Unboxing a Corsair K70 Core!
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2023
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Today we look at the new K70 Core, a more budget-oriented version of the venerable K70. This one is kind of an overhaul from previous versions, so I was pretty interested to see what they had done to it!
Intro by Kyle Carter
Outro by Facundo Cabanne
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"Massive knob here as well...and there's one on the keyboard too..."
corsairs naming scheme has no meaning anymore. they have a wireless 60% that they call the k70. and the k65 that used to be the tkl is now a 60% and there is also a k70 that is a tkl and now a full size that is called the k70 and another k70 full size that is now called the k70 max, its what the k70 used to only be. they have 5 keyboards that are called the k70
They can make peripherals but cant do math
they don't know what the numbers mean lmao
British people can’t contain jokes about knobs. It always has to come out.
He's Dutch, but nevertheless accurate.
Do you see any mainstream boards approaching the heights of the 80s alps, IBM boards, etc. in terms of quality?
Also, fan request: unicomp 122 battle cruiser. How does it compare to the IBM battle cruiser.
"massive knob" :)
Your IBM Model M redesign example at the end basically described the Model M2.
I was going to use M2, but I figured it doesn't really reflect what I was trying to point out.
Oh god, I hate the M2! This was the keyboard that people were upgrading to membrane keyboards FROM, it was so bad.
It looked sweet, though.
Hi Thomas. Ik heb een potentieel leuk [mechanical] tobo voor je om af te kraken. En dat meen ik echt. Ik heb een tijdje geleden een "laptop" [genaamd IQ 9260] op MP gekocht, wss onredbaar, MAAR het tobo [waarvan de spatiebalk stuk was] was detachable, en dus testbaar.
Mechanisch is hij zeker, maar ik heb geen idee van de switches, en wil het ook niet echt weten nog, als je hem wil testen. De connectie van de stekker ziet eruit als RJ9 oid, maar geen idee van het protocol.
De switches klinken per toets soms extreem anders, en voelen ook erg verschillend van elkaar !
MAAR de keycaps zijn van een heel speciaal kaliber, double shot, wat wel standaard is, maar imho van exceptionele kwaliteit, vooral qua gevoel.
Ik kan je hem eenvoudig even opsturen, maar wil eerst even de spatiebalk fixen en wat switches met elkaar verwisselen om hem typbaar te maken. SCREW de scroll lock key !!
Hoihoi, dank je voor het aanbod! Ik kan hier echt niks over vinden, heb je een plaatje ervan toevallig?
Interesting! :D
Good to see you Tom!
Yoooo The Hobbit pub mentioned!? There's a local pub in Southampton called the Hobbit which has drinks themed like this. It's been around for years and beloved by locals. It once almost got shut down or told to change its theme because of copyright but Sir Ian McKellen supported it! I love to see such a small reference
Not being hotswappable is now considered a negative in today's landscape. Why are commercial keyboard companies so behind in that? Even cheap keyboards like the Redragon and the Royal Kludge KBs are. Why Corsair?
Still wished they put their Optoelectrics with analog settings in these instead. The K100 is still too pricey for a keyboard with that tech and have it not adjustable.
Ikr, a $50+ keyboard has hotswap but a $100+ mainstream keyboard doesn't
I did see their new K70 (which is a 60% one weirdly) on offer, was tempted to get that for travel since my project's client uses awful Dell chiclet keyboards with very oddly stiff keys, but always needs me to fit it in cabin baggage and not be too weighty.
I'm using their K100 with their OPX switches at home. Two main complaints:
The cable is still built into the board (why Corsair, please just put a type-C port on it like every bugger else has started doing)
There is still spring ping in the housing. Bit annoying, can't really be user fixed.
I purchased a K70 model in 2017. I haven't been using it since your Ace Pad Tech Hall effect recommendation in 2019.
LENGTHY RAMBLING PROCEEDS:
I feel the APT board is weakest in its build quality, and great in terms of switches.
With the K70, my prioritized complaint is the switches. They're satisfactory if you're coming from $20 membrane boards, and certainly an upgrade. But I feel the typing experience is maybe weak, mushy... like less strong of an action, or less satisfying. More flat. Dull. Uneventful. Kind of gross.
When I type on the Ace Pad Tech hall effect switches, the key strokes feel impactful and clear. Intended a bit more, I guess. Purposeful.
But every time I tried switching back to the K70 to verify for myself that the Hall effect switch was better, I'd switch back to the APT and instantly know it to be more satisfying and better. So Cherry MX Red versus Hall effect.
I want to purchase a new board, but I want to keep the same switches. LOL I have no complaints.
The problem is I have a 60% board. I want to move up to a 75% board, I believe. Well. I want a compact all-the-keys-smashed-together, a function row, dedicated arrow keys... and that's the request, really. I've seen a few such things, including hot swaps...
But I don't have the extra Hall effect switches! Oh, no!
EDIT: The edit was for the fifth line, where I mistakenly wrote "when I type on the K70, the key strokes feel impactful and clear." I adjusted this to be about the APT's hall effect switches, as I intended.
Lol. Corsair and major change in the same sentence. The company struggles so hard against stagnation. Standard bottom row didn't come until 2020. Hot swap and gasket mount are probably going to take another 5 years
Is the Caps Lock light enabled in the keyboard under the book?
Is the volume knob clickable to mute?
I like how you casually have a bottle of ethyl acetate on your table :D
In fact, may ask you: which organic compound, in your opinion, smells the best?
Ah, that's a hard one. Probably a terpenoid of some kind, possibly camphor? If restricted to just solvents, it's gotta be toluene, followed by Et2O. EtOAc is one of my least favourite ones, actually.
I still use a K70 from 2015 and I do not like the palmrest and volume knob on this new core. The old palmrest was a bit curved and had a soft touch texture which felt nice. As to the volume knob, the lying down one was great for quick volume changes with a single finger instead of having to grab it with your thumb and index
Same here.
Palm rest on the old one was shorter. I like that more because the keyboard doesn't feel so big.
The lying down knob is superior. looks better and usage is more fluent and natural.
But the magentic plam rest is of course a thing I would absolutely like to have.
you must be like 5 or something if you still dont know that you can actually turn the knob with one finger my friend
@@khreon27 and you must be like 4 to to think that childish comments are still a thing.
Lying down knob is still better because you can control it easily with your right thumb without moving your hand significantly.
Wow, I see Golden Star Balm! I remember these from childhood in Soviet Union. Where did you get it?
Online, I think it was from Etsy or something. It's sold mainly as a Tarkov memorabilia thing. I really like the smell of it though!
Your voice is calming
By the Nine!
I wonder if Corsair decided to refresh the look of the product due to how many no-name brands were copying the general aesthetic of the K70. A cheap mechanical board I got out of a $5 barain bin (Retail was like $50 at the time) five-six years ago has a clone of the older K70 top plate without the knob or extra features. I also know Corsair's naming no longer has any meaning, there's so many K70s now that you might actually need to count on both hands to keep track of them all, and I also know that the design language is not cohesive through the product range; so maybe that's also what the change in aesthetics is going to bring, cohesiveness for multiple models.
This new product feels so antiquated in comparison to the current market, and overpriced as well. But that's par for the course with this company, the umbrella as a whole, considering even their premium sub-brands like Scuf also suffer from absolutely braindead decisions, high prices, and poor quality, and just look at the K70 as a whole, there's no consistency for what gets the name, they just know that the name sells no matter what it is, these are massive red flags; as if the Corsair umbrella doesn't already have enough red flags, such as how Scuf's website tries to constantly upsell you on gamer goop (anti-sweat grip stuff, IIRC) and 'gamer pillows' (things you can wrest your hands on while holding a controller) constantly, even at checkout. Honestly I feel like brand recognition is 90% of their customer flow these days, as they fell from grace long ago, especially when the triangle of price, quality, and features is so heavily skewed towards high prices with lackluster quality and features; even within the Core's price bracket, you can find products that _far_ outpace what Corsair is providing, even ones that're considered semi-custom keyboards, the Core is more reminiscent of a much lower price bracket but with the brand name tax. Maybe it's time we start leaving these brand names in the dust if they refuse to offer modernity while retaining higher than typical prices for no reason, especially when quality can be questionable at best and when the brand also makes braindead decisions elsewhere.
i doubt it was actually a clone. That sort of construction is as cheap as it gets. I will never buy a keyboard constructed as this one.
@@bismuth7730 Ah yes, tell me more about the products I literally own. I can tell you, from literal measurement, dimensions and specific angles are the same. How about you go develop some critical thinking skills before you try being an armchair expert on anything; thinking you know anything about a random unnamed product that you have no inherent knowledge of, when the other person owns and uses both products in question, makes you look like an absolute joke. You should be embarrassed of your idiocy. You also seemingly don't understand how the Chinese market, where virtually all of these clones come from, operates considering cloning recognizable products is part of the status quo, don't be surprised if you see carbon copies of the older K70s floating around on the market; again, you lack any amount of critical thinking.
i think it should be $30 less. its not competitive with what it is. maybe 5 or so years ago it would have been competitive.
You can get a K10 Pro with red switches for about a 100 Euros, probably not quite 30 dollars but as a product this looks really basic considering it's not hot swappable and probably is a pain to open.
$100 is way too much for this thing. $50 would be fair. DOA
100,000 euros in keyboards... a book for a monitor stand.
Well played knob joke.
Fixed cable in 2023... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣