Review of the GW2K Anykey keyboard

In Short

Programmable standard keyboard, whose keys silent but tactile, and has diagonal arrow and dual F keys.

In Depth

The keys very much suit my tastes. They are tactile with almost too much resistance, giving way at the right point for a satisfying amount of travel. The keys are also very quite, about as quite as you can hope for in a tactile keyboard. Overall a very solid, pleasing feel.

Since the Anykey is a programmable keyboard, it many extra keys to program, including a strange diagonal arrow key setup. You can use the programmability of the keyboard to make the arrow keys act more like those of a standard keyboard,
but it is still harder to find your place without looking than with a normal layout.

The programmability is a very nice feature. You can program something on the order of a total of 1200 keystrokes and each key can be set up to trigger a different macro (ie the F keys along the side can be programmed separately from the keys along the top). The only downside is that the keys are always played back at a fast typing speed, no faster or slower, so in today's slow windows environment you can not always depend on your keys being entered correctly. The trick is to toggle the scrollock button a few times in between steps that take a while for the computer to finish, which in effect is like adding a delay between the real keys (unless the program you are using makes use of scroll lock)!

If you want a programmable keyboard with a standard layout I strongly suggest this keyboard.