It’s just a chintzy piece of plastic, which would’ve been fine two years ago but is increasingly unsatisfying given the plush wrist rests coming from Logitech and Razer nowadays. The Vulcan 120’s wrist rest attaches to the keyboard magnetically, but that’s where the high-end feeling stops. Notice how it’s only a $10 price difference? Yeah, you can tell. It’s the primary distinction between the $150 Vulcan 100 and this $160 Vulcan 120. ![]() It’s the extraneous features-those outside the core typing experience-that are a let-down. ![]() Typing on the Vulcan 120 Aimo takes some getting used to, but after a few weeks I’m pretty enamored. It’s easily my favorite design from Roccat, a company that has (in my opinion) struggled to make much of a dent in the mechanical keyboard market thus far. So yeah, for the most part I think the Vulcan 120 Aimo is a successful experiment. The half-height keycaps make a much larger difference than the actual switches, in this case. As with most of the in-house Cherry knockoffs (e.g., Razer, SteelSeries, and now Roccat) the goal seems to be to mimic Cherry’s feel as closely as possible. You’d be hard-pressed to notice the difference though. The closest equivalent is the Cherry MX Brown, with a tactile bump at the actuation point-though the Titan’s travel distance of 3.6mm and actuation of 1.8mm are slightly shorter. Surprise: It still looks like a Cherry MX switch, though the usual stem is supplemented by two reinforced bits of plastic on the outer edge. Roccat’s gone the way of proprietary tech, designing its own “Titan” switch in collaboration with TTC. You’ll notice I keep saying Cherry- style switches, and for good reason.
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