Feature highlights Razer Deathstalker Chroma (Credit: Razer) Side note: If Razer hadn’t moved away from difficult-to-pronounce scientific names like Lachesis, Carcharias, and Arctosa, the Deathstalker (a type of Scorpion) would have been called the Razer Quinquestriatus. The Deathstalker Chroma ditches the Switchblade UI and adds new and improved rubber dome switches with Chroma lighting, the combination of which drops its price into more reasonable ($99) territory. (Aside from the Deathstalker Ultimate’s ability to assign LOLcat pictures to keys along with complex macros, I found little worthy of a strong recommendation.) Sure, it boasts cool technology, but at a price tag well above the vastly superior and more functional Razer Blackwidow mechanical keyboards, as well as numerous other competitor keyboards. The original Razer Deathstalker Ultimate, which includes Razer’s Switchblade UI, is an expensive ($249), non-mechanical keyboard that’s as flashy as it is (ultimately) functionally deficit. Meet the Deathstalker Razer Deathstalker Chroma (Credit: Razer) In other words, the Deathstalker Chroma occupies a difficult space-the premium non-mechanical gaming keyboard with a price that still puts it in mechanical keyboard territory. But even the Deathstalker Chroma’s (relatively) modest $99 price tag still stings a bit, and it can’t quite address the mechanical keyboard elephant in the room. Razer redesigns the rubber dome and delivers faster, quieter, and more colorful gaming with the Razer Deathstalker Chroma gaming keyboard.

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