CHERRY B.UNLIMITED 3.0 Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅10-09-17
Performance Testing
Setting up the B.UNLIMITED 3.0 is incredibly simple, with both the mouse and keyboard sharing a single USB wireless adapter; wireless range is more than 8M (unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any further away from the test rig.)

Typing on the B.UNLIMITED is a pleasure, the keys provide plenty of bounce-back to facilitate even the fastest of typing; we actually found the keyboard helped to improve typing speed in an online WPM test, compared to the Razer Green Mechanical keys on the daily driver. The overall construction of the keys feel solid and remain quiet even when being heavy-handed while typing. The function keys in the top right, the Calculator, Email etc, are a little funny, with an almost hinge-like feel to them, though they’ll be seldom used and shouldn’t be too much of an issue – It was noted in a previous review of a CHERRY keyboard, the Stream 3.0, that it would’ve been welcomed to forego the media keys and swap to more “office-focused” keys.

The sensor in the mouse can be configured to two different DPI settings, 1000 or 2000, the method feels a little silly, but it’s simple and easy to do; you press down both the right and left mouse buttons then use the scroll wheel to adjust up and down. The infrared sensor works well for general use but does suffer somewhat when attempting to snap-shoot some foes in Paladins.



Due to the recess running the full length of the mouse, right through the middle, we found that the edges of this can catch your finger while using the scroll wheel; this isn’t an issue at first, but when searching for images on Google or scrolling an online document, it can slowly start to cause discomfort due to the sharp edges.

Appearance being considered, the mouse and keyboard will suit the office environment but with that being said, it’s not going to win any beauty awards in front of a gaming PC. Speaking of which, gaming performance is pretty much non-existent; the keyboard responds quickly enough, despite the 100Hz polling rate, but the hardware begins to trip over itself when 3 or 4 buttons are pressed at once. It may be suitable for some light gaming during your lunch break, however.

Battery life is of very little concern, during a week of testing, which mounts up to around 50 hours of usage, the battery still hasn’t begun to show signs of going. CHERRY don’t provide a guideline on the time between charges but the included USB cable is long enough to facilitate charging and use at the same time. We’d be happy with anything over a month on both devices.

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