Anandtech.com - Razer BWU Review

[Michael]

They also LOL at the switches.


http://www.anandtech.com/show/7911/razer-blackwidow-ultimate-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-review

[rowdy]

"A few weeks ago, Razer announced that they have developed their own all-new mechanical switches, ..."

So these switches are not just copies or rebadged versions of those other switches?

[Razor Lotus]

The 3rd page on the switches pretty much sums up what is already being said in the thread on razer switches...

[SpAmRaY]

The 3rd page on the switches pretty much sums up what is already being said in the thread on razer switches...

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=55578.0

In case anyone missed the thread referenced.

[Findecanor]

One thing I think weird is that Razer claims that the keyboard has 10-key rollover... eh.. 6 arbitrary keys + 4 modifiers, right?

[Grendel]

10 KRO is somewhat odd since the boot protocol is 6 KRO + 8 mods (left and right shift, alt, ctrl, gui), Razer would claim this to be 14 KRO.

[gigibecali]

Take down the switches from that price tag and you have a huge incentive to market them aggressively

[jacobolus]

10 key rollover, in theory, means that, at least, any arbitrary 10 keys can be held down at once and still properly register. I’m not quite sure how you’d get 10 key rollover but not n-key though. It would be worth asking Razer what they mean, assuming someone could get through their marketing department to the engineers.

[Razor Lotus]

i feel like razer is that kid who can't really make it in life but gets everything he wants cause he has rich parents and is brought up with a silver spoon with all that advertising and marketing surrounding it while the rest of the keyboards like those we like in this forum are like the rest of us who have to work hard to get what we want and rely on our own merits to succeed as we don't have the marketing team of razer...

such is life...

[SpAmRaY]

i feel like razer is that kid who can't really make it in life but gets everything he wants cause he has rich parents and is brought up with a silver spoon with all that advertising and marketing surrounding it while the rest of the keyboards like those we like in this forum are like the rest of us who have to work hard to get what we want and rely on our own merits to succeed as we don't have the marketing team of razer...

such is life...

I'd say there are plenty silver spoons here as well  )

[rowdy]

Razer is the Microsoft of the keyboard world?

[gigibecali]

Razer is the Microsoft of the keyboard world?

Sort of. That is a good thing. Over time Microsoft improved though.

[Findecanor]

10 key rollover, in theory, means that, at least, any arbitrary 10 keys can be held down at once and still properly register.

Maybe they are using a 16-byte extended report with a 10-byte array for ten arbitrary keys, a three-byte bitfield for the media keys, a byte for LEDs, a byte for modifiers and a byte for report ID, makes 16.
... but who am I kidding, this is Razer we are talking about and they are probably lying.

[rowdy]

Razer is the Microsoft of the keyboard world?

Sort of. That is a good thing. Over time Microsoft improved though.

Over-priced second-rate over-hyped junk pushed down our throats with no other option?

That is GOOD??