The ultimate gamer's keyboard?
Hot on the heels of Razer’s Barracuda IAS comes the Tarantula, Razer’s first gaming keyboard, and it’s absolutely rammed with useful features.
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for larger imageFirst off, the Tarantula has an anti-ghosting capability, letting you hammer down as many keys at once as you fancy. You won’t have to hammer them far though, as the keyboard bed features a Hyperesponse Gaming Keytop, giving the keys a short travel with minimal noise level to let you game in peace.
With 90 of the keys being programmable to any configuration or layout you fancy, the Tarantula has 32Kb of onboard memory powered by Razer Synapse to let you store up to five onboard customizable profiles, meaning you can hoik your Tarantula all over the place without worrying about needing to take driver software or the like with you.
There are 10 programmable gaming hot keys to store macros and keystrokes, five down each side. On-the-fly gaming-profile switching means a profile is activated automatically once a program/game is loaded.
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for larger imageKeys are fully interchangeable to allow different key placement around the board and normal keys can be programmed to act as other keystrokes.
In addition, there’s headphone-out and microphone-in jacks for convenient use, Media Center keys to control media programs such as Windows Media Player, two USB ports for convenient peripheral plug-in and a gold-plated USB connector for maximum conductivity.
Also added in, under the door which you can see in the picture above, is a ‘device’ connector slot, where you’ll be able to plug in the likes of an iPod or a small lamp, which is still in the development stage.
All in all, this could be the ultimate gamer’s keyboard, so we’ll let you know as soon as we get one in for a review.
