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Hardware Reviews Videos 9th April 2017

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Introduction to the Razer Blackwidow Chroma v2

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After popping our mechanical keyboard ‘Cherry’ (Cherry MX pun intended!) with the Razer BlackWidow X Chroma, we would classify ourselves here at RageQuitters as having an intermediate-level of knowledge in this area after undergoing a bit of a history lesson whilst reviewing the keyboard.

However, did this venture into this arena sate our desire for the ‘perfect’ mechanical keyboard that has no need for improvement?

Did it hell! Instead it opened the flood gates for us that there is a whole world of choice out there just waiting to replace your bog-standard, generic cheap membrane keyboard.

Enter Razer’s latest entry into the mechanical keyboard arena – the Razer BlackWidow Chroma v2 which has the following ‘new’ features:

Razer™ Mechanical Switches with 50g actuation force
80 million keystroke life span
Chroma backlighting with 16.8 million customizable colour options
Razer Synapse enabled
10 key roll-over anti-ghosting
Fully programmable keys with on-the-fly macro recording
5 additional dedicated macro keys
Gaming mode option
Audio-out/mic-in jacks
USB pass-through
1000Hz Ultrapolling
Braided fibre cable
Approximate size: 475mm/18.72 in (Width) x 171mm/6.74 in (Height) x 39mm/1.54 in (Depth)
Approximate weight: 1500g/3.31lbs

We say ‘new’ in inverted commas as the majority of these features (taken from the official product page) are actually identical to the Razer BlackWidow Chroma v1, so it might come as a bit of a surprise that we believe that the launch of this product heralds in a sort of ‘renaissance period’ for the venerable Razer BlackWidow linage.

But what make’s us feel this way?

Let’s find out…