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I thought I would love this keyboard after messing with it in Best Buy. The action of the keys feels really nice -- you can type super fast on this thing. It is also very modern and clean looking. The detachable number pad seems pointless. I guess it's nice if you don't want to use it at all and need to free up space, or perhaps if you are an accountant, but otherwise it just feels like one more piece of something to move around and keep managed on your desk. I have read a complaint from an actual number cruncher so I wouldn't count on the latter. The biggest glaring flaw is the function keys. I am used to having multimedia keys on my keyboard. This keyboard has special function keys, but you have to toggle a switch every time you use them. SUPER ANNOYING. This alone (potentially) ruins this keyboard. The function keys are also very small. Some smart guy somewhere decided there shouldn't be a function key on this keyboard. Instead they put worthless keys (like a context menu button). It has been years and I don't see Microsoft ever resolving it. As a programmer your day looks something like this: Press F5 to refresh page, etc. Oh... I want to pause my music... Find tiny toggle switch... switch over... Press special function key to pause music Switch the tiny switch back so function keys can behave normally.... later on... need to play music again... hmmm is the key switched on or off (I can't remember where I left the toggle)?... let me look.. can't tell from the tiny switch.. guess I will press a key and see... oh I guess it's toggled... oops... repeat cycle all day .... Imagine if every time you wanted to use your shift key for instance, you have to toggle a switch of pressing a key. Then you had to toggle the switch again to turn shift off... That's basically what this is like. At least if they were gonna make it so freaking annoying, they could have use a button to toggle instead of a tiny switch. If you don't ever play music, youtube, facebook videos, etc., on your computer, then maybe you will love this thing. UPDATE: So here is a solution for those who want to hold on to this thing but really need the multimedia buttons to be easily accessible: 1) Go and download autohotkey. I did some research and this program is open source and seems safe. It also have decent community on stack overflow, but feel free to do your own research. Create the following script: <#F11:: Send {Volume_Down} return <#F12:: Send {Volume_Up} return <#F9:: Send {Media_Play_Pause} return <#F10:: Send {Volume_Mute} return This will basically map the Windows Key to serve a function key. I only updated the multimedia buttons, but feel free to check our their docs to alter the other buttons.