Many gamers prefer to use 10 keyless keyboards because
Lopping off the numpad gives you a few more inches of desk real estate for your mouse hand along with improved ergonomics
The only problem is that well, sometimes you've really do miss those buttons
Fortunately the good people at Chassepot have come up with a sensible solution
Why not take all those keys over there and move them over there?
How did nobody think of this before?
So here it is the Chassepot C1000
A beautiful 114 key keyboard with an innovative design that I love
and hate
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Chassepot, a company apparently named by someone who's really into 19th-century French rifles
says the C1000 design was guided by three principles.
respecting users input habits,
reducing finger travel and twisting,
and increasing efficiency with shortcut keys.
At least that's what I think this sentence is trying to say
but there are some problems here, like that the first two principles happen
To be in direct conflict with one another.
for example
One of the most dramatic breaks from convention on this layout
aside from having the numpad,
function keys and
most of the navigation keys up top here
is the decision to move the arrow keys to the left side of the board.
Now they claimed that they did this for gamers
But in reality, I think they just had nowhere else to put them,
not only do these buttons offer
no clear advantage over WASD
Which happened to also be surrounded by useful keys for your pinky and your thumb to strike
but their placement here really screws up regular old typing.
That's the exact thing they said they weren't going to do.
because the up key is between the Z and Shift keys, which are normally neighbors
It is super easy to accidentally move your cursor mid-sentence
Especially if you're coming from an ortho linear layout like the ergo docks,
which you can check it over here
and if you're really unlucky
You'll also hit shift at the same time as up highlighting and then overwriting everything you just typed
But wait
There's more, now that there's three arrow keys on the bottom row some other buttons had to move
Like the Windows key get the f**k out of here
You're going to the left of the tab now
Now that one actually doesn't bother me too much because at least it's still accessible with the pinkie key
which I already use to strike it
but it is going to mess with any muscle memory that you've built up for windows hotkeys
As will the slightly increased distance between left ctrl and the alphabet keys like
Sacrebleu Chassepot
Pourquoi m'envoies tu ça, si tu sais que le rarssourie ne fonctionnons pas
There's also some changes for the right hand,
They actually shortened the spacebar and added a second backspace key next to it for some reason
and then they went put delete over here too - instead of function, which is
Super-sized and way the crap, ah, yes up here because of that. They had to move the tilde key putting it
Where the question mark should be and again moving shift further away.
Honestly Chassepot,
I'm starting to feel like this was designed by someone who's only ever read about keyboards in a book
now in fairness, at least you can remap almost all of the keys
in the fairly robust Chassepot Power Console software
almost
so these extra switches look like
Remappable macro buttons that just happen to be set by default to
show desktop
file explorer
and task manager
Unfortunately, they along with the lock screen button
And this nifty double zero key are the only buttons that you may not remap
basically the exact buttons that you'd be most likely to want to remap are the ones that you
Cannot remap. Now to be clear over time
I could probably get used to all these little quirks and changes but they raise an important question. Why should I bother?
Okay, so here's why. The C1000 is a pretty sweet keyboard
The UV coated key caps are made of ABS plastic with a laser etched legend that looks techy without being over-the-top. The round corners
thin bezels and the integrated carry handle
give it a sleek geek chic look and the steel top plate precludes any kind of dec flex and
and gives the C1000 a comfortable weight of
1022 grams also comfortable by the way this hoody
head to lttstore.com and get it on your skin ASAP. Now the board is available in two versions
the C1000 go has a white LED backlight and blue Outemu switches while the pro is full RGB with your choice of blue red
Or brown switches the instruction manual mentions that Cherry MX switches are available
But apparently that's only if you email support wait 20 business days
And pay an extra $50 and that's a pretty challenging thing because for 50 bucks
This G.skill KM 360 10 keyless with Cherry MX switches is available. We actually have one in the mail right now
So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that review
Another advantage of the C1000 though is that it can be paired wirelessly over Bluetooth to up to 3 devices
thanks to its 1860 milliamp hour lithium-ion battery which Chassepot claims will last for 90 hours with the backlight off or
fifteen hours with RGB blasting full pony power the keyboard charges in three-and-a-half hours via USB type-c
But if you're not into that, you can also just operate it in Wired mode to take advantage of its USB pass-through
So should you buy this keyboard then?
Honestly
I'm pretty disappointed by Chassepot's decision to place some buttons in a way that prevents this product from being
Completely plug and play with a minimal learning curve. They said that was one of their goals, but to me what it looks like
Is they prioritized having a sleek-looking
symmetrical keyboard layout so they like put all the keys on in a cool attractive way and then
decided which keys did what I mean, why else would they do something like
Separating the home and end keys and making one of them twice as big. Next there's the price
$200 actually, isn't that steep for a wireless?
Mechanical full RGB keyboard, especially from a young company that's producing small runs, but it does sting a little that
We're not getting cherry switches at that price. I think even a drop of just
Twenty dollars would make it a little less top-heavy
And then at that point if you can get past its shortcomings it is a well made keyboard in a form factor
That makes sense on the desk and it will definitely turn heads at your next LAN party
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