Corsair K95 RGB Platinum

Corsair K95 RGB Platinum

By Kevin Lee

Corsair arguably put RGB keyboards on the map, and now its most premium option yet, the K95 RGB Platinum, takes things to an inevitable extreme with an integrated light bar. Beyond providing 16.8 million color options all over the keyboard, Corsair’s flagship peripheral also comes equipped with Cherry’s proven Speed switches, 8MB of memory to store profiles and a military-grade aluminum frame.

However, all of this elegance comes with matching $199 (£179, AU$349) price tag. It’s a tall asking price and, while the K95 RGB Platinum offers many features we love, Corsair’s complex software continues to be a stumbling block.

Design

At its core, the K95 RGB Platinum shares relatively the same shape, design and aluminum build as its predecessor, but there are key differences.

The most apparent change is the fact that the Platinum is much narrower, thanks to cutting the number of macro keys from 18 to a mere six. Some might not like the reduction, but let’s be real, you’ll actually be able to reach all the macro keys when you just have a single column of them.

Users will also be able to program up to three sets of macros all stored on the keyboard’s own 8MB …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac

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