Razer Deathstalker Chroma Review

Overview

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The Razer Deathstalker Chroma is a great keyboard if you prefer its chiclet style keys to more clicky, mechanical keyboards like the Razer Blackwidow series and other Cherry MX keyboards. It provides swift and easy typing, while being a whole 50 more more dollars cheaper then the Razer Blackwidow Chroma on Amazon. Let's take a look.

Design

The Razer Deathstalker Chroma has a great design, but there a few small kinks. First, you can feel the letters on each key when you type. Although I personally don't mind it, some might find that irritating. The font used by Razer on the keys is very futuristic. At first I didn't like it, and although I still like Razer's classier fonts (like the one on the Blackwidow Chroma V2), I have gotten used to the font on the keyboard by now. The keyboard comes with two kickstands on the back if you enjoy typing with your keyboard angled. There are some rubber pads on the bottom for less friction when typing and more stability for the keyboard. Finally, the keyboard comes with a plastic wrist rest. I was a little skeptical when trying it out for the first time, as it is quite smooth even with the texturing, but I have grown to enjoy it. The texturing on it feels nice, and just in general the wrist rest makes it easy to type for extended periods of time. The keyboard does include a number pad, a Windows key, a print screen key, and 12 function keys. The function keys have mute, volume down, volume up, rewind, play/pause, fast forward, and two Razer keys, one of which is the "gamer mode" button. These are all activated if you press the function key and then either F1, F2, etc. What gamer mode does is it makes it so the windows key and a couple others aren't activated when you press them, making it easy to game without accidentally pressing those keys. Overall the design is pretty good with only a few flaws.

Typing Feel

The keyboard is made up of membrane, and the keys are easy to activate. Razer boasts a ten-key rollover with "superior anti-ghosting technology", which means that you can press ten keys all at the same time and they will all show up on screen. As far as I can tell that is correct.

Lighting

If you get the Chroma model of the Razer Deathstalker you are getting a lot of cool lighting options and features. The keys can be customized with over 16.8 million colors. The Deathstalker also synchronizes to other Chroma enabled devices like the Razer Deathadder Chroma, my personal mouse of choice. It also has a few animated lighting options other than static like wave (a rainbow wave of glory), breathing (colors fading in and out), and spectrum cycling (cycling through the rainbow). This is all done through Razer Synapse, a program created by Razer that the keyboard will prompt you to download when you plug it in. You can do a lot more within Razer Synapse with the lighting and you can download and use created profiles from their cite. Some things I do not like about the Deathstalker's lighting is that the logo on the wrist rest is not illuminated. Not only that, but the space bar isn't either. Even greater is the fact that only the letters, not the area around the keys are illuminated. All of this can be seen in the above photo. Very disappointing.

Final Verdict

The Razer Deathstalker Chroma is a great keyboard with only a few issues. here is the list:

Pros:

• Great lighting color choice
• Customization lighting
• Smooth feel
• Number pad
• Comfortable wrist rest
• Many great keys

Cons:

• Futuristic font
• No lighting on multiple keys
• No lighting around keys

Final Score:

9/10

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Razer-DeathStalker-Chroma-Multi-Color-Membrane/dp/B00ZTRW020

Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE4T21821&cm_re=razer_deathstalker_chroma-_-23-114-058-_-Product