Razer Lycosa Mirror Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I'm going to be having a look at the Razer lycosa mirror special
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edition so this is a backlit gaming keyboard and the biggest difference as
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far as I can tell between the lycosa and the lycosa mirror special edition is
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that it has a high gloss mirror finish
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on the hyper response Keys okay backlight illumination macro
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programmable gaming Keys that's very cool let's have a look at the back and
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we'll see what they are listing in terms of specs so it is a plastic key top
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okay it is a three simultaneous key
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presses is the uh the the anti- ghosting features that it has oh no this is
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stupid I'm reading the versus a standard laptop one okay now this is a high gloss
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mirror finish key top selective anti- ghosting gaming cluster okay so the
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anti- ghosting gaming cluster is around all of the gaming keys that you would
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typically use and you can see one of the backlight features that they have around
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that gaming cluster is that you can backlight only the gaming Keys like the
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WD okay other cool stuff they have a touch panel media Keys which um is kind
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of like what they have on the moo speakers it's all like touch sensitive
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it's very cool and then they have an integrated USB exension extension Port
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earphone out microphone in Jacks that's always kind of nice to see as well all
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right what else do we have here 1,000 HZ
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Ultra pulling okay that's enough of the Box let's open this thing up and have a
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look because ultimately that's what matters more than anything else about a
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keyboard is how good it feels when you're trying to type and or game on it
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so let's get this baby open I love Razor's packaging like just the black
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look with the green accents on it and the shiny box it's very nice anyway yeah
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see this this is what I'm talking about this is awesome packaging awesome
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presentation okay you got your razor logo so let's see what we have included
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here first of all the razor guy is saying this thing is really good and
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then we have the accessory package here so for gamers by Gamers let's get this
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open and to find out what we have inside all right if I could pull this
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stuff out then that would work a lot better so we have an certificate of
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authenticity in both English and French we have the quick start guide which
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shows you how to plug a keyboard into a computer okay that's awesome then we
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have the master guide which is a much longer version of how to plug a keyboard
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into a computer probably shows you how to configure the software all the little
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things like that tells you all the little cool stuff about this keyboard in
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English and French very nice uh we have a little cloth for cleaning your
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keyboard that's really good because for I guarantee this thing's a fingerprint
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magnet couple of razor stickers and a razor product catalog so it's got a
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bunch of the other stuff that razor cells very cool all right let's get this
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mid play out here and let's have a look at the keyboard wow this is like a huge
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box how am I supposed to get at this okay so in terms of plugs here we go we
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have one USB interface for the keyboard itself one for the Hub okay or the
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extension and then we have a head phone and microphone Jack that go around to
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the back of your computer and this is a really neat feature that I really like
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to see I mean what makes a keyboard a gaming keyboard unless it has something
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that optimizes it for a gaming experience so it means that you can take
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your your headset and you can plug it around into your keyboard so that it's
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not hanging down across your keyboard into the back of the computer very very
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handy so here's the back of the keyboard let's look at that first there is
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nothing exceptional about it whatsoever you've got a couple of these tilty
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things awesome okay let's go around to the front so that is the lycosa mirror
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now I have to confess I was expecting more of a mirror and less of a dark
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mirror but this is really nice looking too so it's got a highly highly glossy
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black finish over all of the keys you can see through down to where the back
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light comes from okay so that's a clear that's a clear spot on every single key
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and in terms of typing it's not very loud actually I'm going to
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stop talking for a second so that you can get some idea how loud the keys are
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in terms of comfort it's hard to gauge very quickly but they have a very
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sensible layout to this keyboard they haven't done anything stupid that would
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interfere with gaming like shortening your left shift key or that would
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interfere with typing like shortening the backspace key over here so they've
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got a proper proper layout and I think
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I'm pretty much done talking about the keyboard why don't we do just a couple
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more close-up shots I'll get the cameraman to kind of have a look down
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the keyboard here so you can see just how shiny this thing is I mean check out
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check out my hand in the reflection that is one shiny keyboard surface thank you
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for checking out my unboxing of the Razer laosa mirror gaming keyboard