's I think 4,000 milliamp hours which nets you something
like a 100 hours of on time if you've got the Bluetooth
running and RGB on. So that's not bad. Like a 100 hours is quite a long time. Oh, I turned it on. Hey, look at all the RGB. Tab works, turns the
back light on and off. FNQ, cycles through modes, sweet. As you can see there's kind of
a lot going on in this board and they've got a little
arm processor built in. That's probably to handle
everything that's got going on like the RGB, the Bluetooth
connection, the QMK Firmware. One small issue on the keycaps
is they're not shine through which is fine for some
people, but in the dark it's actually a lot easier
to type if you can see the light underneath your keys. The typing experience is not bad. These are just Browns, the
new Gatorade Jeep Browns. And I like them. I'm not crazy about them. I feel a little scratchy. I think they're pre-lubed but I could go for a heavier lube. They're just Browns. One small thing to note that
I completely forgot about until I took the switch off is it's all south facing RGB as well. So if you care about that, that's a big plus for some people, a lot of people don't
like the north facing RGB 'cause they find it doesn't shine through or everything as well. So you can get this fully assembled with just a white back light using one of any of the three
switches that they offer. And it's your stereotypical
like red, blue, or brown Gatorade options. That's 89 bucks. That's a good deal. Now that being said, this
one's got the aluminum frame and it's got a full RGB backlight. So this one is a 110. Getting something like this for a $110 is just such a better buy, at least in my opinion than
going with like Corsair, or Logitech, or Razer or
anyone else who is like a more major name brand, gaming brand who's making their own
mechanical keyboard. Those guys are kind of
catching up a little bit in terms of features like hot swap and adding foam and stuff to the board but they're still not there. Like I I'll never tell someone
to buy a Corsair board. I'm sorry, Corsair. I like a bunch of your products. I just don't like your keyboards. - [Instructor] Look at that thock, dude. - It's okay. - [Instructor] It's pretty sexy. - It's okay. - [Instructor] Jono just has
a low standard for thock. - Love thocks too. - [Instructor] As long as your
thock looks at me, oh baby. This one, the more expensive
one does have a nice layer of silicone on the bottom. We saw the same thing in that
mountain board was a big layer of silicone on the bottom. And I'm wondering if we're
honestly gonna start seeing more enthusiast boards come that are like full kits come
with a big silicone layer for the base. And then you've got some
foam under the PCB I believe and screw and stabilizers,
which is really nice. If you do wanna change
them if you have your own like just cherry style
stabilizers, you can do that. The quality on them's okay. They're probably not
clipped or lubed or anything but like it's not bad. It's pretty cool keyboard. I really like it and we
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keyboard, but 10 keys less. So the keys like the
regular keys are fine, but the space bar makes a very distinct like it is actually a
pretty distinct thock. And I noticed it every time
I would hit the space bar when typing on this test. I'm very torn on. I love the way the space bar sounds. I just kinda wish the
rest of the keys sounded more like it as well. It's just the way the
stabilizers are lubed and stuff probably. So download, Show Design tab, on. Load My Jason file. Jason V2, cool. We've got like four
layers that we can alter. They're already kind of preset
a little bit, but it's sweet. You can just like reassign
keys to whatever you want, make a up a bunch of macros and lighting and stuff like that. Oh, and there's a bunch
of presets too like Media, Macro, Special, QMK Lighting. You can use all of this
stuff or just go full custom. I don't bother usually personally but it's there, it's an option for anyone who wants a
good wireless keyboard, who wants a good mechanical
hot swap wireless keyboard with QMK and VIA functionality. This is like basically it. They're saying it's the world's first. I don't know if that's a 100% true. I haven't really been
able to find anything else that's comparable to that point where they've got all the same features. So yeah, maybe, honestly, if
they can do that, then I hope that we see more of them down the line from both enthusiast
boards and other companies because I have respect for
all these other companies I just wish that they
would kind of keep up with the times a little bit better. Especially at $110, especially if you don't need an N-pad and especially
if you need Bluetooth and it works with Windows
and Mac, no problem. Just outta the box, there's
a little switch on the side. The things it just does it all. I love this thing. I would change the key caps probably. I would probably change
the switches as well. That's not hard when you've got hot swap. Like it's great. I really like it. I don't want one, but
I wouldn't be unhappy if someone gave it to
me for Christmas gift or something like that, like it's great. There you guys have it. That's the K8 Pro from Keychron. Really nice keyboard. I think it's great value for the price and if you wanna check out
any other short circuits, check out the Logitech one
I did on the Pop keyboard. That was a lot of fun,
not the best keyboard but it was an anesthetic
and they went for it and they kinda nailed it. So check it out.
