Roccat Isku
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Roccat Isku Reviews
Roccat ISKU Keyboard
This being my third and final Roccat accessories review, I've come to the conclusion that the German engineers behind these things can't decide if they want to focus on comfort or technology, and end up throwing everything they've got into both. The Kave 5.1 headset is really comfortable and the Kone+ mouse is really comfortable. Here's a keyboard, one of the most basic components to computer usage, and I'm yet again falling in love with the comfort of Roccat's product line. The ISKU Illuminated keyboard is the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used. That's mostly thanks the mechanical keys and extra large wrist-pad. Ever used one of those keyboards that has that spongey material where your wrists land? Those things are bull shit. They get super dirty and grimy from your sweat, ultimately resulting in a disgusting end-user experience. The ISKU keyboard forgoes this and instead proposes a nice, sloped incline up to the keyboard. Once you've got your fingers on the keys, it's hard not to fall for the way things click and react definitively to your inputs. As someone who types all day professionally, I can't overstate how nice the ISKU's mechanical keys are.
Computer Keyboard Reviews
The Roccat Isku is a gaming keyboard with 123 keys, 25 programmable macros, 5 user profiles with handy LEDs to let you know which one you're using, and a 1000 Hz polling rate for lightning-fast control. What's more, it even has backlit keys! This keyboard has been designed and built for gamers, but what's unusual about this particular model is that it has laptop-style keys. So instead of the chunky mechanical keys seen in competitor gaming keyboards, the Isku has slim keys that aren't very deep. This should, in turn, mean that the keys are pretty quiet. So has Roccat brought us the best of both worlds in one sleek new product? Well, no! In fact, Roccat has taken a standard, entry-level keyboard and packed it into a fairly mediocre gaming-style casing with sub-standard backlighting, noisy keys and a disappointing finish. First of all, the blue backlighting isn't particularly visible in daylight, even when pushed up to its maximum setting. It doesn't even light up all the keys—in fact, the backlight control key itself isn't illuminated, nor are the multimedia keys (volume, audio/video playback controls etc.). However, when you turn the backlighting off the keys look dark and it can be hard to make out their markings.
Roccat Iksu review
The keyboard has long been the primary input device on the PC, so what can Roccat do to convince us the Isku keyboard is the finest example of button-pressing technology known to man? QWERTY boards were around long before the monolith was dropped on prehistoric man so its got quite a task on its hands in the innovation stakes, but, by Jove, I do believe it's managed it. As well as being heavily laden with extra keys and media buttons there's also a little bonus feature for those of the Roccat faithful. It has recently released a piece of software called Roccat Talk, which enables different bits of its hardware to talk (clever name, eh?) to each other. The perfect rodent partner for the Isku then is Roccat's own Kone[+] mouse. But what possible benefits could be had from having your mouse and board chatting away? Shift unleashed The key to this cross-peripheral chatter is the EasyShift[+] function it added to the Kone mouse a while ago. This is an alternative to spraying a gaming mouse with more buttons than even the great lord Cthulu could manage and means that by holding down a single button other functions can be assigned to each of the other buttons.
Prices
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ROCCAT Isku Illuminated Gaming Keyboard (ROC-12-701) | $84.99 | See it |
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ROCCAT Isku Illuminated Gaming Keyboard (ROC-12-701) | $89.99 | See it |
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ROCCAT Isku ROC-12-702 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard | $139.99 | See it |
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