Razer may have made headlines at CES for its ambitious new modular gaming PC concept, Project Christine, but it isn't giving up on its roots as a leading peripheral maker. Today the company announced its new BlackWidow, BlackWidow Ultimate, and BlackWidow Tournament Edition keyboards, which introduces Razer's new mechanical key design that it claims offers superior accuracy and speed, while also operating more quietly.
At its core, the new design registers key depressions faster by raising the actuation point and making the reset point shorter, which in simpler terms makes it so that users don't have to push a key down completely to register a command and the key doesn't have to completely reset to its starting position to detect another. The difference accounts for less than 0.3mm over traditional mechanical keyboards, but for professional players and PC gaming enthusiasts, it could make a significant impact when chaining together commands in quick succession, and believe it or not, limiting fatigue. What's more, Razer says the keys will last longer — an additional 10 million keystrokes, to be precise — than the industry average.
In addition to the new mechanical key design, the BlackWidow keyboard series comes with the expected array of features — LED backlighting, media keys, five programmable macro keys, and USB and audio cable passthrough.
The BlackWidow series is available now from Razer's official website and will hit retailers worldwide later this month or early April. The BlackWidow Tournament Edition is priced at $79.99, while the standard and Ultimate versions will cost $99.99 and $139.99.
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