All JTC team members are great, But Linus has a zoo of monkeys.

Nic sent Phil to the next room

To see Nic and Phil having a tiny bit of space on the channel? A small win in my book, hopefuly they will have their own topics to cover on the channel ❤

Agreed. They are doing an excellent job.

I agree. Hope they won't get discouraged, I would expect the videos won't have maximal viewership simply because the are dipping their toes in sub topics which have a more limited audience, which also have really dialed-in, established KZfaq channels focusing completely on keyboards for example.

😂😂😂

Call it JayzTwoEmployees

I regret it haha ;D

Last year I dipped my toes into keyboards (by buying a prebuilt). They do feel really nice

@@TheNobody1324 I agree, building your own is more fun though. You get to customize everything.

Average r/mechanicalkeyboard fan

HipyoTech does a bunch of vids around budget boards and how to make them sound and feel great. You don't have to spend $200+ for a good keeb

Agree....

and basically pointless as a purely aesthetic upgrade with 0 benefit outside the look on peoples face when you tell them how much you spent on just the keyboard😂

​@@accelement3499 good stuff also feels better to type on. But agree, it's pretty much just a flex hobby.

I already did help me please

​@@Gamingtechgg there is no help. Only the bottom of the hole with other keyboard enjoyers.

I paid $60 for my Razer Ornata V3… mechanical and even has 10 key and RGB with volume controls too. The RGB desktop mousepad cost more than the keyboard. 😂😂

Reason why I have yet to move from my NK65 Entry, been a solid entry board and I like the 65% layout as it fits all my needs and I can rotate through layers with zero issues (also have a macro pad for other things if I need to be quicker). But alot of the entry budget options are becoming more solid selections, and allow newcomers to just have a platform to tryout switches (if they don't like them, reselling is easy in most cases).

I picked up the iKBC CD108 V2 off of Amazon last year, MX Clears(lovem'; can't gettem' in this board anymore though lol) for $85. It's a solid mechanical keyboard for the money, available right now between $60 & $82 depending on the switches, all Cherrys. Also has volume keys and a calculator key above the num pad, the latter being both very handy and very annoying(the calc key is to the right of the volume up key lol). With that said, it doesn't have the dampening, hot swap, knob, & RGB of this Montech, pretty sweet deal to be honest. I may end up picking one of these up and giving the iKBC to my mom since she has a typical office job(with a typical garbage tier OEM office keyboard). Zero complaints though considering the price, this Montech just offers a lil more - hot swap would be nice, as would be a volume knob. Now just give us a $10 cheaper non-RGB variant...

I got one of my colleagues into it. It’s like a virus. I anticipate it working it’s way through the office.

Same

Me 2 😂

That's some good shit.

For real

Update: I just finished

Yup!

You don't have to be into custom stuff to try something other than logitech. There's a ton of great mechanical keyboards available these days for well under $100 that give you everything a "gamer" keyboard would, but with the addition of a much nicer typing experience and options to change out your switches to something else should you feel the desire to experiment a bit. Womier, Epomaker, CIY, Redragon, Royal Kludge, even Keychron have inexpensive keyboards that offer a pretty nice out of the box experience. I have to warn against Glorious though, their cheaper stuff is absolute dogshit.

I rushed into buying a G915 to replace my dead keyboard. But a week later I bought a keychron Q6 and now my G915 sits on my desk as a very expensive audio visualiser. Would highly recommend a custom keyboard. For about the same price, the build quality difference is pretty insane.

I was the same way until I purchased the Redragon K580 VATA RGB from Amazon. It had the option of blue or brown switches and I took the chance on the brown. Coming from my red cherry switches on my older keyboard, I can honestly say I will never go back. It's a fantastic keyboard with the option to not use any software, and was a huge upgrade and very affordable. In fact, I found that keyboard after the last episode that they made on the other keyboards and it gave me some new energy to go looking for a decent mechanical keyboard again. Thanks guys for these great vids. You doing an awesome job : )

Gateron switches are mostly just clones of the Cherry MX line. Some are slightly better or a bit different, while others are definitely worse...but, Gaterons are cheap, which is why so many companies choose them for entey-level keebs. A step up (especially for clickies) is Kailh. Their Box series of switches are NICE, and not too pricey.

There are tons of different switches out there. Red, blue and brown are just the tip of the iceberg. I prefer AKKO switches, with led lenses. Great quality, and they're brighter.

Although I also like some backlight and RGB, most of the higher end custom keyboard enthusiast actually eschew any sort of lighting, as they find it rather gauche and obnoxious. This means you'll not have many options at the mid to high end that has backlight.

@@matasa7463 That makes sense. Enthusiast are generally going to go more toward performance and reliability, and lighting just adds extra cost when that money could go toward something else. However, the keyboard in the video does have RGB lighting, but they keycaps aren’t lit.