- I've been sent a lot of products to unbox
and look at and be surprised at.
but Cooler Master's done the best
when it comes to packaging.
They sent me a gigantic box that I can't see the packaging,
see any labels, read anything.
It's just a Pelican Case and it looks heavy duty as heck.
And then it's got these snapper roonies here.
I think this is backside.
It just has make it yours, there we go.
Are you ready for this?
There we go.
CK721, Take Your Everyday Carry To The Next Level.
Piece of nice foam here.
This is a interesting wrist dress.
I think they just cut up a piece of foam.
It's like mushy, mushy, mushy, mushy
and all it has is a Cooler Master logo.
And then cover, no one ever uses that cover.
There's the keyboard
and I'm guessing that's just the first layer of the box.
And so it was supposed to come with other stuff.
Yeah, nice trim.
What the, is that trim or is that a peel?
I think that's a peel, yes.
So this is a peel.
It would've been cool if is a trim, you know,
some gold trim.
Now it's all stuck in my fingers.
So nice peel, got chamfered edges.
Look at that shine.
I have a feeling it'll be a finger magnet
later down the line, but first glance
it reminds me a lot of the shape of the TM680,
if you haven't looked at it.
This knob is gigantic, satisfying though.
Listen to this, listen to this.
(knob turning)
Nice and tactile.
You said the top plate is removable
so I'll have to look at that,
and look at that USB-C port, it's tiny.
It looks tight.
I don't know if my cable will fit.
I sure hope so.
The right shift looks small.
Very, very small, and check it,
no floating keycap design.
What is that?
Out the box, I think it looks good.
I like that it's not floating keycap.
It's fancy looking, nice and sleek OEM profile.
And it's lightweight.
Two feetsis.
Nice rubber bottoms.
Surprisingly, no rubber feet on the top here,
but they're just using the ones of the feet.
Is the case aluminum?
The top is, but the bottom is not.
So the bottom here is plastic solid with the aluminum.
I hope this fits and it does not fit.
Why do they always do this?
I think it comes with cables.
We'll be all right.
Black braided cables, white braided cable, oh wait,
this one has an aviator.
Black braided cable with an aviator, wow.
So this one must be the base cable
and then these are their add-on accessories.
And on there, what a nice sort of nice little cute.
Feel like this aviator is smaller
or maybe it's just because it doesn't have color.
It's definitely smaller.
What do you think?
It's so cute.
Right, here is my big boy, adult man cable
with lots of muscles.
You know, he's been working out.
My big cable in their baby cable,
but unfortunately, my big cable doesn't fit.
We'll go with black, right?
RGB is clean, no flicker.
I think it's also a Bluetooth keyboard.
So even if I didn't want the cable, I didn't need the cable.
Oh, wait, it does have some flicker,
some flicker purple RGB.
So let me set up the sound test.
(keyboard typing)
Sounds good.
Yes, for stock, it's pretty good.
Lube stabs for sure.
Base bar, little bit hollow, but not terrible
and I think my poster just fell, cool.
Which is, I think they're just some kind of linears.
I'll have to take it off.
For the stock, for a really big company,
I like the stabilizers, they're okay.
The switches could definitely use some help.
They better be plate mounted, plate mounted stabilizers.
And there's also a bunch of lube around it.
You can see it glistening in the light.
Red switches and it has the LEDs sticking out.
So if you wanted to disorder this
it would be pretty painful.
If it has that light thing
that means they're not hot-swappable.
And the a shift key is really small.
I think that's 1.75.
A little more complicated,
especially if you wanna replace the keycaps
and I have to think about how small that shift is.
Did I do it?
And there's red.
I've seen people use these more intense color things.
I've never been one to do that, one color, easy.
So you can set macros.
You can record your LED back light.
It's like a really intense ducky keyboard
with a big knob and a ton of customizability on the keyboard
without having to download any software.
Okay, Bluetooth, let's try Bluetooth.
So we have Bluetooth,
but we also have 2.4 gigahertz pairing mode,
did not see a dongle.
I'm assuming they send you a dongle.
Here we go.
The dongle's actually attached to the keyboard.
Little hole here.
The secret compartment, gotta open it somehow
and be careful you don't lose the doorway,
and there we go.
Secret compartment.
Oh this is a dongle.
Okay, that's cool.
I don't think anyone's done that.
Dongle goes in.
So the other side, the right side, you've got your options.
You got your dongle option.
Your Bluetooth option.
The wired option, we'll go to dongle option.
Go down, ooh, works awesomely.
Well, the dongle works, that's cool.
I like that, and unplug that.
No more dongle.
I'll do Bluetooth instead.
I honestly, I don't know if my PC has Bluetooth,
perhaps it does not.
It probably doesn't, nevermind.
Back to the dongle.
The knob, let's tackle the knob.
Profile one on the knob
is volume up, volume down and mute.
Profile two on the knob FN and this,
previous track, next track and pause, play.
Profile three, reduce brightness,
up brightness and back light on and off.
And profile four, is cycling through RGB modes, ooh.
Back to profile one.
So, those are the knob profiles.
And it doesn't say anything about software
which I actually really appreciate.
You can do everything on the keyboard.
What switches are they?
TTC red.
Those are the switches.
Not even Gateron, just reds.
For the rest rest, I don't hate it.
I don't love it.
I don't like that it doesn't have any angle at all.
It's just a piece of foam, comfortable though.
Another cool feature on this page
is that there's two colors.
There's space gray and silver.
I happen to have space gray.
You can remove the top plate
and then change them to what you want.
So I'm gonna do that.
They sent three additional top plates.
This is definitely the raw one.
The raw aluminum,
so this one's so you can spray paint
or customize your own, oh nice.
I don't think I'm gonna be using this one
but maybe I'll do some spray painting
oh, blue or something would look awesome.
This one's not raw, but this one's silver.
It comes with a knob, different colored knobs.
So this one's lighter colored.
I like light colors.
So this one's darker.
This one's lighter.
It's cooler already.
How to remove the top.
First, it says you have to take off keycaps.
I wonder why?
Okay, I took off the keys that they told me to take off,
push this latch
and then your cover should just come right off,
there we go.
And that's the space gray cover.
And here's the aluminum cover or minty green.
No, minty blue.
Screw the aluminum one, I like this one better.
The blue is nice.
And the last thing they provide are keycaps,
but I have to be really careful
because they're not covered.
Metal keycap puller, quite nice.
I'll leave it in there since I have a bunch of my own.
And then they give you black keycaps and white keycaps.
So let me go look at for the pricing.
A hundred dollars, where ooh,
battery life's not bad.
73 hours with the LED off.
So the keycaps that are on the keyboard are ABS and Laser,
and then the ones that you buy extra to customize it,
which is coming soon.
Those are the PBT keycaps
Yeah, the white's gonna be nice.
The white is gonna be beautiful.
What is this?
These legends are so weird.
Why would they do this?
Look at that exclamation mark and look at where that one is.
It's not even on the same line.
Why would you do that?
The ABS ones at least are aligned properly.
(sigh)
The kind of stuff that gets your OCD going.
What do you think, green?
The white very much reflects the color.
These keycaps are so bright.
I'll do like level three brightness.
It's bright, it's nice.
(keyboard typing)
I like PBT sounds better than ABS sounds.
The only thing holding it back is not hot-swappable.
I think that's the only thing,
we just need it to be hot-swappable
then people can do whatever the heck they want
with this keyboard.
Oh yeah, that's the CK721.
Overall, got a lot of pros.
A few cons.
I really wish it was hot-swap.
I think that would make it a game changing keyboard,
but it's not.
And the price is okay.
I think a hundred dollars pretty decent.
If you want a marble keyboard, this is not the one.
If you want something straight off the shelf
and it sort of looks really pretty,
and you have all the RGB,
you have all the macros, you can reprogram it,
do whatever you want.
It's a pretty good option.
The top plates are cool, that's pretty much it.