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Title: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: missalaire on Tue, 04 June 2013, 21:55:12

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7027/computex-2013-rosewill

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: Glod on Tue, 04 June 2013, 22:03:57

so it's basically a Christmas themed 9000 series with a CMStorm style win-lock?  ;) "all i want for Christmas is my mini-usb plug not to rip off the board."

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 04 June 2013, 22:05:52

I like the "rise" case..

But I am Not all up for WIB setups, because theres too much plastic in the tubing, IN WHICH you can not clamp without the risk of cracking.

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: rootwyrm on Tue, 04 June 2013, 22:13:13

It's a Costar "Day2" which comes from Costar with the red/green two color system. Either that or it's a reverse engineered knockoff - the Day2's been around for at least a year now, and it would not surprise me if Newegg was stealing other people's work.

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: alaricljs on Tue, 04 June 2013, 22:23:21

The article made it seem like it was fixed red/green in those locations.  But yeah, saw Costar's example a few months back.

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 04 June 2013, 23:52:27

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.....

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: missalaire on Thu, 06 June 2013, 11:05:52

An article on it including more pics of their new keyboards and a Rosewill Mini RK-9100 (TKL) keyboard.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/rosewill-new-mechanical-keyboards

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 06 June 2013, 11:32:38

As far as it seems it is also costar made just like the original rk9000 so more or less just a backlight version of that really. More interested in that neutron case really. Only hard to tell if it can have 2x 4 hdd racks side by side. If so it could be a rather nice home server case. Even if not still pretty good storage wise for many people with 4x 3TB drives.

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: alaricljs on Thu, 06 June 2013, 11:33:56

The Mini RK-9100 has a gloss/semi-gloss case?  :(  That's one way to avoid people that want it for the case and switches ;)

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: Hyde on Thu, 06 June 2013, 13:22:37

The Mini RK-9100 appears to be a rebrand of Tex Keyboard.  And it's aluminum casing on the outside.

Though didn't they already showcase RK-9200 last year?  Are they just gonna keep showcasing it and never release it?  (Look up Rosewill Helios RK-9200)

As for the red and green led I think that's sorta like the limitation with dual colour LED technology.  Hopefully they'll be able to do either blue/white or blue/red later.  Or just blue.... to be honestly I don't care about the other colours LOL.

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: alaricljs on Thu, 06 June 2013, 13:56:53

Um no... The mini-9100 is the TKL, the Micro RK-9000 is the Tex.

Just look at the pics!  http://blog.laptopmag.com/rosewill-new-mechanical-keyboards

Title: Re: Rosewill RK-9200 Previewed
Post by: Hyde on Thu, 06 June 2013, 14:30:26

Ahhh my bad, but I see how it is now.  lol the Mini-9100 even has the same LED location as the Filco.  But yeah I wonder why they go the glossy route.

Haven't they learn from Das and Razer not to use gloss surface?  I mean even Razer has corrected that ever since.