Razer Debuts Green and Orange Switches for Mechanical Gaming Keyboards
Razer is calling a "world's first" with the launch of its new keyboard mechanical switch designed for gaming. This switch arrives in two flavors, and is available on the new Razer BlackWidow family of mechanical gaming keyboards. The company is also making the switches available to other gaming peripheral makers who wish to manufacture gaming-grade mechanical keyboards.
Traditional mechanical switches were originally designed for typing. Because of this, Razer set out to completely re-engineer the switch from the ground up with the gaming community in mind. That meant going back to the drawing board and doing a little research to see how modifying the standard switch would be beneficial to a gamer.
The result? Razer's team identified the optimal actuation distance for a gaming switch to a "fraction" of a millimeter. The Razer team also reduced the distance between the actuation and reset point by almost half to allow for faster, more precise gaming commands.
"Instead of focusing solely on typing comfort, as traditional mechanical switches have done, we had to completely rethink the conventional approach behind the actuation and reset points of mechanical switches in order to fine-tune them for gaming," said Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder, CEO and creative director.
Razer reports that although the switches were designed in-house, mass production was done by a third party manufacturer. To make sure each switch met Razer's highest standards, Razer's own quality assurance team was on the production floor. These switches were then tested extensively by the "world's most demanding" eSports athletes.
According to Razer, the two flavors of this new Razer Mechanical Switch line include Razer Green that is tactile and clicky, requiring a force of 50 g to actuate. The other switch is Razer Orange that is tactile and silent, requiring a force of 45 g to actuate.
For more information about these new switches, head here.
There are plenty of "Sports" that take little to no physical exercise to be proficient in. For example, Golf. I love Golf. Always have since my grandfather took me when I was 6 years old. I am a stick, as you might say, at almost 6'4" and barely 175 pounds yet I can drive the ball as far as some pros easily. If anything the same Pros take away the most physical part of the game, carrying the bag.
That said, I do agree they are not athletes. They are professional gamers but not athletes.
As for the switches, they don't look any better than Cherry MX Reds in terms of distance or actuation force (2mm, 45g for Reds) so I don't see the purpose in them really except for Razer to make money off of them possibly since everyone is going to mechanical for gaming these days.
There are plenty of "Sports" that take little to no physical exercise to be proficient in. For example, Golf. I love Golf. Always have since my grandfather took me when I was 6 years old. I am a stick, as you might say, at almost 6'4" and barely 175 pounds yet I can drive the ball as far as some pros easily. If anything the same Pros take away the most physical part of the game, carrying the bag.
That said, I do agree they are not athletes. They are professional gamers but not athletes.
As for the switches, they don't look any better than Cherry MX Reds in terms of distance or actuation force (2mm, 45g for Reds) so I don't see the purpose in them really except for Razer to make money off of them possibly since everyone is going to mechanical for gaming these days.
That is a hope for sure. Right now I am very interested in the Corsair Cherry RGB keyboard they are coming out with. I like the idea of being able to choose the color bit not only that you can create patterns and all kinds of things.
Plus I really like my K90.
Wrong.
Here is the definition of an athlete:
a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina.
A person spending 8 hours or more every day honing in on their skills are showing signs of stamina both physically and mentally. They have high levels of dexterity and quick response times meaning they are training themselves both physically and mentally for use of peripherals, and of strategy.
These "pro-gamers" are just not athletes by your unofficial definition. You could argue it requires more talent to be a top of the charts pro-gamer than an athlete in a garbage sport like American football too. Whether you like it or not, an e-athlete fits the definition of athlete. If we disregard professional gamers as athletes then we can exclude NASCAR, gold, chess, and more!
Motorsports actually requires quite a bit of physical exertion and strain. NASCAR always gets shit on by people. It takes FAR more skill than the average person would think. Just because most of the fanbase are more, well, simple people does not mean that the sport itself is simple or easy.
Corsair K90 here. Love the reds. Just makes it so easy.
Hence golfers. Most golfers are not in extreme shape and driving the ball requires more finesse and an understanding of how it works vs big muscles.
I still remember one time I was with a friend showing him how to golf at the driving range. Right next to us was a very muscular guy. His hits sounded great but then again he had top of the line titanium hollow head clubs.
That said, I was driving further than he was mostly because he was focusing on power.