it's like I kind of eel sorry diesel was telling me about
moare because he's lamenting my wearing of Stripes but stripes are not the point
of the video today the point of the video today is the Razer Black Widow
ultimate 2013 this is a Cherry MX Blue
fully mechanical keyboard with evidently improved anti- ghosting and backlighting
so it's got a full green backlight it has 10 key rollover which a lot of
people talk about you know how many keys of rollover does a keyboard have okay I
mean I know n key rollover is cool however I would go as far as to say that
unless you're playing two player games at your keyboard with two people I mean
have you ever done that slick he says he's done that but okay I would say that
that's not that common um unless you're playing two player games at your
keyboard with two people with both hands on the keyboard probably you can only
press 10 keys at a time so they have 10 key roll over which means at the very
least although you can't type with your face you can type with both hands
completely at the same time so there you go individually back lit keys and they
look quite bright in Razor's photographs and all that so we're going to make sure
we test that oh I love this okay I've seen this before and I can tell you
right now that it makes a huge huge
difference to the brightness the intensity of the back light when they do
this you see that green back plate behind the keyboard number one is that
should improve the uh how solid it feels does feel quite well constructed
actually let's do the old Flex test so here I'm actually putting pretty much as
much force as I can on it to get it to flex very well constructed so you can
see that right can you see like it's not bending much so that's good um and then
what it also does is it gives the green LEDs behind each key something to
reflect off of which makes the lights much brighter and more vibrant it looks
really really good so i' I've seen this before on the uh quickfire TK from
Cooler Master so let's Okay that's just packaging again razor so good at
packaging all the insides all matte black and coup all right so oh
okay let's just slice that open there we
go so braided cord you can go ahead and check that out wow really good uh really
good non-slip pads on the bottom of the keyboard it's not going anywhere once you put it down I had a hard time moving
it just now so I'll show you guys that in a minute you've also got audio passrs
as well as what appears to be a USB pass through yep so that's for the keyboard
itself it's labeled Port okay then you've got your microphone and
headphones which plug in probably on the side I would think yep there you go
there's your pass through which is positioned correctly for you know I'd love to see someone come out with a
mouse that has a short chord like an apple length chord and that is designed
to be plugged into a keyboard cuz so many gaming keyboards have these port on
them but then you got a mouse that has an 8T long cord on it cuz it's designed
to go down to your PC Razer if you're watching this video I want a short Mouse
cord okay so uh there we go headphone
microphone Port uh wrist rest
symmetrical even I'd say it's not quite
long enough for me personally but if you don't rest your wrists on the keyboard
which you shouldn't which is bad for you then I guess it's going to be just fine
you can hear that sound of the Cherry MX Blues
so these keyboards are not for people who are looking for silence um or
households that are looking for silence if you want that then you're going to
want blacks or Browns uh Blues are quite
quite loud but they have a really great feel for typing and I get a lot of
people asking me this they kind of go oh well lonus you know I uh I you know
which keys are best for for typing and which ones are best for gaming now the
argument could be made that Keys like blacks or Browns are better for gaming
because they don't have that that click that discernable tactile feel
as you're pushing it down personally I like that for gaming I like gaming on a
very tactile keyboard these particular Keys have 50 gr of actuation force so
you can compare that to other keyboards figure out if you like a heavier key or
a lighter key but I like knowing when I've pushed it down and because they're
designed to instantly respond back up I
don't find that the that the that the tactile catch actually makes that much
of a difference for me on the bottom like I said we've got extremely good
grip GPS here and these I love this design of these as well you see how
there's a rubber grip on this side and it goes all the way around to the other side it's a rubber cap which means that
no matter how this keyboard is sitting on the table so you can angle it up
about like that oops I knocked it down there you go it's not going to move
anywhere no matter what you do so really really good stuff programmable Keys
which you can record on the fly so on the Fly macro recording is included
we've got also function keys here so you can use function mute volume down volume
up a u media controls macros game mode
which will turn your Windows key off uh LEDs down LEDs up no LED zones on this
one the whole keyboard lights up personally I've never used an LED Zone
in my life as well as a sleep button let's just see if I've missed anything
while we go find a computer to plug this bad boy into so fully programmable Keys
plus five additional oh oh no oh yeah
Diesel's not really sure what to do so hold on let us figure this
out so we found a computer plugged it in this is
the coolest thing like ever uh check this out so
function 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
is it gone yet 17 18 19 it has like it
has like between 15 and 20 or whatever it is or at least 10 different
brightnesses you can hold it down and go all the way bright all the way dark but
it is extremely customizable in terms of how bright you want want the black widow
ultimate 2013 to be here we're going to go ahead and turn it back on I just want
to show you all the different backlit parts of the keyboard so all the keys are back lit all the little razor logo
at the bottom is backlit and it should be noted this is the only glossy part of this keyboard everything else is a
gorgeous matte black that won't show fingerprints or Cheeto stains or
whatever else is a problem for you at your particular keyboard check this out
so there's your macro record there's your game mode even these lights up here
are completely matte so there's your number lock see check that out so cool
you can't even see it's there until you go ahead and press it so I want to turn the lights off for a minute here and
show you guys what it looks like when things get all romantic in the tech tip
Studio extremely bright backlight which
you know again razor understands not everyone will necessarily like so you
can turn that bad boy down you know to like a just sort of a light glow or you
can turn it all the way down so oh now we can find out how many levels it is 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
14 15 16 1 looks like about 15 so oh
yeah right fully programmable Keys plus
gaming Keys now not everyone's going to agree with having only five gaming Keys
personally I like it because whenever you ever have a huge like block of keys
over here there's no way you're using all of them anyway you can only use a
few I wouldn't have minded having a few profiles for them though so you could have different different sets of them
but remember the synapse 2.0 software has a lot of customization that you can
do on a per application basis as well so I guess razor assuming you're going to
use their their software in order to configure your keyboard so that's
probably a pretty safe assumption so I guess I take it back but the rest of the keys are fully programmable no cardinal
sins have been committed in terms of the overall layout long shifts long
backspace uh correctly positioned controls all that good stuff thank you
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