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description. We're here in the Corsair booth and they're showing off the
K95 RGB. Wait, both of those products already exist. No, this is the K95 RGB
Platinum, which is totally different from the other K95 and K95 RGB. This
one has a piece of plastic inside it from when I dropped it before we
started, but don't tell anybody. It's a It'll be our little secret. There are
also some other differences. So now, in addition to individually RGB backlit
keys, the keyboard now has a logo and a
strip at the top that are, as the kids say, lit, but in RGB. They have also
altered the macro keys on the left, reducing them from 18 to a mere six,
which will disappoint Terran from my team and according to Corsair's market
research, pretty much nobody else. Macro keys. Macro key. Keyboard. Keyboard.
Keyboard. Because most people can't reach any further than the rightmost
column of macro keys while they're gaming. But let me know in the comments
if you guys disagree with that. They've altered the spacebar, putting a textured
finish on it that I personally am really not a huge fan of. But some of the
staples of Corsair's keyboards do remain, including their dedicated media
keys and that nice kind of knurled metal scroll wheel. One big change I am a fan
of that has to do with texture is the wrist rest. It now has either kind of a
dimpled texture on the one side or a more coarse texture on the other side.
It's got a really nice rubberized finish and the whole thing mounts with magnets.
Whichever way you choose to put it on, it feels and looks really premium. You
can't even tell it's reversible until you reverse it and you're like, "Oh, I like this one better." Or, "Oh, I hate
this one. I'm going to put it back." That's not to say that I like everything
about the wrist rest. So, on the bottom, you find a cable management cross for
your uh headphones so that they can run under your keyboard if you like having
your headphone wire come up between your hands while you're gaming. But
unfortunately, the implementation on the bottom of the wrist rest is not as good
as on the rest of the bottom of the keyboard with no clips to hold the wire
in place, meaning that you'll either be constantly fidgeting with it or it might
end up under the rubber stoppers at the bottom causing the wrist rest to move
around a little bit. Another thing I'm not a huge fan of down here is the fact
that they've gone with the cheapo plastic clips for the wrist rest that
inevitably get broken. And given that this is such a nice wrist rest that I'd
love to use forever, I find that a little disappointing. Other than that,
it's got a USB pass through, and there's not really a whole lot else to say
except it's not entirely reliant on software for the RGB lighting anymore.
You got to set it up with Q. But once you do that, it can store up to three
profiles for all your macro settings as well as your lighting effects that you
can switch between with a configurable macro within Q that you can save on the
keyboard. So, the onboard memory has been beefed up
significantly. It'll be available in two different colors, black worldwide and
black and gunmetal in the US. And it's going to be priced at
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