Logitech G815 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

First up, build quality is good. It feels really nice, and I'm LOVING the low profile mechanical keys. I'm bummed it doesn't have a case because it may just wind up commuting with me to work. As a keyboard I REALLY like it. The keys are dished rather than flat like some competitiors, and that is a really nice feel. Ergonomically it is really working for me. Also the Bluetooth connects REALLY fast. Impressively so. The lightspeed connection so far has been indistinguishable for me in gaming. Which may mean nothing as I don't really play competitive, twitchy online games much anymore. Yes the keyboard feels like a wired keyboard and that's better than old bluetooth keyboards I have had in the past, but that describes both bluetooth and lightspeed. In short I'm pretty hooked on this thing which has it's down side given the premium price. OK, but I gave it three stars... why? 1) It's over $200 and while it feels nice, it's basically a plastic chassis with a metal base plate and some metal or metalized plastic cladding on top. There is a well regarded similar style wireless keyboard for basically $80 that lines up pretty similar in materials. 2) There are other bluetooth boards out there with very similar build for about $80. You are paying a more than $140 premium for lightspeed and color customization. Even worse, that $80 keyboard supports being paired to three devices. This supports 1 bluetooth connection and 1 lightspeed connection. 3) I mentioned color customization in #2 there, and that is where this is supposed to shine and can fall on its face. If this feature is worth money to you, you clearly want the lighting to work how YOU want it to. And it doesn't unless you only use it via lightspeed or wired. You do that and you have all sorts of control of layout, lighting, what it does unde low battery, etc. It's pretty sweet and not to hard to get the hang of using it. BUT... If you set it up how you want and go to bluetooth mode, poof it's gone. It does what it wants. Which is not great if you are allergic to RGB clown vomit like I am. Now initially after reading up on it prior to purchase I thought Iw ould be able to set it up to say be all red when on my gaming machine via lightspeed, and all green when connected via bluetooth to my laptop. It just doesn't do that. It's not aware of the state of the connection and thus you cant do that and set up a bluetooth default and lightspeed default. But I didn't much care because the same reviews that implied you could also failed ot mention that the mode buttons are illuminated and make it really obvious. You cna control modes form teh keyboard by holding the illumination button and pressing 0-1. 8 and 9 you can set yourself. So hey.. I can jsut set 8 to be green and 9 to be red and pick which one I want on demand. No biggie, right? Wrong. See that works like you expect in lightspeed more. In bluetooth mode, no.. when you idle enough to trigger the idle mode, it engages the idle mode from the factory. Not the one you set up via lightspeed and the app. This is basically breathing, dimming blue. And when you start typing it goes back to the right color though, right? NO! it goes back to factory default mode, solid bright blue. Paused to read an email for thirty second? Your board is back to blue mode and screw you that's why. Ok, this can't be right so I poke around more. What you can do is use the on board storage. If I do that AND configure 8 and 9 to be things I like in bluetooth mode I CAN get teh following behavior. lets say 8 is green and 9 is red. I go to bluetooth, and it stays in whatever mode I was in in lighting. If I hit brightness-8 it is now my custom all green setting. It idles and it goes breathing dimmed blue, BUT if I start typing again it goes back to my custom green setting. I can live with this. However, you know when I said light speed mode was perfect? Yeah.. when you tuern on on board memory, it is not perfect. That disables your control of idle and low power lighting configs. It too will no go to dim blue breathing mode when idle. I can live with this because that wasn't a killer feature for me, but It's a $200+ keyboard it'd be nice if it worked well, and that could be a killer feature for YOU. If anyone can tell me I'm just missing the right way to do it, I'll gladly update my review and bump it at least one star. ETA: Having lived with this keyboard for a while now, I still like. One non-obvious good thing I have come to appreciate is that it has an off switch. This makes regularly cleaning it much easier than with your typical wired keyboard or wireless keyboard with no off switch.