My Razer Blackwidow Ultimate for Mac purchase.


Was just randomly browsing a certain IT store in PJ digitalmall and came across the razer blackwidow. Noticed the arrow keys were exposed to give people a feel for its mechanical keys. It was literally love at first press. Oh my god I never thought keyboards could feel this good!

Went back and read up more on mechanical keyboards and I came across this video of superfreckland making a video review on the razer blackwidow, along with its one year followup review. The sound it makes is just pure sex!



Yeah I read the forum discussion on the blackwidow and on other forums as well. I heard about the supposed issues but there were also a lot of positive reviews on the keyboard, both on youtube and on forums.

All things considered so I decided to take the plunge and got myself one. I got the blue LED backlit ultimate keyboard with the Cherry MX Blues. Tried the stealth editions and it just lacked the clickety awesomeness. The new versions are all in Greenbacklit LEDS which I didn't want, so I took the Blackwidow Ultimate for mac instead, which had the blue backlight and has the Cherry MX Blues. Extremely happy with my purchase. It's everything I wanted in the ultimate keyboard.

Here's some photos I took of it during daytime.

This is at max brightness. It's clearly visible right during daylight in my room.



Lowest brightness :



Normal :



Maximum :



Yeah it does work on my windows 7 professional. I made sure of that before I made the purchase. Detected right out of the box, lights working without drivers installed. You just need to install the windows drivers for the other fancier stuff like profiles, macros and such. You dont even need the drivers to get basic stuff like activation and lighting modes.

I didn't go with the duckies because I really liked the Razer's fonts and how the individual letters are backlit.

This post has been edited by slickz: Aug 28 2012, 05:33 PM

Nope, I went to the testing station and unboxed it right at the shop itself and ran a full keyboard typing test. That issue didn't appear on my unit. The spacebar is far enough away from the ALT key. No worries there

My razer abyssus did give me somewhat of a bad experience due to the mouse rubber coating peeling off (Just changed to a Logitech G500), but I'm not about to ditch other product lines of the same company just because of that one failure.

I'll continue using the keyboard and will share later on if any f***ups happen with the keyboard.

EDIT: Oh if you read the comments from the youtube video :



This post has been edited by slickz: Aug 28 2012, 08:08 PM

What's BL? Oh backlight. It's not just about the BL, maybe I wasn't being clear enough. I certainly am not going through the trouble to design my own custom BL keys nor search for other types. Gimmicked? Don't think so. I went through many many different reviews and most of them are independent youtubers that also review many other products. If you go through superfreckleland's videos you know she's not affiliated with razer in any way.

This post has been edited by slickz: Aug 28 2012, 09:09 PM

Haha I know what you mean. It's an acquired taste. Like grown men appreciating fine wine while the little boys choking over the sour taste. Maybe later on, who knows? For now I'm more than happy with what I have now.

I'm reminded of marshmallows when I see them Delicious!

That is just beautiful. Since I know mechanical keyboards feel so good to type on, I can imagine the pleasure of using it. marshmellowwwwsss

Oh, and one week report on my blackwidow ultimate :

No hardware issues except just my personal self getting acquainted to deeper keypresses since my fingers are used to the really short travel time of the apple slim keyboard.

The fast keyclacks you get when you type fast are extremely satisfying since it's a loud mechanical keyboard and really impresses people watching me type. It's really convenient to have macro keys like 1cm away from your pinky finger so launching chrome to surf or starcraft for gaming feels quick and efficient.

The major worry I have is my friends getting annoyed over VoIP while we game together didn't seem to be a problem since they liked the sound of the keyboard. So yeah, completely satisfied and here's hoping no issues for a long time

This post has been edited by slickz: Sep 3 2012, 08:43 PM