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learn more. By popular demand, actually only one person asked for this unboxing,
but I was going to do it anyway. So, there you go. My unboxing of the Razer
Tarteus game pad, whatever you want to
call these things. Basically, Razer has
taken the Orb Weaver, which is their mechanical gaming device. There you go.
So, it's kind of a a keyboard replacement. So, you still use your
mouse and your mouse hand, and then you use this in what would typically be your
keyboard hand, but it is completely optimized for gaming. This is now a
membrane version, so it is a lowerriced version of a very similar sort of
concept as the Orb Weaver. So, let's go ahead and open this bad boy up and have
a look at what are the key differences. So, just like the orb weaver, it is
backlit. They have made some changes to the ergonomics and unlike the Nostromo
which was an existing product, okay, they have made some new ergonomic tweaks
as well. So, the Tarteus is fully
integrated with Razer's Synapse 2.0 software, which means all of the 25
buttons on it are fully programmable. I do think their marketing for this
product is a touch deceptive on the to to put it sort of completely honestly
though because what Razer says is 25 fully programmable keys and eightway
thumb pad. The eight-way thumb pad is actually included in the 25 programmable
keys. So I'll show you where all of them are if you want guys want to check this out. So there's 15 here just like that.
So here's where your WD fingers would typically go. You've got a nice
convenient bump right there in the center so you can find your way back to it easily. The backlight is implemented
in a very different way compared to the orb weaver where the each key is
individually backlight. So you can see there's quite a bit of spill through from the back which some people will
find more attractive and others will find less attractive. Okay, so there's
your 15 keys. Then you've got eight more here. So this is
an you can probably actually hear those clicks. That's an eightway thumb sort of
joystick button. You've got an additional button here and an additional
one here. So that's 15 + 10 is 25. You
can actually switch between eight different profiles on the fly. And each
of these buttons is completely customizable and remappable using
Synapse 2.0. You just have to set it up one time and then you can use it online
or offline whichever you prefer. You can have an unlimited number of game
profiles and you can have unlimited length macros which I find to be a very
very attractive feature. Now unlike the Orbw Weaver, the Tardus doesn't feature
quite the same degree of customizability. So pretty much all you
can do is take the wrist rest and move it up and down like this. So there's a
little key right here that allows you to go ahead and move that back and forth.
On the orb weaver, we saw a bit of a higherend implementation of this
functionality where there's a metal skeleton on the bottom of it. And then
you can actually move here you go the thumb piece out here. You could move the
bottom piece out and backwards. And then you could hold on. Let's see if I can
get that. Yeah, there you go. So you could move this piece and you could actually unlock this rest right here
which had a nice rubberized grip to it. Much the same as the Death Adder 2013
edition. This one uses more of a soft touch feel overall and is quite a bit
lighter as well. But one thing that I like that Razor's improved over the Orb
Weaver is it has a gorgeous braided cord that just feels more durable. And this
might seem like a trivial thing to you, but if you have cats, braided cables are
a godsend. I have had cables that were on the brink of destruction and if it
wasn't for the braiding, they wouldn't have made it. Now, Razer's branding for
this is infinite possibilities, and I see where they're coming from because in
addition to the unlimited profiles and the 15 buttons over here, you can
actually use the 8-way pad over here as
a modifier. Now, I personally would probably still end up using WD as
opposed to this 8-way pad, even though I understand why people might want to use
this for movement, then they have access to more spells or macros or whatever
else. So, you can kind of use it however you want. But, this is very appealing to
me, using this as a modifier for what you're doing. So, if you use this as WD,
then you could actually map eight different functions to the 10 key here,
for example, by holding it this way and pressing it this way and pressing it
this way, etc., etc., and so on. This makes this not only useful from a gaming
standpoint, but I've also you heard of even creative professionals using these
kinds of devices as a as a quick hotkey
device that actually sits next to their keyboard and you can use in things like Photoshop, for example. It works on
Windows or Mac, so whichever you prefer is just fine by Razer. And in terms of
ergonomics, I'd say if you have smaller hands, you're going to find the Tartarus
more comfortable by default than the Orb Weaver, even at the Orb Weaver's
smallest setting. So, I'm going to go ahead and adjust this one back down. I
did find it to be a little bit on the big side for me. So, you can see that
because it has a larger key matrix. Actually, I'll put the Tarteus in front.
So, it has a larger key matrix there. There just wasn't much that I could
reach with my smaller hands and it expands very nicely for people with
large hands. So, go with the Tardus with its MX Blue or go with the Orb Weaver
with its MX Blue switches if you have larger hands or if you prefer mechanical
switches, which many many gamers do. Or if you want something that uses membrane
caps, so you can hear, much
quieter, very different tactile experience. Or if you have smaller hands
or or whatever else the case may be, Razer's got a couple of different options for you. Thank you for checking
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Would you rather just use your keyboard? I mean, Corsair tried to implement
something with the Vengeance K60 where they added like a little addition to the
keyboard that was like a little wrist rest thing, but I don't think anyone ever actually ended up using it because
I think everyone who cared about that was already using something like this. So, so what do you prefer? I actually
don't think I ever mentioned the large rubber grippy pads on the bottom. Those
are excellent. Uh I don't know if they had Yeah, very similar to the ones on
the Orb Waver actually.