![]() But fine, I solved multimedia keys with my "AnyKeyboard Multimedia Keys" app project, but I can't change physical things like small ENTER key and letters that they engrave after the fact which means they receive no backlight on RGB backlit keyboards and more importantly, the fact that keys are then filled with useless characters that don't correspond to their actual location on the keys. I was in the process of replacing keyboard and unfortunately Cherry Stream XT was unobtainable in Slovenian language (I absolutely need 3 things, multimedia keys, large ENTER key and originally engraved Slovenian characters čšž). Only happened on scissor mechanisms that were rather easily replaceable anyway. I also never had one fail on me via membrane side. The key travel was always sufficient and super well defined, the click point where membrane gave up was also physical enough that you sensed when it went past the rebound point and when that happened, keys always bottomed out, you could never somehow hold it in between so it would "click" and not register. They can be in low profile type which mechanicals just can't, their keys are NEVER as god damn wobbly as on all mechanical keyboards (I was fingering 250€ keyboards and they felt wonky and cheap because of it), they are super quiet and even though everyone keeps saying how they are mushy and have no tactile feel, that's not experience I had with those keyboards. Why is everyone dissing membrane keyboards so hard and praising mechanical ones so much? I've been on good membrane ones for years, Logitech UltraX and Cherry Steam XT being the highlights, I just can't hate on them. ║ Front IO_ ║ LG blu-ray drive & 3.5" card reader, _║ ║ CPU cooler _ ║ Be Quiet be quiet! PURE LOOP 360mm _║ ║ motherboard_ ║ asus crosshair formulla VIII_║ Many reviews for other models complain about the whole keyboard not working, and I've had the same experience myself when I bought a K6 as a Christmas gift for my father and had to return it after only about three months. That said, the Genius keyboards seem to be of questionable quality too. It feels tactile and certainly a lot better than your average mushy membrane keyboard or other mem-chanical keyboards (my brother, for example, has the Cooler Master blue-like keyboard, which Linus reviewed a couple of years ago, and it feels vastly inferior to the K10). I'd say the mechanical feel is quite good too. ![]() It has a 5-zone RGB lighting, replaceable keycaps (which have only now started to show wear around the edges of the most frequently used ones), quite a decent build quality, and accompanying software that allows you to remap the function keys (although it's kinda crap and never seemed to be working correctly). I've been using this fake mechanical Genius K10 keyboard for almost four years at this point. Tl dr: coincidences are funny, customer support should be considered for these kinds of things, etc. Might pull the trigger on that Stream Deck XL now. I almost never think about customer support for my products, frankly I almost never need them, but every time I have I'm so glad it's there and tend to factor that in to every purchase decision going forward. It was so much nicer then trying to track down some replacement parts on eBay. ![]() It wasn't my fault nor Corsair's (outside 3rd party), but I was so happy to know that they'll just send certain parts to you for free, simply asking for an address to send to you and some basic identifying information (in the case of keycaps, up to 5). Just yesterday I found myself suddenly needing a few replacement keycaps. it's one of those, "not important.until it is" kinda deals. I'm still rocking those today.Ī thing not mentioned is the support for these peripherals. I replaced them with a Logitech G502 mouse and Corsair K95 RGB (the last one, with the 18 macros). I flipped it a little while later, alongside with a mouse from them as well. Maybe they reused the naming convention? I don't know. It also weirdly had Kailh blues and I never knew that it had hot swappable key switches. If I remember correctly they had less competition at the time, which would explain the price then. Back then, it was about $50, before shipping and taxes, but it was a solid pick at the time even despite the price. ![]() Weirdly enough, I had a k552 as my first mechanical keyboard. ![]()
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