#Blackwidow chroma professional#

You can channel the nice braided USB cable from the left, front, or right of the keyboard, depending on where your computer or USB hub sits.

Underneath are two retractable legs that give the BlackWidow X Chroma a higher angle if you need it and there’s a cable management system underneath. Other than that, they are the same with the function keys doubling up as media controls and some toggles for some other functions. The layout of the keys are identical with the BlackWidow Chroma minus the five programmable keys on the left side. It’s definitely got some heft to it and it feels really well constructed. Even with the removal of the top plate, the BlackWidow X Chroma feels incredibly solid. It makes the keyboard have a more minimalistic look if you are into that sort of thing. The removal of this plate exposes a lot more of the keys themselves. Looking at the BlackWidow X Chroma, you can see it’s the Chroma if you removed the top plate from the keyboard. The BlackWidow X line is very similar to the BlackWidow line so feel and features will not change much from our view of the BlackWidow Chroma. Gaming is fun but it has its stressful moments and having a lit color coded key bound to the pipe bomb alleviates some of that stress and makes you a better Zombie Killing Machine.Razer recently announced a more budget friendly line of mechanical keyboards and they were kind enough to send along the BlackWidow X Chroma to review. We have to tell you even though it is a well-loved and played game the Chroma was easy to program, the game specific keys being lit up added a measure of fun to the game we’ve never seen before. We’ll get a little more into it but most times when we test a gaming device we prefer to go to a long played and loved game and in this case the first game we fired up was Left 4 Dead. It didn’t take long for it to click in our minds that the reason its heavy is not only durability but since it’s heavy it’s harder to accidentally move during those desperate moments before obliterating your opponent with your weapon of choice. Now why do the eSports athletes love the BlackWidow Chroma, because they see and utilize the great advantage the BlackWidow Chroma gives them.īoxed and heavy, much heavier than you would imagine, the BlackWidow Chroma has a substantial durable feel. How many times have you fumbled for the right key and splay someone head shots you from a concealed position? The ability to program specific keys to different colors will cut the learning curve on any game to almost zero. Having the correct gaming keys lit for a specific game opens up a world of possibilities, no seconds wasted fumbling for the right key, there it is colored and color coded at your fingertips (literally). The eSports athletes worldwide picked the Razer BlackWidow Chroma as their favorite keyboard, was it because it was pretty? Being pretty might have influenced their decision at first but each key is programmable to individual colors, if you are in a competition on a first person WASD game you can design a custom profile for that game specifically. Lets think about that statement for a second. Topping the charts in sales wasn’t it’s only mark on the world it quickly became the keyboard of choice for eSports athletes worldwide.

#Blackwidow chroma professional#

Launched in 2010 the Razer BlackWidow Chroma quickly became the keyboard of choice for professional gamers and the most popular highest selling keyboard worldwide. One point six Billion color options, for once in my long life I’m just speechless (Alert the press). Now here’s a mind blower for you. The Razer BlackWidow Chroma features individually programmable back-lit keys with 16.8 million color options, all easily set through Razer Synapse.

Templates (Different keys are lit up for different genre games, more on the Preset Gaming Profiles page).

Static (you pick the color and it stays the same).

Reactive (Everything you type is colored and fades out).

Breathing (Same color fades in and out).

Spectrum Cycling (Colors change one at a time).

In reality there are several other functions. Animated Gifs are usually a pretty good size and prohibitive to load times on web pages so don’t get your hopes up for a pile more but that one gives you an idea of the Razer Black Widow Chroma. Since part of the Razer BlackWidow Chromas allure is the “Wave” I went ahead and animated a Gif to show you what it actually looks like. Well made products for gamers with that extra little bit of flash that differentiates Razer from other peripheral manufacturing companies. Everything they produce is for gamers by gamers and their designs show just that. Despite their branching into new products Razer is now and always will be a gaming company at heart. Razers legendary gaming peripherals have launched Razer onto bigger things, now they handle custom designed cases, gaming tablets, ultra thin laptops and more.