The matte black is classy, discreet, and austere. Personally, I much prefer the new treatment of the chassis. Also missing on the Cherry MX Green QF Rapid are the CM Storm markings to the right of the Esc key and above the arrow key cluster. The original QuickFire Rapid, which is still available, is silver grey in color. For one thing, it has now got a matte black chassis. Now, with this preamble done, let’s have a closer look at the Cherry MX Green-equipped QuickFire Rapid.Īlthough it is the newest QuickFire Rapid, astute observers will notice immediately that this plank is not identical to the first iteration of this model. It’s worth noting that for the time being, CM holds exclusive North American rights to Cherry’s Green switches – great for the company, not so great for the consumer. With the QuickFire Rapid now available with Green switches, CM aims to capture a rarely-tapped market segment. Whether it’s a certain type of mechanical key switch, or even a non-mechanical switch type, each end user develops personal biases for his or her favorite switch type.Ĭooler Master has four of the most popular Cherry MX switch types for its models: Blue (tactile and clicky) Brown (tactile and non-clicky) Black (linear with moderate actuation force) and Red (linear with light actuation force). After all, keyboards are all about user preference this, in turn, is usually most dependent on the type of key switch the end user prefers. These days, you can now buy almost every CM Storm mechanical keyboard with almost every Cherry MX key switch available.
With the advent of the QuickFire TK, it became clear that the company had listened to consumer feedback.
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For instance, at the time, I really wanted a QF Pro with Blues having had no experience with the Brown switch type, I couldn’t justify buying one at full price at the time it was introduced. Even at the time, I thought that the company was artificially limiting its own sales potential by doing this. For example, in North America, the QuickFire Rapid was available with just the Cherry MX Blue switch for the QuickFire Pro and the Trigger, MX Browns were used. This QF Rapid is not an all-new model, per se rather, it is an evolution of the original offering featuring a hitherto unavailable type of Cherry MX key switch.Īs explained in the introduction of our QuickFire TK review, when CM Storm first released its mechanical keyboards, the company adopted the interesting tactic of releasing only one Cherry MX switch type for each model for each geographic market.
Today, we’ll be having a good look at CM Storm’s latest attempt to keep its impressive record of keyboard review perfection intact: The QuickFire Rapid, now equipped with Cherry MX Green key switches.
It was a hugely impressive debut for Cooler Master, and it started a trend: To date, each CM Storm mechanical keyboard that has ever been released – QuickFire Rapid, QuickFire Pro, Trigger, and QuickFire TK – has earned Techgage’s esteemed Editor’s Choice award. The QuickFire Rapid was the first model made available, and accordingly Techgage got a review sample in January of 2012. That presence started in mid-2011, when the company announced its QuickFire and Trigger mechanical keyboards released under the banner of its Storm brand. It’s a bit hard to believe, but Cooler Master has only been in the keyboard market space for just short of two years. Before we get into the meat and potatoes of our look at Cooler Master’s Storm QuickFire Rapid with Cherry MX Green switches, let’s indulge in a little bit of exposition and background info, shall we?
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