The Corsair K95 Platinum Drops
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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description. We're here in the Corsair booth and they're showing off the
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K95 RGB. Wait, both of those products already exist. No, this is the K95 RGB
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Platinum, which is totally different from the other K95 and K95 RGB. This
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one has a piece of plastic inside it from when I dropped it before we
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started, but don't tell anybody. It's a It'll be our little secret. There are
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also some other differences. So now, in addition to individually RGB backlit
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keys, the keyboard now has a logo and a
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strip at the top that are, as the kids say, lit, but in RGB. They have also
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altered the macro keys on the left, reducing them from 18 to a mere six,
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which will disappoint Terran from my team and according to Corsair's market
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research, pretty much nobody else. Macro keys. Macro key. Keyboard. Keyboard.
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Keyboard. Because most people can't reach any further than the rightmost
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column of macro keys while they're gaming. But let me know in the comments
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if you guys disagree with that. They've altered the spacebar, putting a textured
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finish on it that I personally am really not a huge fan of. But some of the
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staples of Corsair's keyboards do remain, including their dedicated media
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keys and that nice kind of knurled metal scroll wheel. One big change I am a fan
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of that has to do with texture is the wrist rest. It now has either kind of a
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dimpled texture on the one side or a more coarse texture on the other side.
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It's got a really nice rubberized finish and the whole thing mounts with magnets.
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Whichever way you choose to put it on, it feels and looks really premium. You
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can't even tell it's reversible until you reverse it and you're like, "Oh, I like this one better." Or, "Oh, I hate
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this one. I'm going to put it back." That's not to say that I like everything
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about the wrist rest. So, on the bottom, you find a cable management cross for
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your uh headphones so that they can run under your keyboard if you like having
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your headphone wire come up between your hands while you're gaming. But
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unfortunately, the implementation on the bottom of the wrist rest is not as good
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as on the rest of the bottom of the keyboard with no clips to hold the wire
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in place, meaning that you'll either be constantly fidgeting with it or it might
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end up under the rubber stoppers at the bottom causing the wrist rest to move
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around a little bit. Another thing I'm not a huge fan of down here is the fact
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that they've gone with the cheapo plastic clips for the wrist rest that
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inevitably get broken. And given that this is such a nice wrist rest that I'd
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love to use forever, I find that a little disappointing. Other than that,
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it's got a USB pass through, and there's not really a whole lot else to say
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except it's not entirely reliant on software for the RGB lighting anymore.
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You got to set it up with Q. But once you do that, it can store up to three
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profiles for all your macro settings as well as your lighting effects that you
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can switch between with a configurable macro within Q that you can save on the
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keyboard. So, the onboard memory has been beefed up
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significantly. It'll be available in two different colors, black worldwide and
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black and gunmetal in the US. And it's going to be priced at
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