Tale's Corner

Well, seeing as it's been a while since we've had a blog entry, I have nothing better to do, I thought I'd follow Kash's lead and review my new keyboard, as well as mouse. I was sick and tired of my wireless optical Logitech combo tweaking out in the middle of games thereby making me spin in circles incessantly, so I decided that a trip to bestbuy was in order. After research on BestBuy.com, I discovered the Razer Lachesis and Lycosa.

The Lachesis or "Bringer of Silent Death" is a very nice gaming mouse. It has 9 programmable buttons (including left and right click) as well as macros that can be assigned to the scroll wheel. The scroll wheel has a blue backlight, and the razer logo pulses on and off. This mouse is very aesthetically pleasing. The outside is nice, but the inside is what counts.

The 4000 DPI 3G infrared laser sensor is amazing. I can move half an inch and be all the way across my 22 inch widescreen. Also, it has 32kb of onboard memory to store the data for its 5 individual profiles. This means you always have your profiles at hand at LAN parties and the like. Very handy. The mouse is USB, and Razer was nice enough to gold plate the connector. Maybe that's to improve the 1000MHz ultrapolling (i.e. 1ms response time). I don't know. Ask them. On the whole, it's a good mouse. My one gripe is the right hand side button placement. My pinky rests on them, but I have to do some weird things to press them, and it's not very speedy. I figure that speed is of the essence in gaming, so they're not to useful. The two buttons on the left hand side are perfect for thumb usage - I have them bound to melee and grenade in Call of Duty. Also, it's is symmetrical, so it can be used by right or left handed gamers. It's comfortable either way, I've tried it. I strongly reccomend this mouse for gamers and non-gamers alike. Once you get used to it, you'll love it.

On to the Lycosa, the "NEXUS OF DOMINION" - one of Razer's gaming keyboards.

Aahh, just look at her. Shiny black finish, rubberized keys, blue backlight. She's a beauty. Let's go over some of her features! OOokay. 3 lighting options, All lit, just WASD lit (the important ones), or no lit (Show off your l33t typing sk33z woot.) It has a USB port (runthrough) and headphone/mic on the back, which is handy - you don't have to dig around at the back of your computer or worry about the front ports this way. Just plug into the back of the keyboard and the problem is solved. In the top right corner of the image, you'll see the razer logo, and some really small symbols. That's the Razer TouchPanel. It's touch sensative, and will control PLAY/PAUSE, STOP, |<<SKIP>>|, VOL UP/DWN, and the lighting. Also, the razer logo forms a nice key combo to turn off the windows key. I know it's happened to me in game, be playing along merrily and then reach for L Ctrl or Alt and hit the Windows key. Fun over. So that's nice. Also, the Razer logo in combination with the function keys changes between the Lycosa's 10 on board profiles.  Key depth is similar to typing on a laptop, except it's full-size. Oh, and, just in case you ever need to hold down 10 keys at once, this keyboard has the anti-ghosting technology to let you do that. Try holding down 6 at the same time for 10 seconds right now. Is your computer beeping at you? Mine isn't. (yours may not be either, but I know some do...). Also, every key on the keyboard can be programmed into an up to 15 keystroke long macro. I could make the letter E type out GDOSEISTHEBEST! And you know it would be true. This keyboard is awesome.

 The driver software is quite easy to follow, using a tabbed-dropdown system to get into the advanced settings. Setting a macro for the lycosa is easy- just click the key on the photographic representation of the keyboard and then input your macro -

The mouse software works essentially the same way. All in all, I'm very impressed with my keyboard and mouse's performance. I strongly reccomend them to anyone looking to take the next step in gaming performance.

To sum up - They're Pretty, they work very well, they're packed with features.

They run retail of 80 dollars each though, but you can find them for cheaper online. As always. 

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