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by a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel dynamic ticket giveaway for a chance to win great prizes visit Intel gaming promo com to learn more by popular demand actually only one person asked for this unboxing but I was going to do it anyway so there you go my unboxing of the Razer Tartarus game tag whatever you want to call these things basically Razer has taken the orb-weaver which is their mechanical gaming device there you go so it's kind of a keyboard replacement so you still use your mouse in your mouse hand and then you use this and what would typically be your keyboard hand but it is completely optimized for gaming this is now a membrane version so it is a lower-priced version of a very similar sort of concept as the orb-weaver so let's go ahead and open this bad boy up and have a look at what are the key differences so just like the orb-weaver it is backlit they have made some changes to the ergonomics and unlike the Nostromo which was an existing product okay they have made some new economic tweaks as well so the Tartarus is fully integrated with Razer synapse 2.0 software which means all of the 25 buttons on it are fully programmable I do think their marketing for this product is a touch deceptive on me to put it sort of completely honestly though because what Razer says is 25 fully programmable keys and 8-way thumb pad the 8 way thumb pad is actually included in the 25 programmable keys so I'll show you where all of them are if you want guys want to check this out so there's 15 here just like that so here's where your WASD fingers would typically go you've got a nice convenient bump right there in the center so you can find your way back to it easily but backlight is implemented in a very different way compared to the orb-weaver where the each key is individually backlight so you can see there's quite a bit of spill through from the back which some people will find more attractive and others will find less attractive okay so there's your 15 keys then you've got eight more here so this is an you can probably actually hear those clicks that's an eight-way thumb sort of joystick button you've got an additional button here and an additional one here so that's 15 plus 10 is 25 you can actually switch between eight different profiles on the fly and each of these buttons is completely customizable in remappable using synapse 2.0 you just have to set it up one time then you can use it online or offline whichever you prefer you can have an unlimited number of game profiles and you can have unlimited length macros which i find to be a very very attractive feature now unlike the orb weaver the Tartarus doesn't feature quite the same degree of customizability so pretty much all you can do is take the wrist rest and move it up and down like this so there's a little key right here that allows you to go ahead and move that back and forth on the orb weaver we saw a bit of a higher end implementation of this functionality where there's a metal skeleton on the bottom of it and then you can actually move here you go the thumb piece out here you could move the bottom piece out and backwards and then you could let's see if I can get that yeah there you go so you can move this piece and you could actually unlock this rest right here which had a nice rubberized grip to it much the same as the Death Adder 2013 edition this one uses more of a soft touch feel overall and is quite a bit lighter as well but one thing that I liked that raised is improved over the orb-weaver is it has a gorgeous braided cord that just feels more durable and this might seem like a trivial thing to you but if you have cats braided cables are a godsend I have had cables that were on the brink of destruction and if it wasn't for the braiding they wouldn't have made it now razors branding for this is infinite possibilities and I see where they're coming from because in addition to the unlimited profiles and the 15 buttons over here you can actually use the 8 way pad over here as a modifier now I personally would probably still end up using WASD as opposed to this 8 Way pad even though I understand why people might want to use this for movement then they have access to more spells or macros or whatever else so you can kind of use it however you want but this is very appealing to me using this as a modifier for what you're doing so if you use this as WASD then you could actually map eight different functions to the 10 key here for example by holding it this way and pressing it this way and pressing it this way etc etc and so on this makes this not only useful from a gaming standpoint but I've also you heard of even creative professionals using these kinds of devices as a as a quick hotkey device that actually sits next to their keyboard and you can use in things like Photoshop for example it works on Windows or Mac so whichever you prefer is just fine by Razer and in terms of ergonomics I'd say if you have smaller hands you're going to find the Tartarus more comfortable by default than the orb-weaver even at the orb-weaver smallest setting so I'm going to go ahead and adjust this one back down I did find it to be a little bit on the big side for me so you can see that because it has a larger key matrix actually I'll put the Tartarus in front so it has a larger key matrix there just wasn't much that I could reach with my smaller hands and it expands very nicely for people with large hands so go with the Tartarus with its MX blue sargo with the orb-weaver with its MX blue switches if you have larger hands or if you prefer mechanical switches which many many gamers do or if you want something that uses membrane caps so you can hear much quieter very different tactile experience or if you have smaller hands or or whatever else the case may be razors got a couple of different options for you thank you for checking out my unboxing an overview of the Tartarus from Razer don't forget to subscribe don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and leave a comment letting me know what do you think of these would you rather just use your keyboard I mean Corsair tried to implement something with the Vengeance k60 where they added like a little addition to the keyboard that was like a little wrist rest thing but I don't think anyone ever actually ended up using it because I think everyone who cared about that was already using something like this so so what do you prefer I actually don't think I ever mentioned the large rubber grippy pads on the bottom those are excellent I don't know if they had yeah very similar to the ones on the orb-weaver actually