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Hi guys. I am thinking of getting a Razer Blade 15 towards the end of the year, but I have a bit of an issue. I CANNOT STAND having different peripheral brands at the same time. Personally I would like to be able to just go all Razer since I will have their laptop. However, I am not sure if Razer peripherals are getting better or not as I have never tried one.
Would it be worth going all Razer (tacky I know) or having a Logitech Mouse, Corsair KB and some good headphones?
I was looking at getting the Mamba Wireless, BlackWidow v2 and the Nari.

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Many of the mainstream brands have areas where they skimp on stuff 


For corsair it's the terrible stabilizers and poor quality keycaps


For Razer it's no metal backplate, bad keycaps, and bad stabilizers, also their greetech switches are rather scratchy and have minute tactility, with the razer green switch often refereed to as a linear clicky switch.
As far as improvement goes razer has gone a decent way, the new razer mamba wireless has a much better sensor compared to pte sensor in the old mamba wireless. For keyboards they've also gone a decent way, their razer green kailh switches in their old boards had inconstancy issues and their new greetech green switches have solved that, but razer switches are still quite sub par. 

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2 minutes ago, b emoji said:

Many of the mainstream brands have areas where they skimp on stuff 


For corsair it's the terrible stabilizers and poor quality keycaps


For Razer it's no metal backplate, bad keycaps, and bad stabilizers, also their greetech switches are rather scratchy and have minute tactility, with the razer green switch often refereed to as a linear clicky switch.
As far as improvement goes razer has gone a decent way, the new razer mamba wireless has a much better sensor compared to pte sensor in the old mamba wireless. For keyboards they've also gone a decent way, their razer green kailh switches in their old boards had inconstancy issues and their new greetech green switches have solved that, but razer switches are still quite sub par. 

I've never actually touched a Razer keyboard, although I've never used a real mechanical either so I might not even notice much of a difference at first. Here's hoping they get a Widow v3 before the end of the year

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I didn't start using their stuff until this Blade 14 that I bought I think March 2017 once they refreshed with a 7700HQ and GTX 1060. It is still running like a champ (I had to repaste the CPU because it was running very hot out of the box). No wear, no issues, nada. The cloth braid on the AC adapter is slightly starting to fray in one spot.

 

Maybe 6 months ago I picked up a Huntsman Elite keyboard, Mamba Elite mouse, and 2018 version of the Mamba Wireless (to use with the Blade). No issues at all with any of them so far.

 

I will say that just comparing my experience with all the complaints of poor quality that you see online - my only conclusion is that I take really good care of my stuff, so it lasts forever. Lots of people seem to be very rough with their electronics and Razer products don't seem to fare well in that kind of life so if you are a bit rough with your things I would not suggest anything Razer. If you tend to be pretty gentle as far as wear goes, they seem great to me.

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