Razer Just Made The Best Gaming Keyboard...#Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and you were probably

familiar with the wonderful wonderful

sound of a mechanical keyboard over the

last few years mechanical keyboards have

absolutely taken over the gaming market

and for good reason know when they first

came out they were very very expensive

but now on Amazon you can pick up

something like this for 40 bucks no no

you're not going to have any of the

bells and whistles but importantly

you're still going to be getting the

sound and you're also going to be

getting that feedback like I just had to

type on it to give you sort of an idea

of the sound the feedback kind of on you

so when Razer drops off a box with their

brand-new keyboard and all in the

mechanical switches I've got an it I'm

definitely curious cat Phil awesome so

this is the eraser huntsmen now it's a

little bit different with this keyboard

the idea that's got an opto mechanical

switch the main difference between this

and a standard mechanical switch is that

it opposed to when you press the button

and you're actually pressing a little

sort of physical button on the bottom of

the switch instead when you hit that key

there's a beam of light that's going in

to cross so once it starts to depress it

actually cuts off that beam of light

which immediately sends a signal from

the keyboard to your computer that that

key has been hit and because razor is

Razer they had to go completely over the

top with this a giant model of what the

actual switch looks like I've already

seen this and it is totally and

completely ridiculous I mean just look

at this

so for scale this is what the real

switch looks like versus the giant

massive switch that they provided so

this is actually 3d printed but it does

give you a good idea of how the switch

works so as you press this down it

breaks that beam of light and as soon as

that light is broken it will send an

immediate signal so you don't have to

wait for the spring to compress you

don't have to wait for the button to go

and fully depress itself and you also

don't have to wait for any sort of

built-in delay to sort of avoid any kind

of double presses it's actually a really

cool design and it sounds cool so the

switch comes in two models right now the

standard Huntsman as well as the

Huntsman elite now the main difference

here really isn't to do with the actual

key switches but this guy is going to

have a couple of extra features like

some media keys as well as a wrist rest

so if we pop this guy open it's going to

be the same size keyboard you still get

all of your number

but you've got your hmm you've got your

full RGB wrist rest Mele is this guy

going to be patted to give you a little

bit of extra comfort when you're typing

but it also does have full RGB underglow

which especially when you pair it with

the very RGB of five huntsmen it's gonna

look kind of ridiculous now that is some

RGB action so we attach the wrist rest

which should all be magnetic here we're

gonna get the under blow as well

can we actually kill the lights yeah

that is so cool so especially with the

LED under goal as well as every single

key being fully RGB that looks do the

way this works is similar to the bloody

keyboard and that what you've still got

the nice responsiveness and you still

have that nice click you're also not

having to deal with any sort of lag or

latency that has to do with actually

pressing a physical button all you do is

press the key down hard enough to sort

of block that beam of light and you're

gonna be good to go no reason is

actually not the first to making a key

switch like this

the bloody switch has been around for a

little while and my bloody switch sounds

like a really bad name it is a very

similar concept except that razor is

sort of taking it to the next level at

least in theory with stuff like adding a

stabilizer bar which if I bring up our

super hopeful model is this bar right

here which will help the switch from

sort of leaning either side when you

actually press it so for example I press

it on the edge versus in the middle it

should still feel the exact same so

razor quote a ton of really nerdy specs

like how this is supposedly 30% faster

at response time versus a standard

clicky switch and you've got a very

light 45 grams of actuation force but I

really care about is how it actually

feels to use you actually I've got to

say that this does feel pretty decent so

supposedly you're cutting up to 20

milliseconds of delay off by using this

key switch as opposed to a standard

mechanical and while I really can't

judge that for myself it does feel

pretty much instant I mean when you

press a key it is right there now there

are some other things that you're not

losing here as opposed to a standard

mechanical switch obviously you got the

sound if you got the feedback it is a

little bit of a lighter touch so a lot

of mechanical key switches sort of feel

like you're kind of pressing down on it

until it finally compresses whereas this

is sort of very light to the touch but

honestly I don't hate it at all it is a

kind of a nice sort of different feel

now there are a couple of major

differences between the Huntsman and the

Huntsman elite so on the smaller side

you're going to be getting media

controls on the elite

as well as a digital dial which can you

can use for volume or other features on

the computer but the wrists dress is

going to be the big one now it's

actually pretty well designed it is

going to be attached with magnets as

well as these poco pens and right now it

does require you to use a second USB

port from the keyboard to be able to

power this guy and send data but because

you do have that full RGB control in

theory you could actually attach

different accessories to the keyboard so

say something like a maybe a wireless

mouse a pad or a wireless charger for

your phone or something it could be

attached with these pogo pins in the

future oh wow that actually feels pretty

good so it definitely does help that I'm

playing on a high refresh rate monitor

like 120 frames per second what I mean

there actually is I don't it's hard to

say could be placebo I'll totally admit

but it does feel like the responsiveness

actually is pretty much right there

I don't know I'm actually kind of

curious to see how big of a difference

this is compared to a normal mechanical

keyboard now this is definitely not a

scientific test but I'm going to put the

$40.00 mechanical keyboard side-by-side

with the razor to see if I can actually

tell any kind of real difference so

because we do have the high refresh rate

monitor hopefully that should sort of

take any other latency out of the way

and obviously the mouse is quick but can

actually see a difference here because I

do feel like there's a legitimate chance

this could be placebo right but it feels

like the razor does cut down a little

bit of latency oh dude you would date

the razor actually does feel a little

bit faster wow that's actually kind of

surprising I will say though that I

definitely do like the way the razor

switches feel it's sort of at least for

my personal preference it feels about

right with the level of clicking this as

well as how light it is I don't like

something that's going to be like I've

got to really shove it down to actually

get any kind of click on it now mind you

I'm not trying to say that everyone

should go drop your $40 amazon special

and spend 150 or 200 dollars on a razor

keyboard but I will say it does actually

feel like there is a real difference and

besides that you are still getting stuff

like the RGB chroma stuff you're getting

a nice feeling keyboard and also getting

something that honestly I feel like kind

of looks pretty nice too especially if

you want to fully customize the lighting

but

that's nice I'm kind of surprised I

actually didn't think it would be a

noticeable difference at $150 for the

razor Huntsman and $200 for the elite

with the wrist rest it definitely

doesn't come cheap but if you're looking

for the ultimate gaming keyboard 2018

this actually kind of feels like it's it