The Cerberus will cope with any reasonable amount of liquid, letting it disappear out of the bottom or pour away if you tilt it up and ensuring everything lives to work another day. So you'll still get a mess, but your keyboard will be okay.Īnd the drainage works pretty well. That means it's going to drain away onto your desk. Part of the simple brilliance of the Cerberus is that it has a couple of drainage holes built in to take the liquid out of the bottom of the keyboard and away from doing any lasting damage. That's not going to happen if it's attached to the back of a desktop rig.Įven though it's water resistant, the liquid doesn't just sit there sloshing around. When you spill on it, you're still going to want to whip it off your desk as quickly as possible. Wired is still most common for gaming focused keyboards, and this one would have benefited from a detachable cable for one important reason. One thing I wish the Cerberus had that it does not is a removable USB cable. You've got a few options here, such as having it pulse, lighting up blue or turning off altogether, but having lighting is better than not having it. It's a fairly sizeable keyboard so you may as well get as much as you can in the space available.Īnd as this is a gaming keyboard it lights up vivid red. Likewise with media keys, not everyone wants them, but ASUS included them anyway. If you're not playing games you probably want to keep it active. You also get the oft-wanted Windows lock key, another one for the gamers out there. Unless you're one of those who definitely 100% absolutely has to have them down the left-hand side of the keyboard, there's not much else to say. The macro keys run along the top, since they're also the F1 to F12 keys. You need to be more central else it just feels, odd. They keys are a nice size and shape, and the only real criticism I've had is that the Space bar isn't so hot when you just tap on the edge of it, as I do when I'm typing. The membrane switches are a little odd at first if you've never used them before, with an action somewhere between a 'regular' keyboard and a mechanical one. While you lack the feel of a mechanical switch, the Cerberus is pretty good to type on for extended periods. It certainly made my office quieter during the day. Gone is the clickety-clack of the keys and in its place a dull click.

As such moving over to a membrane keyboard was a pretty big change. I'm not exactly a serious PC gamer, but my regular keyboard does have Cherry MX Blue switches. The Cerberus uses membrane switches instead of the Mechanical keys favored by most serious gaming folks out there. While this is marketed as a gaming product, there's one thing right out of the gate that the more serious gamer might not be too impressed by.

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