Razer - BlackWidow V3 Mini HyperSpeed

I’ve used mechanicals and just could not get used to it. Missing a lot of keys and or typing extra characters. I bought one, Razer black widow v3 mini and hate it. I don’t like the sound and the pressure requirement differences. I wish I did like them but I really don’t. 

Well I ordered the Joro. In short, it's super nice and feels premium, but that's to be expected at the price point. I might write a full review on this sub because I really haven't seen any others. I was pretty hard pressed to find a ~65% keyboard with chiclet (laptop) style keys, and the customizable lighting is the cherry on top. I wouldn't recommend anyone just go buy one like I did (unless this is exactly their style), but I'd 100% advise you to try it out in-store if you get a chance. Best Buy is supposed to carry them, but my store didn't have a display model.

TL;DR at the end.. This is gonna be a long one. I really like it for a handful of reasons (in addition to me just being a picky fuck with peripherals). 1) feels like an Apple Magic Keyboard 2) it looks like something the Microsoft Surface team would put out 3) the keys are extra "clicky" as far as scissor switches go (like on a really nice laptop) 4) having wired AND Bluetooth is solid. More on this later. 5) the RGB works great 6) it's very compact, but doesn't feel like it compromised to get there 7) the battery seems to last a good while Okay, more on #4. I have a Galaxy Z Fold, but mainly use the Joro wired on my PC. I haven't done this yet, but part of the reason I chose the Joro was because if I'm ever at a hotel or a friend's place, I can plug my phone into the TV and use it as a full-blown Android PC. Having the Joro (and my Basilisk Hyperspeed) means I can do this from across the room with full M&Kb support.. And having the RGB set to low brightness means I won't lose them as easily. My only gripes with the Joro are: 1) the secondary key functions (shift & press) ARE labeled, but ARE NOT backlit. I have to be able to see what I'm pressing when holding the shift key to know what I'm typing. Some people have these all memorized, but I don't. Oh well, I just have to turn the light in. Doesn't matter while gaming, and it DOES look cleaner this way. 2) the Joro is touted as an ultra-portable mobile-gaming keyboard, and costs a whopping $140 new - which is crazy expensive for a miniature keyboard - and does not come with any kind of carrying-case. You may want to invest in a cheap universal soft-case from Amazon if you plan to take it anywhere without a safe place to store it. 3) the Razer app (Synapse 4?) absolutely blows. It's a load of flickering, glitching, jumbled up code packaged as a complete product... and which was launched as a "beta" and is exactly the same as it has been since day 1. It's a mess, and takes unreasonable amounts of patience to use. Luckily I'm an extremely patient guy, and I put some time aside to sort through Synapse so I could have the keyboard I love functioning exactly as I like. ---------- Anyway, I still have a special place in my heart for my Deathstalker V1. I've had it since I built my first PC in 2014, and it still works great. I WILL say: the key-press mushiness does feel a bit dated, and the Joro feels like a natural evolution/branch-out into what could've been one of two halves of a new Deathstalker V1-style lineup: a 100% size version (which we have in name, but not in spirit) - and a 75% version (which the Joro is). I would've taken a TKL DSV1, but this is the closest we have to that at the moment. The Joro is almost a portable, modernized take on the DSV1. It doesn't feel exactly the same, its a bunch smaller, and there is no wrist-rest - I bought a wooden one on Amazon for $10 and have been happy with the setup. This thing definitely isn't for everyone, but as a guy who would ONLY game on a DSV1, I'm exceptionally happy with the physical product itself. . TL;DR - only need one, but would buy another if I could

I just switched from razer to keychron for a few reasons that cascaded out after my blackwidow v3 died over night. For starters, it's incredibly frustrating that the contact support option on their website opens a chat window that's just a bot filling out a warranty request form that I could have filled out faster on my own. After that it took 2 days to get an email response to the form and from the questions asked by the actual support rep, they didn't read the ticket at all making the whole exercise a grand waste of my time when I'm already frustrated with an unusable PC because their hardware just up and quit. After a few days of chasing emails with the rep, it finally came out that I was two months past the 2 year warranty window so they are not offering a replacement product but also that they no longer provide repair services for PC peripherals. There's no reason that it should have taken 4 days for a service rep in another hemisphere to tell me I was outside of warranty when the date of purchase and proof of receipt were the second and third questions asked by the chatbot less than a minute after starting the chat. I bought a Keychron V6 on sale from Amazon for $70 with a set of switches to try a setup with a heavier throw and a louder click, which I'm actually really enjoying, for another $30. With tax it was about $115 all told, a firm $15 under the MSRP for a baseline blackwidow v4 pre tax. Their RGB control, driver updates, and button programming is all handled through a webpage app rather than another proprietary bloat ware app that slows my computer and harvests my data for resale and it works on mac and linux for whichever route I choose to go when windows 10 ends support in October. tl;dr Razer has shitty customer service, requires a bloatware app, and is more expensive when compared to an entry level offering from a mid market brand like Keychron which also offers hot swap customization and user serviceability and repair It's not for everyone, but for me it's the far better option on every front

Even outside of software bloat, if tomorrow I decide I want faster or slower latency on my hardware, $30 and 30 minutes is all it takes to swap in any of dozens on dozens of switch options When the w key died on my old razer blackwidow V1 I had to buy an entirely new keyboard, which is how O wound up with a V3 that died of its own accord 2 years later The V1 at least lasted about 7 years including a couple drink spills

Don’t consider buying any Razer products especially the BlackWidow V3 keyboard and the Leviathan V2X Soundbar. Poor quality. I’ve had a keyboard for less than 2 years and I am not getting keying inputs. Sucks for gaming and regular typing. The soundbar quality isn’t good. I have a small UE roll speaker that knocks out more sound boom than this expensive sound bar.

Don’t consider buying any Razer products especially the BlackWidow V3 keyboard. Poor quality. I’ve had a keyboard for less than 2 years and I am not getting keying inputs. Sucks for gaming and regular typing.

I'm quite happy with my Razer Blackwidow V3. Got me through college

I have owned a razer blackwidow v3 and now own the blackwidow v4 pro. The only issue i have had is with the blackwidow v3, the rotating function in top right of the keyboard stopped functioning as it should. With the blackwidow v4 pro, i have had no issues and i love it to bits hahah. Best keyboard ever

I have a black widow v3 with green switches. Only purchased with greens because I got it on a wild sale. It's a fantastic keyboard. It's not wireless. Is there a reason you need a wireless keyboard? Are you far away from your PC?

I'm still clackin away on my 5yr-old Razer Blackwidow v3 with green switches and loving it. If I had to replace it tomorrow, I'd replace it with the Blackwidow v4 pro with greens, without a second thought. But I LOVE noisy keyboards.

**Keyboard recommendation?** I've had a razer Blackwidow v3 for about 5 years now which is starting to crap out on me, and I'd like some recommendations for a new keyboard to get. Haven't got a clue how to find what's considered "good" for a keyboard nowadays, but see a lot of people online saying to avoid the big "gamer" brands, hence needing some advice on what to switch to. I'd like to preferably keep it around £100, but if there's something that's really worth a little extra then I'm flexible. The loud clickiness of this keyboard has become more annoying the longer I've owned it, so preferably one of those smoother thunk sounding ones would be great lol. I like full size keyboards as I use the numpad as hotkeys for stuff, so would like a fullsize. I'm not particularly interested in the whole building from scratch aspect so I'd rather something that's ready out the box. I play some competitive games but not seriously, and mostly just game normally, so I don't need any crazy high spec competitive keyboard, I care more about something that feels nice to use. Other than that I don't really have any other specifications I massively want, just want something good for a good price.

I have a Razer Black Widow V3 that I like