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it's like I kind of eel sorry dude diesel was telling me about mawari because he's lamenting my wearing of stripes but stripes are not the point of the video today the point of the video today is the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 this is a cherry MX blue fully mechanical keyboard with evidently improved anti-ghosting and backlighting so it's got a full green backlight it has ten key rollover which a lot of people talk about you know how many keys the rollover does a keyboard have okay I mean I know and key rollovers cool however I would go as far as to say that unless you're playing two player games at your keyboard with two people I mean have you ever done that slick he says he's done that but okay I would say that that's not that common unless you're playing two player games at your keyboard with two people with both hands on the keyboard probably you can only press ten keys at a time so they have ten key rollover which means at the very least although you can't type with your face you can type with both hands completely at the same time so there you go individually backlit keys and they look quite bright in razors photographs and all that so we're going to make sure we test that oh I love this okay I've seen this before and I can tell you right now that it makes a huge huge difference to the brightness the intensity of the backlight when they do this you see that green backplate behind the keyboard number one is that should improve the how solid it feels does feel quite well constructed actually let's do the old flex test so here I'm actually putting pretty much as much force as I can on it to get it to flex very well constructed so you can see that right can you see like it's not bending much so that's good and then what it also does is it gives the green LEDs behind each key something to reflect off of which makes the lights much brighter and more vibrant it looks really really good sighs so I've seen this before on the Quickfire TK from Coolermaster so that's okay that's just packaging again razor so good at packaging all insides all matte black and - alright so up okay let's just slice that open there we go so braided cord you can go ahead and check that out Wow really good really good non-slip pads on the bottom of the keyboard it's not going anywhere once you put it down and had a hard time moving it just now so I'll show you guys that in a minute you've also got audio pass throughs as well as what appears to be a USB pass-through yep so that's for the keyboard itself it's labeled port okay then you've got your microphone and headphones which plug in probably on the side I think yep there you go there's your pass-through which is positioned correctly for you know I'd love to see someone come out with the mouse that has a short cord like an apple length cord and that is designed to be plug into a keyboard because so many gaming keyboards have these ports on them but then you got a mouse that has an 8 foot long cord on it because it's designed to go down to your PC Razer if you're watching this video I want a short mouse cord ok so there we headphone microphone port wrist rest symmetrical even I'd say it's not quite long enough for me personally but if you don't rest your wrists on the keyboard which you shouldn't which is bad for you then I guess it's going to be just fine you can hear that sound of the Cherry MX blues so these keyboards are not for people who are looking for silence or households that are looking for silence if you want that then you're going to want blacks or browns blues are quite quite loud but they have a really great feel for typing and I get a lot of people asking you this they kind of go all well Linus you know I I you know which keys are best for for typing and which ones are best for gaming now the argument could be made that Keys like blacks or browns are better for gaming because they don't have that that click that discernible tactile feel as you're pushing it down personally I like that for gaming I like gaming on a very tactile keyboard these particular keys have 50 grams of actuation force so you can compare that to other keyboards figure out if you like a heavier key or a lighter key but I like knowing when I've pushed it down and because they're designed to instantly respond back up I don't find that the that the tactile catch actually makes that much of a difference for me on the bottom like I said we've got extremely good grips here and these I love this design of these as well you see how there's a rubber grip on this side and it goes all the way around to the other side it's a rubber cap which means that no matter how this keyboard is sitting on the table so you can angle it up about like that oops I knocked it down there you go it's not going to move anywhere no matter what you do so really really good stuff programmable keys which you can record on the fly so on the fly macro recording is included we've got also function keys here so you can use function mute volume down volume up audio media controls macros game mode which will turn your windows key off LEDs down LEDs up no LED zones on this one the whole keyboard lights up personally I've never used an LED zone in my life as well as a sleep button let's just see if I've missed anything well we go find a computer to plug this bad boy into so fully programmable keys plus five additional Oh oh no oh yeah diesels not really sure what to do so hold on let us figure this out so we found a computer plugged it in this is the coolest thing like ever I check this out so function seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen se bun yet not 17 18 19 it has like it has like between 15 and 20 or whatever it is or at least 10 different brightnesses you can hold it down and go all the way bright all the way dark but it is extremely customizable in terms of how bright you want the Black Widow ultimate 2013 to be here we're going to go ahead and turn it back on I just want to show you all the different backlit parts of the keyboard so all the keys are backlit all the little Razer logo at the bottom is backlit and it should be noted this is the only glassy part of this keyboard everything else is a gorgeous matte black that won't show fingerprints or cheeto stains or whatever else is a problem for you at your particular keyboard check this out so there's your macro record there's your game mode even these lights up here are completely matte so there's your number lock so you check that out so cool you can't even see its bare until you go ahead and press it so I want to turn the lights off for a minute here and show you guys what it looks like when things get all romantic in the tech tip studio extremely bright backlight which you know again razer understands not everyone will necessarily like so you can turn that bad boy down you know to like a just sort of a light glow or you can turn it all the way down so now we can find out how many levels there's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 looks like about 15 so oh yeah right fully programmable keys plus gaming keys now not everyone's going to agree with having only 5 gaming keys personally I like it because whenever you ever have a huge like block of keys over here there's no way you're using all of them anyway you'll can only use a few I wouldn't have mind having a few profiles for them though so you could have different different sets of them but remember the synapse 2.0 software has a lot of customization that you can do on a per application basis as well so I guess razors assuming you're going to use their their software in order to configure your keyboard so that's probably a pretty safe assumption so I guess I take it back but the rest of the keys are fully programmable no cardinal sins have been committed in terms of the overall layout long shifts long backspace correctly position controls all that good stuff thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Razer 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