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It's not something I'd pay for, but if I had endless funding, it's a cool addition. Personally, I don't need the lighting feature, and I'm not sure how much it adds to the retail cost of the keyboard. It seems a little excessive, but in the dark, it actually helps to be able to see the keys (unlike on a mouse, where I'm never going to get lost.) I still prefer using tactile markers like the raised dashes on F and J keys - but you can light it up however you want, and it looks cool without taking away from the performance. Mathematically, I feel like there are more keyboard color combinations for the Rapidfire than there are atoms in the known universe. You can customize the color of every single key, and there are tons of color options. The keyboard lights up! (As most gaming keyboards do.) But if you want to completely reconfigure everything and genuinely enjoy being able to do that - which I'm sure a lot of gamers do - you can do so to your heart's content. #K70 RAPIDFIRE COLORS PRO SOFTWARE#Once I did get it installed, the software allowed me to create new macros, customize the color of every key, and generally tamper with other things I really shouldn't want to mess with on a keyboard. It's almost like they didn't want me to use the advanced settings. #K70 RAPIDFIRE COLORS PRO INSTALL#The lighting software control panel didn't download for my Mac (it may not be compatible) and it encountered errors the first time I tried to install it on my PC. The software is cool, though, because it lets you customize a lot of stuff - including the multitude of LEDs. Your Corsair Rapidfire should work pretty much as soon as it is plugged in. ![]() I took off the special W with the provided key grabber, put on my special R, and got things rolling. In the box are a number of alternate special-grip keys to replace the WASD and R keys (for MOBA games where R is arguably the most important key.) The WASD keys are backlit in a different color by default, just like the normal directional arrows they're used in place of for most FPS game setups. On first look, the Rapidfire is all about gaming. I simply plugged them both into my computer side by side. The dongle for the keyboard has two male USB plugs. The Rapidfire has the normal QWERTY key layout, along with an inbound USB port, a BIOS switch, and sound/video control buttons in the top right corner. But that's the nature of gaming keyboards, I suppose. It must weigh at least double what my Dell keyboard weighs, being heavy and rigid to the point where it would make a dangerous weapon in real-life combat. Since I don't plan on moving my keyboard around a lot once I put it on my desk, that's fine - but I was still surprised. I also tried to use this as an extension on my Mac (which has an integrated keyboard,) but aside from lacking the obligatory two USB ports side-by-side, I couldn't get the advanced software to download on the Mac. Add that to all the time I spent typing both in-game and out of game, and the fact that my wife spent a good dozen hours using it, and we have a well-rounded sample to review from. I also tested a little of the obligatory FPS time on Team Fortress 2. That should be an even testing ground considering League is still the most-played video game in the entire world. #K70 RAPIDFIRE COLORS PRO PC#I plugged this little work of sorcery into my PC and went right to playing League of Legends. #K70 RAPIDFIRE COLORS PRO PROFESSIONAL#It performs like you'd expect any Corsair keyboard would, but the adaptations of this keyboard don't quite seem like the edge I would need to win in amateur or professional play. This particular keyboard was designed with both multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and first-person shooter (FPS) games in mind, although I didn't personally experience any advantage in gameplay while using it. But I did my best to set that aside and give this one a fair show. From my experience, the mechanical keyboard seems like more of a trade-off with membrane keyboards than an improvement on them. That being said, I play mouse and keyboard games frequently (not to mention that I type on keyboards for a living). Corsair claims the keyboard is targeted for competitive gaming, and while I do have rage attacks when I lose, I'm hardly a professional PC gamer. ![]()
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