My review
The black matt Vynal / silver mix makes for one very elegant looking piece of kit. The keys are soft with good travel yet doesn't have the 'squish' at the bottom of the key travel as some boards do. No negatives here at all, not spectacular but nothing to complain about.
The blue backlighing in the keys is nothing short of perfect. My son has a backlit keyboard
link and next to it the minimalist look of the G15 character illumination exudes a whole new level of class.
The two USB ports along the top are greatly appreceated. I use one for the G7 receiver and the other spare for now.
One big down side is that the rear legs are no where near tall enough. Even raised the keyboard is flat. For me I want the rear to be 1-2 cms higher than the front (It's a big board) so with the help of mr drill and 10 minutes I re-engineered them so that when extended they raise the back a full 2cm.
The Lcd screen just screams to be used. With LCDStudio
Link I have it displaying an analogue clock in the middle, IP's of both my nics & Winamp Equaliser to the left, FRAPS, freemem and bandwith graphs on the right. You can have multiple LCD programs running at once so by pressing the little black select button below the display I can cycle through other screens I've loaded. The other one I use a lot shows all the temps and frequencies which is handy when fooling around with overclocking or sussing out temps under load without having to alt-tab to MBM mid game. All in all the LCD is a useless device that grows in importance with out you realising.
Media controls work great with everything except WinAmp... Itunes, WMP... everything else works great... come on winamp devs get with the program! Hell even PRAPS has built G15 LCD support directly into their latest version!
I've yet to take advantage of the macro keys but damn these things are going to be sooooooooooo handy. Now I can have ALL my BF2 commands under my left hand. And can anyone say "buy script" for CS Source..
Anyhow after two weeks this has become one of those rare items that improves with age. The more I use this the more the $109 spent was worth every penny. What ever Buyer's Remorse is well this is the opposite.
PS: throw the wrist rest away, I've yet to find one that was ever of any use.