Building on the success of their BlackWidow Chroma mechanical keyboard, Razer has definitely gone towards the “if it isn’t broken, don’t touch it” kind of approach, with some evolutionary yet welcome changes taking place with their revised version. First up, there’s the addition of a magnetic (and thus attachable and removable at will) wrist rest. Second, the addition of a new switch option: the new Razer Yellow, which promises a silent, linear design, with a shorter travel distance when compared to Razer’s Orange and Green switches. These yellow switches carry a 45 g actuation force, being rated for up to 80 million keystrokes.Unchanged BlackWidow features on this V2 version include Razer’s Chroma lighting (which boasts individually backlit keys at 16.8 million colors per key), with Chroma effects powered by Razer’s Synapse software. 10 key roll-over anti-ghosting and fully programmable keys with on-the-fly macro recording options are present, with the keyboard featuring 1000 Hz polling, a braided USB cable, a USB pass-through and a 3.5 mm 4-pole audio pass-through jack.
As to pricing, the revised BlackWidow Chroma V2 will come in at the exact same price of its predecessor: $169.99 and €199.99.
