The truth about the Corsair K95 RGB keyboard, especially with regard to keyboard macros

They conveniently leave out the fact that the macro functionality in the Corsair K95 RGB mechanical keyboard is entirely dependent on having some software running on Windows (a kernel-level driver). Only the (very limited) colour options are stored on the keyboard.

Other lies

OK, technically not lies, but photos of the keyboard in marketing material and 16 million colours sort of imply the colours can be set individually. But that is only true for groups of keys. They are very limited:

• WASG
• QWERDF
• G keys
• Numeric keypad
• Arrow keys
• 1-6 (in the row above QWERTY)
• All keys (this can be used to set a default key colour: This will be the colour, unless overridden by some of the above groups, on one or more extra layers. See below for details)

Colours

To not get blackened out keys, first set the first layer to “All” and select a colour. Then add one or more layers.

Outright lies

In other news (9-bit colour instead of 24-bit colour),

“…a big controversy around the color depth of the K70 RGB. The protocol showed that each color was only using 3 bits instead of 8, meaning there were a total of 512 possible colors rather than the advertised 16.8 million … they weren’t advertising this thing correctly. … they’re faking 16.8M color mode on the old Kxx RGB keyboards”