Lopping off the numpad gives you a few more inches of desk real estate for your mouse hand along with improved ergonomics

The only problem is that well, sometimes you've really do miss those buttons

Fortunately the good people at Chassepot have come up with a sensible solution

Why not take all those keys over there and move them over there?

How did nobody think of this before?

So here it is the Chassepot C1000

A beautiful 114 key keyboard with an innovative design that I love

and hate

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Chassepot, a company apparently named by someone who's really into 19th-century French rifles

says the C1000 design was guided by three principles.

respecting users input habits,

reducing finger travel and twisting,

and increasing efficiency with shortcut keys.

At least that's what I think this sentence is trying to say

but there are some problems here, like that the first two principles happen

To be in direct conflict with one another.

for example

One of the most dramatic breaks from convention on this layout

aside from having the numpad,

function keys and

most of the navigation keys up top here

is the decision to move the arrow keys to the left side of the board.

Now they claimed that they did this for gamers

But in reality, I think they just had nowhere else to put them,

not only do these buttons offer

no clear advantage over WASD

Which happened to also be surrounded by useful keys for your pinky and your thumb to strike

but their placement here really screws up regular old typing.

That's the exact thing they said they weren't going to do.

because the up key is between the Z and Shift keys, which are normally neighbors

It is super easy to accidentally move your cursor mid-sentence

Especially if you're coming from an ortho linear layout like the ergo docks,

which you can check it over here

and if you're really unlucky

You'll also hit shift at the same time as up highlighting and then overwriting everything you just typed

But wait

There's more, now that there's three arrow keys on the bottom row some other buttons had to move

Like the Windows key get the f**k out of here

You're going to the left of the tab now

Now that one actually doesn't bother me too much because at least it's still accessible with the pinkie key

which I already use to strike it

but it is going to mess with any muscle memory that you've built up for windows hotkeys

As will the slightly increased distance between left ctrl and the alphabet keys like

Sacrebleu Chassepot

Pourquoi m'envoies tu ça, si tu sais que le rarssourie ne fonctionnons pas

There's also some changes for the right hand,

They actually shortened the spacebar and added a second backspace key next to it for some reason

and then they went put delete over here too - instead of function, which is

Super-sized and way the crap, ah, yes up here because of that. They had to move the tilde key putting it

Where the question mark should be and again moving shift further away.

Honestly Chassepot,

I'm starting to feel like this was designed by someone who's only ever read about keyboards in a book

now in fairness, at least you can remap almost all of the keys

in the fairly robust Chassepot Power Console software

almost

so these extra switches look like

Remappable macro buttons that just happen to be set by default to

show desktop

file explorer

and task manager

Unfortunately, they along with the lock screen button

And this nifty double zero key are the only buttons that you may not remap

basically the exact buttons that you'd be most likely to want to remap are the ones that you

Cannot remap. Now to be clear over time

I could probably get used to all these little quirks and changes but they raise an important question. Why should I bother?

Okay, so here's why. The C1000 is a pretty sweet keyboard

The UV coated key caps are made of ABS plastic with a laser etched legend that looks techy without being over-the-top. The round corners

thin bezels and the integrated carry handle

give it a sleek geek chic look and the steel top plate precludes any kind of dec flex and

and gives the C1000 a comfortable weight of

1022 grams also comfortable by the way this hoody

head to lttstore.com and get it on your skin ASAP. Now the board is available in two versions

the C1000 go has a white LED backlight and blue Outemu switches while the pro is full RGB with your choice of blue red

Or brown switches the instruction manual mentions that Cherry MX switches are available

But apparently that's only if you email support wait 20 business days

And pay an extra $50 and that's a pretty challenging thing because for 50 bucks

This G.skill KM 360 10 keyless with Cherry MX switches is available. We actually have one in the mail right now

So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that review

Another advantage of the C1000 though is that it can be paired wirelessly over Bluetooth to up to 3 devices

thanks to its 1860 milliamp hour lithium-ion battery which Chassepot claims will last for 90 hours with the backlight off or

fifteen hours with RGB blasting full pony power the keyboard charges in three-and-a-half hours via USB type-c

But if you're not into that, you can also just operate it in Wired mode to take advantage of its USB pass-through

So should you buy this keyboard then?

Honestly

I'm pretty disappointed by Chassepot's decision to place some buttons in a way that prevents this product from being

Completely plug and play with a minimal learning curve. They said that was one of their goals, but to me what it looks like

Is they prioritized having a sleek-looking

symmetrical keyboard layout so they like put all the keys on in a cool attractive way and then

decided which keys did what I mean, why else would they do something like

Separating the home and end keys and making one of them twice as big. Next there's the price

$200 actually, isn't that steep for a wireless?

Mechanical full RGB keyboard, especially from a young company that's producing small runs, but it does sting a little that

We're not getting cherry switches at that price. I think even a drop of just

Twenty dollars would make it a little less top-heavy

And then at that point if you can get past its shortcomings it is a well made keyboard in a form factor

That makes sense on the desk and it will definitely turn heads at your next LAN party

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