Razer Star Wars Keyboard Made for Jedi and Sith

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By Marcus Yam
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A different kind of Force feedback.

Razer today shared some details on its special gaming keyboard that it will roll out specially for Star Wars: The Old Republic game.

The stand-out is an LCD track-panel that can display information as well as accept multi-touch input. There will also special buttons dedicated to macros, as well as programmable keys.

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The keys themselves are of the "slim cap" Chiclet style and feature gold (yellow) backlighting. For the added bling, there's also a changeable lighting system to remind you if you're on the Dark or Light side.

It looks pretty great, so all you need to decide if it's worth your $200.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
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22 Comments Comment from the forums
  • henydiah
    light saber ... !
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  • s997863
    all that useless bling and no numpad? into the garbage compactor with it ...
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  • $200 ea? well it is expensive to build a death star.
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  • Maziar
    Looks cool! but the price is a letdown
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  • alidan
    if that track pad can be customized, like i put a custom picture on it, and than macro off the things inside the picture, than it has a day 1 buy for me, couldn't give a crap about the old republic, but the tech for the macro gave me some hope, even though i think that razor blows at macro things (i have a naga, and a saitek 2500 game pad... the saitek has SO much better macro interface that its not even funny. the naga is such a pain in the a$$ to program i dont even bother with it, i set it up to do every command i need for chrome and fire fox, and thats all i am willing to program even though i have SO many other things i could use a 12 button pad for.
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  • bin1127
    psssh. I'm wookie. My keyboard is made of leaves and twigs.
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  • aracheb
    bin1127psssh. I'm wookie. My keyboard is made of leaves and twigs.lol..
    lol..
    lol..
    epic..
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  • el_bastardo74
    hmmm, razer? no thanks...i will stick with my filco majestouch w/ cherry "red" switches.
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  • Looks cool, but I like my G19 better.
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  • UmeNNis
    I would pay 200 IF it had a num pad. OR I will pay 100 no num pad. You decide Razer :)
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