okay okay you want to know what keyboards to buy i got you well howdy hey hypnotech here
and i've been making videos for about a year now congratulations to me in this video i'm gonna be
showing you some of my favorite keyboards that i've checked out in the last year however they
must be in stock like you can actually buy them they must be hot swap and obviously i need to have
reviewed them i could have made a list of just my favorites but what good is that if they're not in
stock if you've ever tried to look at keyboards it could be really confusing and really overwhelming
and i'm gonna make this pretty easy for you guys i'm gonna be breaking it down into layout
preference and budget and then you guys can go from there if you need more help building
a keyboard i recommend joining my discord anyways let's get started speaking of getting started let
me give an extra howdy hey to the 20 of you that are actually subscribed you should get started by
hitting that subscribe button right now there you go so my list here follows no particular order so
no one keyboard is better than others but first let's take a look at the drop alt high profile
now this bad boy is definitely overpriced and comes in at 230 to 250 dollars it's a 65 keyboard
meaning the f row is gone but it still keeps the arrow keys on the right which i definitely prefer
for most people getting into the hobby now you can either get this board as a fully built kit
with the keycaps and switches included or bare bones so you can build one yourself and i'll
include links to all of these things down in the description now this board has some perks like the
fact that if you get it from drop you can bundle it with keycaps and save a little bit of money
however it does have some cons like drops very long shipping time on average
and the fact that these switches have north facing leds which can cause interference with
some keycaps if you're new to the hobby i recommend searching up cherry profile
north facing interference and that'll explain it a little bit the vast majority of people won't
care though so don't worry about that let me give you a tiny little test of before and after modding
now this is definitely one of the most expensive options on my list here and i would wager to say
if you can find it on sale like for a hundred and eighty dollars for the fully built kit
then it could be worth it however there's really just not a lot of good 65 that are reliably in
stock for me to recommend so on to the next board often when i have friends get into the hobby
they really don't want to go with the keyboard that's too small because they feel like giving up
keys will kind of ruin their freedom in this case i've chosen the epo maker ep84 you can find this
keyboard on apple maker's website and it comes in at 85 us dollars which is a pretty good deal fully
built i just recommend getting it with gadaron reds or gatter on black switches as the other two
are going to be kind of crummy something to keep in mind with a lot of these boards is they'll have
cramped arrow clusters or weird right shifts or bottom mods if you're looking to swap out keycaps
then definitely make sure that your set supports it in this case the board has a 175u right shift
it's made from plastic so it's definitely on the cheaper side but it is one of the better
sounding plastic boards that i've gotten my hands on and the keycaps were actually pretty
decent quality i'd say of all of the boards on my list this board definitely has the most
potential for being so budget now as i mentioned before all of these boards have hot swap sockets
meaning that you can remove your switches and replace them without having to desolder and
re-solder them this is super great for someone getting into the hobby as it's really hard to
assume that everybody has a soldering iron laying around and two hours to spare this
means that if you want to upgrade the board later you definitely can and that makes it
a bit of a better option for someone that might not know if they feel like upgrading stuff yet
let me just give you a quick little five seconds of this board and this is stock
because this is a 75 keyboard having those f keys around might make some of you very happy i know
it definitely makes me happy and it's honestly one of the better sounding board stock of anything on
this list okay time to go to the next one right now i know what you're thinking you're probably
saying hypio brah my freaking my i need my numpad my numpad is my lifeblood please don't let go of
my numpad and yeah i know what you mean not really but a lot of people definitely ask me to cover
boards with numpads and this is definitely one of my favorite that i've covered in the last year
this is another epo maker board but it's rebranded under a ton of different names and it's the gk96xs
you guys remember when i still did silent films and stop motions oh this is so heartwarming i'm
looking back at all my old videos it's quite great anyways this board really blows you away at 109 us
dollars and the keycaps are quite incredible the stabilizers come kind of lubed but frankly none
of the stabilizers on any of these boards are good and you should replace almost all of them
with direct plate mounts link in the description but this board gives you a lot of cool features
it's bluetooth it supports windows and mac and that numpad is very special for those of you that
like it also it comes with the option of getting gatter on yellow switches which i definitely
recommend they're freaking great also if for some reason you prefer your left hand over your right
hand or left-handed or something it comes with that option too but i know what you're thinking
you're probably thinking oh that's way too expensive 109 us dollars i'm a broke boy i'm
a proud member of brokeboy gang all right bro boy gang i got you now this is definitely the
cheapest board on the list and can range from 60 to 80 but as of filming it was 65 us dollars
now this is another 65 keyboard so say goodbye to your f keys if you like those
but you can still use the f keys via function row it's just not as handy this is a stacked acrylic
case and if you're an rgb gamer out there or just someone that appreciates pretty lights
this is the board for you it also features south facing leds and is one of the coolest
cases of any of these boards honestly stacked acrylic sounds quite unique and looks really
really unique as well now i've got two separate experiences with this board one i built and
modded myself with gather on reds and you could check out that video if you want but i also built
one for cozy one of my fans and that turned out incredible this was like 140 build to get these
keycaps and switches in here and this thing turned out fantastic here's a before and after
like if i had to pick a favorite of all of these children that i'm reviewing on this list this
one would probably be it as i recommend this one to my friends probably the most of any keyboard
the stabilizers suck but really all of these stabilizers suck so that's what you get if you
want a more standard layout i'll link the gamma k87 in the description as well i've checked out
that one it's also great now i know what you're thinking you're thinking ah hippie has made
a video and he's gone six minutes without mentioning idobao this is literally insane
and yeah that physically hurts me okay idabow is a sponsor of mine however they aren't related to me
featuring this board in the video by the way now the idabou id80 holds a special place in my heart
as it was my very first enthusiast mech now honestly it's not that great and has a lot of
things that are better than it now but it's a 75 aluminum keyboard that remains in stock to
this day and it's only 140 us dollars however the switches and keycaps are not included this
bad boy is known for being super hollow and the optional foam is definitely necessary
but fully modded out with foam it sounds very muted and i like it quite a lot there's been
a lot of hot competition in the 75 market lately and i'll talk about that very shortly
but yeah as this was my first mech i kind of have to recommend it it's what got me into
the passion and i still keep it around and use it from time to time here's a sound test
now a lot of options on this list are not necessarily the best in their field
but i had to make this list with the idea that you had to be able to buy it and i had to be a little
bit reasonable with it not everybody has four months to just wait around for a board to restock
or five to six months to wait for a group buy to fulfill they just kind of want a keyboard
now if you're one of those people that can wait for months this video probably wasn't for you
now i imagine some of you goofballs have already commented about this board
and you probably didn't watch to the end did you so i have not yet checked out the gmmk pro
so i could not include it as a recommendation in this video
because my whole thing was only including boards that i personally reviewed i can't include this
but if you want a review of it definitely let me know in the comments similarly another honorable
mention is the upcoming kikron q1 this is a 75 aluminum board that looks like it's gonna
shake some things up and maybe be better than the gm mk pro which i might check it out later
get subscribed other honorable mentions would be the nk 65 entry edition the portico the kbd67 lite
but all of those aren't necessarily in stock and some of those i haven't checked out yet
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