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**Key Take Away**: This is the most portable mechanical clicky keyboard I have found at half the price I paid for larger, name-brand keyboards (that had less than half the features). **Most Useful to You**: If you buy one of these, I have listed the 8 preprogrammed RGB patterns, and backlight colors at the bottom of the review. ------------------- # My Review This winter I went crazy looking for the "perfect" keyboard to write a book. For a variety of reasons, I had to reduce my office to a backpack, meaning everything went onto my MacBook Pro, and my iPad Pro as my second screen. The butterfly keyboard on the mac is tragically bad, but the new scissor keys won't be out until mid-2020. I tried making the switch to a windows laptop - Love the Lenovo X1 Carbon, but as I am heavily invested in the Apple eco-system, it was just too painful. So my MacBook stays. As a result, I proceeded to try, seven keyboards. That's right. 7. I am very picky about my key feel. I prefer clicky keys - Red Switches are smooth but don't provide that satisfying click. Brown switches, while quiet, and have a tactile bump, are too subtle for my taste. I like the blue switches. I want to HEAR and FEEL the click. While I found keyboards I love, most are too big and heavy to take on the road. Then I found the DIERYA. Why this was the LAST keyboard I tried, I don't know. But, I have to give Dierya credit. This keyboard nailed all my requirements. They have a blue switch (clicky) version which I LOVE. The keyboard supports Bluetooth to THREE devices - which means I can work on my MacBook Pro, my iPad Pro, or my iPhone. That is awesome. It has a USB-C connector, which I thought would let me connect USB-C to USB-C with my Mac! But as of yet, the keyboard has only worked with the cable it came with :-( and I'm not sure why. My cons for the keyboard are mostly minor. The Shift and /? are not where I expect them, but with such a compact layout, I will make the effort to adjust. I just have to pay attention and make sure I don't press 'up' when I mean to shift. Finally, I wanted to share the lighting pattern on the December 2019 version of the keyboard: ## Lighting Info The keyboard has 8 programmed RGB light modes, and you can switch the backlight (Static) color! You change modes with FN+/ ## Here are the preprogrammed RGB modes: 1. Solid color - no key response. When you type a key it stays in that color. 2. Chaser - fills in keyboard with colors racing/chasing across the keyboard. 3. Wave - a wave of rainbow colors wash across the board. The keys do not respond to your keypress. 4. Ripple - keys go to your solid color, then when you press a key, a rainbow effect spreads out from the center. **Note**: You can slow down the ripple using FN+← to slow it down and FN+→ to speed it up. 5. Row ripple - this pattern keeps the keys in the default color, but when you type the row ripples. 6. Single Key Flash - (Footprints?) This mode the keys you type flash RGB, but do not affect the keys around them. (I kind of like this mode because it gives feedback when you type. **This is my favorite mode** 7. Splash - This mode does a rainbow ripple to only the adjacent keys you have typed. _this is my second favorite mode_ 8. Breathing - in this mode the keys do not respond (visually) to your typing, but the whole keyboard breaths the RGB color cycle. You can change the backlight (static) color with FN+Enter - Red - Blue - Green - Purple - Yellow - Turquoise - White - Black. Off I am super impressed with this keyboard, and I highly recommend it. I don't have any experience with its durability as I just unboxed it, but I am so impressed that I literally sat down to write this review with my new keyboard.