RGB lighting
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- I can't get enough of it!46%
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RGB fanboy vs. RGB hater: when are flashing lights overkill?
Keyboards, mice and cases - everything for gaming flashes. Some like it, others don't. Two editors, two opinions.
The RGB trend is unstoppable. Hardware manufacturers are constantly inventing new devices that they can decorate with colourful lights. They stop at nothing: headphones, mouse mats and even gaming chairs have long been fitted with LED strips. Editors Philipp and Kevin are of two minds about this visual stimulation.
Kevin, the simple one
Most of them, the gaming PCs, shine like a shrine. With their flashing lights, they really do remind me of cult objects. I imagine a host of gamers kneeling down in front of the boxes and worshipping them. Religion has never been my thing, which is why I renounce the RGB cult, because I like it simple.
My colleague Philipp Rüegg recently tested a gamer keyboard and mouse. In the office; next to me. After he plugged in the peripherals, I felt like I was in a 70s disco. The light show was impressive. If I was epileptic, I would have rolled on the floor. At least the flashing can be deactivated. Me and the epileptics of this world thank you for that.
I have now accepted that keyboards, mice and cases blink. But why do gamer chairs and headsets have to? Then it radiates like Chernobyl. How can you concentrate with all that flashing? From the front, back, top and bottom, it lights up and flashes in all kinds of colours. There's already enough going on on the screen. The RGB lighting is just distracting. I want to concentrate on what's relevant and not on the light show of my hardware and peripherals.
Philipp, the colourful one
Don't listen to Kevin, he's just jealous because he doesn't have a PC that he could pimp with RGB lights. My PC may not look as cool as the Christmas tree that we made a year ago, but it also means that I don't need a light in my room in the evening.
My case has a pretty glass front with LED strips, behind which the graphics card pulsates, flanked by the sea of colours of the RAM bars. Various case fans round off the presentation. Keyboard, mouse, monitor, soundbar - almost everything I use now has integrated lighting. If I can then synchronise them with each other to create a symphony of countless flashing lights, then my heart laughs.
I like lighting on PC hardware. Especially when it's RGB lighting that can glow in different colours and patterns. When a wave of rainbow colours washes over my keyboard, I'm as happy as a little kid. How can you not enjoy bright colours? I get a private 1st August fireworks display every day when I boot up my PC.
Clearly, even I think that the RGB craze is slowly taking on absurd dimensions. No office chair in the world needs integrated LED lighting. Do I have to replace the batteries or, even worse, trip over the power cable? Who comes up with something like that? Or the one Asus monitor that beams a ROG bat signal to the ceiling. Do you still have them all? The right dosage makes my eyes sparkle, and not just from the reflection of countless small LEDs.
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Kevin Hofer
Senior Editor
kevin.hofer@digitecgalaxus.chFrom big data to big brother, Cyborgs to Sci-Fi. All aspects of technology and society fascinate me.
