The gasket mount system is tuned to soften typing without excessive flex and works with the switches to create a solid and slightly bouncy keystroke with a great sound that's slow and smooth without sounding dull or jarring. It becomes quiet. If switches aren't your thing, the Pro also has hot-swap sockets, meaning you can change switches without a soldering iron. While now they don't have Kailah BrandingThe new sockets look almost identical to the BlackWidow V4 75% and feel solid even when changing switches.
Additionally, the new printed-circuit-board-mounted (PCB) stabilizers do not rattle or ping while typing and are quite an appreciable improvement over the base model's plate-mounted stabilizers. The keycaps are impressive to shine, and look good with the rest of the keyboard. You can change them if you want: There are no oddly shaped keys, so any full-sized key cap set can get full coverage.
The keyboard can be adjusted between 4, 6, and 9 degrees of typing angle, and the 75% layout is ideal for most uses. Compared to full-size, or even tenkeyless (TKL) keyboards, this layout saves a lot of desk space. But unlike 65%, 60% or smaller keyboards, you don't have to remember function layers and key combinations for day-to-day use.
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Tidy, simple and stylish
With an intuitive layout and an incredibly soft wrist rest, the Pro's ergonomics hold up even during long-term use and extended typing sessions. One of my favorite functional improvements from the original model is the new dial on the keyboard, which Razer now calls the Command Dial. In combination with the OLED display, it can be set to control a number of different functions, which can be toggled by pressing a button on the side of the keyboard. These include volume controls to OLED, RGB and display brightness. You can also use it to switch between open windows and watch videos.
Customizing the OLED screen is simple and streamlined, and you don't have to do extra work to upload GIFs or images to display on this tiny screen – Razer's Synapse software can automatically convert them to the right size and format. . Other uses of the display include displaying system information (ie, GPU and CPU temperatures and load, date and time, etc.) and an audio visualizer, all of which are easy to set up and worked well in my testing. System usage data was accurate enough to be useful, but it was off by 3 to 5 percent compared to Windows Task Manager (and at one point it displayed my system at 115 percent CPU usage).