Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Update: after a few months, the 'a' key has become defective. It sometimes types two 'a's for each physical press. Not something I would expect for an expensive keyboard. The Razer Orange switches, which are designed to approximate Cherry MX Browns, feel nice. The tactile feedback resembles rubber dome keys. They're loud, however. I measured them at 63 dB without the O-rings (slightly louder than "normal conversation" according to scales), and 61 dB with the O-rings installed. The keyboard is described in the page title as "Tactile & Silent," which is clearly false. I don't think anyone would call normal conversation "silent." The O-rings are not pre-installed. You have to install them yourself, which is annoying as it takes about 45 minutes. There were 91 O-rings and a key puller in the box. The LED back-lighting is uneven and poorly implemented. The images on this page are misleading. They show regular and shifted characters (5 and % for example) as equally visible, but only because they shine a spot-light on the keyboard when they take the photos. In the real world, the shifted characters are practically invisible. On keys where the printed characters take two lines, such as "Page Up", the lower line is not back-lit, and are only marginally visible in low light. The caps lock key turns green when enabled. The floating key (low profile frame) design is nice--it's easier to keep the keyboard clean. The USB cable is braided and removable. USB A to USB micro-B. Better keyboards, including some in the same price range, are USB-C on the keyboard end. The key caps are beveled moderately aggressively. Shifted characters are printed below the regular characters, which definitely looks strange. When back-lighting is off, the characters are harder to see than on a regular non-LED keyboard. I wouldn't suggest turning off the LEDs, but this is a problem for the unlit characters, which are hardly visible, and are even less so when other characters near them are back-lit. The back-lighting works without software. You'd have to install Razer's software to customize the back-lighting, create macros, etc. I chose not to install the software, and I find the keyboard perfectly usable. The manual is poorly written. You don't need to read the manual to use the keyboard, but there are reasons to be concerned. Like many tech manuals, there are pages in several other languages. One of these pages--Chinese, I think--mentions "mercury" and "cadmium" (in English words). I can't tell what it says since it's mostly not English and there's no English equivalent. There's also a warranty for Australia. Nothing for the US or other countries. We don't get a warranty? 10-key rollover according to Razer's website. Keyboards in the $100 range usually have N-key. It's also strange that it's not "6" or "N", which are more common, but either way it's not good. There definitely aren't any high-end features, such as USB pass-through or a detachable numpad.