A general overview.
Greetings from Portugal!
Now testing the new MX Keys Keyboard, and I have to say it's really amazing.
A different experience from the elevated mechanical keys, super smooth as I
type this text, no hand traveling whatsoever, key noise reduced to a minimum.
Brainless install, it does everything by itself, and the default options are
really close to the best usage of the unit. BT connection is great, with minimal input lag.
The software so far seems great, joined the beta today and shared my user experience.
Is it possible to map individual keys, for gaming or apps?
If so... would it be too much out-of-the-box to have an automated heatmap? I mean, I've
owned the first Razr keyboard a long time ago (Tarantula, I think) and I thought at
the time that it was a cool feature to provide a heatmap of the most clicked keys
among apps. Even it was more than a decade ago, I thought it would be a matter of time
where keys would be properly backlit and do automated lightning of the most used
keys that a user presses during its app session. This includes games, of course.
But so far, I don't see anything quite the likes of it.
Is something like this too much overkill?:
Keys like WSAD are often used on games, so the heatmap memorization on this should be
easy, and these keys would be always full lighten.The learning process would start at everything black and sequential lighting intensity
would lighten up the most used keys until after some sessions, until the obvious key
presses would do the entire map (except for exclusions) for the user, instead of the
usual boring manual map of dozens of apps.
Considering there are backlight keyboards that do RGB patterns synced with other gaming
peripherals, I thought this couldn't be much out of the ordinary, but I could be wrong.
Regardless, my rating for this magnificent MX Keys is an easy 10/10.
