Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard by Razer Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard
Digital camera Review: Tarantula? More like lady bug.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought, owned and used this keyboard for 6 months. I play solely FPS games at a reasonably high level. If I may paraphrase Naomi Klein briefly, if I am not the Target Market [tm], then who is?
Short review: Its rubbish.
Longer review: A big problem is the key size and key spacing. The keys are too big and too widely spaced. If you have to use more than one keyboard in your day, your never going to get used to this. It wrecks however many years of finger ergonomics you may have accumulated to this point.
The "gaming keys" on the left and right are also rubbish. Spacing is wrong, too far away, no good for anything, never used them. Now before you may suggest that I am a midget, I have "man sized" hands to match my 6"4 frame. My wife had to occasional use the keyboard and she hated it.
Bright lights? That stupid glowing logo down the bottom drove me insane. Yes its a Razer product. I know, I bought the damned thing. You can't turn them off. You can't change the frequency of the glowing. Contacted support to ask if they could update the firmware to turn them off or change the software? Sorry buddy, you can't do that. Thanks. My solution? Big piece of black gaffer tape over the logo. Fixed. Great.
Large hand rest at the bottom? Non-removable. Too big, anti-ergonomic. Useless.
Audio and USB extenders? So you get about 4million cables coming out of this thing to plug in. Audio in/out. 2 x USB cables? 2x????]. You get a USB 1.0 hub, which is useless for transferring anything. The audio jacks are poorly grounded and hum and buzz.
1000hz polling? the REAL reason why us gaming nerds by these things. We need the refresh to match the mouse. Hitting A to dodge a bullet, thats what the money is for. Great, I presume it was 1000hz. Can't really tell.
At the end of the day, this thing is an OEM Taiwan special with special Razer firmware to give it 1000hz polling and some pokey software to configure the big buttons. How do I know? If you look around there are other gaming keyboards in the same chassis with the same gaming keys without the 1000hz polling that are much cheaper. Probably not better. But they're there. I suspect this is why Razer is EOL'ing this thing to push their own custom chassis.
To the guy I sold mine to on Ebay, sorry buddy!
Digital camera Review: Totally Non-responsive
Summary: 1 Stars
Well i read all the reviews on this bad boy and i decided to pick one up. Unfortunatly when I got it all set up and ready to roll i found out that the key board is dam near totally unresponsive to typing unless you press really hard on the keys. Anyone who plays MMORPGS espically PVP and uses the WSAD keys for movement does not want to walk 3 steps and then pause becase the dam "W" key wont respond for some dam reason. It's not just the w key by the way is all of them. My roomate jumped on the comptuer to take care of some business and even he told me that this key board sucks and to put my old one back on. Maybe i just got a bad key board maybe not. If i get wacked in game cool if i get wacked in game becuse i cant move my pc or fight because of an unresponsive key board very very uncool. Seriously if i could give this product a negative star i would.Digital camera Review: Warning about tags
Summary: 3 Stars
This product is incorrectly tagged as wireless/cordless/bluetooth. It is, in fact, a wired keyboard. You can find that out by clicking the "see more technical details" link, but both the screenshots and tags would have you believe otherwise.Digital camera Review: What a great keyboard
Summary: 5 Stars
I had to buy a second one of these since my local retailer isn't stocking this anymore. The best thing about this keyboard is how it feels on your palms. Its just awesome. One of the best I've ever owned. And looks great, too. I love this piano finish. Its great for gaming and just about everything else. The keys are always easy to use. Another great plus is the two usb ports in the keyboard. Can hook up your mouse from it and whatever else. The layout and construction of this is unbeatable. I saw a smaller version of this at razer but it had no built-in usb ports. I'm glad amazon stocks this. There is more features on this that other people probably covered. Been using it for over 1 1/2 no problems.Digital camera Review: What, they dont make these anymore?
Summary: 3 Stars
Great keyboard. im not an intense gamer, just wanted something nice.
love the way it feels, and the media keys work.
love the smaller keys like a laptop, but solid feeling unlike a laptop haha
very responsive, works with xp 32 and win7 64
hate the glow emblem. it flickers after firmware update. which was a pain.
wish the keys lit up