Anyone own or used a MadCatz Elite Keyboard

[QueBert]

The PC store up the street has them in stock. I Googled and not a single review came up, looks like a pretty good keyboard but no info makes me wonder. It's the Call Of Duty edition, which I'm guessing is just a different color scheme.

 

[BofRA]

The two keyboards offered by Mad Catz for MW2 include a Combat Keyboard and an Elite Keyboard. The Combat Keyboard is the more affordable of the two at $49.99, and will include anti-ghosting, Windows key lock, media keys for volume and playback control, and a weighted base. The Elite Keyboard, on the other hand, is based on the Cyborg keyboards line and will have all sorts of bells and whistles, including multi-color keyboard backlighting, adjustable brightness controls, Tru-Vu illumination for ambient lighting with colors ranging from red to amber to green. Additionally, the Elite Keyboard will have a touch-sensitive dashboard for media controls, and independent illumination settings for the WASD, cursor, and number pad keys for added visual recognition. Other features include twelve programmable macro keys, durable metal plated key caps, and gold-plated USB and microphone input passthrough. Like the other PC accessories, the Elite Keyboard is fully compatible with Windows 7, Vista, and XP and will include custom programming software. The Elite Keyboard will cost $99.99.

Taken from http://gear.ign.com/articles/101/1017885p1.html

 

[QueBert]

Welp I jumped and bought this, so far it's pretty nice, it has 5 colors for the back-light and in gaming mode you can set 5 zones on the keyboard to different colors and brightnesses. WASD set a bit brighter than the rest in gaming mode looks nice. But I mostly touch type so it's not super useful to me. It has 12 programmable buttons, but doesn't seem to have a quick or auto sensing profile switching like my Razer did. And they're too far away from WASD on the left side so in an FPS they won't be super useful to me as I have to take my hand off WASD to reach them. Gaming mode also disables the Windows key and has audio controls along the top.

I picked it up for $59, it seems well built, the keys are a bit smaller than I'm use to, but they feel solid.