But it has an "awesome host of features" !!!
So what is it about this keyboard that sucks?
Maybe I'll post a review or something.
I picked this up somewhere where it was listed as an open box for like $59 or so. I thought it looked kind of cool, and I was kind of wondering if the keys had scissor switches underneath them, as they're very low set.
The large keys -- tab especially -- are
very sensitive to being hit at an angle. I use tab alot to do completion/indenting/task switcher, and the tab key sticks ALL THE TIME. I want to tear this stupid thing off. I'll hit it at an angle, and it'll just kind of twist outwards.
The LED backlighting, which is probably why people think it's so cool, is seriously weak. You can hardly see the letters on them at all. Weak blue light + black = really hard on the eyes. For people who aren't touch typists, this board would be largely useless. It doesn't bother me that much, but it certainly underwhelms.
And really, other than blue LED backlighting and a shiny black finish, it's basically the same as every other crappy rubber dome keyboard. There's some kind of media keys in the top corner, but they aren't really keys -- just blue backlit symbols on a touch-sensitive area. The charming thing about this feature is that the backlight is so weak that you can't see them if your face is more than about 10 inches from them.
It's pure USB, and has a USB port on the back -- but it's one of those ones that needs a separate USB plug to do the pass through. That is, it's basically a keyboard and a USB extension cable. It also has mic and headphone extension cables, which I guess is useful? Apparently there's some kind of onboard memory that the Razer software uses to do cool stuff for programmable use in games, as well? So the software that came with it might add value to people who don't actually use the keyboard for typing.
I dunno, I can't even see this being that awesome for gaming. The weak backlight kills it for that -- it usually takes a while to touch type a set of game commands in the same way as normal typing.
OTOH, if you turn the backlight off, you have a cheap and crappy DIY Das keyboard that you'll hate typing on.
Probably the only good thing about the keyboard is that the keys have an interesting rubberized coating on them that I don't recall seeing elsewhere.