Video Review: The Future of Gaming Keyboards - Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL Pro Review

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The Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL Pro is a ten-keyless gaming keyboard with linear Hall Effects Magnetic switches.

Hall Effects switches are the future; it gives you, the Gamer, power to decide how deep you press your keys before it registers the click.

Actuation points from 0.1mm to 4.0mm can be chosen (an example of 0.1mm is in the video), which makes this a multi-purpose keyboard for both:

  • gaming (set low actuation, like 1.4mm) and

  • normal typing tasks (set high actuation, say 3mm or 4mm).

You can easily change actuation for all keys globally, but if you really want, can also set each individual key to something different using Swarm II if you have the time, patience and the need.

For hardcore gamers, Turtle Beach has programmed customized actuations like Rapid Trigger and Multi-input; and just recently added another called ReacTap (updated via firmware).

Being that Hall Effects switches are magnetic, their lifecycle is rated at 150 million strokes as opposed to the 50 to 100 million strokes of their mechanical counterparts.

So far, the above are the newest technologies in the keyboard and we've only talked about switches. Other gaming keyboard features include:

  • Polling rate: 1000 Hz

  • Anti-ghosting

  • Game Mode

  • RGB back-lighting (includes AIMO synchronized gear lighting)

  • EasyShift secondary button functions (Turtle Beach exclusive)

  • 8MB Memory & ARM Cortex chip to save profile settings

  • Replaceable keycaps (with Cherry MX cross-type caps)

A word about replacing keycaps; while it can be done, I don't recommend it since generic replacement keys won't have the lettering needed for proprietary functions (like lights, actuation levels, media keys, profiles, etc).

Hopefully some time in the future, Turtle Beach will sell replacement caps specific to their keyboards.

My personal take: as of November (it's almost Thanksgiving), the Vulcan II TKL Pro has been my daily driver for 6 months of testing and I really like it. It works well with very few issues and Turtle Beach has been making steady improvements via Swarm II for it over the months.

Two thumbs up.

If you're thinking of buying a new gaming keyboard, now's a great time to add this model to your shopping list since Black Friday sales have started.

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More Info: https://www.turtlebeach.com
(Test unit provided by Turtle Beach for this review.)