Hey everyone! 🙂 NuPhy reached out to me after the video started to do really well, which is all thanks to you! They also gave me a *5% code* you can use if you do choose to get an Air75, or anything else from their store. So *use the code "cheese" when you checkout* for a discount. Also, I've updated my links in the description to affiliate ones, you won't pay anything extra, but I do get a commission from every purchase, which I am incredibly grateful for 😊 Also, a lot of you have been asking what game I'm playing at around 1:30, it's called Terra Nil and you can get the demo on Steam right now: store.steampowered.com/app/1593030/Terra_Nil/ If you wanna know more about it, you can also watch a video I made about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AeeErMFujdw.html
The screws they used are called self-tapping screws. They are like tiny drills that create threads as they are screwed in. These are typically used to save cost on injection molded plastic parts. They are fine as long as you don't plan to take it apart after installation. Frequent undoing of the screws can lead to a failed screw hole. This is fine for most consumer electronics. But if they have frequent modding and repair in mind they should go for threaded inserts, though at a higher cost.
@@PasserbyP if you are careful you can take it apart and put it back once or twice without any problems. It is only necessary if you want to fix it though. If that’s the battery you will only need to do that after at least 2 years of use. And adding metal threading to the existing holes will be very tricky.
@Cucumberworks is correct on all counts but I'd like to add that self-tapping or thread-forming screws are usually not intended to make their own hole; they are meant to be driven into a pilot hole that is slightly undersized. The screw threads cut new threads into the wall of the pilot hole. Also, if you stripped a few of the screw heads it's possible you're using the wrong screwdriver. It's common to think that if the driver *can* turn the screw then it's good fit, but Phillips screwdrivers come in a bunch of sizes and only the *correct* size is a *correct* fit. Going up or down a tip size is more likely to lead to stripped screw heads. There are also JIS screws and screwdrivers which look very similar to Phillips but are not interchangeable. It seems that we, the consumers are thinking in terms of how many times we can replace the battery to maintain the product for many years. The manufacturer is probably thinking the battery will exceed the product warranty period, and therefore the case screws are a non-issue (for them).
Okay someone needs to explain to me how this channel is so small. This definitely is one of the better channels I've seen in regards to quality and especially visual quality. Really enjoyed the video :)
Agreed! Was looking for reviews of this board and found this channel. Amazing video. Well presented and honestly, it’s just a matter of time before it grows.
Well, typically when a creator starts out, theres a period of time while they may be making great content, however due to the youtube algorithm they may have not been promoted accurately. It could be something as small as not optimizing the thumbnail image or captoon. Eventually they make enough small tweaks as they continue making content, it creates a snowball effect and they ultimately gain additional subscribers.
Dude, your channel is pure gold, amazing quality of content, and everything else is perfect. Keep it up and I won't be surprised to see your channel with 10 mil subs 🙌
Such a concise review, helped me decide to buy even though it wasn't for you. Really appreciate the detail, next level breakdown (to the screw), and offering a personal opinion but still remaining neutral. We need more content like this. Very helpful, hitting subscribe!
Production quality is so good that I’m amazed at how much in need the RU-vid algorithms are of change. I hope you hit 1 million in like a year. I have never subbed to RU-vidrs with less than 100k but u r different. Keep up the work
Compact enough to be carried around a bag, good quality stock keycaps, different colorways with accent keys. This board feels like a Keychron afterthought.
Your attention to detail is magnificent. I really appreciate that you call out small nits that I would eventually notice. First time I've seen your content, instant sub
Dude I cant thank you enough for making this video. I've been looking for a new keyboard for years and despite this ones issues (the keycaps are going to drive my OCD insane) it's perfect. Just ordered one and subscribed.
For windows, nuphy has released a beta software for customising the lighting and remapping keys and creating macros. Also, the screenshot button works perfectly for me on windows
After seeing so many ads on Instagram for this keyboard, I’ve been looking at a few reviews of this and other mech keyboards this evening. You finally tipped me over the edge. Thanks for the review. Hope that code still works!
Holy shit you only have 2k subs. I felt like I was watching someone with 1 million+ please keep up the great work. Looking forward to following you in your content creation journey!
Those screws are of self-tapping type. You still need a hole though. Mine didn't come in too banged up, but the shipping package from Nuphy is just a thin bubblewrap bag instead of a proper padded box. Great review btw
I used the promo code to buy the Air75 V2 a couple months ago and this review of the original was very useful. It's been my daily driver atop my M2 MacBook and it's a seriously nice keyboard for working from home or as a digital nomad
I really appreciate how much depth you went into with regards to the quality of the board and the compromises of the board. The magnet design of the feet and the unfinished quality feel really helped me make a decision with regards to the board. On paper and on screen it looks like it ticks all the boxes, so your thoughts have been invaluable. Thank you!
The screws used look like they are selftapping plastic-screws - which are pretty different from wood screws by design. This is extremely common in mechanical design for assembly involving screwing into plastic parts. A machine screw (which is cylindrical with no point) is good for designs where you expect it to be disassembled and reassembled several times as plastic screws only has so many uses. But designing for machine screws into plastic parts is more expensive not inly in part cost but also assembly cost as you need to mold a threaded insert into the plastic part to have threads the machine screw can grab onto. Alternatively you would make the entire part out of metal instead of plastic, but that’s much more expensive. So it’s really a matter of trade-offs and alignment of cost and use. If they don’t expect the product to be disassembled a lot (at least for the majority of customers), adding threaded inserts or making the part out of metal is simply over engineering the design
I have question. Sounds like you know a lot about this. For guitars, or a lot of things wood, if a screw hole is stripped you can add a toothpick wit some glue on it and re-tap the hole. Is here a way to do that with plastic?
You are awesome. I found your video because I was trying to figure out why my keyboard couldn’t connect wirelessly. When you first showed the visual, I realized my right hand side control and function keys had been switched. Swapped them out, and all is well. Thank you!
@@yosolonopuedo I got the regular gmmk tkl a while ago. It's nice, though you can still see the switches pretty well. I prefer boards that are more recessed where you don't see them. Looks cleaner imo.
I enjoy watching your videos a lot, the quality and commentary really makes me wonder why you're still so small, relativly speaking. Hopefully the algorithm will bless you soon. Keep on doing your thing!
fantastic review and honestly I enjoyed the presentation and delivery so much that I subscribed as soon as the video was winding down. Was very comprehensive so I hope you get the attention you deserve on this channel
Thank you for explaining how the weird keys at the top right (mis)behave. So many reviewers talking about switches and so few seem to actually test the available functionality. I prefer my keyboards with useful keys, not useless ones...
The Led's flashing is from natively recording at a high frame rate depends on the Hz of the Led's but usually 60 to 50 Fps syncs with them while lower or higher causes issues. Also you haft to fix this on the recording end not post.
i've seen this keyboard advertised a lot on my social media and i really liked the look of it but the negatives you've mentioned are pretty much the reason why i won't be purchasing it. i'll be keeping an eye on nuphy, hopefully they come up with something even better in the future.
Flickering appears when frequency of alternating current (AC) in your country is different from camera's frame rate. If it's 50Hz and you're shooting indoors, then you have to use 25 or 50 frames per second (PAL) while shooting video and use 1/50 or 1/100 shutter speed accordingly. If it's 60Hz, then use 30 or 60 fps (NTSC) and 1/60 and 1/120 shutter speed.
@@paul_serov In an ideal world, yes. But you’ve clearly never worked in actual video production. In reality, flicker can still happen even if you’re using what should be the correct shutter speed. That’s why modern cameras have highly adjustable variable shutter speeds so you can dial it in just right, and why if you can’t get that to work, it’s best to fix it in post. Also, being indoors or outdoors has nothing to do with it.
@@joelmulder, I didn't work in big video production, but I'm photographer and shooting ads videos for my blog so I have experience. Yeah, it's ideal, but if you break these basic rules, you'll get flicker guaranteed. Cameras have flicker reduction and you have post-processing to remove it, but as always you have to set up things properly in the beginning. It has everything to do with that 🙂 If there is no artificial light powered on AC, there will be no flickering problems. So...
@@paul_serov I for one do work in video production as a cinematographer, which means I'm the one who responsible for the lighting looking good. And can tell you from experience, lights don't always flicker exactly with the frequency of the mains. LEDs emit light at a relatively wide range of frequencies. Typical household lights operate anywhere from 50 to 90 hertz, but the range can be much wider depending on the quality of the lights. Don't get me started on the LEDs that're in displays and such. I'll say it again, the real world is rarely as simple as. we're often taught it is.
Just came across this video/your channel. Great quality content especially for someone like me who is just getting more into the mechanical keyboard space after using almost exclusively laptops for the last few years. Always had membrane keyboards prior to that + a hand-me-down Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard. Subscribed and looking forward to your future content.
7:15 Awesome review thank you so much! Regarding the flickering LEDs, try lowering your shutterspeed (and compensate the exposure by lowering ISO / increasing aperture) I don't know if your camera allows for this though, but thought I'd mention it in case it helps! Thanks again! 💙
Thank you! and also thanks for the tip regarding the LEDs, I tried it on my current video I'm working on and it looks a lot better although I couldn't completely get rid of it. But it definitely helped a lot, thanks again! 🙂
@@CheeseTurbulence Oh thanks so much for your replies! I'm glad that it was able to help you! I'm looking forward to your upcoming vids! Thanks again! 💙
I am regretting "upgrading" from my 60%. It's so nice and clean to have 4x 1.5u's in the lower right instead of the clusterf%ck that is 75%. My dream board would have compact arrow keys and numpad, on the left side, so I can use the extra buttons and keep mousing with my right hand. Only thing that's really come close is Candybar Lefty.
Thank you so much for such a detailed review! I was about to get one, but those minor quality issues, like the rattling, would have driven me crazy. Like you, I cannot unsee the inconsistent printing of the letters on the caps. I prefer to avoid replacing them--little time, so I'm looking for a solid, fully assembled keyboard.
It's an LG CX48, which is actually a TV. I use a monitor arm to hold it up, there's a great video from David Zhang about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AhV09HD7Ee0.html Regarding the desk tour, I'll put it on my video to-do list 🙂 Thank you!
This video is really well done. I was going to buy this board as a portable solution for one of our ship/pack stations, but sadly, Nuphy seems unable to respond to a customer support email. If a company cannot answer an email, I’m not inclined to give them money. Thanks for the great review, made my decision even easier.
I like that they put the delete button in the right position, top right, unlike Keychron, but they went ahead and put the Fn key on the right hand side instead of the left, between Ctrl and Win keys, where it should be. BT + 2.4GHz is a great idea! Finally, I wish more keyboards had "Sleep" shortcut key. It's underrated in its usefulness. I have a B.O.W HW086 keyboard and it has a sleep shortcut on the F10 key. It's my most used shortcut. Super useful!
You, a Windows user, live without a Left Alt key?! So no left handed alt tab... do you switch apps with Windows key + number row? Or pressing Win+Tab for task view? Or just clicking the taskbar? My first mech came with a feature to rebind caps lock to Fn. I have never looked back! IMO it's kind of silly that caps lock is such a prominent key, considering how niche the use case is for most users.
Hope you're gonna be more lucky than me, I think it varies from unit to unit. The twilight set I (Mr S.) got was pretty straight so I hope you, everyone gets better ones than I did.
What a beautiful intro and curated video. How are you not at 1M+ subs. Keep up the good work. Ps: really liked the intro music can you identify which one it is?
I just got mine and I was wondering what keycaps would go best with this keyboard other than the first party ones. Also, where can I buy other types of switches.
14:30 - The Cut key in Windows is effectively the PrintScrn key. Don't push Fn in Windows. It's written on the manual. Most of the "issues" are also nitpicky at best.
I LOVE the fact that you are so nitpicking, subbed! What is your fav board? I feel like I can just safely buy whatever you prefer and save me the trouble of doing extra research LOL
Ok, I have two questions - what is the model of a keyboard that you show at 1:21? I wasn't able to catch it, but I think it looks amazing. Second question is what is this game you are playing? Thanks!
It's called the NuType F1: nuphy.com/products/nutype-f1?sca_ref=1371668.WxZWP3zbS6 (affiliate) It's called Terra Nil and you can get the demo on Steam right now: store.steampowered.com/app/1593030/Terra_Nil/ If you wanna know more about it, you can also watch a video I made about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AeeErMFujdw.html 🙂
Hmmm, I'm slightly interested in this one but I'm not sold on it. I think I'd prefer a 65% compact keyboard over a 75%. I looked into their Halo 65, but not sure that's the one for me. I'm thinking of getting a Drop ALT instead. However it's more expensive and has it's own issues too. I mean, realistically I'll be researching for probably another two weeks before I find one I want to buy.
It's called Terra Nil and you can get the demo on Steam right now: store.steampowered.com/app/1593030/Terra_Nil/ If you wanna know more about it, you can also watch a video I made about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AeeErMFujdw.html 🙂
Did this guy just cast Mr. S into the fiery, eternal pits of hell? Noice. Anyway, as a Keychron K2 V2 owner, the best way to avoid any future connectivity issues is to disable the auto-sleep feature by holding down *fn+S+O* for 3 seconds.
I have the ait 75, didnt suffer any of the things you didn't like. Magnets dont rattle, switches never popped off. BUT the right side shift is smaller and that kills me. its probably tipical for keyboards of this size but i would have preferred anything else to give me a full sized shift.
I've been using the Logi G815/915 for around a year now. Incredible keyboard (but super overprice). I really prefer the low profile though, to me it feels more fluid and less "typerwriter-y", if that makes sense. Great vid though!
It's called Terra Nil, I actually made a video about it just before this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AeeErMFujdw.html It's not out yet but you can play the free demo on Steam 🙂
