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so my uncle has a 2011 iMac, which is due for a upgrade since a 1500 dollar computer in 2011 came with a core i3 and 4 gigs of ram. so i want to get him a mechanical keyboard because he liked my g710 so much, but dont want to get the mac version because im going to build his next PC. mac can run windows keyboards but i dont know if the lighting effects of the DAS will work with MAC. does anyone know if it would or should i go and get a DUCKY or something?

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so my uncle has a 2011 iMac, which is due for a upgrade since a 1500 dollar computer in 2011 came with a core i3 and 4 gigs of ram. so i want to get him a mechanical keyboard because he liked my g710 so much, but dont want to get the mac version because im going to build his next PC. mac can run windows keyboards but i dont know if the lighting effects of the DAS will work with MAC. does anyone know if it would or should i go and get a DUCKY or something?

 

Not sure, you could install windows on his mac though for now

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you could get the Year edition of the ducky because it looks like it should be on a mac anyway =P

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you could get the Year edition of the ducky because it looks like it should be on a mac anyway =P

year of the horse? snake? which one?

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Not sure, you could install windows on his mac though for now

it had it for a long time, but windows works like shit on the mac and it looks like crap on the screen. 

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it had it for a long time, but windows works like shit on the mac and it looks like crap on the screen. 

 

What? haha no it doesn't, ive used parrallels/bootcamp on macs for years and installed it for countless customers, and my friends who own macs use it, as does my brother

 

in fact the macbook pro was declared the fastest laptop running windows (article from 2013 but still)

 http://www.cnet.com/news/macbook-pro-declared-best-performing-windows-laptop/

 

Windows on a mac runs great, whether its bootcamp or parallels -  it runs just as well as a "PC" does running it - its the same freaking hardware

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Das Keyboard doesn't need a driver and the Windows version is listed as compatible with OSX.

Be aware though, that it is missing all the special key (labels) for OS X like to change the brightness of the iMac screen.

You should be able to remap (most of) those to the function keys ...

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What? haha no it doesn't, ive used parrallels/bootcamp on macs for years and installed it for countless customers, and my friends who own macs use it, as does my brother

 

in fact the macbook pro was declared the fastest laptop running windows (article from 2013 but still)

 http://www.cnet.com/news/macbook-pro-declared-best-performing-windows-laptop/

 

Windows on a mac runs great, whether its bootcamp or parallels -  it runs just as well as a "PC" does running it - its the same freaking hardware

no it does run great. but it runs like shit on my particular mac, the specs are crap to run windows. even mac OS freezes a ton now. 

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year of the horse? snake? which one?

I think it was the goat

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All windows keyboard work on a mac fine unless they require specific drivers to work, so if you had a k70 RGB for example, and it didn't have mac drivers, you couldn't change the lighting (idk if corsair has mac drivers). The mac may ask you to press "z" and "/" on the keyboard, but otherwise should work fine. 

Even my unicomp model m works on macs, so If I'm in the mood to annoy people I can use it. 

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Lightning on these keyboards is managed via the internal keyboard firmware, so no OS-side drivers are needed. Technically, if you connect such keyboard to your phone's USB charger, you may change the colors of the keyboard, even if the USB charger can't actually use the keyboard.
There are a few keyboards though that allow light profiles management via software managers available for Windows only (most of the times they don't provide Linux or Mac drivers). In this case lightning might still be available in some basic profiles stored in the firmware but you may not be able to save custom profiles or load different profiles per app/game without the manager app.

As MrSuperb said, with a Windows keyboard you may loose some Mac specific keys like screen brightness crontrol. If the keyboard firmware is upgradable however, you may be able to flash a mac-specific one and eventually switch to a Windows one when you'll build the new PC. Custom keyboards allow this, but DAS keyboards I think don't provide a way to flash a different firmware.

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it had it for a long time, but windows works like shit on the mac and it looks like crap on the screen. 

 

Wot, install dem graphics drivers son.

 

 

Im running bootcamped windows on a mac and it's got better screen res and pixel density then any other PC in my house (apart from this 11" netbook with a 1080p res)

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Wot, install dem graphics drivers son.

 

 

Im running bootcamped windows on a mac and it's got better screen res and pixel density then any other PC in my house (apart from this 11" netbook with a 1080p res)

1080p at 21'' has some massive screen door effects. my 22 inch 900p monitor probably as the best pixel to screen size ratio. very crisp screen, kinda like 1440p at 27"

Space Journal #1: So Apparently i  was dropped on the moon like i'm a mars rover, in a matter of hours i have found the transformers on the dark side of the moon. Turns out its not that dark since dem robots are filled with lights, i waved hi to the Russians on the space station, turns out all those stories about space finding humans instead of the other way around is true(soviet Russia joke). They threw me some Heineken beer and I've been sitting staring at the people of this forum and earth since. 

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1080p at 21'' has some massive screen door effects. my 22 inch 900p monitor probably as the best pixel to screen size ratio. very crisp screen, kinda like 1440p at 27"

Not changing aspect rations to suit dimensions of screens. GG.

All this stuff can be forced software side lol, just because someone overlooked a setting they should have changed doesn't mean it's broken.

People, especially IT orientated need to be aware that not all things work as intended "out of the box" and a couple things need to be tweaked most of the time. For instance Bootcamp, it's not horrible it's actually a very well made utility considering you can create a multi-bootable computer that can use both the proprietary HFS+ volume and NTFS (as well as a lot of others like ext* and fat*).

I'd like to see a non-proprietary system that can boot an OS on a HFS+ volume without a single kernel panic or troubled install.

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