Razer BlackWidow Lite TKL Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard : Orange Key Switches - Tactile & Silent - White Individual Key Lighting - Compact Design - Detachable Cable - Classic Black

Its a great keyboard, but its not even close to being silent like they advertise. O-rings only help dampen noise when pressing the key down, not when it pops back up, and even then, it barely helps and is not worth the effort of putting them on. The metal plate base also makes keys create a slight ringing sound when you type on them. Its a mechanical keyboard, so youre not going to get extremely quiet keys unless you use Cherry MX Silent Red switches or something. Its small and has solid construction though and it doesnt get dirty from finger oil easily. It also has a detachable braided wire, which is great. It only has white lights, which is fine for me, and it has the ability to adjust the brightness through fn+f11 and fn+f12 without any of the unwanted Razer software. For keys that have two different symbols on them, such as [ { or 0 ), only the top symbol lets light through, so its not a great keyboard if you want to use it in a completely dark room, but I see no reason to even want to do that in the first place.

Actualizacion... Ya varios dias usando el teclado, he decicido comentar algunos aspectos que he notado pra cualquier otro comprador: Negativos: - Las teclas ESPACIADORA y FN extrañamente no tienen LED RGB, me parecio algo demaciado extraño, si un ocompra un teclado RGB, se espear que todas las teclas alumbren. - Las teclas que tienen dos simbolos solo alumbran uno de los simbolos, por ejemplo las teclas 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0, F1,F2,... alumbran esos caracteres, pero aunque tienen pintados los otros caracteres !@#$%^&*()_+ estos no alumbran, eso tambien es decepcionante, si lo comptaro con mi Logitech G213, el cual si alumbran todos los simbolos de todas las teclas. - No almacena internamente los profiles de efectos de color, y al reinciar el computador siempre hay que abrir el programa de Razer para ver los profiles que uno ha configurado. Positivas: - El software de Razer permite a nivel de efectos graficos hacer unos interesantes diseños, es lo que mas me ha gustado del teclado. - Al buscar informacion para configurarlo en Linux hay varios proyectos avanzados que permiten hacer un uso de la configuracion de colores, lo cual me parecio mas accesible que por ejemplo para mi teclado Logitech. - Soporte de Raser tiene un buen tiempo de respuesta, les he consultado respecto algunas dudas del uso del teclado y he obtenido comunicaicon por parte de ellos en muy poco tiempo. Conclusion: Apesar de los inconvenientes con el RGB que no alumbra como esperaba, me sigue pareciendo una interesante opcion por el precio en descuento, posiblemente compre otro para tenerlo de respaldo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hola, soy un usuario programador, que juego ocasionalmente pero no competivamente, mi experiencia no es en tipo de teclados, tipo de switch, ni velocidades o duracion de alguna marca especifica. Me interesaba probar un teclado que me permitiera configurar los colores y que puediera asignar macros para agilizar algunas de mis tareas diarias, asi que compre un Logitech G213, el cual es un teclado de membrana RGB de 5 secciones ( No deja configurar tecla a tecla el color ) con soporte para Windows ( No para Linux ) y estaba muy contento con el uso de el, aunque me decepcionaba que Logitech no tuviera un software para Linux tan bueno como el que tiene para Windows. Luego por curiosidad comence a investigar sobre teclados mas especializados y encontre que exitian los de tipo mecanico y entre las marcas reconocidas estaba Razer, asi que mirando en Amazon por curiosidad encontre el BlackWidow en descuento, con un precio un 30% mayor a mi G213. Al revizar muchas opiniones y videos de youtube, me intereso que permitia configurar el color RGB individualmente cada tecla, cosa que mi G213 no permite, y me cautivo que Razer tiene mas soporte para Linux en este teclado, asi que me arriesgue a comprar uno. Vivo en Colombia y se los riezgos que hay cuando uno compra articulos en otros paises, donde si hay algun defecto en el producto la posibilidad de solicitar cambio o reembolso es muy dificil, pero tenia mucha curiocidad sobre este teclado Razer. Amazon ofrecia envio gratis a mi pais, que junto con el descuento que daban ( precio final $69 aprox) me parecia justificable. Llego a mi casa en menos de 10 dias, su empaque externo no venia protegido por otra caja por lo que se notaba que habia sufrio golpes en el viaje, . Al abrir el empaque la tecla Shift izquierda venia fuera de su lugar al igual que la tecla de cursor derecha, por lo que me preocupe que me hubieran enviado un producto en malas condiciones. Afortuandamente solo fue cuestion de posicionar nuevamente las teclas y quedo sin ningun problema. El teclado no tiene independientemente la seccion numerica, es decir es tenkeyless. Tampoco trae teclas independientes para multimedia, se debe usar la tecla FN mas algunas de las teclas de funcion F1, F2,F3,..... Algo que me gusto es que usando la tecla FN y F11 o F12 se puede controlar el nivel de brillo del teclado, ( mi g213 no lo hace ). Tambien es posible activar el modo juego con la tecla FN y F10, con lo cual se inhiben algunas teclas que puedne estorbar mientras uno juega. Al compararlo con mi G213 este Razer me fascino, la luz RGB es mas nitida, mas intensa, tambien radia luz por el contorno de cada tecla. Su apoya muneca acolchada se siente muy comoda ( el G213 la tiene rigida en plastico), se fija al teclado mediante imanes internos. Al conectarlo al computador en Windows 10 el inicia automaticamente el instalador de los programas de configuracion de Razer, este es el punto que me lleva a dar una muy buena calificacion del teclado, esto debido a que desde la configuracion de efectos permite hacer una personalizacion del teclado muy detallada, y con un algo de tiempo es posible hacer una obra de arte de luces RGB, en este punto el teclado esta mucho mejor que mi G213. Las teclas se sienten mas suaves al presionar comparado al G213, aunque hace un poquito mas de ruido ( pedi la version con switch amarillos). El teclado tiene unas patitas para ayudar a elevar su posicion, lo que permite acomodarse al gusto de cada persona. Adicionalmente la personalizacion de macros, programar ingreso de texto automaticamente al precionar una tecla o crear atajos para tareas muy repetitivas que hago cada dia, es una ventaja muy grade para mi; tal ves tanta personalizacion no es para todo el mundo, puede que haya pesonas que no valoren hacer estos procesos, pero considero que alguien que se dedique a programar o tareas de oficina va a encontrar las herramientas de Razer muy potentes. Me falta hacer la instalacion de drivers y configuracion en Linux para ver que tal funciona, espero que sea tan bueno el software como en Windows. Hay unos puntos que no me gustaron del teclado: Que hubieran llegado teclas sueltas, esperaba se hubiera hecho un mejor control de calidad durante su fabricacion. La tecla FN no alumbra ni la barra espaciadora, aunque FN tiene la cerigrafia similar traslucida como las otras teclas, no he logrado que emita algun tipo de luz, no se si es que no tiene LED, o si esta danado o si debo hacer algo en la configuracion desde el software de Razer para activarlo. Tampoco me gusta que hay varias teclas que son multi caracter y no alumbran todos sus simbolos, por ejemplo las teclas de numero que tienen los simbolos !@#$%^&*()+, el RGB alumbra el numero pero el caracter no emite luz, y al estar a oscuras uno no ve la ubiacion de esos simbolos ( mi G213 si alumbra todos los caraceteres impresos en cada tecla). Su peso me parecio excesivo, considerando que es un teclado pensado para ser llevado a todo citio ( sin tener el peso extra del apoya muneca), inclusive pesa mas que mi G213 y eso que el G213 tiene la seccion numerica independiente, teclas multimedia independiente y el apolla muneca fijo al teclado. No voy a hablar de duracion de los switches o la velocidad de respuesta, personalmente segun mi conocimiento eso es un tema mas de marketing, es como los fabricantes justifican que la gente compre sus nuevos modelos, en mi caso saber que el teclado responde 2 mili segundos mas rapido o mas lento no hace que alguien pueda ganar en un juego, sobre todo si consideramos que los reflejos de una persona puede estar del orden de los cientos de milisegundos, o que las latencias de internet puede estar del orden de los 80ms. Pero asi como a mi me llamo la atencion la configuracion, las macros y el RGB, para otra persona puede ser mas importante la sensacion, la velocidad o el mecanismo del interruptor. Espero poder actualizar esta review en unos dias cuando haya hecho las pruebas en Linux, Por ahora yo considero que estaria dispuesto a comprar otra vez este teclado si necesitara uno adicional. feliz compra.

I decided recently to upgrade both of my keyboards to mechanical ones, and after doing quite a lot of research, I decided that these BlackWidow TKL linear switch keyboards were the best fit for me with price and performance in mind. Overall Im pretty happy: the touch and feel of the keyboard is wonderful (I really prefer the linear switches), the wrist rest is essential and quite comfortable, and the TKL size allows me to position the keyboard near the mouse, which for me is ergonomically much better. (I had been using a Logitech Wave for years, and Im still a bit surprised by how much better this keyboard is for me overall.) Downsides? Firstly, these are the keys with the secondary characters not lit: if you want those lit, you have to spend about $30 more to get the PBT keycap upgrade package. (Or you can buy another Razer TKL product, most likely without a wrist rest.) Secondly, I dont like the light under the keys, I think thats quite unnecessary and distracting, actually making it harder to read those unlit characters. Oh, and my pet peeve is the Delete key being the same size as the others: I happen to use it almost as often as I use backspace, and much prefer keyboards where that key is made larger. Finally, you want to hope you never need Razer customer service. My experience with them has been pretty bad: theyre really slow, they dont do what they say theyll do, and it can take several days and multiple attempts to do something that with Amazon takes about 5 minutes. They dont seem to take it seriously enough.

Caveat: I am not a gamer, I am a programmer. who likes mechanical keyboards. Pluses (for me) - Rather nice keycap font. - Tactile but non-clicky switches (similar to Cherry Browns) - Quiet, esp with the o-rings installed. This keyboard may be a good option for an office setting, where noise is a factor. - O-rings are included (you have to install them yourself) - nice white backlighting - When the caps lock is on, the caps key lights up in green. - The key switches claim to have extreme longevity. Minuses: - Inexpensive short and thin keycaps. These are nothing like the excellent replacement keycap sets Razer sells separately. Well, at least the font is nice looking on them... - The tactile bump of the switches is barely there. You can feel it if you press the key real slow, but at normal speed, I detect barely any feedback. In this sense they are very similar to the Cherry Browns. (My baseline for these type of tactile/non-clicky key switches are the Holy Pandas, a pretty high bar) - The keybed is not very heavy (esp compared to some other TKL keyboards, such as the RedRagon, or CoolerMaster) . (Usually, for me, the heavier the keybed the better. (You preference may be different). - The biggest minus for me: The secondary (shifted) symbols are placed low on the keycaps and not lit up, and are rather small (hard to see) . Actually, it looks like the secondary symbols are just painted on, and not even see-through, The !@#$ and similar symbols should be see-through, placed higher, closer to the primary symbols 1234 (etc) . So that they are properly lit up by the backlighting. For example the: pause break key was done properly, and both words are lit up just fine. This is how all the keys shoudl have been done. Good quality keycaps often render both the primary and the shifted key symbols backlighted, so this is a rather cheap-ish shortcut Razer took here. I could buy a better keycap set, but that would push up the cost to the point where you could just buy a similar keyboard that comes with the desired quality keycaps to begin with. - No extra usb port on the keybed. - The keyboard tilt is only one way. The best keybeds allow it both ways, so you can elevate either the front or the back of the keybed. Summary: On sale, I consider it a good value. At full retail, there are probably better keyboards out there. I consider the Red Dragon TKL keyboard combined with with the Razer sold keycap set, plus an add-on set of double o-rings a marginally more satisfying keyboard overall. (Much Heavier keybed, solderless, swappable switches (within the Outemu faily) Of course, actual switch longevity still remains to be seen. Some suggestions for Razer: Sell this with a better quality, thicker keycap set. Place the secondary ( shifted) symbols higher on the keys, so they can be backlighted. Add an extra USB port. Make the key switch sockets solderless (swappable). Make it a bit heavier. (Something like the Drop Ctrl, but for half the money). Make they keybed tiltable both ways (esp. ergonomically, _away_ from the user)

Pros: - Sweet software and product support - Key Clicks are just right - Braided and detachable USB cable - Lots of configuration - Soft Magnetic Wrist rest Cons: - Key clicks can be loud during gamplay - High MSRP if not picked up on sale - No dedicated media keys (volume, next, pause, etc.) PIcked up this keyboard while building a new PC. At its current promotion of almost half off, decided to take a risk. All things considered, this keyboard delivers an excellent quality in a small package. While some might find the key clicks too loud during gameplay, it does feel very satisfying. Razer software support is also nice as theres a million different ways to customize the setting. For a gamer thats looking to get a upgrade from their membrane keyboard, this is a solid pick. For someone whos mixed between office work and gaming, this is a great middle of the road choice. Overall, I would recommend this keyboard if used in a private setting, or if looking forward a great mix of TKL, office, and gaming usage.

Positive: I love this keyboard. Right out of the package it has been super nice. I have used membrane keyboards all my life and finally decided to switch since i wasnt getting the reaction time i wanted in osu. feels great and is actually a little quieter than my membrane keyboard. Negative: I already have the razer headset so synapse was already downloaded. For some reason synapse wasnt recognizing the keyboard. I had to completely uninstall synapse for my pc to recognize it. I dont really mind it but some of the keys have their characters painted on rather than etched, so no light shines through. UPDATE 5/3/22: Cleaned the keyboard a few times to try to fix the repeated numbers and letters and it did nothing. The keyboard still repeats and sticks.

Before I bought this I had a regular mechanical keyboard with brown switches and no dampening. I got a few complaints in the office from people right next to me. I still wanted to work with a mechanical keyboard so I tried this after watching an online review. Ive got to say Im pretty content with it so far! No one in the office complains of the sound; its nice and quiet with the o-rings installed, less so than a normal 20$ junk keyboard. Even with the o-rings it still feels like Im typing on a mechanical keyboard, not sticky in the slightest.

I play many different games and its works well with most of them. But recently Ive been playing a rhythm game called Friday Night Funkin. When I go to hold down the notes, for less than a fraction of a second the keys stop registering which causes me to get a miss in the game and it almost makes it impossible for me to play. If you do not care about rhythm games, I would highly recommend this as it works well with everything else.

I rated base on my experience all my life been using generic non-mechanical keyboard, so base on my short experience using Razer BlackWidow Lite TKL Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard i find it really good and its quite an experience. I have read some reviews that sound of clicking is too loud, maybe, but i find it soothing.