I recently bought a razer Tarantula, I bought it from newegg.com with next day air shipping I was so stoked to get it. Those of you who are not familiar with this keyboard please see here; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 823114001.
I will not be posting pics, at least ATM there are plenty of images on the net not to mention I'm in the midst of a move. When I first got the keyboard I was super-stoked, I was in the middle of playing BF2 while I was waiting on it. Finally it had arrived, I rushed to the door to sign for my package, I said wo0t to the FedEx guy as he handed me the package.
I then proceeded to unwrap my new keyboard, I was pretty surprised by the way they package this thing. It's very neat and organized, it definitely ensures that the keyboard doesn't get messed up during the shipping process. I took it apart and proceeded to hook it up, it has a wire to hook your mic and speakers up to your sound card as well as two USB plugs, Primary/slave USB connections.
Looking at the keyboard at first glance is pretty amazing, it's very large sticks to the desk very well, the keys are very crisp and clean, there is virtually no play in the keys at all. The customizable keys are friggin' awesome. I can launch teamspeak/winamp/xfire etc at the press of a button, there are LOADS of customizable settings to use, you can even program custom macros. I have it set where I have scroll lock + X in one keystroke so I can respond to my mates xfire messages very rapidly while I'm gaming.
One thing that really pisses me off about the keyboard is; the keyboards are so stiff when the keyboard is new. It's very hard to adjust to this when you're in a FPS game, getting fragged all the time really gets old. So I didn't play BF2 for a few days and picked up instant messaging pretty hardcore to kinda wear the keys in. It's still a bit hard to type now and again, but not near as bad as I first got it, the only key that gives me trouble is the most important, which would be the 'w' key, it's hard to keep running it likes to stop in the midst of running or not even start to sprint at all when I double-tap the key.
The keyboard like I said before is beautiful, and I'm sure once I wear it in I'll love it even more, it's very sleek and adds a perfect accent to my setup with my plasma diamondback and PRO PAD mouse pad. I would recommend buying it, after these small quirks get worked out it's gonna be pretty badass. Not to mention the blue lights really set the keyboard off, the razer logo dims and brightens about every 5 seconds, pretty sweet IMHO.
I will not be posting pics, at least ATM there are plenty of images on the net not to mention I'm in the midst of a move. When I first got the keyboard I was super-stoked, I was in the middle of playing BF2 while I was waiting on it. Finally it had arrived, I rushed to the door to sign for my package, I said wo0t to the FedEx guy as he handed me the package.
I then proceeded to unwrap my new keyboard, I was pretty surprised by the way they package this thing. It's very neat and organized, it definitely ensures that the keyboard doesn't get messed up during the shipping process. I took it apart and proceeded to hook it up, it has a wire to hook your mic and speakers up to your sound card as well as two USB plugs, Primary/slave USB connections.
Looking at the keyboard at first glance is pretty amazing, it's very large sticks to the desk very well, the keys are very crisp and clean, there is virtually no play in the keys at all. The customizable keys are friggin' awesome. I can launch teamspeak/winamp/xfire etc at the press of a button, there are LOADS of customizable settings to use, you can even program custom macros. I have it set where I have scroll lock + X in one keystroke so I can respond to my mates xfire messages very rapidly while I'm gaming.
One thing that really pisses me off about the keyboard is; the keyboards are so stiff when the keyboard is new. It's very hard to adjust to this when you're in a FPS game, getting fragged all the time really gets old. So I didn't play BF2 for a few days and picked up instant messaging pretty hardcore to kinda wear the keys in. It's still a bit hard to type now and again, but not near as bad as I first got it, the only key that gives me trouble is the most important, which would be the 'w' key, it's hard to keep running it likes to stop in the midst of running or not even start to sprint at all when I double-tap the key.
The keyboard like I said before is beautiful, and I'm sure once I wear it in I'll love it even more, it's very sleek and adds a perfect accent to my setup with my plasma diamondback and PRO PAD mouse pad. I would recommend buying it, after these small quirks get worked out it's gonna be pretty badass. Not to mention the blue lights really set the keyboard off, the razer logo dims and brightens about every 5 seconds, pretty sweet IMHO.
Last edited by misconfiguration (2007-01-29 12:06:15)