By Kane Fulton
We’re big fans of mechanical gaming keyboards here at TechRadar. We appreciate anything from multi-color backlighting all the way to dedicated macro keys, but it’s the various tactile switch types that get our fingers excited. Little did we know that we would be experiencing a brand-new switch for the first time at Razer’s booth at IFA 2016.
It can be found in Razer’s latest mechanical gaming keyboard, called the Ornata. The company calls the switch tech ‘Meca-Membrane’, and it lies in-between – you guessed it – mechanical and membrane.
Like the SteelSeries Apex MX800 and Cherry MX Board 6.0, the Ornata features a low-profile design. This means that the height of the keys is lower than what you would find on, say, a Corsair K70 or Razer’s own BlackWidow X Chroma. Using the supplied magnetic wrist rest, which is decked in a plush leather material that feels lifted from a sports car, the Ornata feels equally suitable for Overwatch sessions that stretch into the night or bashing out homework.
Razer says that it gained the know-how needed to develop the switch tech after bringing its manufacturing lines, which were used to create its Green switches, in-house. …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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