Razer Nostomo Review

 Today i'm going to be reviewing the Razer Nostromo, which is a keypad used for gaming that is meant to substitute the keyboard. It is used in your left hand and replicates the left side of the keyboard, mainly the WSAD cluster. It has 16 programmable buttons. 14 are on the top, and would usually be mapped to the WSAD cluster and the keys around it. the 15th button is a thumb button, located behind the D-Pad. It can be used for anything, but I find it works best as a key-map cycler. The last button is round and located above the D-Pad, and it works quite well as a space-bar. It also has a scroll wheel that you can set up to do different things.

The Nostromo comes with configurator software (versions for both Windows and Mac). From there you can set up an unlimited amount of profiles, with up to 8 different key-maps in each. The current key-map is shown by the lights below the thumb button. The configurator also contains excellent macro software. You can set it up to execute macros of unlimited lengths. Also in the configurator, you can change the brightness setting of each profile, from 10% to 100%.


All in all, I really like this keypad and think it was a very good buy. If you are in America, you can get this for $60.00 on newegg.com. If you are in Australia, like me, you can get it for $75.00 from pccasegear.com. You could also buy it on the Razer store for $100 in either of these places. If you have the money to spare, I really recommend buying this as it is truly awesome.

I will also be attaching a link to a video I am going to make on the Nostromo (when I get around to it)

Ocelotsandwolves, signing out.