oh my god browns again no no please no no no they're chocolate switches it's fine
howdy hey hypeotech here and today i have a lot of manic energy so we're doing a lot of manic
things like filling a board with a pillow and checking out this invisible stand which you're
not fooling anybody i see you you're right there what what's your problem anyways we're checking
out a keyboard that's less than a hundred dollars the nt68 and it's wobbly wait but did you say less
than a hundred dollars budget game i'm in and yeah we'll talk about why the stand is not invisible
later but first let's get it unboxed so this board was sent to me by epomaker and they did sponsor
this video as well like all the standard in my epo maker videos i say whatever i want they don't care
i've literally called their boards bad before and they've been like thanks for the video so you know
that's how it goes anyways this is the nt68 wait this is a different looking rectangle than normal
what the what's going on here hippia um rectangle has a fold all right i'll just get the accessories
and uh let me tell you a little bit about the board i guess so this board is a kickstarter
that will be starting on the 10th of august now apple maker does generally fulfill their
kickstarters quite fast however i think you should check out my video on the ak84 in the top right
after this because it's got a little bit more info on that now kickstarters always have a risk and i
generally don't advise joining them however epo makers boards almost always sell in their store
afterwards so if you're watching this video really late like a couple months from the release date
then check the description there might actually just be a link to buy it we'll talk about the
board in a second but first let's talk about these switches so the board comes with the option of
skylin mechanical switches and these are actually pretty dang good we'll talk about the brown
switches later haha mx brown funny but they're definitely not what you think also the blue is
clicky the silver is like fast speed and the red is just a normal linear i'd say they're better
than gatter on switches like a decent amount also the bane of this keyboard is these two very very
short cables like look at these guys what are you plugging that into and they gave me a panda space
bar which i'm not sure what that's about okay but now it's time to break into whoa oops i fixed that
y'all ever seen a see-through rectangle before okay so this see-through rectangle is magnetic
and it holds a keyboard so if you haven't noticed already this keyboard is kind of
meant for people with laptops tablets or phones not necessarily pc epic gamers so if some of you
have seen like those really cool tablet cases that like fold up and do fancy things that's
what you've got here although i definitely don't recommend using it in this position
it can kind of fold to give your keyboard an angle it can serve as a carrying case it can support
your phone or tablet or you can just remove it and it magnetically attaches to the bottom
it's kind of nifty honestly but i personally don't have any use for it but i do see it as
probably the biggest selling point as look you could put your phone there and then yeah
i guess you could put your phone there but let's talk about the features of this keyboard
so this is a 65 and you can purchase it for 89 or 95 depending on how early you are to their
kickstarter now this board has an aluminium chassis and is actually pretty high quality
for being sub 100 like we'll talk about the sound and stuff later but i'm genuinely impressed on the
build quality of this bad boy also because it's a 65 keyboard it keeps the arrow keys but it does
get rid of the f row but they're embedded in the number keys if you press the fn key
also it's bluetooth and has a ton of macros and works with windows and mac wait mac rose but
you'll definitely be using this as a bluetooth keyboard and only a bluetooth keyboard so if
you're not into that don't get this i would say if you're looking for a ton of customization skyling
software is very crummy and hard to work with although it does let you change some macro stuff
i would not get this if you're super into customizing your layout or your keyboard and
stuff now if you have a clever eye you would have noticed there's no usbc port on the back
it's on the side for some reason i think to plug into a dongle better this does look really clean
and it's also got a little notch to turn on the battery because this baby is bluetooth and oh
yeah rgb gamer time i guess it's got full rgb backlighting which we won't go over much
because i really can't be bothered but it you know it's okay but seriously apple maker what
the hell is this cable what is going on like where am i gonna plug this in what
okay anyways now that i've taken a deep breath we can get into the switches right after a message
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use codehipiotech for 10 off your first purchase okay bye okay i told you i'd talk about the poopy
switches right see this is what you get for waiting you've been so good okay they're not
poopy switches they're not mx brands and if you've seen my video on the ak-84 then you
know what's up here but no they're not mx brands these actually have a noticeable tactile bump
and i'd say if you're into tactiles this isn't the worst thing you could go for the factory
lubing on these is actually really good and they feel pretty smooth right out of the box
now this board supports 5 pin hot swap meaning you can take the switches out without desoldering
but it has north facing leds meaning that if you're looking to swap out these keycaps look
for a different board with south facing leds okay you guys want to see some magic check this out
you can click this red button and it turns gray that's insane try it out try it out right now
see what happens i dare you note if it's already great please don't click it oh god okay anyways
let's just put wait oh it made the switch red oh my god that's insane here's a quick sound test
okay so the stabilizers on this board sound abysmal and i think we can do a little bit of work
but the actual board itself sounds pretty good also there there was some real magic for you
i guess if you wanted that okay opening it up reveals a very interesting insight so we've got
the battery and that battery might be a little bit hard to recharge with the whole cable thing but
it should be decent enough and then i think you guys know what's going on here i filled
a couple boards with this pillow check out the video on the top right for the og video that was
pretty fun and this one's a little bit different and that there's hardly any room in this case
now the bottom is made out of plastic so i'm just putting a little tiny layer of pillow foam to
fill the gaps in the plastic i don't necessarily recommend doing this on a board with a battery
as it can be a big fire hazard so be careful please don't don't actually try this at home
also messing around with a battery like this you could accidentally puncture it and that
could cause a fire so be yeah just maybe don't do this just watch the entertainment look at how
entertaining you are wait i am now i thought this was going to be really really hard to close but
it just required a tiny bit of force and then it clipped right in also i really wanted to fill this
with flex seal but there wasn't enough space and why isn't my magic working okay let me try yeah
there we go nice so now that we've got the board together you're probably wondering what i think
of it so i don't have a laptop or a tablet so i can't really put this board to good use but for
under 100 if you're looking for a lower profile keyboard with the cool feature of that tent little
stand that's not invisible by the way then this could honestly be a pretty fair bargain
the keycaps are really high quality the switches are quite nice and the case makes decent sounds
if you're looking for no effort required to make a decent board this is probably it speaking of no
effort please go follow my twitter at hipiotech link in the description anyways i'll be leaving
you with the sound test please watch the whole thing to support my youtube algorithm overloads
also a massive special thank you to the mr man these are starchild joseph curran rosie ray and
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