Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard | Very nice keyboard

Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard | Solid Backlit keyboard

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highly recommended

Very nice keyboard

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Solid Backlit keyboard

I had been looking for a backlit keyboard for a long time, but most of them seem to be very pricey. I finally found this one on sale for about half off and it's excellent. The key action is very smooth and quiet and the keys feel solid. The backlight is nice and I have no problems reading the keys at night. I have only used the LCD a little bit, but do far it has been very useful. I like the feature to turn off the windows key, who hasn't hit that in a game and been pulled out to the desktop! I'm very happy with the purchase and would buy another.

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It's a keeper, but good be better...

I am in love with the LED back-lighting as I do a lot of work at night and don't care to have a light on. This keyboard is typical Logitech quality; the keys are nice to the touch, not too loud, and have a quick response. The buttons are in the standard layout and size as well. My few quirks with the keyboard are the lack of a volume wheel (much easier to quickly change the volume), the LCD could be slightly larger to fill the space, and the back-lighting can only change brightness, not color (not sure if any keyboards do this currently without a hardware hack). As you can see, these aren't major issues at all, but rather something Logitech can take into consideration for their next model.

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Expensive and haven't found much use for the fancy features yet

I bought a Gateway P-6831 FX gaming laptop and I absolutely hated the position of the Fn key - I wish it were between L ctrl and the Windows Key rather than in the far back left corner. I never got used to it after trying for over two weeks. I noted that I never play games except at home, so I decided to go for a docking station type setup with a laptop cooler, USB hub, this keyboard and a Logitech G5 mouse.

This keyboard layout took a little getting used to. I'm used to having my hand hover over the left side while gaming with WASD. Typing is fine since my hands are better aligned. I would sometimes be hitting the G6 button instead of L ctrl, but after a mistake, it's quickly fixed for the rest of the session. Though, the possibility of making the error at the start of a session always exists.

I haven't found much use for the LCD or G macro keys. I don't even look down at my keyboard and it's resting on a keyboard tray so half the time it's hidden by the desk. I haven't got a feel for the G keys, so I would have to look down to make sure I was hitting the right key. I sometimes missed my esc key and hit G1 and that could cause a lot of problems.

In the end, I disabled the G macro keys, don't even look at the LCD, have the windows key disabler permanently switched on, and use the media key functions instead of the ones found on my laptop. Over 2x the price just for the backlight and glow that matches my laptop basically.

I've looked on G15 fan sites for plugins for the LCD and macro ideas for the games I played, but I haven't found anything useful beyond what I did with a normal keyboard and what I can normally bring up on my screen in an instant.

Update: I found some useful functions for the LCD. It's great for benchmarking software. You can monitor CPU, GPU, mem temps and load on each of the cores using Everest. It was useful to me for a shortwhile, but I don't even bother looking down anymore since it's predictable. Only when I'm actually doing an extreme test will I bother to look. If my setup had my keyboard setup just below my monitor, maybe the LCD would be more useful.

Regarding the macro keys... once I got used to the layout I played with them some more. I made a few fun macros such as one that I used as a taunt and another that was basically a "jump really fast" macro which I used a joke in WoW running into a wall and banging my head repeatedly waiting for the mana users to recover.

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