The NEW Corsair K95 Platinum and Scimitar Pro

[Inheritance]

Corsair just announced 2 new products! The K95 Platinum and the Scimitar Pro. The two new devices both have hardware playback for the first time! The hardware playback is limited in certain ways. Not all of the actions and lighting effects supported by CUE 2 will be able to run off of hardware playback.

 

The scimitar got a DPI boost, to 16K, with a new tunable sensor. So that's good news if you liked tuning your mice. Before the Scimitar Pro this feature was only available in the M65 Pro. Oh and it does come in black this time right off the bat.  Thank god for black!

One small gripe they got rid of one of the DPI switches and rebound it to switch profiles... Not the best idea, flipping through 4 DPI settings just to lower your DPI by one level is frankly a tad annoying.

 

The scimitar doesn't look any different from the non pro version, but damn the K95 platinum has has a partial make over and it's looking sexy. The K95 Platinum will come in the black finish shown here or gun metal gray. And starts at 200 USD with your choice of browns or speeds. Sadly there are no reds... boooooo.

 

One more thing to note. The media keys, and 3 keys at the top left are not as bright as the rest of the keyboard. This is based off my observation of a sample that was given to me by Corsair. So hopefully this is fixed in the final release. 

 

I've used both devices for a week now and while I didn't find a use for the hardware playback on the mouse, I did enjoy having my macros on my K95 as I moved from place to place. It could use more macro options like all of the ones CUE provides on a software level but this is a good start considering no one else is doing anything like this. 

 

Here's a video of my K95 Platinum in action.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/229315/corsair-reveals-k95-rgb-platinum-keyboard

http://www.corsair.com/en/landing/k95rgbplatinum

 

[shadowbyte]

oh wow what an upgrade on the K95

they went from 18 G keys to 6

fucking fantastic

but they did add a USB passthrough, one that should have been on the original K95.

 

[captain cactus]

The f is hardware playback?

[Inheritance]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

oh wow what an upgrade on the K95

they went from 18 G keys to 6

fucking fantastic

but they did add a USB passthrough, one that should have been on the original K95.

 

lol, yea its going to be a love or hate thing. They got a lot of feedback that 18 macros was well 18 to many when you didn't have hardware playback. And i'm guessing they limited it to 6 because of the hardware playback. 

[Inheritance]

Just now, lots of unexplainable lag said:

The f is hardware playback?

you assign macros to the keyboard and it saves it in memory so it can be executed on other devices. 

[Real_PhillBert]

I hate that they went from 18 G keys to 6, I setup macros like crazy for CAD work. 

[MorganO]

9 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I hate that they went from 18 G keys to 6, I setup macros like crazy for CAD work. 

then dont buy it lol

[2FA]

I liked their keyboards for their more minimalistic (relatively) look, now they look like tacky "gamer" junk. Will not be buying another from them in the future.

[Inheritance]

1 minute ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I liked their keyboards for their more minimalistic (relatively) look, now they look like tacky "gamer" junk. Will not be buying another from them in the future.

lol so im guessing your not a fan of the led strip at the top.

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

then dont buy it

 

So I guess we need to restrict posts to only those who plan to buy it? LOL

 

We're here to discuss new products and news, not sell things.

[MorganO]

3 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

 

So I guess we need to restrict posts to only those who plan to buy it? LOL

 

We're here to discuss new products and news, not sell things.

i may have come off a tad hostile, sorry about that

[AlwaysFSX]

6 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

then dont buy it

Flawless logic right there. Let's not debate on the design differences of new generations of products that make them worse, just don't buy it. 

 

And this is how you stifle innovation.

[Inheritance]

9 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I hate that they went from 18 G keys to 6, I setup macros like crazy for CAD work. 

you can always grab a scimitar pro lol.

[captain cactus]

10 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I hate that they went from 18 G keys to 6, I setup macros like crazy for CAD work. 

Or go full Tom Scott on a keyboard to have waaaaay more than 18 macros for CAD.

[Guest Kloaked]

10 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I hate that they went from 18 G keys to 6, I setup macros like crazy for CAD work. 

There's always the G13 or if you're brave, the Razer Orbweaver.

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

i may have come off a tad hostile, sorry about that

You don't apologize on the internet. Who the fuck do you think you are?

[2FA]

7 minutes ago, Zheren159 said:

lol so im guessing your not a fan of the led strip at the top.

tacky as hell

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Or go full Tom Scott on a keyboard to have waaaaay more than 18 macros for CAD.

I'm afraid I have no idea who Tom Scott is but I have ~ 30 macros on my standard keyboard in my office... Way ahead of you haha.

 

 

[Techicolors]

a lightbar...

 

[Real_PhillBert]

4 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

There's always the G13 or if you're brave, the Razer Orbweaver.

I've looked at thing like those before but never given them a try. Perhaps I should.

[Guest Kloaked]

1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I've looked at thing like those before but never given them a try. Perhaps I should.

YMMV with those things. I never had a problem with my original Razer Nostromo (the blue one) but Logitech's software tends to get buggy and Razer is.. well, Razer.

[Inheritance]

5 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I'm afraid I have no idea who Tom Scott is but I have ~ 30 macros on my standard keyboard in my office... Way ahead of you haha.

 

 

Eh, you have 3 profiles with 6 G-Keys, all you need to do is find 4 keys you don't want to use and rebind them. Im sure you can dig up more then 4 useless keys on a full length keyboard. 

6 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

tacky as hell

It's not too bad if you set it to white and leave it. 

[MorganO]

10 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

You don't apologize on the internet. Who the fuck do you think you are?

lmao 

[captain cactus]

9 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I'm afraid I have no idea who Tom Scott is but I have ~ 30 macros on my standard keyboard in my office... Way ahead of you haha.

 

 

The guy who did this which also inspired a LTT video: 

 

[dizmo]

Eh. It's ok. Hopefully they made the scroll wheel smoother, every Corsair keyboard I've tried the volume wheel is...sticky.

That price though...

Can't wait until MX Silver is on a lot more other companies boards.