Released in 2010, the world's first mechanical keyboard for gamers Razer BlackWidow has changed literally everything. And the balance of forces in the field of components, and the status of Razer itself, and the further development of gaming peripherals. Despite all the coolness of mechanical keyboards (most likely, you have already heard about it), their main drawback does not change ― by the standards of the periphery, they are quite expensive. At the best of times, you could buy quite a good graphics card for this money. Realizing that most gamers do not need such complications, Razer took care of an alternative. Namely, a series of moderately affordable membrane keyboards that will retain all the best features of Razer peripherals.


The output turned out to be an extremely interesting category of products, which, on the one hand, rises above other membrane keyboards, and on the other — is significantly cheaper than other Razer keyboards. In addition, the keys themselves turned out to be quite interesting. They have a fast and clear stroke with a small tactile impact and a quiet click. At first, it resembles, rather, some kind of hybrid optical-mechanical switches, rather than classic membrane keys. As expected, the keys support N-key roll over, and the proprietary Ultrapolling feature provides a high polling frequency with minimal input delays.

Otherwise, Cynosa keyboards repeat other popular product lines of the company like Razer Huntsman and BlackWidow. All of them are assembled like a tank, use a classic wired connection and are equipped with proprietary Razer Synapse software. The use of the backlight, the type of layout or format may vary depending on the specific modification. For example, RGB illumination appeared in the Cynos Chroma model, multimedia buttons and individual key illumination debuted in the sequel Cynosa V2, and for the light modification, on the contrary, all the excess was cut off to zero.