The cables of the Razer Tarantula are quite long, I measured them and found
that they are about 2 meter (6.5 foot) long.
One of the USB cables is used to power your keyboard, the other three cables
are used for these ports. There are two USB ports and it's also possible to
connect your headphone and microphone to the keyboard.
A nice touch is that the gold-plated USB connectors feature a cap for extra
protection. The green cable and pink cable need to be connected to your sound
card if you want to use the Tarantula's headphone and microphone connectors.
Unfortunately there are two small problems with the USB ports on the
Tarantula, the first one is that they aren't powered by the same cable as the
Tarantula keyboard and the second issue is that they aren't USB 2.0 but USB
1.1 which is a lot slower.
Most of the pictures in this review where taken outside. As you can see in
this picture the glossy finish of the Tarantula is very mirror-like, you can
see the reflection of the clouds on the keyboard. The back of the keyboard
also has four rubber strips to prevent slipping.
Like on most keyboards, there are also two standoffs to raise the height a
bit.
The keyboard ships with ten special blue-colored keys. These buttons are
designed to replace the 10 programmable macro buttons and you can also find a
special tool inside the box which makes it a bit easier to remove keys. Most
of the icons on these ten buttons are for FPS games. There's a grenade, a
pistol, a machinegun, an axe, a fist, a chat button, a helmet, an ammunition
button to reload your gun and there are also two buttons which could be used
for sniping.
Razer made some modifications to the keys and the key sockets so you can
remove the keys without fearing that something may break off. This feature is
also handy to clean your keyboard.
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