- So many boxes today.
Okay. What is all this crap?
It's Razer's new Huntsman Mini keyboard
from their Huntsman line.
Now they have a 60% keyboard joining the line.
A 60% keyboard is a small keyboard.
It has no numpad, no function row,
no navigation keys like Home and End,
no arrow keys, it's just the alphanumerics.
Pretty cool, pretty tiny. Let's look at it.
But what's this other crap?
I have some extra keycaps. We'll get to those in a bit.
And some special boxes? I haven't even opened these.
I can only guess what's inside.
And I can also further guess
that this is not available to the public,
so is it even worth unboxing?
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What's this?
This is just a wooden box, some kinda metal hinges.
There's a button on the front.
Ooh!
Huh?
Okay. Cool.
It is a keyboard.
And it's personalized.
How do I get you outta here?
Oh, this little pull-tab maybe. (laughs)
It says ShortCircuit on it! That is cool.
Again, I'm pretty sure you will not be able to get this.
Definitely can't get a ShortCircuit one.
But here's the keyboard. What else do we have in this box?
"Dominate on a different scale." Ha, cute writing.
"Our first 60% keyboard, available in Razer clicky
or improved linear optical switches."
Improved.
"Experiencing lightning-fast actuation
in our most compact form factor yet.
For Gamers, By Gamers, Razer."
Also comes with a bag,
which undoubtedly holds the USB-C cable.
There it is. It has a nice Razer cable tie.
Flexible. Multiple steps.
USB-C on that side.
USB-A on that side. And it's white, matches the keyboard.
Now, what do we have in our other wood box?
Huh?
Is it a black one? Huh?
Yes it is. Okay.
Cool. Let's see if I can do this trick twice.
Oh, this one actually just comes out like normal.
This is the clicky one. (keys clicking)
Black cable, black cable tie and even black little...
What do you call these, hats? Condoms?
Wait a second. Whoa, that's sweet.
There's actually little grooves in this channel
that correspond to female grooves on the plug
so that there's no risk of the cable
getting yanked in this direction, which would bend...
Bend the end.
That is just a nice step for longevity and durability,
things that Razer has not traditionally been known for.
So good for them for trying
to rebuild their brand in that respect.
Here they are.
But that's not really a complete unboxing
'cause that's not the box you guys are gonna get,
so why don't we just rip through here really quickly?
This is the clicky option in this box,
which they call Purple.
Their linears are also called Red.
Cherry-style.
Ow!
That really hurt.
This key is too girthy-endy.
Okay, inside this much more simple box,
your keyboard actually comes
with plastic around it, shrink-wrapped.
And again, the black one's clicky.
Now, the Mercury, or white color,
and the black color are each available
with either the clicky or linear.
You can mix and match.
It's just by coincidence that both my blacks are clicky.
Look at all these keyboards. And we also have...
Yeah, there's the cable for that one.
And a little bag of books here.
"You've got a great device in your hands,
complete with a two-year limited warranty."
Serial number.
Oh, and look at that on the back, that's nice.
It says, "For Gamers. By Gamers,"
over and over again like some kind of
Bart Simpson chalkboard punishment,
which is cool, it's on the bottom.
It's like when the inside of your clothes,
like the inside of your hood has a nice,
neat pattern that you don't see that often.
You get that on like dress shirts sometimes
by the cuffs or in the collar
and it's just a nice touch even though it's seldom seen.
There're stands set for 6-degree
and 9-degree tilt configurations.
I mean, they're both nice.
I would probably go black, but it depends on your style.
If you have a white case or a white mouse already
or your monitor, yeah, they're both nice.
So...
Where to begin?
How 'bout the feel? How 'bout the feel?
(keys clicking)
Now, these are a lot quieter
than previous Huntsman keyboards.
I understand that they actually made an adjustment
to the switch where they...
Basically, underneath that plus sign that you see there,
there's a column, a tube.
Inside of that tube they place dampeners.
They used to have this metallic kinda ping
that had this kinda roll-off on it, you know,
when keyboard are like, "Bing."
They used to have that. It's not so bad anymore.
So the linear switches require 40 grams of force to actuate
and they just bottom out, of course, 'cause they're linear.
There's no tactile bumper or anything in them.
And these are optical switches.
They say that they're a little bit faster.
They have fewer mechanical moving parts,
so they should have higher durability, be more consistent.
The issue with it, though, is that these switches
could come out, you still couldn't pop in any other switches
other than just, I guess, maybe the linears,
like whatever that Razer provides, you know?
Whereas if you just got a normal mechanical keyboard
there's just myriad switches available, thousands of them,
all different types, you can really get into it.
With this, you're kinda just married to what you get.
If what you get is good then stay married to it, whatever.
These keys are pretty consistent.
And then on the clicky side...
(keys clicking) These sound okay.
Not the best sound I've ever...
These only take 45 grams of actuation force.
This is still a gaming keyboard.
You really don't have to press very far.
I feel like I could get my shots off pretty immediately.
All right, so why get a 60-percenter? Two reasons, really.
Either aesthetics, if you have a really clean setup,
if you want everything to be minimal.
And the second reason to get a 60%
is if you are the type of person who has
a low-sensitivity mouse and you're playing shooters
and you just need a lotta space
for your mouse arm to whip around,
it can be nice to not have that extra stuff on your keyboard
so you don't have to reach as far.
You have more desk real estate
and you don't get as much shoulder strain.
Actually, a third reason is portability.
It's way easier to put a 60-percenter into your backpack
and go to a LAN party or an esports tournament
than it is a full-sized keyboard.
Productivity wise, it sucks not having a numpad.
For me, it sucks using second functions,
but Razer says you lose no functionality on this keyboard
because all the second functions
are available on a secondary layer.
And you can see where they are
by looking at the side-printed legend on these keys.
I wanna plug this in 'cause I wanna see
if the light shines through there.
And no, it looks like the side-printed legend
is just on there.
To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen
secondary functions be lit up, so...
Now, you can see the light is shining
through these other keys, and that is because
these are double-shot injected which means
that the black area you see here is one layer of plastic
and it would've had a hole in it for the words.
And then there's a second layer of plastic
which is white, you can see it.
Therefore you can never scratch that off.
There's no way to scratch this off. It's impossible.
You'll wear through your fingers first.
Another thing is that these are PBT plastic
and so they're not gonna get shiny.
You know when you use a keyboard for a long time
and you don't wash your hands between eating and gaming,
what happens is that the plastic degrades
and you get this shiny look
on the most commonly used keys.
That's not gonna happen to these, so that's nice.
I guess this is a good time to talk about these other
sold-separately keycaps that we got here.
They're mostly just different colors.
These are black. Razer Green.
Mercury White and Quartz Pink.
So if you wanted to have a black chassis with white keycaps
or vice versa, or if you wanted to just,
what I think looks cool, just have
a certain number of them swapped out
so you kinda of have like a half-and-half look,
like panda-style, I think that can look
really cool and striking.
Is this really necessary?
Oh yeah, all the little stabilizers and...
Oh man, they're like vacuum-sealed in here.
It's like they're tofu or something.
See, the issue with these is that they don't have
the side printing for your secondary functions.
I mean, I guess that's kind of understandable,
and for 30 bucks this is actually a decent value.
Oh, and you get a keycap removal tool, so wow.
I don't know how well the Quartz
is gonna go with this black.
They're kind of opposite pallettes.
Yeah, that looks pretty bad. (laughs)
I think I shoulda put it on...
Let's try it on the white one.
Yeah, this is already so much better.
Ah!
That's nice.
It's cute.
When you have the colored keycaps like this, though,
I feel like you're a little more limited
with what RGB colors you can choose
because some colors, they just don't look great
when they're shining through.
And so you might wanna just restrict yourself
to something that looks good with the color.
Like I don't feel like the red
going through here looks very good.
So like basically any keyboard you can get,
it has N-key rollover, it's got anti-ghosting.
It actually, despite being a 60%,
it has a standard bottom row, which is nice.
Sometimes these get kinda screwed up
and things are moved around, this is standard.
It also has a game mode
so that your Windows key won't come up in games.
There's even media keys on the secondary row.
The one thing that you can't do onboard,
despite being able to have five keyboard profiles
that you can save on-device
and despite there being some default RBG settings,
as you saw me cycle through, on-device,
there is no ability for you to create a new RGB profile
and then save that to your device and take it somewhere.
You can make your own custom RGB profile,
but you have to do that in Razer's Synapse software
and then it'll save to your account on Synapse.
So if I brought this keyboard somewhere else
I would have to plug it into that machine,
get Synapse on that machine, log in,
and then I could have my profile again on this.
But the build quality is pretty nice.
It's got an aluminum faceplate on it here.
And you don't really get that much deck flex
with these as is.
So it feels pretty stable.
It's not as fat as that CandyBar keyboard
I had a little while ago on ShortCircuit.
And for weight, we're looking at
430-ish grams, which is like...
That's fine. It's pretty average in terms of weight.
I wouldn't call it heavy for its size,
or really too light.
It's kinda normal.
Pricing-wise. Kinda weird.
$120 for the clicky version,
making it the cheapest in the Huntsman lineup.
However, an extra $10
for the presently unavailable linear version.
Weird that there's a price difference.
I think it's because they just revamped the linear switches
from their previous iteration, so maybe they had to
cover some R&D costs or something there.
But 10 bucks difference.
Not the cheapest keyboard out there,
but it's Razer, so what did you expect?
It's not a groundbreaking device, but it's cool.
You'll probably like it.
I don't know if they're gonna last in the long term.
We'll have to wait and see.
But you get a two-year warranty, so whatever.
If you're a fan of Razer,
if you wanna use your Razer Chroma lighting effects
with all your other devices and your supported games
and you want a 60% keyboard,
then this is the one to go for.
So thanks for watching ShortCircuit.
If you liked this video you might like
our other previous review of the CandyBar keyboard
that came with a cool kind of DIY kit,
and that is a good foot in the door
for enthusiast keyboards.
If you want something that's plug-and-play,
then this is the way to go.
Bye.