Razer Q&As
Overclockers Club and GameZone both have posted Q&As with Robert Krakoff, asking the president of PC peripheral manufacturer Razer about his company and its products.
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Dynotaku
replyThat keyboard does have a few nice features, but has anyone ever that their keyboard had lag? I mean, in 25 years of using computers, it's never occurred to me that there might be a latency issue with keypresses on any keyboard I've ever used, even some $12 one in a library, and yet here's Razer trying to convince everyone that their keyboard has low latency keys.
There's only so much you can do with a keyboard, I guess they needed an extra bullet point for their box. It just seems a little... dishonest maybe isn't the right word, but it seems a little squirrelly to me.
And I'm surprised no one asked him about their ergonomically non-viable mice. I'd definitely own a Razer mouse if they were about 60% as big. And shaped totally differently.-
I'm seriously considering the new KB..Dynotaku I think what they mean by latency in the keys is with normal kb's there might be some time lost from the time your finger hits the key, presses it and the sensor is trigged to do that action/type that letter..and that is a disadvantage in games where fractions of seconds do count. Maybe their KB compensates for that.
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My response time and accuracy improved a lot when I went from an MS Explorer 3 to a Diamondback. The difference is that you don't have the entire mouse seated in the palm of your hand, like you do with an MS Explorer; the mouse grip is very similar to that of a baseball pitcher with a splitfinger fastball. The majority of the pressure is on the "ball of the hand" (the joints between the carpals and metacarpals), and this leaves the thumb, ring, and little fingers to either use the mousepad as an accuracy support, or to hover over it while moving quickly.
That's my take on Razer's mouse design; I grew into it, and saw benefits from using it. Everyone else has their own style, though. The MS Habu and DeathAdder will be a bit closer to the Explorer 3 in shape, and perhaps size. -
As far as the keyboard goes, I might try it out if I see a demo unit at a store or something, but they strayed away from the standard 103/104 layout by having a gigantic Delete key in the center movement cluster, and not having an Insert key (which I do use occasionally). We have Microsoft to blame for this layout, which I believe was originated by their "Natural Keyboard Elite" (along with the diamond-shaped arrow cluster, which has thankfully not caught on).
Maybe they could produce a standard layout keyboard with the same membranes, same 10-key rollover, and a bit less of the extra macro keys. Something along the lines of what the Krait is to the Copperhead (the Krait is much like the Copperhead, but without the 4 side buttons).
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