today we have a product that it seems like everyone and their dog is excited
about this is a mechanical keyboard from Razer this is the Black Widow ultimate
and uh it is a self-described mechanical
gaming keyboard for gamers by Gamers it has a mechanical key architecture for
Superior tactility and faster response
okay it this has fully programmable keys with on the-fly macro recording five
additional gaming keys with individually back key so you can see the whole
keyboard is actually back lit and let's
move around to the side see what it has to say for itself 35 Megs of free hard
disk space PC with USB ports okay so these are pretty pretty tame system
requirements uh we'll move along to oh I want to show you guys this so this is
razer's classification of this particular keyboard This is in their
Elite Series uh so it's one step up from
expert two steps up from essential so it is definitely not essential to have a
keyboard like this but is certainly Elite all right so individually backlick
Keys 10 customizable software profiles with on the-fly Switching easy access
media Keys which will show you in a minute earphone out and microphone in
Jacks built into the keyboard fully programmable Keys 5 plus additional
gaming Keys mechanical key okay so these are gaming optimized key Matrix for
minimized ghosting H okay you know what
if someone can leave a comment on the video and tell me exactly what they mean like that by that that would be
fantastic okay English so one 1,00 Hertz
Ultra pulling so 1 millisecond response time 50 G's 50 grams of actuation force
required for the keys so if you're into mechanical keyboards you probably have
some context for that um more repeats of stuff we've seen already and uh here we
go tactile tap feedback when actuated
optimize actuation force of 50 g rapid
key Snapback after keystroke execution
and a lifespan of up to 50 million keystrokes so there is the benefit of a
mechanical keyboard in a nutshell so
let's break the seal on this guy and have a look at what all the fuss is
about all
right Razer is pretty much the packaging
experts I mean look at this they even got green on the inside of the
box and I always enjoy open opening up
their boxes because they've always kind of they always throw something new at me
so the first thing we see here this is quite obvious is we should take this out
okay all right okay I guess that gives us access to something okay let's take
the take the keyboard out okay well it's
not their best work I've seen better I think their finest was the the Mamba the
Mamba had just a phenomenal
package but the presentation is still quite slick you know you've got your
overall uh completely black interior on
the packaging which always makes everything look higher
performance cuz everyone knows if it's you know you paint it black it goes
faster and all that good stuff okay so
ahead and put that away all right here we go so here's the package for gamers
by Gamers razerzone.com here we go black widow ultimate welcome
to the cult of Razor here is a certificate of authentic
next you have a quick start guide which probably involves instructions like plug
the USB port into the computer uh or plug the USB cable into the port okay
here's a master guide uh probably a number of languages in here yes there
are okay we have a couple of razor stickers and I believe these are UV
reactive last time I checked which is pretty cool as well as a razor product
catalog if you like this one then you can check out some of their other stuff
all right so that's it for included accessories does not come with one of
these fortunately what a brat okay now
let's check out the keyboard itself which I have been quite anxious to have
a look at so first let's see the
included cables going to pull this
plastic sleeve off if I can I can do
that do not cut tape like that at home
quite hazardous okay here we go so the included cables
are two USB so that's probably going to be one for the built-in Hub ah yes there
we go so there's port and then that one's labeled uh razor and then we have
a microphone Jack as well as a headphone jack so that's for the pass throughs
that are coming up through the keyboard which I will have to find at some point
okay and it's not a hub it's just a single port but we'll get to that later
so here are your programmable Keys five of them over here all right here are all
of your back lit keys so you can clearly see the part that is back lit because
it's a slightly different color from anything that's drawn directly on the key so for example uh this character is
not back lit whereas this one is up here
same thing F7 is back lit but this media key thing is not here's all of your
media controls uh built into the F Keys up here now this is an interesting
choice you know what here conveniently I have a steel series 7g which we can use
as a side to side comparison with the black widow since that was kind of the
uh the reigning mechanical gaming keyboard okay so the razor keyboard adds
a few things over the 7g so you got the
backlit Keys which is huge P I personally think that's enormous you've
got the programmable gaming Keys which I also think is a huge advantage and then
let's have a look at what is different between these two so first of all I like
the layout of the Razer keyboard better because of one simple thing and that's
this fullsize backspace key they haven't done anything Goofy with the layout of
the keyboard you've got a fulls size shift you've got a fulls sizee shift
you've got a fulls size backspace key and a uh and a long and a wide enter so
that I like right off the bat here's one that I think is kind of a funny decision
though cuz you look both steel series and razor have included one uh function
key instead of a Windows key so steel series puts theirs here and the fun keys
for accessing the media controls and whatnot whereas Razer has decided to
leave the Windows key here right next to all of your gaming Keys strange decision
and put their function key here so that's the one thing that I
would probably question about the layout although when I'm typing and really
mechanical keyboards are made for typing
I mean most keyboards are made for typing but they really are uh so when
you're typing I'd take that longer backspace over the uh misplacement of
the Windows key any day now you can hear that the keystrokes are quite different
between the 7g and the Black Widow so I want the camera to get really close and
just
listen so you can really hear distinct click to the key on the Black Widow
ultimate and then I want you guys to listen to the
7g so you don't really have that that click so just because there's one
mechanical key switch and another mechanical key switch doesn't mean
they're identical it's worthwhile doing a little bit of research and as I always
tell anyone buying a keyboard you should always find some way to test drive it
before you actually purchase it I like the finish of the Black Widow although I
don't know how fingerprint proof it's going to be but that's just pretty much
something that if you're if you're used to running razor peripherals you're
probably already used to you've got a couple of little legs back here for
tilting the keyboard up should you so desire and then if you don't have those
up you've also got 1 2 3 4 five rubber
pads on the bottom of it to keep it from slipping on this side you find nothing
of note same goes for the back and then
on the other side that's where you find the USB port so that is a single pass
through Port so I'm going to go ahead and assume hopefully I'm not wrong that
it is USB 2.0 which is personally I'd
take that over a USB 1.1 Hub which we find in most keyboards any day and then
we've also got our pass through for the microphone as well as the headphone jack
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