Its so tiny!Photo: Razer
A standard full-size keyboard is 101 to 104 secrets. A tenkeyless board cuts the number pad off the best side, making accountants unfortunate. A 60 percent board further slenders things down by losing the arrows and middle functions and removing out the whole F-Key row.
Smaller sized keyboards can be much better keyboards. Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts have actually been singing the 60 percent keyboards praises for years.
The $120 Mini is the newest and tiniest keyboard in Razers popular Huntsman line. Its an opto-mechanical keyboard, using Razers recently-upgraded clicky purple and red linear keyboard switches.
The Huntsman Mini consists of all the whistles and bells one expects of Razers line of video gaming keyboards. Its got that Chroma lighting. Its programmable, supporting several layers of intricate commands and macros. Its just got a whole lot less keys.
The Huntsman Mini is available in black or white (Mercury) Image: Razer
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The keyboard is among the most essential tools in our daily lives. We deal with it. We play on it. We write doubtful Twitter messages with it. However even if its massively important doesnt mean it has to be enormous. We small keyboard users get on just great, and now Razers making more of us.
Smaller sized keyboards can be much better keyboards. Mechanical keyboard lovers have actually been singing the 60 percent keyboards praises for years. Now traditional keyboard maker Razer gets in on the act with the new Huntsman Mini.
The Huntsman Mini is as easy as 60 percent boards get. Everything is explained, layer functions are clear and concise, and theres no hunting and pecking for crucial keys. Its excellent to see another significant keyboard maker accepting the smaller sized type aspect, particularly one as gaming-centric as Razer
Mind the dust. Image: Mike Fahey
Its an opto-mechanical keyboard, making use of Razers recently-upgraded clicky purple and red direct keyboard switches. The Huntsman Mini consists of all the whistles and bells one expects of Razers line of gaming keyboards.
All of the standard keyboard functionality is still there. Its just that less-used functions are appointed to different keyboard layers. If I need to use the “prt sc” command, I hold down the function secret (FN) and push the P key. I hold down FN and press 3 if I require to strike F3 for some reason. My arrow secrets are now FN plus I, J, K, and L.
What makes the Huntsman Mini such a great intro to the smaller sized form element is the boards wonderful PBT keycaps. The caps feature sub-legends on the front side, so users can easily keep an eye on which keyboard functions are set to different layers by default. When the FN button is pushed, the keyboards lighting is even set by default to highlight layered secrets.
That huge deskmat seems silly now, does not it?Photo: Razer.
