(pinging sounds)
- That's the intro.
Roccat sponsored this video
to promote their new Vulcan Pro, it's a keyboard.
You can tell they're German
'cause they snuck in these little German colors on the side.
So this is a full 10-key keyboard, it means as a num pad.
Let's get the box opened up.
We have a wrist rest.
I love a good peel.
This looks like it clips in,
and it actually has rubber grips on the bottom
to prevent sliding.
They easily could have not put rubber on here
and just had it on the keyboard.
So that's kind of a nice touch.
Then we've got the keyboard itself with the cable.
Is this detachable?
No.
Okay, there's nothing else in the box.
Other than this quick installation guide,
which I don't want to have to read.
So let's put this aside.
A lot to notice right away.
First things first,
this looks pretty low profile.
You, might not even need this wrist rest.
But if you did have it, is this magnetic?
Is that?
It literally was that easy.
Oh, it will come off if you lift it but like,
magnets, that's nice.
Okay, yeah, that's sweet.
You get very little wrist extension
which is one of like the big three
ergonomic things that a keyboard can mess you up on.
Does it have?
Yeah, if you don't like that,
you liked extending,
then why not just put the feet up?
That's, this is kinda like the more normal configuration
but, it's the key caps that are low profile.
The keys themselves look regular size.
It's just that they have taken
the actual key cap and just pancake-ized did.
Flattened it right out.
I always started by typing "James is the best."
These are linear a AF, Holy...
Can we plug this in?
Okay, there's the lights.
Usually you're relying on the
light passing through the legend
of a double shot injected key cap,
where you've got the clear plastic behind the,
in this case, black, and then the light passes through that.
But in this case,
they chopped off that part of the key cap.
You still get the light through the legend.
And, the housing of the switch itself
is transparent, it's clear plastic so,
this is a very evenly lit, very bright and vibrant board.
Yeah, and this is their,
AIMO, Aimo RGB, which is like an ecosystem from Roccat.
You can get headphones and mouse pads,
that all sync together to give you,
you know, a unified RGB experience,
which gives you more FPS and,
better kill death ratios, I'm told.
So nice having a num pad.
I mean, okay, there's trade-offs.
I always need a num pad.
This is a 10-key keyboard and I would like that
because I do Excel, and even,
when you're just entering a password
or two factor authentication,
I hate bouncing around the num the number line over here.
I love having a num pad that's great.
The trade off for that is,
potential shoulder pain for ergonomics,
because you're gonna be like this a lot,
which is less economic than this.
It does take up more desk real estate.
So, if you're gaming
you might have to move your whole keyboard over
to get as much mouse real estate as you want.
Holy crap, this mouse pad is huge.
Okay, my preference is this.
If that's not your preference, go for the 10-keyless.
This is so much different than what I'm used to
'cause I use either a tactile or clicky switches.
And usually you get,
a tactile feedback when the switch is actuated.
So as I press it down, I'm gonna encounter a bump
or, maybe bottom out on the key pad.
And that is gonna correspond to
the signal reaching the system
where the letter appears on screen.
Here, it's different.
You want your action to happen immediately,
like a movement, a strafe or something.
Then you want this keyboard
because the actuation is way higher up.
On this with the linear switch, it's 1.4 millimeters
even though the whole key travel's like 3.6 millimeters.
So it's, I can feel it when I'm typing
it's right at the top, it's so immediate.
That's all I have to do to actuate it.
This is a,
an interesting switch, this is their Titan switch.
It's a, combination mechanical and optical switch.
So it has the feel of a mechanical switch,
(keyboard clicking)
but actually the signal is being sent by
this light getting blocked.
So, those are supposed to be faster.
And if you're a competitive gamer,
which I'm not, I suck (laughs)
Well, I'll take the edge.
I'll take anything I can get.
Key stability is,
actually pretty rock solid.
I think they have a novel design for that
and that's responsible for that.
I'm just ripping these things off.
Yeah, it looks like they've got like,
there's some extra shroud around the typical
kind of cherry plus sign you see there on the stem.
The layout is totally standard.
You know, the American flag on the box.
There's no wacky like,
key that's shorter than normal.
They've gotten an aluminum top plate here.
Now, one of the differences between the pro and the non-pro,
number one, the big one is optical mechanical switches.
But the other thing is the top plate,
they also have an aluminum top plate on the non-pro
but it isn't, stealthed out and blacked out.
This is just black all around.
On the other one, you can have like a,
kind of a chrome edge on it.
And everyone knows,
stealth is more premium.
This is pretty rigid.
There's not a lot of them depth deck flex here,
for, especially for a 10-key.
A lot of the time you can feel like,
"Oh, this is such a stiff keyboard, that's great."
But it's a 10-keyboard,
so even like a 60 or something like a really small,
Schmall one.
And those small ones,
they barely flex even if they're just cheap plastic.
Lots of rubber feet on the bottom,
not just a couple of strips,
but like the whole bottom.
At least two thirds of the top here
and even on the feet and both sides of the feet.
When the feet are closed, there's a rubber strip
and up top it's just binary, up or down.
We have some media buttons
on the top row that's pretty standard.
You can, function calculator, bam!
Now we, what you don't always see is a knob for volume.
This one happens to be ratcheted,
and it doesn't have a top or bottom, it just goes goes goes.
Then you've got big buttons for mute.
Those are really nice.
Oh, okay, it looks like there's some indicators down here.
There's a game mode.
Game mode of course makes it so that
when you hit the Windows key, the menu doesn't pop up.
So that can be really disruptive in a game.
And the other thing about these switches in particular,
as opposed to the non-pro,
these ones are ready for 100 million keystrokes.
On the non-pro, they're 50 million keystrokes.
Why don't we weigh this thing with our special scale!
I'll get this braided cable up off the table,
for the weight.
900 grams even.
Kind of a good middle weight.
I would say like, when you're at like 600,
that's too light, that's cheap.
And when it's over 1,000,
that's kinda when it's like a chunk.
900's respectable.
So that is pretty much it.
I do wanna see how long this cable is.
Can you unplug that?
This is a braided cable.
I think if you get the non-pro, it's not braided.
This is 1.8 meters, it seems to me.
Pretty good, and it has the little keyboard picture on there
which is always,
appreciated when you're at the back of your machine,
tryna figure out what the hell it corresponds to what,
that's nice.
You got six macro keys right there.
There's onboard memory and processing.
And you can take stuff with you.
I think this is a pretty good, and good looking keyboard.
So if you guys liked this,
please check it out at the link below.
You can get it from Best Buy, not sold out there.
Finally, something you can actually buy.
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When I'm gonna review, a Christmas tree holder!
The little thing at the bottom,
I like the ones with the spikes that go into the wood.
I'm just joking, I'm not gonna do that.