Customer Reviews:
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 JUNK November 12, 2009
J. Akins (Duncanville,TX USA)
This thing came with my HP Blackbird Game PC.In the 1 year warranty I had to replace it twice and now just 1 month after the warranty expired it is out again.Sometimes when the PC starts it is dead.Sometimes all the lit keys flash like crazy and all 3 of the squares in the top right corner stay lit.When this happens you can not type on the keyboard and there is no way to turn them off.The letters on this keyboard are extra small.Over the years I have had several Computers and this is the first one that the keyboard has quite working.To me this is just a junk keyboard.
 Razer Tarantula Keyboard October 12, 2009
dandan (Virginia, USA)
I am very satisfied with the product, however, it was clearly open box. I would be fine with this, except that the item was advertised as new. It was very easy to set up (It's a USB keyboard, how difficult could it be?). Although it comes with media keys, my media player (foobar2000) isn't supported. They do work with iTunes and Windows Media Player, though.
All in all, very satisfied with my purchase. I just wish it wasn't opened before I received it.
 decent... October 11, 2009
Jason Mahowald (California, USA)
nice keyboard, keys feel and react good, great response time..
only the macro keys light up blue, and the media buttons aren't really positioned well
there are better keyboards out there
minor bugs September 11, 2009
Evan Gornick
The only trouble i've had with this keyboard so far is the fact that sometimes when you put your computer into hibernate mode the keyboard doesnt want to wake up. you have to unplug the usb and plug it back in. other than that amazing keyboard.
Tarantula? More like lady bug. September 3, 2009
Jack Howard (London, UK)
I bought, owned and used this keyboard for 6 months. I play solely FPS games at a reasonably high level. If I may paraphrase Naomi Klein briefly, if I am not the Target Market [tm], then who is?
Short review: Its rubbish.
Longer review: A big problem is the key size and key spacing. The keys are too big and too widely spaced. If you have to use more than one keyboard in your day, your never going to get used to this. It wrecks however many years of finger ergonomics you may have accumulated to this point.
The "gaming keys" on the left and right are also rubbish. Spacing is wrong, too far away, no good for anything, never used them. Now before you may suggest that I am a midget, I have "man sized" hands to match my 6"4 frame. My wife had to occasional use the keyboard and she hated it.
Bright lights? That stupid glowing logo down the bottom drove me insane. Yes its a Razer product. I know, I bought the damned thing. You can't turn them off. You can't change the frequency of the glowing. Contacted support to ask if they could update the firmware to turn them off or change the software? Sorry buddy, you can't do that. Thanks. My solution? Big piece of black gaffer tape over the logo. Fixed. Great.
Large hand rest at the bottom? Non-removable. Too big, anti-ergonomic. Useless.
Audio and USB extenders? So you get about 4million cables coming out of this thing to plug in. Audio in/out. 2 x USB cables? 2x????]. You get a USB 1.0 hub, which is useless for transferring anything. The audio jacks are poorly grounded and hum and buzz.
1000hz polling? Ahhhhhhhhhh the REAL reason why us gaming nerds by these things. We need the refresh to match the mouse. Hitting A to dodge a bullet, thats what the money is for. Great, I presume it was 1000hz. Can't really tell.
At the end of the day, this thing is an OEM Taiwan special with special Razer firmware to give it 1000hz polling and some pokey software to configure the big buttons. How do I know? If you look around there are other gaming keyboards in the same chassis with the same gaming keys without the 1000hz polling that are much cheaper. Probably not better. But they're there. I suspect this is why Razer is EOL'ing this thing to push their own custom chassis.
To the guy I sold mine to on Ebay, sorry buddy!
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