Cougar's 700K Keyboard Is Built For Gamers
Cougar's latest number is an unusual approach to a gaming keyboard.
We've reached a point where basic mechanical keyboards are flooding the market and where vendors have to innovate in order to stand out. We've seen plenty of innovation, but we haven't yet seen a keyboard quite like Cougar's 700K, which is an aluminum gaming keyboard with a very rich feature set and a slightly unorthodox layout.
The 700K uses Cherry MX mechanical switches, which are placed on an aluminum backplate for a sharp typing experience. Around this plate Cougar has placed a plastic frame, the design of which is inspired by 'stealth warship technology.' It also comes with a wrist rest, and you can detach part of it to create a smaller wrist rest for FPS gaming. Each key is also individually LED backlit.
What sets this keyboard apart, however, is the gaming-oriented feature set. This time around, when we speak of gaming features we actually mean functions, not just form. The 700K comes with a total of six G-Keys, along with three macro profiles. Five of these G-Keys are placed where you would expect them, on the left side of the keyboard, although for the sixth key Cougar has cut the spacebar in two and assigned the right key as a G-Key.
Cougar omitted the left Windows key in favor of an FN key to access the keyboard's onboard functions. Gamers might like this layout, although we reckon that pure typists may think that there is space for improvement.
Other gaming-oriented features include N-Key rollover over USB, along with a 1000 Hz polling rate and an adjustable key repeat rate with 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x options. Driving the keyboard is an ARM processor, along with onboard memory and Cougar's UIX software suite.
Cougar didn't reveal pricing or availability.
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Theres too many companies making "gaming" keyboards and mice that make just rubbish products with no real RND making the devices feel plain wrong to use or just annoying because of issues like layout/size/shape etc
I do want a mini screen these days for my gpu/cpu/fps info though.
Did you read the article? It's right there: "The 700K uses Cherry MX mechanical switches, which are placed on an aluminum backplate for a sharp typing experience."
Did you read the article? It's right there: "The 700K uses Cherry MX mechanical switches, which are placed on an aluminum backplate for a sharp typing experience."
Did you read the article? If you did you certainly didn't comprehend it. Try less snark next time and you might not embarrass yourself.
It's a more than valid question since Cherry doesn't mean red and it isn't a single switch. Cherry MX is a brand name with switch models Black, Red, Brown, and Blue. Each of the switch types has unique characteristics as well which makes knowing which type is used extremely valid. It's also very rare for a manufacturer to offer a single keyboard model with all the different switch types as an available option as well. To top it off many switch type variants are often only regional offerings.
As for the answer to the question I can't find one at the moment. The spec list and datasheet on the Cougar website shows a picture of Cherry MX switches but doesn't specify which are available or if all will be available.
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I'm pretty sure they knew exactly what a cougar was when they named their company. Some people stick to using actual definitions instead of informal slang.
Irrelevant! Who cares what typists think! It's a *gaming* keyboard!
Gamers need to type but for the majority of the time it's WASD!
Did you read the article? It's right there: "The 700K uses Cherry MX mechanical switches, which are placed on an aluminum backplate for a sharp typing experience."
Did you read the article? If you did you certainly didn't comprehend it. Try less snark next time and you might not embarrass yourself.
It's a more than valid question since Cherry doesn't mean red and it isn't a single switch. Cherry MX is a brand name with switch models Black, Red, Brown, and Blue. Each of the switch types has unique characteristics as well which makes knowing which type is used extremely valid. It's also very rare for a manufacturer to offer a single keyboard model with all the different switch types as an available option as well. To top it off many switch type variants are often only regional offerings.
As for the answer to the question I can't find one at the moment. The spec list and datasheet on the Cougar website shows a picture of Cherry MX switches but doesn't specify which are available or if all will be available.
Thanks for clarifying (looking at the website - I didn't see anything listed either). I refused to answer the original post since he clearly has no idea what mech switches are all about.