Performance

Performance testing the Lobera Supreme consisted of both office and gaming use. This is easy to do in the LanOC office though, I tend to spend all night working, all day sleeping, and all evening gaming. One of my big concerns was with the Kailh switches, especially after the Razer switches were a little wobbly. Surprisingly I had no issues at all with the brown switches in the Lobera. Had I not known there were different switches I would never notice. To test this Adam spent the weekend with the board and actually talked multiple times about how great the switches felt. I would call that a success!

So how did the three macro keys work out in that unique location? Well for starters I had no issues with them getting bumped over any of our testing. With there location that was originally a concern for me. When I tried to press them they worked perfectly although they did take a little more force than I would prefer. This could also be why we never had any miss clicks on them. Training yourself to actually use them is by far the hardest part, it’s an easy to use location, but I’m not used to pushing a key there.

The slightly wide bezel on the Lobera was noticeable when gaming. I found it to be just thin enough that putting my wrist on it wanted to push the keyboard back. Slightly thicker or thinner would correct that issue by giving my wrist a nice place to sit or by giving room to put my wrist on the table.

In the software section I talked a little about me being disappointed about not being able to go crazy with the RGB lighting. You are only able to set one color for the whole keyboard. That isn’t all bad though, it is still way better than being locked in with a single color for the life of the keyboard. So how did the lighting perform? Well it is more than bright enough in any color and you do have a half way decent selection of colors available, although it will be nice when they implement the full color spectrum. Anyhow with a few colors I did notice a couple keys were off a little. This was the most noticeable on purple but also yellow. A few keys are darker and a few are lighter, this was a little concerning. I don’t know if it was a quality issue for our keyboard, an overall quality issue with the LEDs used, or a software issue. In most colors it did look great, I was just a little bummed because the best part about having color options is having the option to do colors like purple. Not to mention the purple looked great with the keyboard!

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #35806 31 Oct 2014 22:48
Today I take a look at our first RGB Mechanical keyboard, we have more sitting here so expect more reviews soon. The Lobera though looks like it will offer the cheapest entry into a mech RGB.
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elguapo replied the topic: #35807 01 Nov 2014 18:27
I thought the polished aluminum looked fantastic until I saw the wrist guard and logo, I really think they missed an opportunity for some slick looking laser etching there.

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