These days it’s fashionable to make keyboards as small as attainable, with 75% and 60% boards being all the fad. But Razer is bucking the pattern and making massive boards once more, beginning with the BlackWidow V4 Pro. In addition to all of the bells and whistles seen in its newer designs, the V4 consists of two programmable dials, seven media keys, and 5 macro keys. It’s like one thing straight out of 2005, with all of the mechanical goodness of at present.

In addition to the smorgasbord of additional dials and buttons, the V4 Pro will get the top-tier remedy from Razer’s elements bin. We’re speaking a full aluminum deck, magnetic wrist relaxation included within the field, Chroma lighting on every key, and underglow strips round each the board and wrist relaxation. The design eschews wi-fi in favor of a devoted USB-C cable plus a pass-through USB port—one thing that hasn’t been seen on a gaming keyboard for a very long time. 8000Hz polling ought to be capable to sustain with the twitchiest eSports gamers.

Even mechanical keyboard nuts could be impressed with a couple of of the extra superior options. Razer’s customized hall-effect switches are available tactile and clicky varieties, although the board isn’t hot-swap succesful in response to the spec sheet. The stabilizers are pre-lubricated, the case is crammed with sound-absorbing foam, and it will possibly keep in mind as much as 5 devoted profiles within the board’s reminiscence. The solely actual bummer within the specs is that the doubleshot keycaps are low cost ABS plastic…the higher for Razer to upsell you on its sold-separately PBT caps.

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Perhaps essentially the most shocking factor in regards to the BlackWidow V4 Pro is the worth. At $230 it’s no impulse purchase, however it’s not Razer’s most costly board, both. It’s transport at present from Razer’s online store, supply anticipated subsequent week.