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Castout · 08-12-11, 01:23 AM

Just to give closure to this thread,

I finally received delivery of my Razer Blackwidow.

Since I thought I needed lit characters so I decided to get the ultimate version.

My review is the keyboard itself is well built. It is a joy to type on it. However I tend to mistype from time to time since every keys seem to be shifted to the right. It may take a while. It is soft to type though with a clicky clacky noise and especially loud is the spacebar key. And almost forgot to mention that the response time is phenomenal!!! Now if only I can type with all 10 fingers let see I have to learn to type better with this keyboard.

Now the issue is while it is nice to have a lit key somehow I found blue as a rather distracting and dizzying color. Red might be a better color here to lit the keys. I avoided red lit keys since I thought red was the angry color.
Second the font on some of the keys are ridiculously small making it hard to read at a glance. Last the keyboard comes with 4 plugs: 2 USBs aand single audio and mic jack each. Now that's too many. So now I have more cables dangling unused as there's only a single audio jack at the back and plugging my speaker to the front audio jack would give me a background noise which is not cool while if I plugged the keyboard audio jack into the front jack the speaker would go mute thinking it had a headphone plugged in.

My recommendation is the standard Blackwidow is a good value for the money but it seems the ultimate cannot yet be justified. One for its rather dizzying bluish lit keys and 2 because when unlit everything is harder to see and 3 because LEDs do die out eventually. Here I'm hoping the keys die faster than the LEDs as I need to have them lit all the time while using this keyboard.

Go get Razer Blackwidow standard and only get the ultimate if you just want to burn 50 more bucks. Do not get the Blackwidow however if you share the room with someone else like a room mate or spouse. They'll go insane hearing the clicky clacky.

Ouch I just felt I have wasted 50 for nothing. The lit keys are not working as I thought they would. Maybe red would be a better color. At least my desktop now feels like a pub. Blue lighting is always the color for classy pubs while red is probably well suited for strip clubs. Cough cough.

08-12-11, 01:23 AM	#10
Castout Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Jakarta Posts: 4,794 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 6	Just to give closure to this thread, I finally received delivery of my Razer Blackwidow. Since I thought I needed lit characters so I decided to get the ultimate version. My review is the keyboard itself is well built. It is a joy to type on it. However I tend to mistype from time to time since every keys seem to be shifted to the right. It may take a while. It is soft to type though with a clicky clacky noise and especially loud is the spacebar key. And almost forgot to mention that the response time is phenomenal!!! Now if only I can type with all 10 fingers let see I have to learn to type better with this keyboard. Now the issue is while it is nice to have a lit key somehow I found blue as a rather distracting and dizzying color. Red might be a better color here to lit the keys. I avoided red lit keys since I thought red was the angry color. Second the font on some of the keys are ridiculously small making it hard to read at a glance. Last the keyboard comes with 4 plugs: 2 USBs aand single audio and mic jack each. Now that's too many. So now I have more cables dangling unused as there's only a single audio jack at the back and plugging my speaker to the front audio jack would give me a background noise which is not cool while if I plugged the keyboard audio jack into the front jack the speaker would go mute thinking it had a headphone plugged in. My recommendation is the standard Blackwidow is a good value for the money but it seems the ultimate cannot yet be justified. One for its rather dizzying bluish lit keys and 2 because when unlit everything is harder to see and 3 because LEDs do die out eventually. Here I'm hoping the keys die faster than the LEDs as I need to have them lit all the time while using this keyboard. Go get Razer Blackwidow standard and only get the ultimate if you just want to burn 50 more bucks. Do not get the Blackwidow however if you share the room with someone else like a room mate or spouse. They'll go insane hearing the clicky clacky. Ouch I just felt I have wasted 50 for nothing. The lit keys are not working as I thought they would. Maybe red would be a better color. At least my desktop now feels like a pub. Blue lighting is always the color for classy pubs while red is probably well suited for strip clubs. Cough cough. __________________ My blog: http://exposingsingapore.wordpress.com/ Last edited by Castout; 08-12-11 at 01:43 AM.