How To Use The Same Mechanical Keyboard For Both Mac And Windows

I just got this keyboard for my mac and I love it. The mechanical keys are a dream. To answer your question (very late), I've swapped my K70 back and forth between a win 8 machine and a mac and the LED config is definitely saved.

There are some issues though, which I'll get to later. Both Alt and Win keys on both sides of the space bar work and in OSX keyboard preferences I reversed them to act like option and command. The application launcher key I never use, so I have no idea. There are some media keys and volume keys, which appear to work in my experience, except for the Stop button (I guess it doesn't know what to do with that in iTunes, since there is only Play/Pause).

There are three corsair specific buttons at the top: one for setting the LEDs (which are all red), one for adjusting the LED brightness, and one lock for disabling the windows key when activated (presumably so you don't accidentally kill your fullscreened game by hitting the start menu button). Both the one for setting LEDs and their brightness work everywhere; I've tested by setting it up on a PC and then plugging it into a mac and it still kept it.

Hitting the LED button just switches between your lit configuration and all the keys lit up, so it's not all that complicated. But it works wherever I bring it. Now, the stuff that doesn't work. There are three white LEDs for the conventional Num Lock/Caps Lock/Scroll Lock states of the buttons. These do not work on OSX.

They only work on Windows. Now, there is a manual switch on the keyboard which swaps the OS built into the keyboard, but the configurations are all meant for PC. There is a fall-back mode all the way at the end called BIOS, which is meant as a 'compatibility mode'. Bullet hell.

I've found that if I set it to this, I can at least get the caps lock LED to show the right state. The num lock/scroll lock LEDs though are stuck as whatever they are, but I don't really care personally, as caps lock is the only one I am actively looking for when I type. If you set it to BIOS though, the windows button locker doesn't work, but I can't imagine why you'd care about that on OSX. For more information on this, I found this thread while googling: Funnily enough, when in BIOS mode, Scroll Lock and Pause Break act like the brighten/dim buttons for the screen, so that's kind of an accidental feature for me, since I use those a lot too. Hope that's helpful, - danielsdesk. You need to save the profile to device memory: Once you do that, it'll stick but unfortunately, you won't be able to have lighting effects that trigger when you push keys.

You can use the mouse to enter data.Aside from allowing you to use a broken key (by using your mouse to enter missing characters), the on-screen keyboard can provide strong protection against hackers, if you use it to enter sensitive information.

Oh yeah, and if you're using USB3, you only need to plug in the plug that has a picture of a keyboard on it. The 2nd one is only needed if you have USB2 or USB1.