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We're here in the corsair booth and they're showing off the K95
RGB wait both of those products already exist. No this is the K95 RGB *Platinum*
Which is totally different from the other K95 and K95 RGB.
This one *shakes*
Has a piece of plastic inside it from when I dropped it before we started
But don't tell anybody it's gonna be our little secret. There are also some other differences, so now in addition to
the individually RGB backlit keys the keyboard now has... A logo and a strip at the top that are as the kids say
Lit
but in RGB
They have also altered the macro keys on the left, reducing them from 18 to a mere 6 which will disappoint
Taran from my team and according to Corsair's market research, pretty much, nobody else. Macro Keys Macro Key Keyboard
Keyboard Keyboard
Because most people can't reach any further than the rightmost column of macro keys while they're gaming. But, let me know in the comments
if you guys disagree with that
They've altered the spacebar putting a textured finish on it that I personally am really not a huge fan of but
Some of the staples of Corsair's keyboards do remain including their dedicated media keys and that nice kind of, knurled metal scroll wheel
One big change I am a fan of, that has to do with texture is the wrist rest.
It now has either kind of a dimpled texture on the one side, or a more coarse texture on the other side.
It's got a really nice rubberized finish and the whole thing mounts with magnets.
Whichever way you choose to put it on. It feels and looks really premium, you can't even tell it's reversible,
until you reverse it. You're like: Oh, I like this one better.
Oh, I hate this one. I'm going to put it back.
That's not to say that I like everything about the wrist rest.
So, on the bottom you find a cable management cross for your
headphones, so that they can run under your keyboard
if you like having your headphone wire come up between your hands while you're gaming, but,
unfortunately, the implementation
on the bottom of the wrist rest is not as good as
on the rest of the bottom of the keyboard. With no clips to hold the wire in place,
meaning that you'll either be constantly fidgeting with it,
or it might end up under the rubber stoppers at the bottom causing the wrist rest to move around a little bit another thing
I'm not a huge fan of down here is the fact that they've gone with the cheapo plastic
clips for the wrist rest that
Inevitably get broken and given that this is such a nice wrist rest that I'd love to use forever. [I] find that a little
Disappointing other than that
It's got a uSB pass-through
And there's not really a whole lot else to say except it's not entirely reliant on software for the RGB lighting anymore
You've got to set it up with cue but once you do that it can store up to three
profiles for all your macro settings as well as your lighting effects that you can switch between with a
Configurable Macro within cue that you can save on the keyboard so the onboard memory has been beefed up
significantly
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