Conclusion

Overall, this board appears to be a smaller, cut down version of the Tarantula. It offers the same speedy button pressing and polling, while removing the near obsolete BattleDock and reducing its desk space usage.

This board feels nicer to use, and the buttons provide you with the perfect amount of feedback while looking pretty swish in the process. The lighting is a bit of a let down, with it being particularly useless if you type or game in a more relaxed posture as the letters become hard to read.

While not without its issues, I personally believe that while it removes features from the Tarantula, it ends up being much better suited to standard gaming and typing while looking a bit better with the backlit keys. The price is reduced as you don’t have to pay for the 10 additional macro keys and BattleDock as you do with the Tarantula.

The lack of full board anti-ghosting is a bit of a let down, but the board does what it says, and does it in a great looking and comfortable manner. It’s a leap ahead of your standard keyboard, with great feeling keys, responsive buttons and backlit keys. If you want to turn heads while blowing them off in game at your next LAN event, grab one.

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Thanks go to PowerDrive Computers for providing us with the keyboard.