There's no excuse for the terrible packaging. For $2000 I want a great unboxing experience. Frey Ultra is 1/4 the price of this garbage and has better packaging then the Geist... I am all for very unique designs for the keyboard community but charging criminally expensive keyboards and packaging them like it's a tofu60 from KBDFans is just terrible.
Could not agree more. I own a qk100 and a new mode65 and while there are some downsides and hollowness on the qk100, it is a fullsize board for under 200. The mode was almost twice the price, but the perfection was in every piece and the investment did not feel like a rip off
The price is certainly ridiculous but the board itself is gorgeous (even though personally I would probably go for the T-stand instead of the half moon). Love the colour and keycap selection; you might indeed have a styling type but there's nothing wrong with it. 👍🏼
This seems like a really mismanaged company. It looks like a $300-500 keyboard, but considering it was manufactured in a 1st world country, I could see $800 max. It seems like too much money was spent on designing, prototyping, and marketing. Perhaps too big of a markup, like the guys running it want a huge return back on investment. Luxury keyboards have really low profit margins for those who run projects so they can be reasonably affordable, but maybe they wanted to see big profits back which is how it turned into this baffling $2000 price tag.
Looks beautiful. But it sounds as if the bottoming out isn't very pleasant on the fingers. Almost every body bottoms out. I personally founds the extreme low profile keyboards used by Apple and others are actually best in that regards.
For this price, it must at least come fully assembled already. And support every wireless protocol existing in the Universe and every OS to customize its programming. Instead, it requires the buyer to fiddle around with ribbon cables that are too easy to break with one unlucky move... Well, at least the switches are hotswappable.
For that price tag I'd expect everything to be overengineered to insanity. Dinky little flex cable lol. Ok, not gonna question, this is luxury, this is for people who scoff at Louis Vuitton for being too plebian and gaudy.
There is Norway that the housing was secured with Saran wrap. I participated in group buys back in 2015 that had a more "premium" unboxing experience for a quarter of the cost. My how time flies... and those times have certainly come and gone.
There's just so much Cherry MX switches and any kind of design can carry and this goes deep into the side of diminishing returns. The sound is eerily close to what I have in my Tiger Lite 80 build using Morandi switches, which is actually bit exceptional from a solid body metal case. If I would put two grands on a keyboard it better come with new old stock complicated Alps, pristine beam springs, buckling springs or anything else but the Cherry MX stuff.
Great video. I love custom keebs, I have 8 in my collection so far. But I don´t think I could ever buy one for 2 grand. Like you said, at the end of the day it´s a computer peripheral. I would rather spend that money on an actual computer.
The random japanese is cringe. This is clearly just someone using google translate. C'mon, at least pay a fucking translator. This is a 2000$ keyboard.
I’m not against obscenely expensive keyboards but this isn’t it, I can’t stand the design, it just looks like a generic beige point of sale keyboard from the ‘90s with a rotary knob on the top left. I looked at their web site and their other designs seems sold out. Oh well…
Is this your next giveaway? 😂 I‘ll eventually buy something like this but for now gonna stick with my QKs. Great video duder! The fade to black at the end got me and I thought you were about to skip over the type test lol
The keyboard looks incredible, perfect amount of sterile and solid desing language, I love the concrete coloring paired with the metalic parts of the keyboard. This is the keyboard i would be using in my modern Brutalist minimalist office. My way of thinking is very niche but thats the perfect vibe i am getting from this keyboard :)
Fantastic! Both board and the video. How do you feel about the board's layout? It feels like giving a little bit more options would feel nice, especially 7u spacebar.
Cheese Turbulence, making all the rest of us feel less bad for spending a couple of hundred on a keyboard :) Jokes aside, looking at the keyboard, I can TOTALLY understand - amazing video as always, and, FWIW, keyboard looks incredible and my hunger for beautifully designed things was satiated for a moment.
Their Instagram post popped up in my feed one day and I fell in love with it. Upon seeing the keyboard (which was Geist at that time), I instantly knew that this board is gonna be expensive. Like, "expensive" expensive. But dang it looks beautiful.
I'm in a similar boat but behind in the timeline as a first-batch customer of the Studio ASP. Still really looking forward to the board but the delays and inconsistent communication have not been very encouraging. For the Geist, are you getting only this half moon or is there another polished one coming like some other edition(s)?
thanks to you. I don't feel bad skipping Geist anymore. agree with you on uneven knob gap and the silicone -- although we don't see them, the fact that we know they there is just a bit too much for the price.
Well I got defnitly entertained, thanks for the content your videeos are just one of the best pieces of media I follow on this platform please keep up the extremly good work
Und wie mich das Video unterhalten hat. Dein Humor ist spitze, die Qualität deiner Videos überragend. Und zum "Produkt" ich schau es mir schon eine ganze Weile an und überlege. Und überlege. 😄
Are you talking about the layout? If so, I agree. It's all so homogeneous, it's like layouts other than 75% don't exist. No features, bog standard internals. "Look at us, we can order a CNC job and a sandblasting job and a custom hot-stamped box and mark it up 500%. We had to 3D print a whole of 25 prototypes and it took 5 weeks to design."
@@neoqueto blah blah. Sorry to disagree. Dude, its just my opinion. I don't give a fuck if you don't share it. If I want an art piece I paid an artist or at least an artisan. @TheBenzjr works is much more art than this keebs.
damn, i dont know about others but no matter what this is overpriced and entirely boring and lame.. i know weird, springy, or entirely crazy but still cool boards which is cheaper than this shite. utter garbage, waste of money
2000 bucks for a keyboard is unjustifiable. but 2000 bucks for a keyboard with a knob that can never be aligned is outright criminal.
and pcb with flex cuts
My daily is plateless with a swiss cheese leaf spring mounted flex cut PCB @@qwf583 It's a pleasure to type on.
This keyboard looks like cheeks bro. That's 2K too much spent my guy
Disagree, it looks fascinating.
Must disagree also. It looks so very clean, I love it
@@dismiggothe thing in the middle ruins it for me, it's way too unbalanced. Right side is too empty with all the big circle things to the left.
i like the look and really enjoy mine. ur prolly j mad ur wallet looks like cheeks
Wow. What a beautiful build. I think this might be my favorite implementation of Modern Materials.
Hard agree. I was about to send you a link to this video, but I'm so happy to see that you've seen it already. Ps: I love his content.😊
There's no excuse for the terrible packaging. For $2000 I want a great unboxing experience. Frey Ultra is 1/4 the price of this garbage and has better packaging then the Geist... I am all for very unique designs for the keyboard community but charging criminally expensive keyboards and packaging them like it's a tofu60 from KBDFans is just terrible.
Could not agree more.
I own a qk100 and a new mode65 and while there are some downsides and hollowness on the qk100, it is a fullsize board for under 200.
The mode was almost twice the price, but the perfection was in every piece and the investment did not feel like a rip off
Packing it like a tofu60 😂😂.
280 shipping is criminal. Just cringed at my Keychron q3 HE and a couple of knobs, 38€ shipping
Is there something that this keyboard does better than others?
It looks cool for sure but it's not $2000 type of cool, no keyboard is.
The price is certainly ridiculous but the board itself is gorgeous (even though personally I would probably go for the T-stand instead of the half moon). Love the colour and keycap selection; you might indeed have a styling type but there's nothing wrong with it. 👍🏼
This seems like a really mismanaged company. It looks like a $300-500 keyboard, but considering it was manufactured in a 1st world country, I could see $800 max. It seems like too much money was spent on designing, prototyping, and marketing. Perhaps too big of a markup, like the guys running it want a huge return back on investment. Luxury keyboards have really low profit margins for those who run projects so they can be reasonably affordable, but maybe they wanted to see big profits back which is how it turned into this baffling $2000 price tag.
Looks beautiful. But it sounds as if the bottoming out isn't very pleasant on the fingers. Almost every body bottoms out. I personally founds the extreme low profile keyboards used by Apple and others are actually best in that regards.
For this price, it must at least come fully assembled already. And support every wireless protocol existing in the Universe and every OS to customize its programming.
Instead, it requires the buyer to fiddle around with ribbon cables that are too easy to break with one unlucky move... Well, at least the switches are hotswappable.
For that price tag I'd expect everything to be overengineered to insanity. Dinky little flex cable lol. Ok, not gonna question, this is luxury, this is for people who scoff at Louis Vuitton for being too plebian and gaudy.
Should have bought SA caps so you could spend several hundred Euros on them instead of just €116.
As a german i only have one thing to say:
Fantastic Name
For $2000 it better comes with a tungsten half moon and a full brass case
The sffpc build to keyboard content creator pipeline is real
There is Norway that the housing was secured with Saran wrap. I participated in group buys back in 2015 that had a more "premium" unboxing experience for a quarter of the cost. My how time flies... and those times have certainly come and gone.
It almost feels like it was done on purpose. Perhaps it's some rare Himalayan cling film harvested by only the most skilled of Nepalese monks.
There's just so much Cherry MX switches and any kind of design can carry and this goes deep into the side of diminishing returns. The sound is eerily close to what I have in my Tiger Lite 80 build using Morandi switches, which is actually bit exceptional from a solid body metal case.
If I would put two grands on a keyboard it better come with new old stock complicated Alps, pristine beam springs, buckling springs or anything else but the Cherry MX stuff.
Great video. I love custom keebs, I have 8 in my collection so far. But I don´t think I could ever buy one for 2 grand. Like you said, at the end of the day it´s a computer peripheral. I would rather spend that money on an actual computer.
True regard, I salute you! That is fine board tho, indeed. Thank you for your sacrifice!
🤝
Hold on, the keyboard is not coming already built????
The shipping fee costs more than a regular high end keyboard.
That's just horrible packaging IMHO
I hate you for that jittering effect
The random japanese is cringe. This is clearly just someone using google translate.
C'mon, at least pay a fucking translator. This is a 2000$ keyboard.
Oh boy more cheese turbulence 😎
I’m not against obscenely expensive keyboards but this isn’t it, I can’t stand the design, it just looks like a generic beige point of sale keyboard from the ‘90s with a rotary knob on the top left. I looked at their web site and their other designs seems sold out. Oh well…
God damn it’s a beauty
Is this your next giveaway? 😂
I‘ll eventually buy something like this but for now gonna stick with my QKs. Great video duder! The fade to black at the end got me and I thought you were about to skip over the type test lol
The keyboard looks incredible, perfect amount of sterile and solid desing language, I love the concrete coloring paired with the metalic parts of the keyboard. This is the keyboard i would be using in my modern Brutalist minimalist office. My way of thinking is very niche but thats the perfect vibe i am getting from this keyboard :)
Way too expensive, we are already past the time of custom keebs being ridiculously expensive.
I'm not putting it together after paying that much, I don't know of anything that costs that much that still requires assembly
Fantastic! Both board and the video. How do you feel about the board's layout? It feels like giving a little bit more options would feel nice, especially 7u spacebar.
How do you use F12345 etc keys on a 65% keyboard? Just noticed they are missimg lol
Cheese Turbulence, making all the rest of us feel less bad for spending a couple of hundred on a keyboard :) Jokes aside, looking at the keyboard, I can TOTALLY understand - amazing video as always, and, FWIW, keyboard looks incredible and my hunger for beautifully designed things was satiated for a moment.
Their Instagram post popped up in my feed one day and I fell in love with it. Upon seeing the keyboard (which was Geist at that time), I instantly knew that this board is gonna be expensive. Like, "expensive" expensive. But dang it looks beautiful.
I'm in a similar boat but behind in the timeline as a first-batch customer of the Studio ASP. Still really looking forward to the board but the delays and inconsistent communication have not been very encouraging.
For the Geist, are you getting only this half moon or is there another polished one coming like some other edition(s)?
thanks to you. I don't feel bad skipping Geist anymore.
agree with you on uneven knob gap and the silicone -- although we don't see them, the fact that we know they there is just a bit too much for the price.
$2000 and they give u a flexcut pcb cmon 😭😭😭
And here I am having a bad conscious because I backed a keyboard and an additional set of switched for 130€. :D
Well I got defnitly entertained, thanks for the content your videeos are just one of the best pieces of media I follow on this platform please keep up the extremly good work
yike that is expensive for a keyboard. Thank you for your honest review as always.
"Cheese turbulence"? 😂 Bruh the hell kinda channel name is that?
Do not dare ever change it
Keebs looks like a 200-300 bucks, expecting more for a 2k
The music and this keyboard belong in Mass Effect.
Entertaining man, very cool. Also you have a very comforting voice.
I bought the Studio ASP and can't wait to finally receive it.
$500 Rog Azoth Extreme better than this IMO.
9:10 wrapped enter key cant unsee it, probably wrapped key from gmk
Warching this video free making me feel ilegal 😅 beautifulll
Why do you guys keep scamming yourselves? lmao
Oy oy oy, a new masterpiece! Where's my cuppa' coffee
ah yes another product in the iq test category
Und wie mich das Video unterhalten hat. Dein Humor ist spitze, die Qualität deiner Videos überragend. Und zum "Produkt" ich schau es mir schon eine ganze Weile an und überlege. Und überlege. 😄
It’s just the design, nothing innovationaal
Keyboard's so satisfying that I made an audible sound when you slid the accent in at 7:10
Yeah, but does it have Sony guts?
consider me entertained :)
I was thoroughly entertained
excuse me, for HOW MUCH $$$??????????????
This video is a work of art.
why.
scammed 👉
Meh.
worth it???
Companies keep making the same keyboard over and over again. The hobby is dead.
it''s a keyboard what did you expect
Are you talking about the layout? If so, I agree. It's all so homogeneous, it's like layouts other than 75% don't exist. No features, bog standard internals.
"Look at us, we can order a CNC job and a sandblasting job and a custom hot-stamped box and mark it up 500%. We had to 3D print a whole of 25 prototypes and it took 5 weeks to design."
Not agree at all, this hobby is alive more than ever. Take your negativity and go away
@@neoquetothis isn’t a 75%
smh...
scammed
This PCB is disapointing. no 7u, no iso, no split backspace and flex cut :/
Lol next time you're gonna complain about no RGB. This is a luxury product, it was not made to be practical, it was made as an art piece.
@@neoqueto blah blah. Sorry to disagree. Dude, its just my opinion. I don't give a fuck if you don't share it. If I want an art piece I paid an artist or at least an artisan.
@TheBenzjr works is much more art than this keebs.
@@neoqueto ahh, it's an art piece. that's why the board has to be dogshit and cost 10x more than it should
@@qwf583 as long as it's functional. Most art is trash anyways. I'm not disagreeing with you lol, just stating the facts
@MatthieuBENOIST too bad benzjr costs $3000+ a board, and that's charging like $5 an hour for his work
You're the only Swiss that I like. Great stuff! Keep up the good work.
That much for a keybaord is insane.. let alone one you pay that much for and still have to assemble it yourself?
a colossal waste of money
Yeah it is a huge waste of
damn, i dont know about others but no matter what this is overpriced and entirely boring and lame.. i know weird, springy, or entirely crazy but still cool boards which is cheaper than this shite. utter garbage, waste of money