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I gave Razer a chance again and the laptop had thermals that I wasn't going to be comfortable with long-term, and the second day I had it the unit emitted a loud coil whine. I also hate to admit this, but I tried a Razer Blade Stealth just this week and I sent it back to Amazon yesterday. Which leads me to this: there are more and more people with stories like this, and it only leads me to think that Razer's build quality is not everything that Min-Liang Tan and the "Cult of Razer" fanboys make Razer out to be. The Deathadder had a mouse button go out, both of my Nagas just magically quit working outside of warranty, and my Sabertooth's trigger stopped working (shortly after I fixed it myself, but my fix was just a bandaid and the controller had cancer, so it eventually quit working). However, every single Razer mouse that has been in my house - two Nagas, and a couple Mambas - as well as my Sabertooth controller have all ended up having issues. Now I sound like I'm talking up the Blackwidow, and I am. Though, I don't know if that would cause a problem down the road if it is even a problem. I didn't believe him at first but I tried it, and sure enough the switches did bend. However, someone here pointed out to me that the switches would bend way more than a Cherry switch would if you type hard enough. The lighting control in Synapse was also super easy compared to Corsair's CUE. The Blackwidow felt more solid when typing, but the switches themselves weren't my cup of tea as I'm not a fan of Blues (or any equivalent) anymore. I had one of their Blackwidow Chromas when it first came out and I compared it to my K65 - before someone asks, I got it cheap of off someone who didn't want it anymore and I decided to buy it to give to another friend. The important thing is how much of a quality control issue Razer has.
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It's not just that - how they feel can be subjective. I’m a big fan of volume rollers, but even just dedicated volume keys would be handy-a fact I’ve really come to appreciate while playing Divinity: Original Sin II, where I need my Function keys to actually work like Function keys in the context of the game.Are they really that bad? I seen a lot of people say that they find Cherry MX Blues to be mushy compared the Razer Greens. A huge issue? Absolutely not, but with the keyboard market both increasingly crowded and increasingly granular, an omission of that size is a notable delineation between Razer and practically all the competition. Why Razer continues to double up media controls on the Function row, especially on its flagship keyboard, is beyond me. (See: Logitech’s G610, G.Skill’s KM780, and so on.) IDG / Hayden Dingman You’ll even find dedicated media keys on keyboards nearly half as expensive nowadays. And they all have dedicated media keys, except Razer. At $170, the BlackWidow occupies an elite club consisting of basically Corsair’s K70 RGB and K95 RGB, Logitech’s G910, and…well, that’s about it, at least so far as gaming-centric keyboards are concerned. Everyone’s doing it-or, at least, everyone in the BlackWidow Chroma V2’s price tier.