I must say that while I'm not enthusiastic about owning an Italian keyboard (I don't speak Italian), I like the blue lights better than the 2nd gen's orange LEDs. I have the 2nd gen too - but it's broken. Yeah, that's all. I don't get why Logitech did a complete product overhaul to go from 1st gen to 2nd gen -- maybe they should've launched a G14 or something.