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What our customer's say!

"Mammoth of a keyboard but not worth the price.", Bought this thing for full retail price about a year ago, and I don't feel it was worth the money. It is a huge keyboard and the software is pretty good. Probably best if you play FPS but for me, playing WOW, basically like any other keyboard. Its not backlit so you might want to look for that feature. You can plug your headphones directly into it which is cool. Anyway it is broke right now at first the space bar stopped working and now most of the keys don't work. I contacted customer support by email and basically they told me I was S.O.L. They said they don't have any sort of repair program and don't exchange keyboards.

"Decent gaming keyboard", The Tarantula tries to be a great gaming keyboard but it falls a bit short of the line.

One of my biggest problems with this keyboard is the fact that Razer went to all the trouble to put backlighting effects on some parts of the keyboard but couldn't be bothered to backlight all the keys. There are plenty of keyboards out there that do, and when I'm playing games in the dark I sometimes wish I had.

Oh, but I could get the light attachment you say? I could I suppose, but that would mean plugging a device into the battle dock, also known as the 2nd thing I dislike about this keyboard. So far there have been no good uses for the add-on port.

In my opinion Razer attempted to match its competitors gimmicky gaming keyboards with the Tarantula but did not actually bother to go the distance with any of the gimmicks they chose to include, with the exception of the re-bindable keys.

I do like the additional buttons to be mapped, and the media controls. The software is decent and the fact that it has speaker/microphone jacks built in is nice for LAN parties, as is the built-in USB hub.

The biggest thing though, and the reason I gave this keyboard 4 stars, is the fact that the keys feel nice and respond nice, and the board as a whole just feels very solid and nice to type on. It feels and performs well enough as a keyboard that I can overlook some of its shortcomings.

"CONS For Razer", I don't see the cons of a Tarantula keyboard enough in print. If I did I would not have bought mine. I pluged my nice 2.1 speakers into the keyboard and moving my keyboard broke my cord. Nice speakers no more. I do not plug my expensive replaced logitech z-2300 into my keyboard any longer. The keyboard is illuminated but not the keys most used: w,a,s,d,z,x,c,f,g,r,1,2,3,4,5,6,shift,control. They have a place for a raised light to sit. Like I want a lamp for my keyboard. Next time I buy a gaming keyboard it will have the correct keys illuminated, not a place for a lamp. Consider the cons before buying.

"BUY THIS KEYBOARD!", I have somewhat of a keyboard Obsession, I own the Logitech diNovo & The diNovo Edge (both very expensive) and I'm always looking for a new keyboard to fit my fetish. I've actually owned the Tarantula for awhile, just never got around to writing a review for it. Razer markets themselves as a "gamers" company. And while this is an outstanding gaming keyboard, it's so much more. I use the zoom/rotate/100% keys in Photoshop all the time. And the macro abilities, while great for games, are very useful in applications like Photoshop. I press one button and BOOM my image size box pops up. Normally it's just C+A+I to do this, but with my L1 macro'ed to it, it's a second faster. I've set up a lot of macros in Photoshop to do common tasks, and it saves time definitely.

The keystrokes here are superb, I was very use to the keys on my diNovo Edge, not sure which of the 2 I like better. But the Trantuala is one of the best I've used as far as how the keys feel. They're soft, but still firm, and only require a slight press to register. Each key has it's own membrane so the quality is top notch.

The sucker is big, but I love the buttons, the media controls are pretty standard on keyboards nows, I kind of wish the buttons here were closer to the bottom, but that's just because I'm use to Logitech diNovo's placement. I open Winamp with 1 button, press shuffle + play and I got random music to last me all day.

The "sleep mode" button puts the PC into sleep mode, I don't use sleep mode but for those who do it will be useful. The "Home" button I guess is supposed to open your web browser and open your default page. I said I guess because mine does nothing.

with the latest drivers + firmware you can customize anything. I spoke on the macro feature, well it has a profile feature. You can configure 100 different profiles, with 10 macro keys and various driver settings you can pretty much have it do everything under the sun. Oh yeah, and you can set macro keys to launch a program too, or have a macro key launch another profile. Really you could get pretty complex with your configuration if you wanted.

The initial prototype board all the keys were back lit, now it's just the 10 macro keys + the profile button. You can buy a light that hooks up to the "Battle Dock" never used it so I can't comment, but I know the light wouldn't fit due to my keyboard tray not being deep enough.

It comes with 10 replaceable keys, the L1-L5/R1-R5 were boring, so I popped on the included new ones. Now I have a knife, pistol, rifle, grenade & others. Very cool to look at. And since I game they actually fit. This definitely gives the board a violent touch which I like :)

I like the drivers a lot, they are simple and give you plenty of configuration options. Also included are 2 USB ports and a headphone/mic jack. Now the USB ports are only 1.1 so it's slow, but would be more than good for anything that doesn't use 2.0, very convenient. My Motorola Q for example is only USB 1.1 so I can plug it right into my keyboard, very useful as the cable that came with it is only about 3 feet long.

This along with my diNovo Edge are the 2 best keyboards I've ever owned. The responsiveness of the keys on this bad boy is almost unreal. If you can spare the size (almost 20 inches wide) this is the board to get bar none! I had to give up my soda cup space on my keyboard tray to make this fit, but it was well worth it :)



"Gaming only!", First of, I love the Razor products. I'v used their mice before I purchased their keyboard. With the experience with their mice, which are one of the most confortable mice I'v used, I decided to try their keyboard. I purchased this keyboard when it first came out so I'v had a good at least 6hrs a day on it since then.
I'm a gamer(fps, mmorpg) and when it comes to it this is a good keyboard. Not too big and cluttered like some I have used. Very responsive to the gaming controls and comfortable. I'v used both USB ports with the headphone/mic jack all at once without a problem. My Razor Deathadder is always connected to one of the USB ports at all time. That's the good part.

Now the bad. Not all the keys are has backlighting and I play in the dark. You have to get purchase the Battlelighting and it gets annoying when using it in the dark. Too bright I think. When it comes to typing, well, that's why I titled it "Gaming Only" because for some reason the keys have a hard time responding during game chats or just typing in general. Either you have to press the bottons at least twice to get a character out or you tap once and 3 characters comes out. Kind of like the problem I'm having now while typing up this review. I guess it's trying to prevent me from doing it. LOL :)

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Tarantula: The Ultimate Keyboard", I am very impressed with the razer tarantula. It is a superior keyboard for gamers, as the keys are ultra responsive and well structured. I have owned both the Logitech G15 and the Creative Labs Fatality gaming keyboard, both ruined due to spilling beer. Each board impressed me greatly over a standard keyboard, and I was very upset to lose them both. Only now do I realize my great fortune in losing those inferior keyboards, because now I have a superior one. Now, I won't even think about placing an open glass of beer on my PC desk. I have found the Tarantula and I intend for her to have a long life.

"Of questionable quality", I like the keyboard's idea - programmable keys. However, there is a fleeting problem of USB occasionally reporting that the keyboard cannot be detected. This comes and goes, sometimes rapidly and can be very annoying while "gaming' because it changes the window focus. Sometimes it goes for days with no problem and then fails. It has 2 USB connections provided by a separate USB cable, however the voltage drop on the cable renders the two ports unusable. The programmable keys do work well but the keyboard in its totality is a flawed product.

"Totally Non-responsive", Well i read all the reviews on this bad boy and i decided to pick one up. Unfortunatly when I got it all set up and ready to roll i found out that the key board is dam near totally unresponsive to typing unless you press really hard on the keys. Anyone who plays MMORPGS espically PVP and uses the WSAD keys for movement does not want to walk 3 steps and then pause becase the dam "W" key wont respond for some dam reason. It's not just the w key by the way is all of them. My roomate jumped on the comptuer to take care of some business and even he told me that this key board sucks and to put my old one back on. Maybe i just got a bad key board maybe not. If i get wacked in game cool if i get wacked in game becuse i cant move my pc or fight because of an unresponsive key board very very uncool. Seriously if i could give this product a negative star i would.

"Warning about tags", This product is incorrectly tagged as wireless/cordless/bluetooth. It is, in fact, a wired keyboard. You can find that out by clicking the "see more technical details" link, but both the screenshots and tags would have you believe otherwise.

"Cool, but not what i expected", This is a pretty cool keyboard. I love the programmable keys and the program provided is pretty easy to use for making macro's or remapping the keyboard. It types really well and the keys have great response. Problems I have is that it takes two usb ports to plug in and for some reason the added usb ports on the keyboard itself wont work for me (says something about insufficient power). Also one of the keys stopped working, but that was easily fixed by removing the key with the tool provided and resetting it in place. Also, get a cable splitter for your audio cable if you want to use the headphone jack on the keyboard without having to unplug your existing speakers all the time.