Being the first white keyboard I've used since the '90s, I was prepared to be underwhelmed by the Roccat Vulcan II Max's stylings. Combined with my ambivalence towards OTT RGB, I was preparing to caveat this review quite heavily. Kinda like what I'm doing now, I guess, but the reason is entirely different, because this slab is beautiful.
This is a full-sized affair with optical switches and Roccat's own AIMO lighting tech, which the company claims is twice as fast as the competition, in the sense that the RGB will react to your button presses with more immediacy. The key lights themselves bleed into the translucent detachable palm rest, which looks more impressive than it sounds: even undulating light effects course through that thick texture in concert with the switches, almost as if the palm rest itself has lights. It doesn't: this is just good old fashioned light trickery at play. And if the white model I reviewed is too, well, white for you, there's a black variety too.
