Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2013 Mechanical Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,669 words · ~8 min read
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it's like I kind of eel sorry diesel was telling me about
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moare because he's lamenting my wearing of Stripes but stripes are not the point
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of the video today the point of the video today is the Razer Black Widow
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ultimate 2013 this is a Cherry MX Blue
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fully mechanical keyboard with evidently improved anti- ghosting and backlighting
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so it's got a full green backlight it has 10 key rollover which a lot of
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people talk about you know how many keys of rollover does a keyboard have okay I
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mean I know n key rollover is cool however I would go as far as to say that
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unless you're playing two player games at your keyboard with two people I mean
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have you ever done that slick he says he's done that but okay I would say that
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that's not that common um unless you're playing two player games at your
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keyboard with two people with both hands on the keyboard probably you can only
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press 10 keys at a time so they have 10 key roll over which means at the very
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least although you can't type with your face you can type with both hands
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completely at the same time so there you go individually back lit keys and they
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look quite bright in Razor's photographs and all that so we're going to make sure
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we test that oh I love this okay I've seen this before and I can tell you
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right now that it makes a huge huge
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difference to the brightness the intensity of the back light when they do
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this you see that green back plate behind the keyboard number one is that
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should improve the uh how solid it feels does feel quite well constructed
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actually let's do the old Flex test so here I'm actually putting pretty much as
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much force as I can on it to get it to flex very well constructed so you can
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see that right can you see like it's not bending much so that's good um and then
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what it also does is it gives the green LEDs behind each key something to
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reflect off of which makes the lights much brighter and more vibrant it looks
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really really good so i' I've seen this before on the uh quickfire TK from
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Cooler Master so let's Okay that's just packaging again razor so good at
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packaging all the insides all matte black and coup all right so oh
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okay let's just slice that open there we
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go so braided cord you can go ahead and check that out wow really good uh really
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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
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it just now so I'll show you guys that in a minute you've also got audio passrs
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as well as what appears to be a USB pass through yep so that's for the keyboard
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itself it's labeled Port okay then you've got your microphone and
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headphones which plug in probably on the side I would think yep there you go
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there's your pass through which is positioned correctly for you know I'd love to see someone come out with a
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mouse that has a short chord like an apple length chord and that is designed
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to be plugged into a keyboard cuz so many gaming keyboards have these port on
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them but then you got a mouse that has an 8T long cord on it cuz it's designed
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to go down to your PC Razer if you're watching this video I want a short Mouse
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cord okay so uh there we go headphone
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microphone Port uh wrist rest
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symmetrical even I'd say it's not quite
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long enough for me personally but if you don't rest your wrists on the keyboard
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which you shouldn't which is bad for you then I guess it's going to be just fine
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you can hear that sound of the Cherry MX Blues
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so these keyboards are not for people who are looking for silence um or
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households that are looking for silence if you want that then you're going to
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want blacks or Browns uh Blues are quite
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quite loud but they have a really great feel for typing and I get a lot of
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people asking me this they kind of go oh well lonus you know I uh I you know
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which keys are best for for typing and which ones are best for gaming now the
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argument could be made that Keys like blacks or Browns are better for gaming
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because they don't have that that click that discernable tactile feel
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as you're pushing it down personally I like that for gaming I like gaming on a
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very tactile keyboard these particular Keys have 50 gr of actuation force so
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you can compare that to other keyboards figure out if you like a heavier key or
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a lighter key but I like knowing when I've pushed it down and because they're
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designed to instantly respond back up I
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don't find that the that the that the tactile catch actually makes that much
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of a difference for me on the bottom like I said we've got extremely good
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grip GPS here and these I love this design of these as well you see how
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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
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no matter how this keyboard is sitting on the table so you can angle it up
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about like that oops I knocked it down there you go it's not going to move
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anywhere no matter what you do so really really good stuff programmable Keys
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which you can record on the fly so on the Fly macro recording is included
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we've got also function keys here so you can use function mute volume down volume
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up a u media controls macros game mode
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which will turn your Windows key off uh LEDs down LEDs up no LED zones on this
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one the whole keyboard lights up personally I've never used an LED Zone
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in my life as well as a sleep button let's just see if I've missed anything
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while we go find a computer to plug this bad boy into so fully programmable Keys
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plus five additional oh oh no oh yeah
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Diesel's not really sure what to do so hold on let us figure this
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out so we found a computer plugged it in this is
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the coolest thing like ever uh check this out so
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function 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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is it gone yet 17 18 19 it has like it
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has like between 15 and 20 or whatever it is or at least 10 different
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brightnesses you can hold it down and go all the way bright all the way dark but
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it is extremely customizable in terms of how bright you want want the black widow
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ultimate 2013 to be here we're going to go ahead and turn it back on I just want
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to show you all the different backlit parts of the keyboard so all the keys are back lit all the little razor logo
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at the bottom is backlit and it should be noted this is the only glossy part of this keyboard everything else is a
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gorgeous matte black that won't show fingerprints or Cheeto stains or
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whatever else is a problem for you at your particular keyboard check this out
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so there's your macro record there's your game mode even these lights up here
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are completely matte so there's your number lock see check that out so cool
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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
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show you guys what it looks like when things get all romantic in the tech tip
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Studio extremely bright backlight which
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you know again razor understands not everyone will necessarily like so you
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can turn that bad boy down you know to like a just sort of a light glow or you
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can turn it all the way down so oh now we can find out how many levels it is 1
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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14 15 16 1 looks like about 15 so oh
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yeah right fully programmable Keys plus
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gaming Keys now not everyone's going to agree with having only five gaming Keys
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personally I like it because whenever you ever have a huge like block of keys
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over here there's no way you're using all of them anyway you can only use a
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few I wouldn't have minded having a few profiles for them though so you could have different different sets of them
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but remember the synapse 2.0 software has a lot of customization that you can
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do on a per application basis as well so I guess razor assuming you're going to
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use their their software in order to configure your keyboard so that's
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probably a pretty safe assumption so I guess I take it back but the rest of the keys are fully programmable no cardinal
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sins have been committed in terms of the overall layout long shifts long
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backspace uh correctly positioned controls all that good stuff thank you
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