Razer Black Widow Ultimate Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

 After opening up the package we found the Razer wallet that we expect to come with all Razer products.

Inside, is a Master Guide, a Quick Start Guide, a Product Catalogue and a Certificate of Authenticity.

Next we will take a look at the product itself, which at first glance looks like any other more expensive keyboard as their are clearly media buttons and a few other extras.

That said, the keyboard needs a full 4 connectors, 2 USB and 2 x 3.5mm Jacks to be plugged in to achieve full functionality – an extra USB port, Headphone and Microphone jacks are installed.

These extra connections all you to have a USB port and a Headphone and Microphone jack on the side of your keyboard. Unfortunately, if you are right-handed this might get in the way of your normal mouse position if you for instance plugged in a memory stick. That said, its a feature we do always like to see.

The other side of the keyboard in contrast doesn’t have any extra sockets or anything else, it does all you to see the natural slant of the keyboard however.

As you could see in the picture before, on the left hand side are 5 ‘M’ keys which are primarily designed as Macro keys and we hope these will be easily programmable within the driver software.

Moving to the top of the keyboard we have the standard function keys, but they do also work as Media keys, in this case volume controls.

Next in line we have the standard media controls, play/pause, stop etc

Now we get to some other function keys that have slightly different functions, F11 + FN operates Gaming Mode and F12 + FN adjusts the backlight of the keys.

The next set of keys across the top have the more standard functions, although Pause Break also puts the computer to sleep. The font Razer has used is fairly interesting and seems to mix upper and lower case letters together in a random way, which we don’t think looks too good.

Other keys of interest include the Alt Gr to the right of the space bar, which also has the Macro M function key, and the FN button next to that. These allow the keyboard to record macros on the fly as well as giving you the extra functions that we have already discussed.

The bottom of the keyboard is very simple indeed, and consists just of the two feet to raise the keyboard up to a sensible working height.