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- 7 de Sep, 2016
It's the small things that can make something good great or something great annoying.
I have this keyboard and mouse and and it's really good, it's not as shallow as it seems, keys can be macro:ed and while not mechanical there's still a good clonk to the keys after using it almost daily for 3-4 years. I like it, but...
...look at the tiny F-keys. Their width is slightly smaller than the width of an index finger, they're very shallow, not grouped and separated in fours, the space between escape and F1 is about the same as the space between the other keys meaning that sometimes when hitting escape the cursed F1 is pressed. And on the end is the fucking FN Lock. Put that one on the back of the keyboard where it can't be reached.
The blue color is not nearly as bright as it seems, it's almost invisible. When the room is illuminated by bulbs they cannot be seen, when illuminated by indirect sunlight they can't be seen because the keyboard is glossy and reflective. I broke out some old model paints and marked them up with whatever Games Workshop calls 'yellow'. The baffling zoom feature(wtf?) in the lower left can not be easily reassigned like everything else for reasons unknown, it requires editing XML files. It's just not exposed in Mouse and Keyboard center like everything else. Why would the easiest to reach macro buttons be zoom? Who came up with this shit? Put those on the back as well.
The mouse is really good, the right weight and good clicks. Except for the button on the right, assigned by default to be the "page forward" button in browsers. It can only be used by awkwardly hitting it with the side of the first knuckle on the ring finger or by switching the grip and click it with the index finger. It doesn't work so well these days from being constantly smashed from odd angles.
The scroll wheel has side tilt/clicks. Completely unusable, the only thing I've found where it does something is changing the volume if hovering over the speaker settings. That no longer works, maybe they patched it out. It can not be reassigned by any means, I and other people have tried hooking it and intercepting every event but it turns out that Microsoft developed a non-standard driver function that sends those specific clicks to windows without ever passing through the message queue or something bizarre like that. What's even the point of all that? They built the hardware, wrote a "special" driver function, advertised it as a four way wheel then did nothing with it.
The blue color is not nearly as bright as it seems, it's almost invisible. When the room is illuminated by bulbs they cannot be seen, when illuminated by indirect sunlight they can't be seen because the keyboard is glossy and reflective. I broke out some old model paints and marked them up with whatever Games Workshop calls 'yellow'. The baffling zoom feature(wtf?) in the lower left can not be easily reassigned like everything else for reasons unknown, it requires editing XML files. It's just not exposed in Mouse and Keyboard center like everything else. Why would the easiest to reach macro buttons be zoom? Who came up with this shit? Put those on the back as well.
The mouse is really good, the right weight and good clicks. Except for the button on the right, assigned by default to be the "page forward" button in browsers. It can only be used by awkwardly hitting it with the side of the first knuckle on the ring finger or by switching the grip and click it with the index finger. It doesn't work so well these days from being constantly smashed from odd angles.
The scroll wheel has side tilt/clicks. Completely unusable, the only thing I've found where it does something is changing the volume if hovering over the speaker settings. That no longer works, maybe they patched it out. It can not be reassigned by any means, I and other people have tried hooking it and intercepting every event but it turns out that Microsoft developed a non-standard driver function that sends those specific clicks to windows without ever passing through the message queue or something bizarre like that. What's even the point of all that? They built the hardware, wrote a "special" driver function, advertised it as a four way wheel then did nothing with it.
It would be really good if parts of it wasn't made by morons.
