However, this downsizing has not affected the quality of the product as much as you might think. About a foot and a half from the end this breaks up into two USB plugs and microphone and headphone plugs for the audio pass-through.The Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition is a smaller keyboard made with tournament buffs and LAN party goers in mind, by reducing the size of the keyboard to make it more portable. Most of the cord is a thick single cord with a heavy duty black sleeving. The keys look to be a standard/OEM profile with a flat backplane. On the longer function keys you get Filco style stabilizers. 40mm thick, standard for a keyboard like this. Razer stuck with the transparent white key with a painted flat black finish and the letter etched out. Nothing new with the keycaps on the Chroma. They also changed the metal backplate color from green to a white that will react better with the RGB lighting.
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For the Chroma they did make one very big change though, the LEDs are full RGB where the old switches just had a green LED. These have a Razer specified actuation point and the Razer green color. They have Razer branding on them and a slightly different design than the normal Kailh Cherry knockoff. They introduced these with the 2014 Blackwidow. The feet also have rubber on the ends for traction when angled.įor switches Razer is sticking with their Kailh made switches. The keyboard design has a natural angle already, but if you need more they did include flip up feet. The bottom of the Blackwidow Chroma has four small rubber pads, one in each corner. I rarely use anything like this, pass-throughs tend to cut down on audio quality at times.
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This is just a pass-through design so you have to plug the microphone and headphone plugs into your soundcard in your PC to get them working. The right side of the board does have a single USB 2.0 port along with a microphone and headphone plug. They did put a heavy duty rubber guard around the cord to prevent any kinking.
The cord is permanent and runs into the middle of the board. The back of the Blackwidow doesn’t have anything going on, just an extension of the flat black finish on the top of the keyboard. Razer lets you control this with the Chroma, allowing people who want a clean look to dim or turning it off all together or if you want you can set it to a different color. It isn’t bad in all cases, but when you start looking at W, E, and M they all look exactly the same just turned.ĭown on the bottom is a small glossy area where the Razer logo lights up. The Chroma has the same hard to read font as normal. For media keys you have to use a function key but you have volume controls in the F1-F3 keys, media controls in F5-F7, and lighting controls in F9-F12.
For people who don’t use the macro keys this isn’t enough to get in your way as well. This is enough programmability for most people without going overboard and making the keyboard to wide. Like I mentioned before, Razer stuck with the same 5 macro key design that they have always had on their Blackwidows. If Razer went with a little less aggressive font I think it would really help finish off the clean look. In fact when you look with the lighting off there isn’t any branding showing or for that matter you can’t even see the number/scroll LEDs. When you compare it to a lot of the other gaming keyboards it layout is a lot cleaner and to the point. The look of the Blackwidow isn’t for everyone, especially people who prefer a clean non gaming styling. The Chroma has a standard key layout with the exception of the five macro keys on the left side and the Razer specific function key media controls. You still get the same flat black finish, Razer styling, and “gaming” font. Without everything powered on, there really isn’t any difference between the Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Chroma and the Blackwidow Ultimate 2014.
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