The Black Widow V4 Pro 75% is a good keyboard, but it also arrives at the obscene price of $300.
With a keyboard at this price, you'd expect a sublime typing experience, but Razer’s third-generation tactile switches are not great.
Although Razer made plenty of enthusiast choices under the hood, there are a lot of elements of the Black Widow V4 Pro that only a mainstream brand like Razer could pull off.
Razer always makes a big fuss about how great its RGB is, and for good reason. The Black Widow V4 Pro looks incredible.
The Black Widow V4 Pro comes with one major downside: battery life. With the OLED screen set to 50%, the RGB set to 70% with slow color cycling, and a 1,000Hz polling rate, the keyboard dies in as little as 10 hours.
The keyboard is mostly built out of plastic, short of a thin layer of aluminum that’s laid over the top.
Assuming you can settle for subpar battery life, the Black Widow V4 Pro 75% Wireless is a decent keyboard.
The Black Widow V4 Pro doesn’t have dedicated media keys, but it doesn’t need them. Razer wraps up a lot of functions that would normally be reserved for extra keys or special hotkeys into the Command Dial.
Don’t buy it right now. If you’re interested, wait until it goes on a steep sale — I wouldn’t spend more than $200 if you’re trying to get your money’s worth.
Razer includes a magnetic faux leather wrist rest that’s very comfortable to use.