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Looking to add a keyboard to your gaming PC setup? Tesoro Technology USA has got you covered: in color! The company announced the mechanical-like Lobera and the mechanical Lobera Extreme for $89USD and $139USD. The Extreme, snatching the crown as the more expensive and premium model, boasts keys featuring full color illumination, with gaming grade switches in Black, Blue, Brown, and Red. This is an industry-first, as the Lobera Extreme is the first full color illumination mechanical gaming keyboard.
Specs-wise, both keyboards implement built-in 512KB of memory for recording and storing macros, dual USB 2.0 ports, audio and microphones jacks, and a DC-in jack. The DC-in jack is a convenient, little addition that allows the keyboard to charge your smartphone/tablet while you game. All the keys posses the ability to be programmed to your heart’s content, opening the doors to five sets of profiles and three hundred macro keys to two thousand macro key presses per profile.
At Tesoro’s press release, the company said a few words about the naming inspirations of both boards: “Tesoro Lobera and Tesoro Lobera Supreme are named after a famous sword of bravery and great virtue. Also nicknamed ‘the sword wolf-slayer,’ it symbolized power used by St. Ferdinand III, becoming the most famous swords in recording history, and making its righteous owner an invincible champion and exemplary knight.”
The company also went into greater detail about the keyboard backlighting features: “Lobera Supreme allows users to modify LED colors to any color of their liking. No longer do users have to choose mechanical gaming grade keyboards with only one color of LED. Lobera Supreme allows for full 16.8 million colors for illumination, each key illuminated individually, together with a side bar effects. It comes with full backlight LED, which can be adjusted to four levels of brightness: breathing mode, color loop and game mode, where only gaming keys are illuminated.”
The company also gave us some information concerning build quality and manufacturing processes: “High quality top enclosure with brushed texture surface finish is used to ensure longevity and high durability. High quality anti-slip with an option to choose three different heights depending on personal needs and high quality braided cables with gold-plated USB connectors to maximize life of the product are the important details that Tesoro provides to manufacture this highest quality keyboard currently available in the market.”
If you decide to save some cash and spring for the cheaper “membrane version” of the keyboard, you won’t miss out on too much. It still allows for full color modification and tinkering, but only features two levels of brightness. Another minor difference between the two keyboards is a ten million key actuation on the original model and fifty million on the Supreme variant. Aside from the lighting differences, both highlight the same anti-slip architecture, rubberized bottom stand, and slick brushed and textured surface.
These two keyboards look to very promising and offer some unique capabilities, no doubt about it. Tesoro is a relatively new company, founded in 2011, and these new boards could definitely help it compete in the ultra-competitive gaming market that we’re looking at today. Quoting Calvin Candy from Django Unchained, I must say, “Tesoro, you had my curiosity. But now, you have my attention.”
Via: Tom’s Hardware