Corsair Raptor K30 Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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the bit Phoenix prodig GM is Compact and ready for anything click now to learn
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more welcome to kind of a cheating unboxing this is the Corsair Raptor k30
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I do have a box and there is a keyboard inside but I have definitely already
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taken it out of the box so inside you will find the keyboard of course the
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presentation of yours will be a little bit better cuz your box won't be ripped and your keyboard will be like wrapped
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in plastic or something you also find uh
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a warranty guide as well as a quick start guide but quite frankly if you
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need a quick start guide for a keyboard then here let me help you this is a USB
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port no this isn't a port this is a plug maybe I should check the quick start
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guide no I'm just kidding uh the USB plug goes into the computer and then
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don't worry about it too much beyond that now what does the k30 do
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differently than the other corar keyboards well number one is that it is more value conscious which is to say
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it's cheaper it's less expensive it has membrane key c key caps I did it to Ken
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we lost a previous shot cuz I said key caps it has membrane key switches versus
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mechanical key switches which are what you'll find on Corsair's higher-end keyboards like the k70 or the k95 it
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also has plastic construction so even though You' still got that same two-tone
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sort of sleek looking finish with the black uh with the back black base plate
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and the silver top it is all made of plastic on this particular model and
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you've only got a single color of backlight although at this price it is
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actually kind of nice to see a backlight at all so it has a red backlight with
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six levels of Illumination and it doesn't have quite as many banks of
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macro Keys as some of the higher-end keyboards although I personally find
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this to be enough because particularly if you're gaming on WD can you really
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reach over to a second or a Third Bank of macro keys I kind of doubt it and you
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have three different layers of functionality for them with the m Keys
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up at the top you've got a Windows lock key brightness adjust dedicated key so
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no function nonsense for that you've also got dedicated media keys although I
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really wish that they'd found a way to implement their volume scroll bar
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instead of just volume buttons like they have on their higher end keyboards
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that's kind of unfortunate it is not a 10 keyless model so you have the full
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keyboard layout and if there was one thing that I was going to say is a
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little bit funny about this one uh you've got colorcoded WD which is normal
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but see this the space bar actually has a bit of an angle to it so it is not
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necessarily as optimized for typing where you'd expect the space bar to be
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more flat but it is definitely more comfortable if you have a more relaxed
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WD position on the keyboard this isn't something that Corsair markets but you
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can actually see the entire bottom row has that curvature to it which isn't
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something that you would normally find on a keyboard it does feature anti-
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ghosting technology so while it's not you know n key rollover or anything like
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that uh you're not going to be running into issues normal in in normal use
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where you're pressing buttons and you're having random extra keystrokes generated
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and okay we can flip it around to the bottom where you have rubber feet on the
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bottom uh unfortunately no rubber feet are built into the little standup pieces
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however these two at the bottom are quite large and robust so you shouldn't
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have too much difficulty with that and finally of course there's the onboard
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memory so that means that once you've set up these Advanced macro keys and
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whatever else that you've set up on it you don't have to worry about installing the driver software on any PC that you
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would happen to use it on or if you reformat or whatever else because it
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will be stored on the memory built into the keyboard so thank you for checking
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