Razer Launches Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

[FiXT]

Razer today announced the Razer BlackWidow mechanical gaming keyboard engineered for gamers who demand superior tactile feedback and comfort while playing. Most mechanical keyboards in the market today are standard mechanical keyboards rebadged as gaming keyboards that feature stiff keys that cause key actuation fatigue. Such keyboards are inherent... [ Read full article ]

[bovine.baron]

“The Razer BlackWidow is the world’s first mechanical keyboard that has been engineered from ground up for gaming,” said Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff...

Not entirely true- the Steelseries 7G is also a mechanical keyswitch designed with gamers in mind.

But this is great to hear! I'm pretty excited by this news and hopefully the product lives up to it's hype. If so, I'm definitely getting one.

[bojangles]

I would definitely trade in my G15 2nd gen for one of these, if reviews say so...

[headsh0t]

Damnit I should've waited for this KB instead of my g110!

[fishingfanatic]

Another winner for the gaming crowd! I wonder just how much innovation is the result of such pursuits.

[Zero82z]

I don't see what the big deal is. Mechanical keyboards have been popular with gamers for years, and Steelseries already has a gaming-oriented board on the market.

[Druneau]

It looks to have TWO windows key. That right there is already better than the steelseries mechanical keyboard (even if after a year now I'm used to having only 1 windows key)

EDIT: NOPE haha I only looked on the left side for a windows key and assumed that there was one on the right... (my Steelseries has one on the right but not on the left). Still only 1 windows key.

[headsh0t]

Why would you want or need more than one windows key?

[odis172]

Two windows keys is clearly superior then one.

[thorn]

Hopefully this helps bring down the price of mechanical switch keyboards.