NuPhy Field75 HE keyboard review (Gateron Magnetic White dual-rail)

[@Andrew-ky8oc8cq4n]

I disagree about the web site configurator. If the company goes out of business or stops supporting the board/web site, you will never be able to adjust the keyboard. With downloadable configurator software you will never loose that ability.

[@DirtyGingy]

And this is why we tend to like VIA and Vial in the custom space. They are native OS apps, web apps, and open source. Meaning you could always just rehost it or recompile if you ever saw the need.

[@Zanpaa]

They usually let you download the software anyway if you want, so that's moot. Not sure about Nuphy, but Wooting does at least.

[@Chyrosran22]

Well maybe but now I'm reviewing another keyboard that has download-only software and it doesn't work even when they ARE in business xD .

[@GurtTarctor]

@@Chyrosran22 Is it possible to download the web page and run the configurator locally?

[@sinom]

Does this website even work an anything except Chrome or does it use WebUSB/WebHID which chrome decided to add but no one else added because they're extremely insecure and a really easy way of tracking people.

[@immortalsteel631]

I absolutely love the style of this keyboard

[@pedroaniz]

Have you ever considered setting up a keyboard museum so people all over the world could visit and appreciate? It could be viable and would help preserve history

[@dalriada842]

I'm not sure if it'd be viable economically, but I'd like to see that. If he were to drop dead, his next of kin might toss his collection into a skip! I've personal experience of relatives thoughtlessly throwing out nice mechanical keyboards, I'd given them, when they bought a new computer. Apparently, some people can't tell the difference between a quality keyboard and a £5 rubber dome monstrosity. I no longer give keyboards to relatives. :/

[@bsadewitz]

​@@dalriada842My father can't even touch type at all, yet for all his working life, he still insisted on IBM keyboards. One needn't even be a competent typist to appreciate a quality keyswitch. The company he worked for from the early 80s into the 00s (auto parts) used a system/360 and then an AS/400, and was an all-IBM shop beyond that, also. They had a comprehensive contract with IBM, and so there was a warehouse bin just filled with model Ms. Over the years, he'd just bring one home now and then. After he left the job, we had a family keyboard depot, lol. That lasted for years, but spills and rotting and whatnot happens, and eventually one day the well ran dry. That is when I found this channel and fell down the rabbit hole, and now I have a new model F and my wallet is so happy haha. My father now uses some chintzy rubber dome keyboard, and I asked him "What happened?!?!?" And he sighed and said, "I guess I'm getting soft in my old age" lol.

[@bsadewitz]

​​​​​@@dalriada842I seem to have veered off into the weeds in my prior post. Given the subject, though, it's rather difficult not to. At any rate, there are several reputable and long-established vintage computer museums between the US and the UK, at least. As play executor of his estate, I'd home his collection among them. EDIT: Ugh, why does this stupid platform just eat my posts? It rejected the first one. I give up.

[@spethcial]

If feel like I have been watching your for years and it never fails to shock me how different your typing form is from mine.

[@FlexStudioPL]

That windows KEY comment was (for me) traumatizing. I always use windows key for all quick selections in my every day job.

[@grimetone]

Need a better explanation as to why he would do that. I use that key all the time.

[@Ralesk]

My pet peeve with Win is that (accidentally) tapping a modifier key should never trigger an action - I enjoy the shortcuts on it, but the Start menu is not something I'd ever want to have pop up just by that. Similar issue with Alt by itself focusing the menu bar. I wonder what Thomas's issue is :D

[@kevadu]

Honestly I find "Windows" keys (or rather, just another modifier) way more useful under Linux than Windows...

[@Chyrosran22]

@@grimetone If you were a PC gamer in the late 90s, you know xD .

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

@@Ralesk I never once in my life considered the Win key a "modifier key" but I guess it is in some ways. For me it's the start menu key.

[@theosborneguy]

This looks like a keyboard Ripley would use on the Nostromo to initiate the self destruct sequence

[@Chyrosran22]

Nah man, those all look super old, Aliens was retro-futuristic. This is the opposite direction ;) .

[@betavidoh7944]

i;m getting more a duplo toy vibe from the keyboard. Also that keyset from the Alien film is available

[@jollyjoshy316]

@@betavidoh7944 you got a link to that alien keyset?

[@betavidoh7944]

@@jollyjoshy316 strange somone keeps deleting my reply

[@russianbear0027]

​@@betavidoh7944 if you're trying to post a link its probably getting caught by a spam filter

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

That looks like something from a toy store

[@MatthewHill]

It does. But I'm kind of digging it.

[@RATTMAN]

Solo Print Screen button for the win.

[@PaneledPear]

Magnetic Jades aren't worse, they have 3.5mm of total travel distance instead of the 4.1mm of Whites. That's why the actuation range is smaller :) There's also the Jade Pro and Jade Max, which are a bit heavier and built better. No counterpart exists for Whites, unfortunately

[@AndyK.1]

I think a manufacture should make a modern keyboard but with an XT like layout. By that I mean a number pad. The numpad keys can be used for home end del ins etc. with numlock off. Get rid of the seperate 10 navigation keys to save space. Love to know if one exists. Also add vol knob, play, back, explorer, email, internet, Calc buttons on the top.

[@impointr]

Daring Run Flip 6P You're welcome!

[@xaytana]

You're talking about 96% and 1800 layouts, which are slightly different, 96% has two extra keys and there's no .25u spacing between the clusters.

[@BeerDone]

Chyrosran reviewed keyboards like that, actually, he called them "navless." I know Keychron makes one. Yep, scrolling through I find his review of a "Keydous NJ98" as the most recent "navless" video.

[@AndyK.1]

@@BeerDone Thanks guys

[@justin6581]

Cooler master master keys pro m

[@BrianMcKee]

Pretty sure the Niz Plum 75% also has print screen and delete, my older one does anyways. It's indeed the way. It even has a dedicated pause/break!

[@somerandomblokeybloke6033]

Looks great, exept it not being ISO or available as a TKL

[@nolanwolf1828]

one of the things that really threw me off about the Field75 boards was the fact that hotswap was north facing on the standard MX version, but they are south facing on the magnetic HE one.

[@Atilolzz]

Seems like a neat kb actually, it does enough things right deserve attention. A HE keyboard with aluminium chassis and a deep sound would be awesome tho

[@justin6581]

Zoom75HE/BOOG75?

[@BigGulpsV2]

Very industrial sort of steam punk-esque. Nice!

[@JoseEduardo-dg2ki]

Good looking keyboard. Reminds me of Teenage Engineering. Although, with those macro keys below the spacebar, they lost the oportunity to include a trackpoint, so you can use those keys as mouse input, maybe even accel ajust. Also, what's up with older dudes and hating the windows key? I use it very frequently on Windows AND on Linux, since I do most of my navigation with it. Also Also, QMK & Vial FTW

[@MLX1401]

Love my IBM keyboard from the nineties - indeed came with a WIN key

[@zabique]

Gotta Love the web app solution, this allow it to be controlled on any OS. I wish insta360 did same for their cameras.

[@owlstead]

From the typing test: it seems like it has the same problem as my Wooting: it bottoms out pretty harsh. I get sore hands when using that for any medium to long time. For me reason to entirely switch away from linears. That's not a huge critique for a gaming keyboard, but the issue is that I use one keyboard and one keyboard only. Typing this on a brown with O-rings added to it.

[@Herbit-k4j]

Things finally start to look appropriately futuristic for how much we live in the future. We have robots, flying cars and AI ffs, yet designers still live in 2005. Whoever desinged this and the designer of the Hyundai N Vision 74 get it.

[@MokkaHai]

Never thought i'd be this early to a Chyros video

[@bsadewitz]

Clearly, you're responsive, but do YOU have an 8000hz polling rate? If not, this is no time to rest on your laurels! STEEL YOUR RESOLVE AND BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES--THE FIGHT BEGINS IN EARNEST NOW!

[@constantinosschinas4503]

Wheel on the left makes much sense. It can be possibly be used in combination with shift/ctrl/alt and without leaving the mouse. I don't know if the handle can be used ergonomically when manipulating the wheel.

[@jammies701]

Nice vid mate

[@dafoex]

Does the web configurator still work if you save it to disc? When those servers close down for the final time it'd be nice to still be able to configure the keyboard

[@jasondoe2596]

Someone should make a no-nonsense, no-backlight version, with thicker PBT keycaps. Get rid of the stupid macro buttons and the styling, but retain the hardware switch to change profiles - that's honestly a great feature.

[@riskable]

Hey now! My AHEK-95 has a compact layout with a PrtScrn and a Delete keys! Cuz I'm enlightened like that =) ...of course, I can make it have whatever TF keys I want since I can print my own keycaps and assign them to whatever 👍

[@Chyrosran22]

Good to see you again Risk, ho's life treating you? :D Do you have anything new I should cover? :D

[@riskable]

@@Chyrosran22 I've been working on non-keyboard stuff lately but maybe soon I might have a *mouse* with plenty of my maximized... merriment. Interested? :D

[@Chyrosran22]

@@riskable I normally don't do mice but for your crazy antics I'll happily make an exception :D .

[@cybernit3]

Nice review; but have you reviewed about the Atari 400 and ZX 81 keyboards? Be interesting if you had an episode on the worst keyboards ever.

[@Chyrosran22]

I've done the ZX, not the Atari xD .

[@simmo1024]

The lack of a gap between f8&9, whist there being gaps between the f4&5 is a deal breaker for me. Don't want a gap, fine, but be consistent!

[@AndyK.1]

At least it helps you find F5 for refresh. I mean that’s the only F key most ppl use these days?

[@mattcrowley8993]

Have you found a keyboard much worse than Smith Corona leaf springs over membrane?

[@oxyoxi3213]

I have a question: where is your English accent from?

[@lucidmoses]

Q: What is your favorite Teaser/Trailer that you have done?

[@Sazoji]

the print screen key as snipping is less controversial than my asus laptop kbd with a snipping tool logo, but you have to press shift for it to actually snip instead of functioning like printscreen, making win+shift+s more accessible. Combine that with powertoys OCR using win+shift+t for text copying from images and the printscreen button is useless.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

ana analog hyper 7 would be amazing if someone ever made that.

[@cvd1]

That keyboard looks sick

[@dylannoalan615]

Do you even wait for the video to end before commenting?

[@mysticmarble94]

Looks pretty healthy to me 🥸

[@Milo-UK]

Why would you need to watch the entire video to assess how it looks? You can even tell what it looks like by looking at the thumbnail ​@@dylannoalan615

[@Milo-UK]

And yes, it does look great imo (aesthetically speaking)

[@cvd1]

@@dylannoalan615 I don't need to watch the full video to comment on the aesthetics of this unusual keyboard

[@aleksandrh.4251]

All right, but how are you supposed to use Win + PrintScreen without a Win key?

[@Chyrosran22]

You don't, that's the whole point :p .

[@Katjasverige]

😅 hmm I think you should consider working as a narrator for fantasy audio books for adults Thanks for the review , I need to listen to it 1000 more times

[@spinkey4842]

it's very......... eccentric. i like it

[@logipilot]

q&a / ama question: why do you never test ducky keyboards? just ask caseking for a sample... the new "one 3" should be up your alley. ❤

[@Chyrosran22]

They never offered me one! Why do you think the One 3 would be nice? :D

[@RF-INF]

i think it would look better if the case was either full black or full white, not that weird grey

[@pncx9872]

you'd probably see this exact type looking keyboard if you go to a nuclear power plant control room xD

[@Chozo_Ghost]

Windows Key today. Windows Key tomorrow. Windows Key forever.

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

Should have handles on both sides.

[@AndyK.1]

Your mouse hand would hit it

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

@AndyK.1 Needs two handles and a nipple!

[@PeBoVision]

At the dawn of 2025, I would like to see Windows keys relabelled as Win/Super to acknowledge the growing use of alternative OSes. Not a fan of the plastic shell, and the layout switch looks quite cheap (and appears , at least visually, like it would be prone to breakage) A brushed aluminium shell would be stunning. At first glance the keyboard looks quite cramped, and although I learned to type 40 years ago on a TI-99/4A, I prefer to see the keys afforded a larger overall footprint to accomodate my pudgy fingers. I would have liked to have seen the G-Keys moved to a row above the F-keys. The ones below the spacebar would prove especially problematic, as my lower thumb/palm tends to lay in this position. Finally, although I understand that minimalism is the point of the design, I cannot functtion productively without a numeric keypad. I type in multiple languages, and although I have a multilingual keyboard for french and english, I make extensive use of alt-key codes for other laguages/symbols that are not available through the CTL keys. This requires a numeric keypad. The macro keys and multiple layouts only provide a partial solution. I am looking to replace a Corsair K100 with cherry MX switches, where the charging port has become unreliable, but I don't think this is it.

[@owlstead]

Don't mind flexing too much, as long as it doesn't WARP (or bend when I type, obviously).

[@willtypes]

Will u try to experiment with learning a new typing layout like Dvorak for like a month?-hello from Colorado,US

[@OK_ACME]

Oh... My... God... The handle turns it into a real 'Wack Board', if you catch my drift.

[@fonseca898]

Woo!

[@craptasticftw]

had mine for less than a week and it bricked on me when i was updating the firmware. I was Luckily i bought it from amazon plus i didn't really like the typing feeling on it.. felt hollow or something

[@gohom3882]

jesus christ that keyboard looks sexy

[@pibyte]

tic tac tac thoc thoc ... tic thoc ... Oida.

[@Xpurple]

That looks pretty good, but not for me. I'm a fan of low profile mechanical keyboards. They fit better in my backpack.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Online configuration? Then the keyboard will be dead as soon as they take that down. Or at least impossible to configure.

[@zachariahm.kemper7406]

The weight in pounds as in the paper currency was missing

[@oxyoxi3213]

The bank notes? LOL

[@thechadbuddha]

macrokeys under the space key? why?

[@Zaphodox]

Unde utilisation of the thumb?

[@xaytana]

@@Zaphodox This is exactly why. This isn't the first board to do it. People just don't like subtle change, even if it improves productivity. Arguably the origin of this goes back to when certain laptops would have their trackpad keys between space and the pad, the oldest I know of doing this was the Mac PowerBook, and IBM popularized this layout (though it's also arguably the best layout when all you have is a TrackPoint) to the point that even modern Lenovo ThinkPads still have this layout; I also remember some '90s split layout keyboards with a center trackball having something similar, though the closest probably would've been keys/buttons on the inside of the split spaces. And modernly, fully split keyboards have thumb clusters that provide more utilization for the thumb; Dygma has an interesting splitable keyboard that splits the wide space bar into four keys with four sub-space keys, their main selling point with this is reallocating keys with layers to free the pinkies from so many keys and so much movement. I don't have large hands but even my thumbs and comfortably rest 1.5u to 2u below the space row, so I don't see why anyone would really complain; though this also depends on board height, key height, key profiles, and if there's a wrist rest or not, very chunky boards have less of a gap where I can comfortably rest my thumbs, but on a very slim chiclet board I could probably increase this gap by nearly +1u. With an Alice-like splayed layout, you could better refine sub-space and outer-space layout utilization; and of course, a full split would provide full thumb clusters. But again, people don't like change; for example split ergos have been shown to be better in nearly every aspect of keyboard use, but people won't relearn a keyboard because they dislike change, the adjustment isn't even that inherently difficult when the issue nearly always lies in a person's psychology.

[@NiSE_Rafter]

Why not? Do you miss the space bar and hit that space often? It's a decent spot within fingers reach imo.

[@Zaphodox]

@@NiSE_Rafter yeah out thumbs are our most flexible and strong digit, yet when typing we relegate it to only the space bar - when I type on my phone the thumbs do allll the work!

[@NiSE_Rafter]

@@Zaphodox The funny thing is I only use my thumb for spacebar when I'm playing games. When typing I use my right index finger to hit space like a weirdo

[@roveism]

plastic?! NO thanks!

[@RTDragonCommando]

8khz is horrible as a gaming "feature", a lot of game engines do not like it for either mouse or keyboard. You get all kinds of strange behavior, like stuttering, framerate drops when moving the mouse or pressing keys, and even odd skips and changes in mouse speed if it's a mouse that is running at 8khz. 8khz is a gimmick plain and simple, 1khz was already more than fast enough considering most games don't run at 1000fps, which would be what they need to do for that 1khz to even be near a limiting factor.

[@justin6581]

How are the Gateron jades worse than the whites? You should have explained why

[@Chyrosran22]

I explained why immediately following that statement :p . They have a shorter analog window.

[@justin6581]

@ I watched this at 3am, maybe I didn’t realize

[@justin6581]

@@Chyrosran22 besides the analog window being shorter, what else?

[@rudivandoornegat2371]

I don't look at keyboards without the 3-split spacebar option

[@shireoryx6153]

AL Lume In Em :)😂

[@Juggernawt]

No ISO so completely irrelevant.

[@mateuszQRDL]

eeeh, no numpad and no serparate numpad on offer. Pity.

[@Chyrosran22]

!! A numpad with a handle! :D

[@mateuszQRDL]

@Chyrosran22 you'd need a sturdier one for the numpad

[@billkillernic]

if it doesn't have a numpad it is a toy not a keyboard

[@Chreative427]

…. It’s for gaming

[@antonygaming4702]

this gamer look is goofy as hell, I don't know what they tried to cook with this one but unless you're 12 years old you can't find this attractive cmon

[@garethsnaim8174]

Looks a bit tacky TBH.

[@beanwithbacon]

@6:08 ESDF > WASD

[@Metalwrath2]

Ahh another keyboard that sounds like wet papertowels.

[@kasimasi6747]

too much crap