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Aesthetically, this is a nice looking keyboard, although the backlights are bright enough to use in low-light, they are only bright enough to let you read the letters in a lit room.

The size of the keys and the response feels great when doing a lot of typing, and in that regard, I was happy with mine for a while.

However, the main problem with the lycosa is the manufacturing quality. There is a widespread problem with the wiring in these keyboards, which causes random keys to stop working. Some people are fortunate, and don't have it happen very often. My first keyboard would do it at least twice a day, and often it would be vital keys (like the w,a,s,d during gaming). I sent it back, received a brand new one, and have had the same problem, however not as often.

I believe, from what I read, that the problem does not affect the 'mirror' shiny version of the keyboard, so I would recommend choosing that version over this.

Another problem is the touch-panel controls. There's no feedback, and they are very close together, so I often press two buttons even with my very thin fingers. I have also had a lot of problems using the media controls with iTunes, where it would randomly decide to engage the play/pause button, without me touching the keyboard at all. s with the keys, the backlighting is far too dim, and making out the small symbols on the touch panel is difficult, and after 6 months I still forget what some of the buttons do.

It's a shame, because this keyboard has a really nice design, and the features are nice in theory, it's just the production and execution of the design that let's it down.