Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,339 words · ~6 min read
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Okay, so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Microsoft Reclusa
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keyboard. Now, you can see here based on the cameraman zooming in on nothing but
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this, that it is powered by Razer and it has Razer hyper response gaming key
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action with customizable gaming controls and profile management. So, what
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Microsoft is saying about this keyboard is that it contains an enhanced English
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104 key layout and it is engineered for
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gaming, which basically means yeah, that's the powered by Razer part because
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Razer makes gaming peripherals and Microsoft makes office peripherals as
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far as I can tell. Mind you, Microsoft has some newer stuff that's pretty cool
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for like gaming products, too. So, here we go. Hyper response key action reduces
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key latency, maximizing response. You got profile management, so you can
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create and store key mapping and macros for each game profile. Blue back lit
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keys for low light conditions. Great. And then two goldplated USB ports. Two.
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Huh. Okay. Great. All right. And then over here we have customizable gaming
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controls with two 360° jog dials, one on each side for
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quick access during heated game play. Then you have four bumper keys, two on
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either side of the keyboard with an easy reach of the standard gaming keys. Now,
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I have to question how these are within reach of any sort of standard gaming key
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because as far as I know, most standard gamers are using these. So, these are in
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reach. Oh, my battery's low. This is going to fail. Okay, so we have six
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hotkeys. One touch of a customized hotkey executes multiple keystrokes in
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place. So, basically, these are macro keys. And I'm not going to open the box
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yet because I can see that the battery is low and I'm going to have to just
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like do a transition here or something. And we're back. So, now we're going to
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actually open the box. There we go. This
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is the unboxing part of the unboxing now that we've already had the product
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overview part of the unboxing. So, there goes the box. And here comes the second
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box. Yeah. Okay. So, the first thing we
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find inside is ah CDs, which we get out
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by doing this. There we go. So, we have
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a Microsoft gaming keyboard with software. Reclus I don't even know what
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this is. Oh, it's a manual. So, you should plug it into the USB port. Uh,
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install the software, configure the keyboard,
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and awesome. Okay. Next, we have the
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contents. The getting Oh, the getting started guide. So, to reduce the risk of
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injury, something about compliance with EU something. Okay. Reclusive gaming
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keyboard driver disc. Do not use this. Download the latest drivers from
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www.razerzone.com. razorone.com. I guess Microsoft would
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probably have the drivers hosted somewhere like on their site too.
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I not sure to be perfectly honest. That's the thing about these hybrid
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products where it's like one company's branding but powered by some other
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company who did probably most of the design work. It's like well like who
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supports it at that point? I guess Microsoft. Ooh, this is nice. It's all
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like it's all leathery and like rubbery
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leathery. You can see I can actually like press it down. That's kind of
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comfy. I'm going to have to try that out before the video is over. It's It's kind
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of a nice wrist rest. Okay. Well, that was fun. Okay. Now, let's get to the
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reclusa keyboard itself. So, this cord
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has to somehow come out of here. And as soon as I get that figured out, I will
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lift the keyboard out of the brown box.
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And then I will take special note of the
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no choke. Do not let your baby take this bag, put it over its head, and then
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throw throw throw away the baby or the Oh, no. They're telling you throw away
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the bag so that the baby doesn't get it. Okay. Awesome. So, we can peel off this.
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So, that's very shiny. Okay. You can see we have the usual shine shot. So, you
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can see how shiny the top of the keyboard is. It's a very weird shape,
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this keyboard. Actually, maybe it'll look a little bit better once we put the
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uh the wrist rest on. But it's like a very like it's seems very oval compared
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to a normal keyboard, which would seem more square. And another thing that I
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notic about it is that it's really heavy compared to most new keyboards, which is
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kind of it's kind of nice because it has that quality feel. Oh, here's a feature
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that I didn't know it had. Check this out. You have cable routing, like cable
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management uh ports all along the bottom of the keyboard. So, you can route a
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bunch of different cables anywhere you want them to go. You looks like you can even take out these little routing
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brackets here, but that prevents the keyboard from being propped up on the
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cable when you flip it over. That's kind of nice. Okay, so we've attached the
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wrist rest and oh, this is stupid. Okay,
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so this wrist rest, you see how it's symmetrical? It would be perfect if my
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hand sat here when I was typing. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this
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picture? No good. Okay. Well, I mean, this is okay, but you can see clearly
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here that my left wrist comes off of the off of the wrist rest, which is too bad
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because it's very comfortable. So, here are all the basic features. We have the
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what appears to be a volume dial here. No, that's not a volume dial. I don't
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know what it is, but it's plus minus there. You can spin the dial. Okay. Then, we have some hot keys here. Then,
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we have those other keys here. And then we have WD. This is all blue back lit
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when you plug it in. It's a fairly standard layout and the keys um there's
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a fair bit of travel and they're a little bit stiff, but I'd say overall they're quite comfortable to type on.
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Not too loud, too, which is nice if you're a late night gamer and there are other people in your house who don't
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like to hear your late night gaming. So, we've got a few more keys over here.
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These look like media eject. They've got a few pre-programmed stuff here. Things
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here. These are your back and forward buttons, which are apparently supposedly
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easily accessible while you're gaming. Now, I'm sure there was something else I
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was going to say about this. Maybe the cameraman can prompt me. Or maybe
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there's nothing. Maybe that was all I had to say about it. Thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and product overview of the Microsoft Reclusive
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keyboard powered by Razer. I finally remember the thing I
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wanted to do. I had mentioned before this keyboard is so heavy, but I pulled
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out my benchmark, my benchmark golden standard for heaviest keyboard ever,
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this like fossilized Model M. And I'm still giving the nod to the Model M,
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both in terms of key switch quality, of course, because it's the best. Oh, don't
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get too close to that. This is This isn't mine. I just received this as a
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handme-down from someone. I'm going to run it through the dishwasher first. I don't even know if I want to admit to
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owning this keyboard, but the point is that it is still heavier than the
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Reclusa.