In the first impression is good keyboard. The design fits the specially coated keys feel great, different lighting options are great and the twelve macro keys, which still per profile are also triple-assignable, leave nothing to be desired.
An endurance test performed then but reveal some weaknesses. Probably the most serious are that the mini-monitor in principle is useless and that the keys are not mechanical, but Rubber dome keys.
On paper, the monitor is enormously useful. Statistics could be displayed, presented the current Teamspeack Channel, a mini map of the current game could be shown here ... theoretically everything super. But the truth is that the use of this monitor dependent hundred percent whether the developers of the program that you just used, such an additional function for the G19-Monitor. Since the G19 is but seemingly not so widespread, there are very very few applications that can make use of the additional monitor. Most annoying is definitely that there is no app for TeamSpeak 3, what I really wanted to use primarily the monitor.
The only program that is gaining real added value by being Fraps. Here, the current frame rate, a frame rate histogram and a recording icon will (of course, only when recording) is displayed. This is great and shows what potential is actually wasted here by the fact that this monitor is just as bad supported.
I use the monitor at the moment really only to display the time and had the alarm clock next to my screen well done alone.
In addition, the monitor is far too expansive designed for the screen size that he has, and so can make it difficult to transport. The power supply, which provides the Monitor and the USB2 Hub with power, by the way is not very handy.
Now another problem, which is really significant. After half a year of continuous use demonstrates the weakness of cheap rubber dome keys: in several games, especially first person shooters, keys are (especially WASD) also pressed times over a long period. But now I had lately more often the problem is that the W key is no longer registered with the stop after some time. That is, for example, in an online shooter like Battlefield 3, that the character of a full Sprint simply stops, the helicopter suddenly is no more thrust and simply falls out of the sky or that the jet is no longer accelerating. All that means 90% of the virtual death and that is absolutely unacceptable for a so-called gaming keyboard! In my opinion, that can only have two causes: either the driver software (I'm on Win7 64) is wrong, or it is really up to the Rubber dome keys, which after half a year already have such defects.
The keystroke does not feel accurate, which is another shortcoming.
In my opinion the G19 is much, much too expensive for what it does and not suitable in the long run to excessive gambling. I have now ordered as a contrast to this keyboard, the SteelSeries gaming keyboard 6Gv2 German. This has Cherry MX Black mechanical keys (supposedly the best for gaming) and gives me so hopefully the precise keystroke, I miss at the G19. It also provides the opportunity to be connected to PS / 2, which the G19 has also not (PS / 2 is better for keyboards as USB because this interface virtually all keys on the keyboard can be pressed and detected simultaneously, USB has here a maximum of six simultaneous keystrokes with software tricks up to 20). The only real advantage of G19 against such a keyboard I see in the macro keys that lacks the 6Gv2. But since I mostly play first-person shooter, I have the macro keys anyway almost not needed.
